Re: Monsavon shaving soap
Hiya,
This was a soap I'd been wanting to try for a while now, but just never got to it somehow. Max was nice enough to include a bowl in the package with a razor I'd bought from him. I've used it four times now and have a pretty good handle on the stuff.
For some background on me, the rotation soaps include IK, MWF, Harris, and stuff like that. I am sorta finicky about performance, and by now I've found some things that work well.
So, I really like this Monsavon soap! First couple times the slip and cushion were still very good, but the third time I really nailed it. Yeah, used a little stiffer brush and loaded a little more product and bingo! The lather looked very beautiful and performed like crazy. The puck texture is interesting........a very soft one that's easy to load up the brush with.
The lather's got just the right amount of cushion, which means the blade's able to get through to whack them whiskers properly. The razor slides without resistance over my face, just as other favorite soaps of mine do. It's a very smooth drive.......heh.
The scent doesn't grab me, but I don't hate it either. If the stuff really honked my sniffer it would be in play a lot. Turns out I like this soap enough to occasionally use it for a very good change of pace. I have a number of soaps like that, such as PdP, Speick, Irish Moos, and a few others that I enjoy occasionally. Very good performers but the scent just isn't quite right for me to use often. Heh, good ones to have in the shaving arsenal, in other words. Oh yeah, I should mention the Monsavon post shave skin care is quite a bit above average.....very nice actually.
I guess this stuff is very inexpensive and easy to come by in France. That's a pretty handy item to have available in the local store. I was glad to finally have the Monsavon monkey jump off my back.
Martin