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(This post was last modified: 02-03-2016, 12:00 AM by GloryUprising.)
Re xpec scent - it grows in you and definitely smells different when lathered. A very slick soap that can handle a bit of water. I missed everyone at the meet, Leon said you guys had just left for lunch. Next time!

Re tab Rasa vs xpec - I think xpec wins on slicknes, but tab Rasa wins on scent and cushion.

Re macca root. I wasnt a fan. It didn't lather as much as I would have liked... It felt more like a brushless cream.

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-Spencer
#22
(02-02-2016, 05:55 AM)GloryUprising Wrote: Re xpec scent -  it grows in you and definitely smells different when lathered. A very slick soap that can handle a bit of water. I missed everyone at the meet, Leon said you guys had just left for lunch. Next time!

Re tab Rasa vs xpec - I think xpec wins on slicknes,  but tab Rasa wins on scent and cushion.

Re macca root. I wasnt a fan. It didn't lather as much as I would have liked... It felt more like a brushes cream.

Tabula Rasa also wins in post shave imo.
#23

Soap Slinger
Burnsville, MN
I'd say Tabula Rasa is probably my slickest cream, followed by Castle Forbes.
#24

Member
San Francisco
I should mention I was also pretty impressed with my samples of D.R. Harris creams. If I didn't already favor the tallow formula of their soaps, I'd be pretty happy with their creams (plus, the Arlington scent is marvelous).
David : DE shaving since Nov 2014. Nowadays giving in to the single-edge siren call.
#25
I have a couple shave creams. Nivea, Godrej, Arko, Tobs, Geo F, Proraso.

Out of those I would agree Nivea is the slickest. Pretty underrated stuff if you ask me.
#26

Vintage Razor Fan
Southwestern NY
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2016, 01:16 AM by Blade4vor. Edit Reason: I just noticed: My 100th post on DFS! )
The slickest shaving cream I've tried is Biotique Bio Palmyra Spa Shave Cream from India. I actually bought because it was suggested to me due to it's slickness. I'm not a big shaving cream user, since I use primarily soaps, but I have tried my share and this one, for me, is extremely slick!

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#27
I've tried most of the highly regarded creams on the market except 1 (ironically, the one that is reputed to be the most slick: Santa Maria Novella V3). In my experience creams are harder to compare than soaps because the lather quality is more individual from person to person (depending on their technique), but here's my top 5 list of worthy mentions in relative order of most slick to least slick:

1. (reserved for the very slickest I come across - probably will end up with SMN V3)

2. XPEC: The slickest cream I've yet tried. This is the one I'd recommend to straight razor shavers and lovers of slickness, largely because of these qualities and it's ability to produce a great-looking post-shave complexion. The new version is a bit more tricky to lather, but it still performs very well.

3. Tabula Rasa: (This is described as a soap but I consider it a cream due to its airy consistency). Very slick and extremely protective. The scents are seriously great and avant-garde, and are obviously created using quality fragrance/essential oils. Worth checking out IMO, especially for folks with sensitive skin due to the Stimu-Tex ingredient.

4. Castle Forbes: My favorite is the lavender. Not only is the cream calming to sensitive skin (lavender oil is awesome in this regard), but the lather is exceptionally dense and slick mainly because it can take a lot of water. Out of all the UK creams in the typical style (users of multiple UK creams will know what I mean by that), this is the one I'd go with since its much more dense and protective than Trumper's, T&H, St. James, and so forth.

5. Acqua di Parma Collezione Barbiere: While this is one of my favorite creams on the market, it isn't the slickest, but certainly has enough slickness to do the job in complete comfort. This seems to operate on the principle of beard-softening. Once you lather this soap and take a blade to your stubble, you can easily tell that your whiskers are noticeably softer and easier to cut. Post-shave is always impeccable (probably the best I've tried in creams), and in-shave performance is protective and enjoyable. The scent is love it or hate it, but I actually prefer it to the old Colonia scent (blasphemy, I know). Great stuff!

These are all great products, and most of them will outclass a lot of the other available alternatives. If you love top performing creams, you should definitely make an effort to try each of these. YMMV, IMHO, etc.

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Member
San Francisco
Have to agree with Tabula Rasa being way up there (plus, how is it not a cream? it's so... creamy!). And yes, you're going to find that SMN v3 is excellent.
David : DE shaving since Nov 2014. Nowadays giving in to the single-edge siren call.
#29

Posting Freak
For me the slickest is probably I Colonial Rhubarb Shave Cream. Great performance and great scent. I don't consider the softer soaps like Tabula Rasa, eShave, GFT and the like to be creams. While they are softer than soaps like MWF and could probably be squeezed out of a tube if they were to come in a tube, they are still, IMO soaps or croaps if you like - I don't mind that word. l'Occitane Cade shave cream is a close runner up.
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Luxembourg
(02-01-2016, 03:29 AM)Barrister_N_Mann Wrote: My current top performer, believe it or not, is Nivea Sensitive. Stuff is just unbelievably slick.

Do you think that the olive oil and the dimeticone could contribute to its slickness?


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