Your favourite NON Artisan soap/cream

What is your opinion on fine shaving creams and hard soaps? Do you like Trumpers, Coates, Taylors, Truefitt & Hill? Post your reviews and opinions here!
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Your favourite NON Artisan soap/cream

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Please share and tell why
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Cream: Trufitt & Hill Almond. My favorite scent and great performance.
Soap:AOS tallow (by Valobra) wonderful scent and performance. Although no longer made, it is still available on the bay.
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Trueffit and Hill discontinued Rose and Lavender creams and bring back ALMOND instead. While I was getting my annual haircut there I wanted to buy some and they told me non left:/ so I took samples they had left for rose and ;lavender!
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by a very long mile; trumper rose

price
scent
lather

29 thumbs up to its inventor :D

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Current production:
Cream: Castle Forbes Cedarwood/Sandalwood
Soap: (there are two) Tabac and Penhaligons
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cream: the body shop maca root shave cream
soap: n/a atm i havent finished my current razor rock lavender which is my first soap
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celar36 wrote:Please share and tell why
Mitchell's Wool Fat soap - best feeling skin afterwards of any soap I've used.
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My 'latest' favourites: Tabac soap and Harris Arlington cream. I've been using both sparingly for a long time and have started to use them more often lately.
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First of all, I only use soaps. I have never really liked creams.

Next, I'm very sensitive to fragrances, so that rules out a lot of soaps. I tolerate some lightly fragranced soaps (like the Valobra Shave Stick, Mitchell's Wool Fat, and not much else), but I mainly look for unscented soaps and those scented with EO. Artisan soaps have generally fit these requirements better than commercial soaps.

My favorite commercial shaving soap is Valobra hard soap, in the form of the Valobra Shave Stick, the new unscented Valobra soap in a cake, or the old tallow-based, Valobra-made AoS soaps. This soap in these forms just lathers easily and provides the needed glide.

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My current favorites:

Soap: Cella and Mitchell's Woolfat. I could happily use just these two forever.

Cream: Art of Shaving and Coate's tubes - sandalwood mostly, but in the Coate's I also have lavender and lime. If T&H and Coate's were still around in tubs I would use them.
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