Bang for my buck

fancontroller said:
Tabac. Biggest bang for your buck.
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Indeed, albeit not the cheapest (about £6, maybe cheaper on eBay), you get a quite practical packaging (for home and travelling), a formidable lather, a love/hate fragrance (that might linger after rinsing), and a lasting stick (certainly more than a year with 5 shaves a week).

http://www.allbeauty.com/us/en/134175-maurer-wirtz-tabac-shaving-soap-stick-100g

To me the praised Palmostick is barely satisfactory and leaves my skin very dry, I prefer by far the German soap that smells like a granny hair spray which is way more funny.

Another cheap alternative to Palmostick to consider is the Erasmic shaving soap bowl at around £3 at Savers.
 
Roy said:
I am always at a loss why MWF gets two reputations. Firstly it is as easy to lather as any other soap.....loadsbof creamy lather with my hard water . Secondly, it is singled out as having lanolin which some guys are allergic to. Loads of other soaps have lanolin and these get no criticism! A great soap which lasts months. Only criticism for me is that it could do to come in a great scent, lime woukd be nice!
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My MWF now comes in lime. Here's how.

  1. Get a new puck. Also, get some lime essential oils.
  2. Put your new puck into a bowl (empty TOBS work well, as do Body Shop Macca Root bowls, but it really doesn't matter what kind of vessel you have).
  3. Add enough water to cover the puck, plus about 10-15 drops of lime essential oil.
  4. Leave the puck for at least 24 hours. 48 hours won't hurt, but possibly doesn't make any difference.
  5. Drain the water.
I found the MWF soaked up and retained the lime essential oils. It was still quite noticeable even 3 months later (I then did a top up of the same process to reinvigorate it). I added lemon oil, cederwood and lime in combination, but it is the lime that comes through most strongly.

It works very well indeed.
 
I'd say Proraso soaps and creams. Tried a lot of artisans and most of them are really really good but not 3-4 times better than Proraso.
It lathers with such ease, the scents are wonderful and it gives a satisfying shave.

In the UK the difference is not that much, cause of domestic shipping, and I really don't know what's the price of Proraso in UK but in Croatia I can find it for £4 and I can't get a artisan soap for less than £12, not to mention US artisans.

If only I weren't a sucker for scents, I would have never went this road of buying so many soaps.

I would add Clubman Pinaud as my choice of cheap aftershave. No one can beat its quality for the price....

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Greetings

There are some fabulous performing shaving soaps out there (virtually all mentioned above) that cost very little money, the only thing you will not get with all of them is an 'exquisite' scent. In the case of most of them them the scent can be fairly described as dull and mainly mild, in one or two cases a little odd; to my nose none of the above mentioned soaps I would describe as unpleasantly scented in any way and most importantly they all perform (IMHO) superbly.

I should also say that I use a little fragrance every day so scents in shaving soaps is not very important for me.

Regards
Dick.
 
Norfolkdick said:
...I should also say that I use a little fragrance every day so scents in shaving soaps is not very important for me...
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As well for me. However, the market today seems almost as driven by the fragrance of a soap as it is by its performance and for some people even more so the former. Alas, the shave soap "rabbit hole" is deep and with long reaching tentacles. :oops:
 
So, so many to choose from. I'll add a few to the ones already mentioned.

Cella - either the red tub or a chunk off the bigger block
TOBS
T&H No. 10
LEA
Body Shop Maca Root
Edwin Jagger/Muhle soaps/creams
RazoRock
 
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