What soap/cream did you use today?

Chiseled Face / Ghost town barber

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Murphy & MacNeil Gaol Laoch. The harder consismtecy of the soap is nice. Performance and scent are awesome.

Cade v. (L'Occitane en Provence) bergamot, sandalwood, pepper, cade

Sixty seconds of loading lead to a thick and satisfying lather. It’s tempting to underload Cade since it foams up quickly. After only 15 seconds, you may think you’ve got all the fixings for a great shave. But give the puck a full minute of swabbing, and you’ll get a much richer lather and a much slicker emulsion. These hard vegetable soaps respond best to dogged loading and a strong wrist.

I have been using this soap for years and indeed it is a great product.  The puck lasts a long time.

Cade v. (L'Occitane en Provence) bergamot, sandalwood, pepper, cade

Sixty seconds of loading lead to a thick and satisfying lather. It’s tempting to underload Cade since it foams up quickly. After only 15 seconds, you may think you’ve got all the fixings for a great shave. But give the puck a full minute of swabbing, and you’ll get a much richer lather and a much slicker emulsion. These hard vegetable soaps respond best to dogged loading and a strong wrist.

Bouki et al...

Can you opine on the scent of Cade? Judging from the ingredients, perhaps a spicy wood scent?

I'm intrigued, but I don't want to end up with another PdP 63 experience. It was way too musky, to my nose.

Thanks.

Thanks.

A while back Black Tie Razor Company came up with the idea that if they had an unscented soap base in the tub that they could then make available scented oils to "change" the tub into any scent offering they had by putting a few drops of scented oil on top of the puck before lathering.  Mild or wild scent was up to you by how much oil you added.  Seemed to me a great idea as I had already been putting essential oils on unscented pucks.  At any rate I ended up with a tub of #13 and two scent bottles, El Hefe, and Casino Royale.  The soap was in a smallish diameter jar so I swapped that into a wider tub shown in the picture.  Today I chose El Hefe which is a nod to cured tobacco.  It smells manly and I like it.  Soap base is slick and protective.  Medium structure.  Great shave.  Seems like the "add scent" idea did not catch on because you now buy Hefe in a pre-scented tub.  Perhaps one day their system will return?

A while back Black Tie Razor Company came up with the idea that if they had an unscented soap base in the tub that they could then make available scented oils to "change" the tub into any scent offering they had by putting a few drops of scented oil on top of the puck before lathering.  Mild or wild scent was up to you by how much oil you added.  Seemed to me a great idea as I had already been putting essential oils on unscented pucks.  At any rate I ended up with a tub of #13 and two scent bottles, El Hefe, and Casino Royale.  The soap was in a smallish diameter jar so I swapped that into a wider tub shown in the picture.  Today I chose El Hefe which is a nod to cured tobacco.  It smells manly and I like it.  Soap base is slick and protective.  Medium structure.  Great shave.  Seems like the "add scent" idea did not catch on because you now buy Hefe in a pre-scented tub.  Perhaps one day their system will return?

I wonder how that scent (eo?) would work if you chose to add a bunch to a bottle of water, alcohol, and glycerin. Would it make a scented aftershave or is something critical missing?

I have a bit of EO from Hendrix Barbershop, I might need to test it sometime, because inquiring minds want to know. Lol.

Wickham 1912 Parma Violet

Cade v. (L'Occitane en Provence) bergamot, sandalwood, pepper, cade

Sixty seconds of loading lead to a thick and satisfying lather. It’s tempting to underload Cade since it foams up quickly. After only 15 seconds, you may think you’ve got all the fixings for a great shave. But give the puck a full minute of swabbing, and you’ll get a much richer lather and a much slicker emulsion. These hard vegetable soaps respond best to dogged loading and a strong wrist.

Bouki et al...

Can you opine on the scent of Cade? Judging from the ingredients, perhaps a spicy wood scent?

I'm intrigued, but I don't want to end up with another PdP 63 experience. It was way too musky, to my nose.

Thanks.

Thanks.

I spend enough time sniffing it that perhaps I can help.  I think if you trade spicy to herbal you'd be closer.  Its certainly juniper but not woody juniper like the scent of chopping juniper posts to build fence.  The juniper I get is more the leaf of juniper.  But not the crushed leaf either.  The juniper scent smells exactly like a juniper tree just as it starts getting heated up by the sun.  Add to that a splash of sandalwood, a dash of rosemary, and a hint of some flower and you have Cade.  All scents in the accord are secondary to the juniper (Cade) and only serve to knock the sharp edges off.  The scent reminds me of morning rides up through the juniper hills east of the ranch.  The sun is not hot but is getting there.  Shadows are shortened.  The horse is stepping out at a lively clip.  It'll only be an hour before I get to the springs and a cold drink of water.  Cade is the scent of sunshine on juniper.

SPEICK Cream.....mmmmm, the smell