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Top Performing Soaps

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filobiblic

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I want to know what you personally rate to be your top performing soap.

What soap is the best in terms of a consistent slickness, cushion and post-shave feel?

A soap that lathers incredibly well time and time again.

Note:
- this may not be your favourite scented soap
- I'm more interested in soaps (tallow or vegan) rather than creams
 
La Toja.
It's one of only two soaps I occassionally use.

The scent is a bit meh (the same as the cotton toilet spray we have at work).

I've never really worked out how to use non stick soaps properly - I just don't seem to get a decent lather. Probably not spending enough time loading I presume.
 
filobiblic said:
I want to know what you personally rate to be your top performing soap.

What soap is the best in terms of a consistent slickness, cushion and post-shave feel?

A soap that lathers incredibly well time and time again.

Note:
- this may not be your favourite scented soap
- I'm more interested in soaps (tallow or vegan) rather than creams
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ARKO!!!! Its delicate lemon scent shouldn't be obtrusive and it gives a consistently good lather.
 
filobiblic said:
I want to know what you personally rate to be your top performing soap.

What soap is the best in terms of a consistent slickness, cushion and post-shave feel?

A soap that lathers incredibly well time and time again.

Note:
- this may not be your favourite scented soap
- I'm more interested in soaps (tallow or vegan) rather than creams
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Well it has been a week or so since the last ARKO! stouche...:ROFLMAO:

If you include Croaps then P.160 morbido
Harder soaps - palmy gut 2,2 is gut yah.

Haven't shaved enough with Speick stick but I suspect it may be head of the class in time.
 
Interesting how the shave sticks are consistent top performers...
 
filobiblic said:
Interesting how the shave sticks are consistent top performers...
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I find my face/whiskers are much more abrasive than my brush (might differ for Omega users? ) Might help with loading enough product consistently?

A lot of the puck soaps are triple milled jobbies too. I read the other week about a DR Harris Arlington shave stick. If it is the same as the puck - good ****ing luck loading enough soap before you have worn through your skin.
 
SmallYetDeadly said:
I find my face/whiskers are much more abrasive than my brush (might differ for Omega users? ) Might help with loading enough product consistently?
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That was my first thought also.
 
I know many others haven't chimed in yet but we are missing the Artisan soaps...
 
I think I'm yet to discover/encounter mine...

Though, with Jaboman and Stirling coming and @Barrister & Mann having arrived in my hands today, the list of prospective suitors could soon be dramatically declining.
 
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I tend to favour soaps with a thick, creamy lather and good skin care qualities. That puts Mike's and Cade up there, they're both extremely good and tick all the boxes for me. Tabac rates a mention too because it's great in almost every regard, just with a slightly polarising scent. I enjoy it for a change of pace.

Speick and La Toja are my pick of the shave sticks, and I'd happily travel with either of them.

I feel like I lose a little bit of perspective with soaps and lathering because I'm blessed to be in Melbourne and have extremely soft water. I can only assume from feedback elsewhere that this can make a huge difference with some soaps.
 
CELLA.
 
La Toja is definitely my fave thus far, but since I am a creams guy then it's not much of an opinion. Nice clean soap with a light fougère scent, lathers well, stick is convenient for travel.

Cella & P.160 have also been good performers for me. I cannot do the Almond scent in summer usually, I prefer it in winter.

MWF does me well also, at least it does now where I live and the water has a total hardness of less than 200ppm. Previously the calcium, lime and magnesium concentrations in the water meant that lathering some of the finicky soaps was absolutely impossible.
 
Monsta_AU said:
MWF does me well also, at least it does now where I live and the water has a total hardness of less than 200ppm. Previously the calcium, lime and magnesium concentrations in the water meant that lathering some of the finicky soaps was absolutely impossible.
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A good and oft overlooked point.
A good soap manages to produce results in a wide array of fields, so MWF failing in harder water in my opinion is a strike against it :(
I wonder how many artisans test their soaps in different water qualities.
 
All of them perform well. Lots of them have weird or awful scents. Subtracting those two I'm left with a few and out of those I'd say Sir Irisch Moos is my consistent got to. Oh and of course ARKO. Has been quiet on that front for a while. Trust GT to stir it up a bit.
 
Quite surprised that no one has mentioned Tabac! You can lather it with a twig and performance is top notch.

Other soaps that do it for me everytime - Speick, Mikes and of course good ole Arko.
 
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