Why are you a cream man...or a soap man?

[Tanuki]

Batting for both sides!!

Switch hitter here, too. Croap, hard pucks, shave sticks, a few artisan soaps, traditional tube creams, one tub cream, latherless creams, and mixed lathers. When I treat myself, I use some custom soaps I was PIFed by a forum buddy. Shaving has become a cocktail. But for most of my life: Williams Mug, straight, no chaser.

As in, you use soaps from 50 years ago?

Hey, I used Williams 50 years ago, does that count? I wouldn’t pay extra for vintage Williams, but I do have a couple pucks of vintage Old Spice, one active, one in reserve. If I trap a wild tube or jar of Barbasol, Mollé, or another vintage cream I will open it and see if I can get it to work.

 

[Harald]

At the beginning of my shaving journey, I used cream because I thought it was the easiest way to make a lather, but today I have completely changed my mind. I think soap dominates in every way because it gives a perfect lathering and slicknes when I do it right.

 

[global_dev]

I prefer croaps and soaps. Creams just never found as much favor although used only a couple and they were good (palmolive, nivea, co bigelow/proraso, lavanda, kmf)

 

[thombrogan]

Aside from my recent Arko kick (ARKO!), creams are more my thing.

The other soaps I have all have phenomenal scents, but they’re tougher on my skin than my poor shaving technique.

Cremogena Plus (one of @ShaverAZ ’s recipes), Nivea Sensitive Shaving Gel (remixed in a bowl because it’s dummy thicc right from the can), and KMF Pomegranate Grapefruit all soften my whiskers, make my skin into a slick, gliding surface, and leave all the dermal insult to my mishandling of mild and crazy razors.

Wish I had found Arko before creams because ARKO!

 

[TacticalPanda]

Soaps for me, particularly the new artisan soaps. Performance has never been better and there are more scents than you could ever think of.

 

[kingfisher]

Soap.

I don't use any creams at all anymore.

 

[AimlessWanderer]

I find the lather from creams to be too dense. I can get a thinner lather, more to my liking, from soaps. If I thin a cream down to the same extent, it loses performance.

 

[MichWR]

I started with soaps and I've stayed with them . . . . although some could be considerd to be croaps. I've never tried a cream with no plans to start.

 

[NPK]

Proraso tubs and Arko sticks are what I use. Longevity and storage stability were reasons for the choice.

 

[GaryTha]

I use Williams because I like it.

 

[RayClem]

Soap for travelling, cream for home...

I am exactly the opposite. I use mostly tubs of artisan soap at home. When traveling, I carry a tube of Cremo. If I leave a tube of Cremo in a hotel room, it can be replaced easily at the nearest Walmart, Target, etc.

 

[Chandu]

Almost all hard soaps. I will use a cream on while traveling. Tubes of cream are handy and I don't care for the feel of rubbing a stick of soap on my face and pucks are cumbersome for travel.

 

[Billy T.]

I use Williams because I like it.

Yeah Williams is great.

 

[Frank Shaves]

I recently got turned onto creams so I now use and enjoy both.


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[MrSpeedy]

I'm a soap guy. I used creams when I started because they were easier to lather. Once I learned how to lather soaps (and I only face lather) I never looked back. I feel soaps perform better, have a better post-shave feel, and the ones I use don't have many/any chemicals.

 

[Canadian Mountain Man]

Mostly creams out of habit more than anything. Easy to get a dollop out of the container, schmear it into a bowl and quickly get a decent amount of lather. My early pre-B&B experience of soaps (Williams) was poor and that's likely been a subliminal turn off as well. Shame really since I get fantastic shaves from some soaps like Fine American & Snakebite and Haslinger - Honey.

Making it my resolution to use more soaps!

 

[Old Hippie]

explain to me - why are you a cream man...or a soap man?

Started with a cream; Proraso Green. Why? Better than cheap crud, smells OK, nice and slick.
Went to a croap; Proraso Green. Why? Same price as cream, twice as much soap.
Started making my own soap. Why? I like making things, and this is useful. I like red cedar scent, so this is a very slick and thick soap with red cedar.

Makes this antique professor smell like a real timberjack. One chick totally digs it, and she's the one who counts.

O.H.

 

[Trawlerman]

I don't have a preference but I do like creams and croaps. My water here is mostly limestone based so incredibly hard so hard soaps don't lather too easily so I lean to softer stuff. TOBS creams and softer soaps such as the Goodfellas Smiles seems to work better for me. Proraso features heavily in my rotation.

 

[cw62803]

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Aside from my recent Arko kick (ARKO!), creams are more my thing.

The other soaps I have all have phenomenal scents, but they’re tougher on my skin than my poor shaving technique.

Cremogena Plus (one of @ShaverAZ ’s recipes), Nivea Sensitive Shaving Gel (remixed in a bowl because it’s dummy thicc right from the can), and KMF Pomegranate Grapefruit all soften my whiskers, make my skin into a slick, gliding surface, and leave all the dermal insult to my mishandling of mild and crazy razors.

Wish I had found Arko before creams because ARKO!

ARKO!

 

[Benzadmiral]

I like them both and use them interchangeably. I don't show a preffererence if they're good performers.

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Same here. Though I do seem to have more soaps in my collection, and so I use them more often.