The honest reason why I prefer creams.

[Marley2120]

After posting on the thread Top 5 DE Confessions, I came to realization why I prefer shaving creams to shaving soaps.
Sure I tell myself creams are easier and faster to lather. Also it is true I find the scent of creams more pleasing than their soapy counterparts.
However, the truth is I do not have the patients to use up a puck of soap! They just last too long, at least with a tub of cream I can see an end to it.
I think in my two and a half years of wet shaving I have only been able to use one puck of soap completely.

Am I alone?

 

[DaveMc]

I was really into soaps when I started, but lately I've been exclusively using creams. Partly it's because I recently moved to an area with harder water and found that my MWF lather just wasn't as good and I knew it could be. Partly it's the convenience of whipping up a rich lather in seconds. Partly it's that when I started I went on a bit of a spending spree and wound up with four tubs good quality creams that had been languishing on a shelf while I was dedicated to harp soaps.

I've been wet shaving for a year and I've yet to use up ANYTHING, soap or cream.

 

[buca3152]

i agree when the puck gets small its a pita. i save a couple and kinda mash em together. Good to the last drop!

 

[Coler]

Hmmm...tricky one...I'm a fan of both. I'm the sort of person who likes to decide on a product and stick with it, but I don't mind checking out all the options first.

I resolved my cream dilemma early enough - GFT tubs all the way for me.

Yet to settle on a soap - I have high opinions of Tabac and MWF, but Mike's combination of scent and performance is beating them both at the minute. A brain bowl of MdeC is en route to me which may provide real competition.

I guess I enjoy the convenience of creams while having the option and value/longevity of soap. The former would never cause me to abandon the latter.

 

[Jimbob]

I had never used creams until a couple months ago, I think for me a big part of the allure is the novelty, I really like the TOBS I have, but I probably only use it once or twice a week (it's kind of my Sunday shave cream) so it should last me a while. Plus since I added a third pass I should use product a little faster.

 

[jdawg87]

I didn't have good luck with soaps because they seemed to dry out my face more than creams. I got close shaves with them, however. But I agree - the puck can last a very long time.

 

[CFSoto]

I didn't have good luck with soaps because they seemed to dry out my face more than creams. I got close shaves with them, however. But I agree - the puck can last a very long time.

+1 for what he said. No matter what I do,soaps seem to dry out and almost evaporate from my skin before I'm even half done shaving! Not so with creams.

Craig

 

[Robot_Ant]

I have to use creams also, here in Arizona we have hard water and most good soaps will not lather.

 

[Head Rigger]

+1 for what he said. No matter what I do,soaps seem to dry out and almost evaporate from my skin before I'm even half done shaving! Not so with creams.

+2 With the exception of MWF, creams as a whole perform much better for me. Especially Proraso Red.

 

[sarimento1]

wake up, folks!! Even the most mediocre soap or cream is so vastly more comfortable than the old aerosol foams or gels, so why complain? In this 'renaissance' we are blessed with so many choices; many of us will never go through our soap supplies in our remaining lifetimes!!

 

[Mick]

I prefer bowl lathering creams but I prefer face lathering with soaps. So I am split 50/50 soap/cream

 

[Coler]

wake up, folks!! Even the most mediocre soap or cream is so vastly more comfortable than the old aerosol foams or gels, so why complain? In this 'renaissance' we are blessed with so many choices; many of us will never go through our soap supplies in our remaining lifetimes!!

Who do you perceive as complaining ?

 

[Redzone]

Never used a cream but looks like it maybe worth adding to the list. I have 6 sticks and 10 pucks and no cream, what was I thinking?

 

[keithmax]

I use both but I have a preference for creams.... but I use QCS creams which are croaps and in-between. Soaps I like Mike's, Tabac and MWF in that order. Rounding out the creams are Musgo Real, Lavanda and AOS unscented, I use these with MWF for superlathers.... oh but the joy of QCS....

 

[edgerunner]

I'd face lathered using creams from tubes and brushes for about 26 years. Creams produce consistent lather easier and faster; it's easier to use always the same right amount; lathering is not messy; it's easy to take some cream on a trip in a small container.

...Then a couple of years ago, I found B&B, discovered soaps, and now I prefer them to creams. I have no idea why.

P.S. After joining B&B, I started doing quite a few things that I have no clue why!

 

[mretzloff]

I think most people prefer soap because they prefer tallow, which few creams contain. If there were more creams that contained tallow, I think creams would be more popular. I honestly prefer creams.

 

[Dalejr]

Cream only for me.

 

[AirForceMX]

75% Cream for me! Only soap I own is Arko. Love super lathering with it!

 

[njpaddy]

Used a T&H cream sample today, but it's only the 5th time this year that I used a cream. I currently only have 1 tub of cream (TOBS Rose) and that's about 18 mos old. Today I used one of the T&H samples (Grafton) that I got with a brush in Feb. I even got to use my neglected Thater 49125/0, an excellent cream brush but one I dislike with soaps. I had T&H samples last year but went back to soaps when the samples were gone. Not sure why I prefer soaps. Part of it may be the lighter scents of soaps. I think I'm going to have to devote a month to knocking off TOBS so I can justify buying a tub of T&H. I've gotten an excellent shave every time I've used T&H.

 

[Marley2120]

I guess I enjoy the convenience of creams while having the option and value/longevity of soap. The former would never cause me to abandon the latter.

I also like to have the option of having the soap. I keep a few just in case I run out of cream, but many of my soaps I PIFed them to friends or I used them in the shower or as hand soap.