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OldSaw
The wife's investment
This thread has me in a SMN mood. I think I will have myself a Santa Maria Novella day.
And here's something else I find perplexing. I'm aware of Old Saw's post from a couple years ago when he showed the Proraso and SMN ingredients lists side by side, and they were different. Problem is, the list on the SMN tub I bought from Lee's Razors last summer doesn't match the one in Old Saw's photos. Indeed, my tub of SMN has the exact same ingredients as does my tub of Proraso, save for one exception: the SMN includes lanolin near the bottom of the list, which is missing from the Proraso.
Here is something to consider in your B&B CSI investigation HoratioCaine which is a good one if I may add
based on the ingredients you have listed, you have stated the only difference is Lanolin in the SMN and that your Proraso tub doesnt contain Lanolin.
I have seen Omega & Proraso ingredients listed side by side in a previous thread {uh investigation} & the difference between the two was Lanolin in the Omega ingredients list.
So detective are you willing to suggest the SMN is actually Omega?
I will say this about the ingredients, the list of ingredients, even if the same or similar, does not give quantities or recipe formulation. The difference is in the shave.
So detective are you willing to suggest the SMN is actually Omega?
This thread is moving faster than I can keep up with it. Taking your question seriously for a moment...who knows? A "man in the know" on another forum swears that his "sources" tell him SMN cream is produced by Martelli, the makers of Proraso and Omega. Why that sould be when SMN has their own production facility, I don't know. (I once saw a promotional video that showed the interior of the SMN plant; it showed SMN shaving cream tubs being packaged up. That doesn't mean the cream was actually made their. It could just be packaged there.) Even if this is true, it isn't as scandalous as it appears at first glance. All the major English creams are made by Creightons, yet nobody blinks at spending $20 more on a tub of Trumpers than a tub of Taylors, knowing the story full well. In the end, as Old Saw says, it's all about the shave. My concern is less about the price of the cream - and whether or not its repackaged Proraso or Omega - as about the direction SMN is going in terms of reformulating their products.
Naw, I think the price is pretty good when you consider the quality, amount in the container, and the amount used per shave
I can see why you have selected your avatar and screen name the way you did.
Wow.
That is all.
Indeed, it is great stuff, but there is just so much of it...!
I want SMN...I have placed it in my virtual cart on at least 5 occasions and yet I have not yet pulled the trigger. I have a hard time with the price and already have a Penhaligon's BB...this thread is killing me!!!!!!! Please let it die....let it die.
I want SMN...I have placed it in my virtual cart on at least 5 occasions and yet I have not yet pulled the trigger. I have a hard time with the price and already have a Penhaligon's BB...this thread is killing me!!!!!!! Please let it die....let it die.
I want SMN...I have placed it in my virtual cart on at least 5 occasions and yet I have not yet pulled the trigger. I have a hard time with the price and already have a Penhaligon's BB...this thread is killing me!!!!!!! Please let it die....let it die.
If you're a logical guy, consider this: at the end of the day, SMN is cheaper than Proraso per shave. In the time you use up a tub of SMN, you'll have used up six or more tubes of Proraso.
I just got back from Florence Italy and visited their main store. The place is like a shrine - truly incredible.
I just got back from Florence Italy and visited their main store. The place is like a shrine - truly incredible.