Can someone fill me in on which is which and what the desirable qualities of each one are? My understanding is that a hard soap provides cushion, and a glycerin soap is very slick. I haven't used a glycerin based soap yet, so maybe I'm not fully understanding the slick part of the equation, but I thought that's what the skin food was for. Am I wrong?
Slick vs Cushion?
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Soap is slicker, creams are cushion-ier. I believe this is the general consensus. Straights vs safety razors = soap vs cream. I use tallow for everything, though--offers a slick lather, but not as bountiful/overflowing as my creams. I haven't used enough glycerin soaps to make an opinion, but they will make a thicker lather because tallow retards lather building (to a degree).
Samouraï;1666536 said:
This is more or less how I think of it. I believe I've read those using straights tend to use soaps for the added slickness, but I've never read that those using safety razors generally prefer creams. I almost exclusively face lather soaps, most because I never learned to get a sufficient lather from cream in a bowl. Most of my preferred soaps are tallow, but I've got a healthy selection of Mama Bears and QED that I use from time to time. I struggle to find a difference between their lather, outside of glycerin soaps having a broader range of stronger scents.
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you "can" have your cake and eat it.
I tried this.. and YUCK, Maybe you have a tastier soap.. but mine tasted pretty bad.
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