For some reason I dug out my tube of green Palmolive cream, whipped it up with my APShaveCo synthetic brush, and planed myself off with my Merkur Progress. I had forgotten just how spectacular the Palmolive is.
In Fleming's From Russia With Love, he tells us that Bond uses Palmolive shaving cream. Bond is drawn as a man who likes things that work when and how they are supposed to. Palmolive does that quite well.