Soap vs Cream

Aren't most artisan soaps basically croaps (except the melt'n'pour glycerin ones)?

If there is any give to the soap when you push your finger it means it's a croap, I think. AKA soft soaps.
If this is the case I have croaps. In my house. Without my knowledge.

They're the horror movie of wet shaving. You dont know they're there until its too late.
 
They are not Aleppo soaps, they are Nabulus soaps. They don't usually include Bay Oil. They have started to do a Ghar soap, probably due to events in Aleppo.

I got distracted on YouTube with other videos. you are right. sorry
 
I ordered two separate soaps from two different sellers, with different soap factory wrappers. Two arrived together, then two months later an individual one turned up. I am not sure what happened o_O. I haven't used them yet as I have been experimenting with another type of soap. I have ordered a Kesa, so will try them with that :).
 
I find good quality hard soaps one notch above creams, but the latter are still more than usable and give a bit of variety. I tend to use creams largely when I'm in a rush along with a cartridge
 
Dave, glad you liked the sample. I actually find soaps easier to lather than the Castle Forbes. Or rather not so much easier , just that the consistency of the Forbes = you start with a smidge of it and go from there. Sometimes I then find I have missed lathering some of it and get a lump in the resulting lather. This does not happen when lathering a proper cream or straight on to the soap puck as a whole.

Thanks. Yes, I liked the lather from the CF but it took a while, and I can't seem to completely get rid of the lumps, and I find them attaching themselves to the brush too when I go to rinse it out afterwards. For some reason I presumed that similar generally happens with soaps, but from what you're saying, it doesn't. If ‘proper creams' and soap pucks are so much easier to work with, I'm surprised that the CF is so expensive!

Thanks for the replies so far everyone
 
Yes, I liked the lather from the CF but it took a while, and I can't seem to completely get rid of the lumps, and I find them attaching themselves to the brush too when I go to rinse it out afterwards.

I did like the CF and enjoyed the Shaving experience, except smelling like a bottle of Rose's Lime cordial afterwards. However I did find it expensive for what it does when compared to others. The OSP gives far better end results with added 'guess what this bizarre (but exceptionally wonderful) scent is?' appeal. And no cloggy lumps.
 
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As long as we're "plugging" creams I will say that I now only use one and it is simply a superb "old school" one made in of all places Uruguay: Dr. Selbys. Slicker than snot on the proverbial brass doorknob.
 
I prefer creams because the most important properties are skincare combined with a slick dense lather that produces excellent glide conditions. Scent is not important for me as long as it smells acceptable. I don't like perfume bombs. And shaving cream has to be in a tube, not in a tin or a jar. I haven't found any shaving soap that can beat Musgo Real shaving cream in case of lather performance and skincare abilities.
Mitchell's Woolfat comes very close but does not beat the best shaving creams.
 
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I've been using cream since I started, as it seemed it would be a good transition from ‘canned goo'. I've not really been interested in exploring soaps until using a sample of Castle Forbes Lime this week. I understand it's kind of an inbetweener (I guess this is what a ‘Croap' is?) as it took longer to lather, but then the lather was incredibly rich and luxurious.

I have always seen the word croap as a playful merge of the two word cream and soap. CReam + sOAP = croap. Cream is soft and soap is hard, mix them together and you get croap. Works in theory :)
 
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  • Do you use mainly cream or soap?
  • What do you prefer about your choice to the other?
  • Is the extra time & effort of loading a soap worth it, when creams seem so much easier to work with?
  • I use soaps, exclusively
  • I prefer soaps because they come in simple and biodegradable containers. Well, most of them, or at least the ones I have.
  • In my opinion it is not worth the extra time & effort of loading soap. Creams are much easier to work with and give more consistent results.
 
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