Name the top four, and ONLY four!

[TobyC]

The best hard puck shaving soap you can buy, the top two are easy, what else is there?

1. Vintage Williams
2. Arko
3.
4.

 

[Boycie83]

1. Saponificio Varesino
2. Martin de Candre
3. D R Harris
4. Mogno

 

[Gairdner]

1. Saponificio Varesino
2. Martin de Candre
3. D R Harris
4. Mogno

Classy.

1. St. Mitchell of the Fat
2. D R Harris
3. Cyril R Salter
4. Vintage Culmak

And not necessarily in that order as the Culmak is great stuff. I only put the Harris above the Salter as it’s supposedly the same soap but I could have it Windsor or Arlington scents which are both lovely. Always, always must have the Fat up there but I’ve only used the ARKO stick, nary the hard cake in a bowl. Oh, Ach Brito Mogno is excellent and deserves a mention though I’m not certain it would dislodge the stated four. Never had the pleasure of vintage Williams. And I canna stretch the old sky rocket to buy SV soaps, alas.

 

[donnie_arko]

1) The Fat
2) Arko
3)
4)

A few gaps there, as they are the only 2 hard soaps I could recommend. If it included shaving sticks, I'd throw in there Palmolive, Tabac, Speick, Derby, Lea to name a few.

I never got to try Williams, I should have bought a few pucks before it was discontinued and it's prices shot through the roof.

For those who like Mogno, the Eco Warrier Lime shaving bar (before they reformulated it) has a similar lather. Cyril Salter is a good shaving soap but made my face burn.

And I canna stretch the old sky rocket to buy SV soaps, alas.

I'm sure SV is a good soap, but like yourself I'd be a little wary for spending £30+ on one tin of shaving soap, especially considering as I almost entirely prefer using tallow based shaving soaps.

 

[NeilJ]

MWF
Tabac (tallow)
DR Harris
Pre de Provence

 

[pjgh]

MWF
Savonniere du Moulin
Martin de Candre
T&H Sandalwood

... that you can actually buy.

Otherwise, sub out the T&H for vintage Coty Avocado.

 

[pjgh]

Vintage Culmak

I like your thinking! I've just enjoyed a good stretch with what I think is a 1980s vintage (with a herbal scent) and then a 1970s vintage (with a possible citrus woody scent). Grand stuff, vintage Culmak!

 

[Sabre]

Provence Sante
Pre de Provence
eShave
Discontinued I Coloniali Mango

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[Gairdner]

I like your thinking! I've just enjoyed a good stretch with what I think is a 1980s vintage (with a herbal scent) and then a 1970s vintage (with a possible citrus woody scent). Grand stuff, vintage Culmak!

I’ve got an ivory plastic bowl with a blue ridged lid that had a damaged Culmak sticker on top. I was kindly gifted this by a member who hasn’t posted in a long time. I’ve only just rediscovered it having moved almost three years ago. I remember it being an excellent soap with a simple, clean and soapy scent.

Question: do you know how the modern Culmak soap performs?

 

[pjgh]

Question: do you know how the modern Culmak soap performs?

I'm hazy ...

I think I bought a black lid tub (current issue) and thought it okay ... okay, not great. It might be that I just needed a bit of time and space as that was almost certainly in my discovery phase. Now, I might find it great. Vintage is certainly great.

Sorry ... hazy.

 

[Paul L]

1 Tabac
2 Pre De Provence
3 Wickham 1912
4 Noble Otter

If 5 were allowed Stirling would be there . . . .

 

[donnie_arko]

1 Tabac
2 Pre De Provence
3 Wickham 1912
4 Noble Otter

If 5 were allowed Stirling would be there . . . .

Is Noble Otter a hard soap? I thought it was a 'modern' shaving soap and closer to a croap like consistency.

 

[Gairdner]

Wickham is a soft soap and so too is NO so we can’t count those. Same goes for Stirling.

 

[Driftwood]

1. DR Harris
2. Martin de Candre
3. Tabac

 

[Shaveguru]

1. DR Harris
2. Martin de Candre
3. Tabac

That's only three?

 

[Jenks]

There are only 2 that I continue to re-buy:

• Martin de Candre
• Mike's Natural

I do try others but I am usually one-and-done.