Your 3 Favorite Soaps - 2019

[preidy]

Stirling Sharp Dressed Man
Stirling Piacenza
Stirling Mountain Man

 

[It's Hedley]

MdC Agrumes (could be any MdC I own, but Agrumes is so unique/fresh)
Saponificio Varesino Dolomiti (best of the SV I own-amazing)
Tabac (consistently great)

 

[Pepin]

1. Tabac
2. Col Conk Bay Rum
3. Geo F. Trumper Eucris

 

[sg01fc]

Cella is the only soap I like. I'm more into the Pacific shaving company creams, now.

 

[RigelDust]

My three of 2019

 

[Red One]

MWF
Tabac
M&M Trinity

I’m going to try some more artisan soaps this year.

 

[Rustynail]

I have not tried many but:

Proraso red
Arko
Tabac

 

[UserNameTaken]

In order and a gap opens after #2

1)Midnight & Two
2)Tallow & Steels

3) MDC/Sudsy Soapery/Stirling

 

[Drseid]

1)Asylum Shave Works Colonia (by SV)
2)Cubebe by SV
3)Voyageur by Long Rifle

 

[FaceScraper]

Rather than saying favorite let me list the 3 soaps I used the most in 2019

1. B&M Seville
2. Vintage Colgate Cup Soap
3. Proraso Green.



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[SV650Squid]

A&E Asian Plum
Murphy & McNeil Claddagh
B&M Lavanille

 

[cwsnc]

The 3 soaps that I used the most in 2019
1) Cella
2) B&M Reserve Cool
3) Stirling Executive Man

I finished off the tub of Cella, and the Reserve Cool, I'm about halfway through the Stirling. I'm sure for 2020 I will have a new list of top soaps

 

[agrippas]

B&M Reserve
SV 4.3
Abbate y LaMantia

There are four or five others that move in and out of my top three

 

[Bouki]

Most used soaps in 2019:

1. Saponificio Varesino, Cubebe (18 times)
2. Martin de Candre, Vétyver (9 times)
3. Le Père Lucien, Traditionnel with Shea Butter (8 times)

 

[boilerphan]

B&M Nordost
Noble Otter Orbit
Ariana & Evans Vacanza Romana

 

[Badger in the Sun]

Grooming Dept Citric
Declaration Grooming Trismegistus
Grooming Dept Frankenlime

 

[Brianc0428]

Grooming Department
Aion
Laundry
Barbershop

 

[Reyort]

Stirling Arkadia
PAA Boomtown Bay Rum
A&E St. Bart's

 

[RVshave]

MWF
MdC
PAA Lavender Planet

 

[RayClem]

My wife let me use M&M Nantahala (Kodiak base) for my Christmas Eve shave. It definitely has a place on my favorites list. It is one of the slickest soaps I have ever used; the razor glides effortlessly across the skin. However, it is only a minor upgrade over Aon, which at one point was my standard against which all other soaps are compared. The post shave feel is superb, but the honor for best post shave I have experienced still goes to Zingari Man Sego. That one left my skin feeling amazing for the next 36 hours. I love the scent of Nantahala, but wish the scent was a little stronger. M&M says the scent is medium, but I would rate it just slightly less.

I used Grooming Department Aion for my Christmas Day shave. It is an AMAZING soap. It certainly deserves a place among the best soaps available today.

1. For most folks, a 10 second load time is plenty.
2. I bowl lather and was able to produce a perfect lather in 30 seconds. Only my very best soaps can do that.
3. It is one of the slickest soaps I have ever used, both primary and residual.
4. The lather provided plenty of cushion. I was able to shave three full passes plus a clean-up pass with zero irritation.
5. Post shave was interesting. The immediate post-shave feel was very good, but not outstanding. However, an hour later the conditioning ingredients started to become active. Thus, the post-post shave feel was outstanding and lasted for the next 24 hours.

While I consider the performance of several Grooming Department formulations to be elite, the Nai base is the best yet. Unfortunately, the Nai formula is so complex that it takes Mo a long time to make the soap, so he may have to devote his time to other formulations, even though Nai is superb.