The very best luxury soaps/creams, money no object

CHSeifert thanks for posting your impressions! How would you characterize your skin type, if you don't mind me asking?

Steam Punk is probably my favorite (along with Vetiver & Tangerine) out of what I have tried. I haven't had the chance to smell Dark Lavender yet.

I have medium to dry skin during the winter and normal skin to slightly oily during the summer.

My skin will feel different, depending on whether I get out of my knee pain and can start at the gym again.

When I go to the gym 3-4 times a week, I take 4 1 hour shoers a week plus the short ones.
When I don't go the the gym, I take short daily showers.

Thus my skin will feel dryer if/when I start going to the gym again.

Thanks! That's similar to my own skin type, so I can see why you really enjoy Tabula Rasa.

I have a friend with EXTREMELY dry skin and shave bump issues. Unfortunately it doesn't work for him, as he reports extreme dryness and a worsening of his bumps after using the cream. That said, I think that his experience is the exception rather than the rule.

Claus, its not sporting to list all luxury shaving creams and soaps.   That is a spectacular collection.

Tom Slick hehe, Claus has tried a lot of the very best soaps/creams on the market, and fragrances for that matter. His opinion holds great sway.

My best performing creams/soaps that I own are:

Le Pere Lucien - own 6, 5 200 gram pots and one 125 gram pot

Martin de Candre - own 2 200 gram glass pots

Savonniere du Moulin - own one 100 gram 30% ASS milk pot

Savon de Volcans - own 6 150 gram pots, all 6 perform fantastic, only let down by the presentation

Acqua di Parma - own 2 pots, one performs slightly better, the other smells much better. Love both.

Boellis Panama 1924 Almond - own one 250 gram refill puck, which I have in my empty 200 gram Martin de Candre Unscented glass pot

Antica Barbierra Colla - own both the soap and the cream. Both are excellent.

Castle Forbes - own the lavender and the Lime. Both are fantastic performers.

Penhaligon - own 4 of their creams, and they perform great. Opus 1870, Blenheism Bouquet, Endymion and the new Sartorial. Own 2 soaps, Sartorial and Bayolea, the soaps are nice, but the creams are better.

Floris No. 89 shaving cream - arguably amonst the best shaving creams I have ever owned.

Meißner Tremonia - own 14 soaps & pastes. 7 scents total. Great perfomers. Great scents. Great presentation.

Haslinger - own 4 of their pucks. Great performance at a great price.

Klar Seifen - own their 3 newer scented soaps. Fantastic performance through and through.

Tabula Rasa - own 4 of their soaps/creams. Will add 2-3 further soon. Amazing performance.

Musgo Real creams. Own all 6. Love them. Slick and fantastic performance. Disliked TSE instantly, where Mr. Plisson Sucks Brush of the Devil took his Musgo real cream and threw it in the sink, because he didn't like the scent. Lost all respect right there......

Alvarez Gomez shaving cream - very underrated performer. Love this stuff.

Portus Cale - great performer. Awesome scent. Contains SLS though. Still love it and rate it highly.

Antica Barbierra de Bairo - made by Portus Cale, again an awesome and underrated soap. Excellent scent. Shave the Man, know his stuff.

Xpec - own the original unscented and the new scented version. Both performs extremeyl well. The old one may be a bit more slick, but hard to differ for me between the two, even though some thinks they are like night and day performance wise.

Baume.Be - own both the cream and the soap. The cream is among the best creams you can find. The soap is okay.

Esbjerg - own two of the,, will add 2 more soon. Perfect cream.

St. James - own all 5 glass jars. Perfect cream

Czech & Speak - own 2, fantastic soaps.

Valobra - own 3 pots, fantastic soaps. Valobra makes the C&S mentioned above.

Santa Maria Novella v1 - a better performer than Proraso. Some say they are identical. I disagree. Better slickness. Better cushion. Need to get v3 of the SMN soap.

Saponificio Varesino - own 5 of their soaps. All are great perfomers.

Barrister &  Mann - own 14 of his soaps now. Scent is an scquired taste. Performance is not. It's fantastic.

Cold River Soap Works Select - own 8 total of version 1. Great great soap.

Caties Bubles - own 8 of Caties, enjoy them all highly.

I Coloniali - own both their Rhubarb shaivng crea, which is awesome, and their Mango soap, which also is awesome.

Atkinson Lavender cream - made by I Coloniali. Fantastic performance.

O' Melhor - a great great Portugese cream. Can turn rock hard on you. Only down side this amazing shaving cream.

Tabac - own both versions of the soap and the old version of the cream. What a great classic perfomer.

MWF - best post shave feel in the business. KING of post shave feel.

These are what I think are the best performers in my current collection. I may edit this, if I forgot some or when I buy the two Nuavia soaps and SMN v3.

This reminds me of how many "favorites" my kids have.

I really enjoy the Tabula Rasa Steam Punk. It is easy to build up a great lather and I think the scent is fantastic.

Freddy do you currently have a tub? If you do, would you mind posting a picture of the ingredients? I've only tried partials and a few samples of the Steam Punk scent, and I'm curious about the specific ingredients. Please?

Freddy do you currently have a tub? If you do, would you mind posting a picture of the ingredients? I've only tried partials and a few samples of the Steam Punk scent, and I'm curious about the specific ingredients. Please?

Here you go.  I hope this helps.

Freddy Thanks much for taking the time! As I suspected, the scent of Steam Punk seems to be made mostly with perfume oils (which isn't a bad thing by any means). For comparison, I'll update this post in a bit with a picture of the Vetiver & Tangerine cream.

Incidentally, in case any of you are interested, Erik Kormann (the perfumer) puts out a fragrance that matches the Steam Punk cream exactly.

Freddy Thanks much for taking the time! As I suspected, the scent of Steam Punk seems to be made mostly with perfume oils (which isn't a bad thing by any means). For comparison, I'll update this post in a bit with a picture of the Vetiver & Tangerine cream.

Incidentally, in case any of you are interested, Erik Kormann (the perfumer) puts out a fragrance that matches the Steam Punk cream exactly.

Where can one get the Steam Punk EdT?