The Very Best Budget Soaps / Creams Where Money is The Object!

Did I beat you to it celestino?

Hehe. Seriously though, it's a fantastic soap, especially considering that the price point is in the ~$10 range.

Sadly wsp is now $3.75/oz  up 50¢/oz from when I last bought some. Far from its oringal $3/oz a year ago

Are you sure? I'm looking at their site now and it's 12.99$/4.4oz (2.95$ per oz) for the vegan line and 14.99/4.7oz (3.19$ per oz) for the tallow.

It's 14.99 on Amazon.

Sadly wsp is now $3.75/oz  up 50¢/oz from when I last bought some. Far from its oringal $3/oz a year ago

Are you sure? I'm looking at their site now and it's 12.99$/4.4oz (2.95$ per oz) for the vegan line and 14.99/4.7oz (3.19$ per oz) for the tallow.

It's 14.99 on Amazon.

That's with free Prime shipping though right?

My opinion isn't intended to offend anyone, and I will completely understand if you find it useless in this context (since it is after all based entirely on my own experience and allergy issues). Some, however, might find it helpful.

No offense taken here. We just have a difference of opinion is all. I'm going to start using my PdP No. 63 soap that I haven't touched yet. It's quad milled. I'm going to weight it before and after several shaves to see how much I use on average. I am curious as to how much I will be loading from a milled soap versus my regular hard soaps.

Hobbyist I figured you wouldn't take offense mate, I just meant that generally hehe .

I'll go with Stirling as well. Really close behind is Soap Commander. Third is RazoRock.

Is almost 3$/oz still considered as budget? If so, my first choice would be WSP. Slightly better than Stirling IMO.

About initial cost - isn't it just a matter of patience? If you don't HAVE to buy the soap RIGHT NOW, you can save for it while using other budget soaps with lower initial cost. After you save enough to splurge on the expensive but budget soap, you'll have enough time while going through it to save for a replacement.

You could save up for the soap, but the high cost of an expensive soap still makes me cringe. If I save up enough to buy the expensive soap, I guarantee that something else will come up that I can use the saved money on. And let's face it, expensive shaving soap is a luxury not a necessity. Even saving the money specifically for the purchase of an expensive soap, my conscience will not let me spend a lot on soap when I have other items that I could use the money for. In my case, expensive soaps are something that I will never experience. If I had a larger disposable income, then I would splurge. Unfortunately, like a lot of other people, money is tight for me and I cannot justify spending a lot on a shaving soap.

Hobbyist, I consider Czech and Speake a premium soap...my favorite along with Haslinger.
This morning's order shows with a little digging it can become more of a budget soap.

No.88 Shaving Soap Refill
Item# CZSP-EL2090 $35.99 USD 1 $35.99 USD
Discount
-$9.67 USD 1 -$9.67 USD
Subtotal $26.32 USD
Shipping and handling $0.00 USD
Insurance $0.00 USD
Total $26.32 USD
Payment $26.32 USD

My vote goes to the 3P shaving soap. You can still find a 1 kilo brick for under $30 delivered to the US. I have tried its "peers" Cella and P.160 (original); and the 3P is almost as good as P.160 and certainly works for me much better than Cella, though they all are outstanding soaps.

I think we need a better definition of "budget". It seems to me this thread should be focused on low-cost soaps. Im not talking about a $60 puck of soap that might last 4 months for some people, but a puck of soap that costs $5 for everybody...

We have 3 categories being talked about and 2 of them are already covered in the other soap thread...

Look around the internet. The median cost of a 4oz puck of artisan soap is about $15. So use that as a starting point for the definition of "budget". If the cost of a soap, outright, not per shave, is higher than that, than it is not a budget soap.

You can justify high-cost soaps any way that works for you. Thats fine. But in the end, $30 or more for a puck of shaving soap is not budget, no matter how you slice it. Its high end, luxury soap.

The "cost per shave" argument should be moot, in my opinion. You cannot buy soap by the shave, you must buy it by the ounce. That is the cost that should be used to gage whether or not a soap is budget.

The idea that $60 puck of soap us a budget item is odd to me. Coming from someone that has had to choose between gas in the tank and food on the table, those arguments just dont make sense. No matter how good a soap is, some of us cannot lay out that kind of cost just to cut the hair of our faces, or head, as in my case.

In my personal opinion, any soap that costs more than $3-4 per ounce is automatically disqualified as a "budget soap". Its just not budget conscious for anyone with a real budget, and frankly, thats where this thread should be focused.

If we want to discuss the best VALUE soaps, than perhaps a different thread that will break down the cost per shave value of the soap to help those that are looking at it from that persepctive. We have the high end thread, this should be the low-cost, or economy thread.

Start a value-based thread that ignores initial cost in favor of per shave cost. It is a different topic, in my opinion...

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Hobbyist, I consider Czech and Speake a premium soap...my favorite along with Haslinger.  
This morning's order shows with a little digging it can become more of a budget soap.

No.88 Shaving Soap Refill
Item# CZSP-EL2090 $35.99 USD 1 $35.99 USD
Discount
-$9.67 USD 1 -$9.67 USD
Subtotal $26.32 USD
Shipping and handling $0.00 USD
Insurance $0.00 USD
Total $26.32 USD
Payment $26.32 USD

That's a good price for that soap. I plan to buy the 90g eventually but may try Haslinger first.