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Yet ANOTHER apology: Musgo Real Cream

Musgo, I thought you smelled kinda weird when I tried a sample of you. I remember you burning my skin too.

However, this 3.4Oz tube of you has changed me. I took you through airport security, even though you're only supposed to be 3Oz.

I haven't smelled grass like everybody else says, but you do remind me of old school colognes they keep on country club locker room shelves.

I also detected a faint whiff of something that reminds me of the car wash.

Either way, you shaved like a million bucks, and your scent has grown on me. BIG time.:thumbup:

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(successful product revisit #3)
 
The Musgo forgives you

Musgo, I thought you smelled kinda weird when I tried a sample of you. I remember you burning my skin too.

However, this 3.4Oz tube of you has changed me. I took you through airport security, even though you're only supposed to be 3Oz.

I haven't smelled grass like everybody else says, but you do remind me of old school colognes they keep on country club locker room shelves.

I also detected a faint whiff of something that reminds me of the car wash.

Either way, you shaved like a million bucks, and your scent has grown on me. BIG time.:thumbup:

A+

(successful product revisit #3)
 
After trying the Musgo Aftershave Balsam, I am dying to try the shave cream. I LOVE the aftershave, best I've used so far for my face. Alcohol based Aftershaves typically dry me out too much, but the Musgo Balsam is pure awesome in a bottle.
 
These types of posts always make me want to buy a tube of Musgo on my next order at QED. I won't get into tonnes of detail here but there was a real debacle with Musgo and a number of different formulations. Suffice it to say I wound up with this aquamarine coloured cream that left my brush looking like a freshly waxed automobile. It literally greased up my brush. Some would call this gunking it up or whatever but mine beaded up water like a shiny new Cadillac. A quick yet thorough cleaning with dish soap and borax took care of it but it always bothered me about that. I was not keen on the scent either. I then learned that for decades Musgo cream was a slightly different colour and had this alleged cut grass and whatever scent. Many lamented the loss of it. I wrote off Musgo after I used up my sample. Then I learn that a few years ago they changed the formula again and it is supposed to be back to near normal. Hence my renewed interest. I only buy soaps and creams now that fill a certain scent niche. For the most part I know which lathers perform best on my beard so I try to fill little gaps here and there with things like...Musgo.

Regards, Todd
 
For those who are fond of Musgo's scent, there's a bathing soap in Portugal called "Feno de Portugal" (Portugal's Hay) which smells just like Musgo

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I won't get into tonnes of detail here but there was a real debacle with Musgo and a number of different formulations.
As far as I know, there were three formulations in recent years. The oldest was blue, loved by many. Then the company decided that in order to grow production and impose stricter quality control, they needed a new manufacturing facility; and based on some changes to products which took place cocurrently with the switch to another production site---which were quite well received in southern Europe---decided to reformulate Musgo Real. The result was that lanolin was taken out, and borax was put in. This did not go over well at all, and so within months the company reformulated Musgo again, this time in such a way that the new product approximated the old blue one as best as could be achieved in their new plant. This formulation has been with us for several years now, and can be easily recognised: the colour of the cream is green, and the ingredients contain lanolin.

I have no experience with the older two products, but the newer formulation is great---provided I don't use it in an environment with little water hardness (< 3 dH). That does something to the lather which leaves my skin irritated and itchy. Where I live, with 8 to 9 dH water hardness, Musgo is solid as a rock, however. Don't ask me what causes the difference, coz I haven't got the foggiest idea; and I'm too lazy to do tests with destilled water :001_rolle.
 
I had my second use today, and I'm loving it. Seems like I need a lot of product, though — anyone else have this experience?
 
No, the reverse in fact. A little cream and lots of water (more than you'd expect based on experience with creams from the 3 T's, Body Shop, and others, in any case) gives me the best results.
 
Hmm. Maybe I'm not hydrating it enough and relying on the moisture in the cream. I'll adjust, thanks!

No, the reverse in fact. A little cream and lots of water (more than you'd expect based on experience with creams from the 3 T's, Body Shop, and others, in any case) gives me the best results.
 
That sounds good enough for me. I hope to pick up some Musgo in Berlin next week when I am visiting.
 
Hmm. Maybe I'm not hydrating it enough and relying on the moisture in the cream. I'll adjust, thanks!
That would be quite a feat, given that it's a concentrated product... The keywords here, coined by another forum member, are 'sloppy wet consistency'. At least for him and for me—of course you'll need to find your own optimum.
 
just ordered a sample of Musgo, along with Old Spice Lime & Trumper's Marlborough. Apart from scent they are up against CF's quality lather - which is the Mutts Nuts!.
 
just ordered a sample of Musgo, along with Old Spice Lime & Trumper's Marlborough. Apart from scent they are up against CF's quality lather - which is the Mutts Nuts!.

Musgo is a fantastic cream, conditioning, lather & scent.

I got a sample of Musgo & it did not hardly have any scent, I think it might have been 'old". Its performance should still be evident though.
 
I had my second use today, and I'm loving it. Seems like I need a lot of product, though — anyone else have this experience?

+1 from here on this, found it very thin unless i beefed up the portions. been using it for the last 4 shaves and overall - meh! nothing special, certainly behind Speick and long ways behind CF.
 
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