Fantasia Rasierseife

[Carl]

I recently got hold of a german shaving soap I´ve never heard of before, namley a "Fantasia Rasierseife". The smell is very pleasant, but i can´t get a decent lather from it, it doesn´t matter wheter I´m usig my borr bristle brush or my pure badger. Any one out there who´ve had any sucess with this soap?

[Hugo]

Carl,
Can you post a link to this soap??

[Carl]

I can´t find any links to this soap. The only thing i get when i google is a few links to posts in a german wetshaving forum. Unfortunatley my german is not what it should be.

[Hugo]

Carl,
Maybe play around with it at a time when you will not be shaving.
Experiment with both brushes and water/soap mix. I'm sure if you do this you will find the right mix to make the soap come alive.

[stuff495]

I recently got hold of a german shaving soap I´ve never heard of before, namley a "Fantasia Rasierseife". The smell is very pleasant, but i can´t get a decent lather from it, it doesn´t matter wheter I´m usig my borr bristle brush or my pure badger. Any one out there who´ve had any sucess with this soap?

Hm, we'll I've run across soaps that just aren't any good before. Muehle - Pinsel soap for example.

Are you able to get a good lather out of other soaps using the same brushes and water? If so it sounds like the soap may be at fault.

FWIW I've never heard of Fantasia Rasierseife.

--Vincet

[Carl]

I get decent lather with both my taylors sandelwood soap and my tabac soap. The tabac soap gives exellent lather even with my boar brush. I`ll guess i´ll use this odd soap for handwashing.

[notthesharpest]

On the Nassrasur forum in German, Fantasia has been mentioned a couple of times but is not well-known. One guy said the lather was good, others found it quite thin. Everyone agreed about the nice clean soap smell. One person was quite sure it was simply Haslinger soap repackaged.

[Spiegelei]

Hi Guys, this is my first post and I will take the chance to greet everyone.

@ Carl
Amazing, where did you got the Fantasia?
It is not that easy to get a piece of it here, although its a German product.

To get a decent lather from this soap is a real challenge. It is definitely possilbe, but you will have to work out (right amount of water/soap) in order to reach the goal. Dont waste time on it. Let me say that the Fantasia isnt known - I paraphrase it diplomaticly - as a high performance product.

Yes, the Tabac provides a great lather. Nice scent, good skin care, reasonable price. Mayby the best product of Mäurer & Wirtz.


@notthesharpest
I assure, that the Fantasia has absolutely nothing to do with Haslinger.


CU, Spiegelei

[notthesharpest]

Spiegelei:
Thanks for bringing us the correct information!

[Carl]

Spiegelei:

I bought it in a shop in sweden that´s specialized in electric razors. They don´t stock any old school wetshaving products anymore but they have a small and slowly shrinking supply of some DE-blades and other old school shaving products. The only shaving soap they had was the Fantasia. I think i bought the last one. I´m probably their only customer who´d ever ask for a shavingsoap these days.

[English]

Found the source for you.

http://www.muehle-pinsel.de/?rlang=en

Never used it myself, but I'm suprised that this German shaving brush manufacturer would put his name to a bad soap.

Normally I find German products to be world class. Happy shaving.

[crackstar]

Gruss Gott Spiegelei! I shaved for quite a while with Tabac soap, and now I can't seem to find it anymore. I really enjoyed that stuff.

Jeff

[stuff495]

You can get Tabac from Shavemac (a German firm)

I think Charles Roberts still has some at his store in Austin. If you call or email him he will probably mail you some. His store's website is enchanteonline.com

Some forum members might trade you some Tabac.

Unfortunately it's very hard to get right now. I'm not sure why.

--Vincent

[malocchio]

I recently got a can of Fantasia from a guy in Sweden. I had no problems getting a decent lather.Nice ,but mild,scent.Quite a hard disc,so I started with a slightly damp brush,then very gradually added water to achieve a nice lather.

[Craig_From_Cincy]

Welcome to Shave My Face Spiegelei!

[brothers]

It appears that Speigelei hasn't posted here in over 7 years, since he participated in this thread. It' is nice to know Ron (Malocchio) has found a cake of this soap.

[Craig_From_Cincy]

D'oh! I didn't even notice the age of those posts. That's what happens when you reach your upper 40's and need trifocals.

[brothers]

Tell me about it! Let me tell you - responding to old threads can be fraught with unforeseen consequences!

[Squire]

That's what happens when you reach your upper 40's and need trifocals.

It's not a problem Craig until you can't find the glasses you left on top of your head.

[Whistler]

I cant tell you how many times SWMBO has had a good laugh while I panic and search for my glasses only to find they are on my head.