 Quite impressed. |
| Review Date: October 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: M.D.C., San Diego, CA |
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2T0KTY7S2PLQU Not just with the soap itself, mind, but with the deal. Shaving soaps, assuming one shave each morning, can last a couple of months before you need to throw a new puck into the shaving cup. If you assume about 2 months per puck, and this comes in a pack of 12...well, you see where I'm going with that. That's a GREAT value. It can be argued that shaving foams and gels last nearly as long, but the difference with shaving soap is how it works on your skin. Shaving soaps usually have special moisturizers that provide for a smoother face than regular shaving foams or gels. Also, the lather is not nearly as thick, so a lot less actually goes down your sink.
A little trick for you: Fresh out of the shower, apply baby oil to the area to be shaved, then apply the shaving soap with a shaving brush in against-the-grain strokes, like you're painting. I say baby oil instead of preshave oil because baby oil does three things: soften the skin even more, help keep the hairs in place for an easy shave, and seems to help keep the lather from running or dissolving too fast. I do it every morning and the end result is a much closer shave with less blade snags.
I've tried the generic Williams Mug soap sold at CVS, the Colonel Conk brand, and now this - and I can say the Van Der Hagen brand lathers the absolute best. It's thick without being "foamy", and applies very nicely. Don't let others who tell you "just use bar soap" fool you. You can shave with bar soap, yes...but shaving soap lathers quite differently from regular soap.
Good stuff and well worth the purchase. It's basically a dollar and some change per - which is comparable to other soap brands - but it performs like more expensive types. Mix it with a hot towel treatment and you'll be in shaving heaven. |
Great Shave Soap For The Price!
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| Review Date: January 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Tony Manwell, |
| Van Der Hagens select shave soap is a suprisingly good shave soap. It lathers very well, keeps your skin soft and never dries, provides a close shave, and has a great but faint smell! I have tried many different types of shave soaps, and while van der hagen is not the best, its close enough and one of the cheapest around! Now i have tried all 3 van der hagen soaps: select, deluxe, and glycerine. deluxe and select are almost identical but the select has a slightly better scent, so I am giving the slight edge to the select, thus making the deluxe mostly useless. The glycerine however is slightly better for people who suffer easily from razor burn. Overall Van Der Hagen select shave soap(and glycerine) is a great shave soap for the price and should not be missed or avoided! |
Smooth as a babies ...
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| Review Date: September 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: K. Moger, NorCAL |
| For such and inexpensive soap this stuff performs like a million bucks! I will never go back to "canned" cremes! |
I won't need any more soap until I'm 35!
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| Review Date: December 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Clinton R. James, Stillwater, Oklahoma United States |
| I love this soap. I got all 12 pucks of soap so I wouldn't have to find them at Target again (which is kinda spotty). Now I won't need to buy soap for another 9 years or so! |
The Best of the Van Der Hagen Soaps
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| Review Date: October 31, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Tyronious, New Orleans, LA |
I haven't tried any of the high end shaving cream/soaps yet (proraso, TOBS, AOS, etc.) which I heard were great, but this is the best shave soap I've ever used and the best of the Van Der Hagen brand (I've tried tham all).
It's thicker, slicker and lathers better than the other VDH soaps. |
PERFECTLY FINE
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| Review Date: August 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: avoice, Los Angeles |
| This is a perfectly fine inexpensive shaving soap, and I give it high marks all around. That said, it is not materially better than any plain soap you normally use to wash yourself with. As far as I have been able to tell, virtually any hand soap like Dove or Ivory will lather up well enough to shave with. People have personal preferences concerning scents of soap and there is a big industry in selling one brand over another and there are hundreds of ingredients that can be added or subtracted to make one soap appeal more than another, but in the end, as far as shaving goes, anyway, they all work much the same. The purpose of soap in shaving is to help keep your skin wet while you shave. It's the water that is the main ingredient in lubricating the razor blade as you shave, not the soap itself. Try it yourself. Lather your hand soap with a shaving brush and you'll see there's hardly any difference in the shave between it and a brand labeled for shaving. The nice thing about shaving soaps is their round shape which fits into a typical shaving mug or box, but this is just an aesthetic issue, and maybe even adds some convenience. Shaving soaps make nice presents for men who use shaving brushes. If you use a straight razor, a brush, and soap in a wooden box, you can make quite a show of shaving and impress the girls. But you can get a perfectly fine shave using an inexpensive Bic razor and just lathering up a hand soap with you hands. Just don't let anyone see you do it. It takes the mystery out of the process. |
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US $30.00
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