Shaving Cream Confessional

[texbilly]

Guys,

I use soaps a bit more than creams but since coming aboard as this forum's Steward, it made me think about my creams experience.

I regularly use a variety of fine products - some high end, others mainstream (Castle Forbes, Acqua di Parma, Pen's Blenheim Bouquet, Truefitt & Hill, JM Fraser) - but I must confess, I've yet to try many creams that are staples for many of you, including this partial list:

Kiss My Face
Palmolive
Nancy Boy
Speick
Acca Kappa
Erasmic
Tabac
Musgo Real
The Bomb
Santa Maria Novella.

What is my penance? And what must some of you confess?

 

[Marco]

No penance, Bill! I'm essentially a soap user as you are! But in the list you just posted I wholeheartedly recommend giving a try at:

Acca Kappa 1869
Santa Maria Novella
Musgo Real
Speick

 

[gaj90027]

I have yet to try a few of those you listed as well.

My confession though is that I won't try Nancy Boy because of the name

I feel pretty confident and secure in my manhood but I just can't imagine leaving this product out on the sink. It would probably look great next to my bottle of A&F Woods with the ripped abs model on it though.

 

[The Last Chimney]

A few months ago, I had something like seventeen soaps and one cream.

That cream was Speick, and no matter how much I liked soaps better than creams, there was no way I would ever get rid of it.

I've branched out a bit (I added Trafalgar and have been looking for a good almond cream), but Speick is one of the few products I can say with certainty that I will ALWAYS keep around!

 

[Jwolf24601]

Guys,
What is my penance?

Looks like your penance is an order to West Coast shaving

I say pick two at random http://www.random.org

 

[Vlad]

A few months ago, I had something like seventeen soaps and one cream.

That cream was Speick, and no matter how much I liked soaps better than creams, there was no way I would ever get rid of it.

I've branched out a bit (I added Trafalgar and have been looking for a good almond cream), but Speick is one of the few products I can say with certainty that I will ALWAYS keep around!

AMEN. If they only made mouthwash!

 

[Leche]

9 times out of 10 its soaps. For all else there is AOS Lavender and Musgo Real which I can't imagine being without.

 

[The Last Chimney]

AMEN. If they only made mouthwash!

Or Speickade?

 

[njpaddy]

I, on the other hand, almost always use creams and I haven't tried any on that list either. Even without those I still have enough creams to last me 5 years. I also haven't tried AOS or Dr Harris, but hope to remedy that soon.

 

[joshmpdx]

Creams can be so outrageously good...

• Musgo
• Speick (which i think performs better than the soap)
• Santa Maria Novella
• La Toja

each are top tier.

 

[texbilly]

No penance, Bill! I'm essentially a soap user as you are! But in the list you just posted I wholeheartedly recommend giving a try at:

Acca Kappa 1869
Santa Maria Novella
Musgo Real
Speick

Marco, a fine list indeed! However, I still feel ashamed as a grizzled wet shaver. I must go forward with a self-assigned penance (see below).

I have yet to try a few of those you listed as well.

My confession though is that I won't try Nancy Boy because of the name

I feel pretty confident and secure in my manhood but I just can't imagine leaving this product out on the sink. It would probably look great next to my bottle of A&F Woods with the ripped abs model on it though.

I'm afraid the same thought has crossed my mind. But who can ignore the glowing reviews!

A few months ago, I had something like seventeen soaps and one cream.

That cream was Speick, and no matter how much I liked soaps better than creams, there was no way I would ever get rid of it.

I've branched out a bit (I added Trafalgar and have been looking for a good almond cream), but Speick is one of the few products I can say with certainty that I will ALWAYS keep around!

Speick shave soap is one of my all-time favorites and practically lathers itself! All the more reason for my shame. The cream, Bill. The cream!

Looks like your penance is an order to West Coast shaving

I say pick two at random http://www.random.org

This, in a nutshell, is what I fear. And what I deserve.

 

[texbilly]

And one more thing. Musgo Real AS is in my top 2-3 and I could never be without it. So why have I never used their cream?

Mods, please ban me now!

 

[Cuttingboard]

Texbilly...where have you been? Haven't a post by you in forever!

I began using soaps too but know alternate them very often...I use MWF, Musgo and Provence Sante during the fall/winter and Aqua Di Parma, SMN and Castle Forbes Lime during warmer months. And Irisch Moos and Valobra shave sticks when I travel.

I have several soaps and creams that are still in their packaging: Monsavon, C&S Oxford and Cambridge and La Toja.

 

[superbleu]

Tell ya what Bill. Loan me that Red imp of yours and I will send you some of each except the AK which is the only one I don't have(yet)!!

 

[Cuttingboard]

My confession though is that I won't try Nancy Boy because of the name

Same here...worst name ever for a man's product!!

 

[texbilly]

Texbilly...where have you been? Haven't a post by you in forever!

I began using soaps too but know alternate them very often...I use MWF, Musgo and Provence Sante during the fall/winter and Aqua Di Parma, SMN and Castle Forbes Lime during warmer months. And Irisch Moos and Valobra shave sticks when I travel.

I have several soaps and creams that are still in their packaging: Monsavon, C&S Oxford and Cambridge and La Toja.

Good hearing from you, Mike. Although I've been diving back in the last few weeks, I took a break for several months to take care of the little things - like finding a new job!!! Happy to be back!

 

[BCatl]

I think I'll go through some of the Russian creams for a while and learn the Russian alphabet before I come back to the other creams. It's going to be a lifelong project.

 

[brianw]

And one more thing. Musgo Real AS is in my top 2-3 and I could never be without it. So why have I never used their cream?

Mods, please ban me now!

Consider it done.... wait a minute, (pages through the mod handbook...banning, banning...banning, ah here it is on page 686....hummmmmmmmm)I can't ban a Texican from Round Rock... No Yankee can.

Oh well carry on

 

[auk1124]

If Nancy Boy has fixed their shipping options to where it doesn't cost 47 billion dollars to ship a tub of cream by Fed Ex, their stuff is really worth trying out. I'm no cream expert but theirs is one of the best I've tried.

 

[texbilly]

Consider it done.... wait a minute, (pages through the mod handbook...banning, banning...banning, ah here it is on page 686....hummmmmmmmm)I can't ban a Texican from Round Rock... No Yankee can.

Oh well carry on

My reprieve!!! Thanks, Governor Brian!