Soaps or creams?

Soaps seem to be the choice for most then.
I'll have a look in the soaps section and see if I can find something that suits me better than MWF.
Will definitely keep the creams I've used also, have found then excellent. NSS being my favourite so far.

I can wholeheartedly recommend OSP soaps, just choose a scent that you like.
 
Creams all the way here. I just don't seem to get on with soaps and can't get them to lather to the same level as a cream. Saying that I am making headway with croaps so may be there is hope for soaps one day.

More importantly I am happy with where I am and why change anything?
 
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Soaps as a general rule.

I keep a tube of Palmolive cream for my early morning starts when I need a quick shave - no loading, quick to lather, still top performance.

On contemplation, I reckon I save at least 15 seconds. If you're wondering why I bother, now I think of it, so am I.
 
As a newbie to all this lark, I'm just standing at the entrance, staring down the rabbit hole at the moment, but I have either been very lucky with my choices of soaps and creams, or I'm just bloody well ridiculously good at this shit, but I can get a great lather from all my soaps. My one cream: OSP, though, is amazingly easy to whip up in to a bowl full of smoothness and rewards one with a fantastic slick lather.
 
As a newbie to all this lark, I'm just standing at the entrance, staring down the rabbit hole at the moment, but I have either been very lucky with my choices of soaps and creams, or I'm just bloody well ridiculously good at this shit, but I can get a great lather from all my soaps. My one cream: OSP, though, is amazingly easy to whip up in to a bowl full of smoothness and rewards one with a fantastic slick lather.

IMO some fellas over-analyze this stuff, or they just "need" to create forum conversations. It's really just shaving, and men used regular bar soap for generations without complaint.

It really comes down to HOW you prefer to make lather; on top of hard soap, in a separate bowl, or on your face,... but they all work.
 
IMO some fellas over-analyze this stuff, or they just "need" to create forum conversations. It's really just shaving, and men used regular bar soap for generations without complaint.

It really comes down to HOW you prefer to make lather; on top of hard soap, in a separate bowl, or on your face,... but they all work.

As they say 'there is more than one way to skin a cat'. I know. I've thought of more than 30 to date
 
Well, now you've REALLY kicked it off, eh? I have to give this regular bar soap option a go now. I will start a separate forum conversation...:D

I used to take the small pieces of soap left over and put them in my shaving soap container, that's all I used for years and it never ran out. Most will lather really well, but those little hotel soaps are crap.
 
You may be familiar with these.

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Creams all the way for me but mainly for functional reasons.

I can't get anything more than a thin watery lather from soap, not without going mad and getting soap lather everywhere - which I suspect is due to the very hard water area I live in. Plus I find the scent from soap far too weak - possibly as a result of being unable to achieve a desirable lather.

There are some scents (Trumpers Spanish Leather springs to mind) that I personally find way too overpowering scent wise in a cream and I'd prefer the extra subtlety soap provides if I could use them properly.

The few shaving soaps I did have I ended up using them in the bath instead rather than have them go to waste in the cupboard :)
 
Господа, мыло и сливки - разные ипостаси. Для меня лично крем необходим для скорости и нехватки времени. Как бритвенная щетка
 
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