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Could be you have quite soft water?As a newbie to all this lark, I'm just standing at the entrance, staring down the rabbit hole at the moment, but I have either been very lucky with my choices of soaps and creams, or I'm just bloody well ridiculously good at this shit, but I can get a great lather from all my soaps. My one cream: OSP, though, is amazingly easy to whip up in to a bowl full of smoothness and rewards one with a fantastic slick lather.
Could be you have quite soft water?
I moved from a hard water area to a soft water one & it's noticeably easier now to get really good lather from both soaps & creams.
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Evgeny said:Gentlemen, soap and cream are different incarnations. For me personally, the cream is necessary for speed and lack of time. Like a razor brush
On the other hand, a well made soap (doesn't have to be expensive), again IMHO, provides a better shave in terms of skin protection and razor glide.
Well as usual, YMMV. You may not find any difference ever, and others may find a bunch of. Probably another thing that is influencing my finding is that the soap I am currently using is tallow based. But again, very subjective area. If I could afford to use TOBS or Geo Trumper every day, I would probably use only creamsI personally feel that creams give a lot more protection.
I have not found much difference between soaps & creams with respect to glide/lubrication/slickness.
I have been experimenting with mixing my different creams and soft soaps with MWF hard soap and I'm finding the result excellent.
I put a bit of the cream in my bowl with a little water and leave it floating in hot water whilst I take a shower.
Then load the brush with with MWF and lather up in the bowl with the cream.
I find I'm getting a superb result, much better than cream or soap alone.
MWF dries my skin on it's own and with my creams alone I don't get such good performance, best of both worlds!
Thanks to @ajc347 for the tip
Tubes of cream are usually safe as no contamination or tap water enters. Tub of cream may be a bit at risk, but most creams have preservatives.I'm favouring soaps after reading the thread on Wickham V2. Darren states that bacteria can grow easier in creams than in hard soaps. Soap makers should be adding preservatives, as Darren says, because it's a potential health risk. This especially if you have several soaps and they go well past their sell-by date. But even with whatever preservatives are used, soaps look to be safer in the long term.
Tubes of cream are usually safe as no contamination or tap water enters. Tub of cream may be a bit at risk, but most creams have preservatives.
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