What's the deal with Haslinger?

You can get pucks for $4-5 US if you order a large enough quantity. Furthermore, it is an excellent-performing soap which lasts quite a long time, along with providing great lather, cushion, protection, glide and post-shave, in my opinion.
The only reasons why I don't use it is the scent is so mild and I don't enjoy that 'soapy scent and it has one or two ingredients that I don't care for in soaps.
Nonetheless, I still find it one of the best soaps I have used. However, YMMV.

Well, as usual, people have different opinions here.

I just started using Haslinger. I have the "spa" version of the Sandlewood scent, which I understand is slightly stronger than their regular Sandlewood. The scent is most certainly there and is very nice. I would rate the scent on mine as about a 6 on a 10 point scale. As someone noted above, scent is not the reason to buy this soap.

Regarding the economics, this is a very hard soap and I understand from folks who have 3017-ed it, that it lasts a very long time. If you are in this hobby to count pennies and save money, then you may have a point (can't really say as I'm not an economist and I ain't counting pennies), but I don't think the folks who love this soap really care about the economics on such a small cost scale.

I personally like this soap for the performance. In my opinion, it is outstanding, up there with Tabac. I found it to be pretty thirsty and when dialed in with a good amount of water, it is very, very good on all the shaving soap factors I care about (i.e., slickness, ease of lathering, amount of lather generated, cushioning, after shave feel, etc.). It is certainly every bit as good as the best artisan soaps I have tried (and I have tried a lot). It will definitely have a permanent place in my rotation from now on. Since I have a space limitation issue in my bathroom that limits me to mostly soap samples, the small puck size is just about perfect for me. I also love how it fits right in my hand when I make the lather-perfecto!

I have not tried the ass soap (it's on my to buy list-Haslinger just happened to come up before that one in my list). If ass is better, as you say, well, awesomeness. But, until I can get me some, I'm gunna keep enjoying this cool little Haslinger puck.

I've tried a lot of soaps, Haslinger is my favorite and the best/consistent performer for me.

No forum drama, no artisan squabbling or battles, no shannigans, no formula changes, no tacky labels, no knockoff or copy cat recipes, no waiting lists, no timed releases, no LE offerings, no fuss.

The $5 delivered price tag is icing on the cake.

I found it to be pretty thirsty

Thats interesting. I found it needed very little water and was very slick. Hmm But residual slickness was not on par with other soaps I've tried.

If ass is better, as you say, well, awesomeness.

Whoa

I agree. I dont understand one piece of this Hanslinger Hype in late 2015 and 2016. I got 2 (including the sheep's milk) and they are both average to mediocre performing soaps, specially in the post shave department.

Correction: ass soap. My apologies - typing is not my strong point.

Schamilch at least performs best out of all my soaps. $9 for a hard puck soap doesn't seem expensive . Yeah we can get croaps for less per ounce but we paying more for water then soap with croaps. Hard soaps are mor soap.

That said where are you getting them for 4.50 other then that European store that then takes so long to ship.

Correction: ass soap. My apologies - typing is not my strong point.

I know, I was just pulling your chain.

Grim - when I get a new soap, if time permits, I like to do a test lather and see how far I can push the soap until it breaks. I found that Gaskinger can take quite a bit if water. In later stages, the lather seems to it gets sort of stretchy and gooey - kind of hard to describe. It seemed to me to be the sweet spot for slickness and everything else, so that's where I try to get it to each
time. Need to work it just a bit with the water to get it there.