What soap/cream did you use today?

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I love reading this thread and revisiting my times before using different shave soaps from over the years. It is a fun thing to think how many products we have all tried that we have in common with each other as well as enough other soaps that people post that you haven’t tried before. It makes me want to buy more soaps so I am trying not to fall into the rabbit hole again. I asking myself to maintain discipline with software, especially soaps.

I used L&L Grooming/Chatillion Lux collab Champs de Lavande shave soap again tonight (with a synthetic brush). I really enjoyed this shave and during my time face lathering the last couple months, I try to assemble the lather just as wet as I normally want but a bit quicker and let fussy. I find I am still getting the really smooth lathers and wet lathers with a bit more time cut out. Maybe I am cutting a minute out of face lathering (still at least a couple minutes facelathering). This soap is pretty damn thirsty and pretty much gave me a nick free 3 pass shave so props to this old bison and lanonlin formula. The post shave is very protective but since our weather isn’t very cold or dry right now, the post shave feel is pretty fatty or waxy. Not complaining but I am definitely not using the kokum or mango butter when using a soap like this. It already has that level of protection. I may shave with this again this weekend.

Stay well and happy shaving my friends

A great post but yet suggest that the majority of shavers lack the skin sensitivity to discern the incremental deltas between top tier and truly exquisite soaps - which, frankly, am truly happy they so blessed. The worse one’s skin, the more readily apparent are these differences.

Soap Commander / Honor

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[font=Roboto, sans-serif]Pre-shave: ETHOS First Lather Unscented[/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif]Soap: ETHOS GreenFresh[/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif]Razor: Wolfman WR1 DC Custom High Polish 0,61[/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif]Brush: Elite Guild in Kingman Turquoise Declaration Grooming B6[/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif]PostShave: ETHOS Hylauronic Acid[/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif]AfterShave: ETHOS Skin Food Unscented Custom Blended[/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif]PostShave: ETHOS Remede Sensative Skin[/font]

Ethos Grooming Dragonsbeard V2 soft shaving soap

Mikes Vetiver is not a perfume type vetiver at all but neither is it rank and rowdy like Salters Vetiver either.  In fact vetiver is a most interesting scent note in that unlike lilac varieties that look different but smell very similar, vetivers are all over the board from Smokey to dirty to nutty to lemony.  All of them are noticeably vetiver but they are as different as are football players that wear the same jersey.  Most vetiver scented soaps actually have other notes that compliment the vetiver but others let the vetiver wagon out of the barn.  For example, Saponificio Varesino Desert Vetiver to my nose is so cleaned up that I cannot pick out a vetiver note in the mix.  Black Tie/Sir Henrys Black Velvet has black pepper and vetiver and both notes shine (with the vetiver playing Lea guitar.  Right Hoosier?). And Mikes is just vetiver and I like it like that.  There is a kiss of the lemony vetiver here but nutty is the bigger note.  Smoke and dirt are not really in this one but that is just fine because as they say, variety is the spice of life.