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This is a shaving soap/cream available in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
http://www.demiclen.cz/en/panska/barbus-penivy-krem-v-kelimku.html
A translation of the text on the front of the tub:
Foamy shaving cream is suitable for all skin types. Contains glycerine, which smooths and softens the skin.
I received a sample of this last year from Scorpio and really liked it but due to having too many soaps and creams already I didn't follow up and purchase any. Recently Laci (lac1) sent me a tub as part of a trade and I've used it on and off for the last few weeks.
This cream has a texture different to any other soap or cream that I have come across. It's like a very sticky putty not dissimilar to what a bread dough is like before it's been kneaded and proved, sounds strange but that's what it reminds me of. It has a very clean soapy scent, maybe slightly herbal/medicinal.
Due to the texture of the cream it lends itself to lathering in one of two ways. You can either treat it how you would a hard soap (swirl a slightly damp brush over the top of it and then either bowl/face or palm lather) or you can pinch a bit out and smear it around the bottom of a shave bowl and build the lather in the bowl. Due to it being so sticky and putty like it doesn't lend itself to other approaches that you may traditionally take with a cream, such as smearing it on your face or placing a blob in the breach of the brush. The lather is generated very easily and it produces a nice thick, slick, protective lather which is very stable. This produces probably the slickest lather of any soap or cream that I have tried. The skin properties seem good, it doesn't dry my skin out or cause any irritation and my face is left feeling smooth and soft after using it.
If you can get hold of this soap it is well worth giving it a try. I really like it and had planned on using it pretty much exclusively for a few weeks but that was before the Martin de Candre turned up. I believe this is readily available in drug-stores in the Czech Republic and is very cheap (a few pounds). Laci informed me that it is also available in tubes but I don't know if it is exactly the same product in the tubes.
This is a very good product and shows that you don't have to spend a fortune to get a good product, it's just a shame that it isn't readily available over here.
http://www.demiclen.cz/en/panska/barbus-penivy-krem-v-kelimku.html
A translation of the text on the front of the tub:
Foamy shaving cream is suitable for all skin types. Contains glycerine, which smooths and softens the skin.
I received a sample of this last year from Scorpio and really liked it but due to having too many soaps and creams already I didn't follow up and purchase any. Recently Laci (lac1) sent me a tub as part of a trade and I've used it on and off for the last few weeks.
This cream has a texture different to any other soap or cream that I have come across. It's like a very sticky putty not dissimilar to what a bread dough is like before it's been kneaded and proved, sounds strange but that's what it reminds me of. It has a very clean soapy scent, maybe slightly herbal/medicinal.
Due to the texture of the cream it lends itself to lathering in one of two ways. You can either treat it how you would a hard soap (swirl a slightly damp brush over the top of it and then either bowl/face or palm lather) or you can pinch a bit out and smear it around the bottom of a shave bowl and build the lather in the bowl. Due to it being so sticky and putty like it doesn't lend itself to other approaches that you may traditionally take with a cream, such as smearing it on your face or placing a blob in the breach of the brush. The lather is generated very easily and it produces a nice thick, slick, protective lather which is very stable. This produces probably the slickest lather of any soap or cream that I have tried. The skin properties seem good, it doesn't dry my skin out or cause any irritation and my face is left feeling smooth and soft after using it.
If you can get hold of this soap it is well worth giving it a try. I really like it and had planned on using it pretty much exclusively for a few weeks but that was before the Martin de Candre turned up. I believe this is readily available in drug-stores in the Czech Republic and is very cheap (a few pounds). Laci informed me that it is also available in tubes but I don't know if it is exactly the same product in the tubes.
This is a very good product and shows that you don't have to spend a fortune to get a good product, it's just a shame that it isn't readily available over here.
I should give this soap a try I think after reading this 
