I recently received a tub of unscented MdC as a gift from a good friend and fellow forum member and thought that I'd test it out against some Wickham Super Smooth (apologies if my photos are not up to my normal standard - my DSLR was not available today so I had to use my phone instead).
I chose the unscented version of the Super Smooth for the comparison test as I hadn't used it prior to today and thought that it would be good to try it out against another unscented soap and also help answer a question Darron raised in another thread.
The unscented Super Smooth has hardly any scent at all unlike the MdC which has a faint and pleasing Rosemary and Lavender scent.
I can best describe the unscented Super Smooth as having a very faint moisturising cream smell to it which very quickly dissipates when lathered.
Like the MdC it has very few ingredients listed on the label:
For the test I used my Simpsons PJ2 Super Badger brush and bowl lathered using a Steve Woodhead Pedestal Bowl.
Here's some pictures of the MdC and Super Smooth after a few brush loading swirls:
And some pictures of the two fully lathered:
The MdC created a very nice thick and dense lather whilst the Super Smooth produced almost twice as much lather as the MdC - this was as much of the Super Smooth lather as I could load onto the PJ2 and a fair bit of lather was left in the bowl.
I found the MdC to give greater cushioning during the shave and it left my skin feeling very moisturised post-shave.
This is not to say that the Super Smooth is any slouch in this area though. It gives excellent cushioning and slickness and does provide a good level of post-shave moisturising.
Overall, the MdC felt the nicer soap of the two but only by the narrowest of margins. There is a very big price difference between the two soaps though and on a value-for-money basis the Super Smooth is the clear winner.
Would I buy the Super Smooth again when this tub runs out (which I suspect will be a very long time into the future as so little product is used per shave)?
The answer is a resounding yes - Super Smooth is a great product which, in my view, deserves a place in my soap collection and is up there with the best English, French, German and Italian soaps on the market.
I chose the unscented version of the Super Smooth for the comparison test as I hadn't used it prior to today and thought that it would be good to try it out against another unscented soap and also help answer a question Darron raised in another thread.
The unscented Super Smooth has hardly any scent at all unlike the MdC which has a faint and pleasing Rosemary and Lavender scent.
I can best describe the unscented Super Smooth as having a very faint moisturising cream smell to it which very quickly dissipates when lathered.
Like the MdC it has very few ingredients listed on the label:
For the test I used my Simpsons PJ2 Super Badger brush and bowl lathered using a Steve Woodhead Pedestal Bowl.
Here's some pictures of the MdC and Super Smooth after a few brush loading swirls:
And some pictures of the two fully lathered:
The MdC created a very nice thick and dense lather whilst the Super Smooth produced almost twice as much lather as the MdC - this was as much of the Super Smooth lather as I could load onto the PJ2 and a fair bit of lather was left in the bowl.
I found the MdC to give greater cushioning during the shave and it left my skin feeling very moisturised post-shave.
This is not to say that the Super Smooth is any slouch in this area though. It gives excellent cushioning and slickness and does provide a good level of post-shave moisturising.
Overall, the MdC felt the nicer soap of the two but only by the narrowest of margins. There is a very big price difference between the two soaps though and on a value-for-money basis the Super Smooth is the clear winner.
Would I buy the Super Smooth again when this tub runs out (which I suspect will be a very long time into the future as so little product is used per shave)?
The answer is a resounding yes - Super Smooth is a great product which, in my view, deserves a place in my soap collection and is up there with the best English, French, German and Italian soaps on the market.
