more bad news, Knockout shave closing shop

It's sad to hear, but..........

as many here state, it's bound to happen, and we will hear of many more in 2016-2017, is my strong belief.

I'm a creature of habits, and so far I'm staying with these 4 North American artisan soap makers:

Cold River Soap Works Select
Barrister & Mann
Caties Bubbles
RazoRock (I only mention them, because they were my first artisan from North America, and I only started collecting them because of XxX, I can't see myself going past the 4 soaps I own from them currently, as they are not as good as the 3 other artisan mentioned above)

I'm a little bit more into the European artisans at the moment, because I find that they make a quality shaving soap, only B&M, CRSWS, Caties and perhaps Mike's and Mystic Water can compete with.
The European artisans I currently have in my den is:

Meißner Tremonia - amazing soap, amazing paste, amazing scents, amazing presentation
Haslinger - cheap tallow based soap, but what a great cheap soap
Tabula Rasa - among my favourite artisans, in my Top 5 favourite soaps/creams
Savonniere du Moulin - perhaps the best shaving soap made at the moment
Savon de Volcans Bon Berger - also fantastic perfomer
Le Pére Lucien - Crazy skilled artisan soap maker, IMHO better than Martin de Candre
Martin de Candre - great soap, great presentation, a classic
Saponificio Varesino - they just seem to improve and improve, and the first release was already up there in quality
Panacrema Nuavia - have both soaps on their way to me, so base this purely on others opinion, but this should be the best soap out there at the moment
Antica Barbierra Colla - made by a real barber shop in Milan. Amazing cream and amazing soap
Baume.Be - among the best creams in production currently
Brutalt Bra - just got this soap in, and WoW, amazing soap my Norwegian friend has made. Amazing !

Claus, thank you for your comprehensive listing of your favourite European artisans - I have several soaps from some of your listed artisans but now I have a list of others from which to choose - some I had not heard of before now. This is very exciting.
Thank you
Marko

You're welcome, my friend

I'm staying with these 4 North American artisan soap makers:
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RazoRock (I only mention them, because they were my first artisan from North America)

RazoRock soaps are made in Italy ;-)

Aw man to bad!!! Hate to see it. Never did buy nothing from them but got a soap from them in a grab box on FB. Good stuff. Hooyeah!!!

I'm staying with these 4 North American artisan soap makers:
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RazoRock (I only mention them, because they were my first artisan from North America)

RazoRock soaps are made in Italy ;-)

Most of them, yes. But RazoRock is a Canadian brand to the best of my knowledge.

Apple is made in China. But I still consider Apple an American brand. Don't you ?

I'm kind of surprised so many folks here haven't heard of Knockout Shave. I thought they were more well known than that. Quite sad, best of luck to them.

I'm kind of surprised so many folks here haven't heard of Knockout Shave. I thought they were more well known than that. Quite sad, best of luck to them.

I've only been into DE shaving for the past year and I knew who they were. I do however research my hobbies/interests pretty exhaustively though. Never had a soap that I thought I couldn't live without. And they never had much chatter good or bad on the forums that i ever saw.

It is sad, much like Strop Shoppe going down. I've been hearing there was more going on with that one that had to do with customer service issues though.

But RazoRock is a Canadian brand to the best of my knowledge.

Apple is made in China. But I still consider Apple an American brand. Don't you ?

I completely agree when it comes to brands.

Things happen in threes. Who's next I wonder?

Looks like Tim's Soap is done. Again, one I had never really heard of personally.

I'm guessing another 5+ will close in 2016

http://www.timssoap.com/