Floris/Dr Harris/F Trumper Shave Soaps

[Pedigree]

That’s ok iv you’ve got a soap lying around but surely they are not worth buying in the first place

I strongly disagree.

 

[Mike Smart]

I strongly disagree.

what are you disagreeing with ?
So you buy crap trumper soaps so you can use half soap & half cream ???
to make some sort of super lather iv never heard off.
Sorry but for me i’m not buying crap soap just so i can pair it with the already excellent cream that i get a wonderful lather from without adding a product that doesn’t work i.e Geo F Trumper soaps.
Also what is this super lather your referring to ???

 

[R181]

Also what is this super lather your referring to ???

If I may be so bold to inject that super lather is just combining a cream and a soap together to create a lather.

How to Create Super Lather

Bob

 

[Pedigree]

what are you disagreeing with ?
So you buy crap trumper soaps so you can use half soap & half cream ???
to make some sort of super lather iv never heard off.
Sorry but for me i’m not buying crap soap just so i can pair it with the already excellent cream that i get a wonderful lather from without adding a product that doesn’t work i.e Geo F Trumper soaps.
Also what is this super lather your referring to ???

It's combining the best of both worlds, the scent and cushion of the cream with the slickness and moisturizing capabilities of a hard soap, both in the same or similar scents. It produces a lather that I find superior to using just the soap or just the cream. Today I'll be superlathering GFT rose soap with the cream of the same.

 

[Mike Smart]

It's combining the best of both worlds, the scent and cushion of the cream with the slickness and moisturizing capabilities of a hard soap, both in the same or similar scents. It produces a lather that I find superior to using just the soap or just the cream. Today I'll be superlathering GFT rose soap with the cream of the same.

Yeah i understand what your doing but it doesn’t create a super lather & if the truth be told trumper soaps don’t have a strong scent.
I’m not after an argument here but there is absolutely zero point in buying a soap that clearly doesn’t work just to create what you call a super lather.
I get perfectly good lathers of just about every soap / cream i own.
The only crap soap i have are trumper & fitjar islands.
The only thing these soaps are good for is using in the shower.
As a shaving soap they are 100% useless to say you buy them to create this super lather i don’t understand.
To buy a good product & mix it with a shite product doesn’t actually make sense but hey everyone to their own & good luck to you.
I’m glad it works for you.
Personally i’ll never buy another unless it’s
Oxford Blue or Officer & Gentlemen as they are both different formulas

 

[iwan073]

I used D.R. Harris' Sandalwood, Marlborough and Arlington soaps. They are alright. My soaps from Abbate Y La Mantia and Musgo Real are much better though.
I have Trumper's Almond soap and it smells great! Smells nothing like almond, but more like a flowery soap scent. But like someone said before; it's better to wash your hands with it than to shave your face. I can make a nice lather out of it, but as soon as it hits my face; gone!

The Floris I don't know yet. I ordered one today. Guess I'll have it tomorrow or the day after.

 

[Burgundy]

I’ve gone back to my roots with the recent DR Harris soap. I haven’t had anything from the old school in over a decade - spending my attention and plenty of ££ happily exploring ‘artisan’ software. I realised - ludicrously belatedly - that my shaves in 2025 were absolutely no better than they were after I came across shaving forums back in 2010. The old fashioned stuff just works.

 

[Chris]

I’ve been using Harris Marlborough for the last few days and really enjoying it. I think the puck must be about ten years old and it still performs like a champ.

 

[chazt]

I’ve gone back to my roots with the recent DR Harris soap. I haven’t had anything from the old school in over a decade - spending my attention and plenty of ££ happily exploring ‘artisan’ software. I realised - ludicrously belatedly - that my shaves in 2025 were absolutely no better than they were after I came across shaving forums back in 2010. The old fashioned stuff just works.

I’ve been using Harris Marlborough for the last few days and really enjoying it. I think the puck must be about ten years old and it still performs like a champ.

Yep, clearly it’s a legacy brand for some very good reasons.

 

[Burgundy]

Yep, clearly it’s a legacy brand for some very good reasons.

I must admit that I like the nostalgia. My grandpa used to take me and my brother up to London to his club in St James’s. We’d sometimes pop into DRH or T&H which were just round the corner. I would have been ages 7 to 10 so never paid any attention to what he was buying but I remember the smells and the feel of the old wooden counters.

Other times we’d walk down Jermyn St if he was dropping off shoes to get resoled. Cheaney and Tricker’s. He spent some of his childhood in Northampton but was also of that wartime generation who made things last. When he died, he still had several pairs of pristine, decades-old leather shoes and boots that even in his nineties he’d polish weekly.

Edit: He used to use Tabac and there was always a bottle of 4711 cologne in the bathroom.

 

[chazt]

I must admit that I like the nostalgia. My grandpa used to take me and my brother up to London to his club in St James’s.We’d sometimes pop into DRH or T&H which were just round the corner. I would have been ages 7 to 10 so never paid any attention to what he was buying but I remember the smells and the feel of the old wooden counters.

Other times we’d walk down Jermyn St if he was dropping off shoes to get resoled. Cheaney and Tricker’s. He spent some of his childhood in Northampton but was also of that wartime generation who made things last. When he died, he still had several pairs of pristine, decades-old leather shoes and boots that even in his nineties he’d polish weekly.

What wonderful memories. Thanks for sharing. Such stories make interesting reads.

 

[Burgundy]

What wonderful memories. Thanks for sharing. Such stories make interesting reads.

He was an impressive man. He spent three years of the War in and around the front lines in Burma and had more than a few stories - including having a brick thrown at his head by a young Indira Gandhi. He stayed in after 1945 and carved out a career in the army and later civil service positions representing HMG across Europe.

Here are a few photos:

Spoiler

1945. He’d been mentioned in dispatches and reported missing behind enemy lines on a few occasions. He’d been promoted to Major, aged 24.

1951ish. They’d moved to Paris where he was working on the staff of SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) under Eisenhower and Montgomery.

Mid-60s back in England with my mother as a child. My mum was born in Nottingham but, as a Forces Child, lived all over. Her most vivid memories are of Malaya. Presume he was involved in decolonisation transitions.

Trooping the Colour in the early 70s. He got to ride the Queen’s favourite horse, Burmese, on one of them.

Sitting to the right of a young Ken Clarke - probably in Strasbourg. He had time working at the OECD, the UN, and various other IGOs after his time in the army.

Despite everything he’d seen and done, I knew him as a very gentle man who loved golf, cricket, and The Times cryptic crossword. He died a few months after my grandma.

 

[Randy]

TOBS are okay performers, scents on the cheap side. D.R Harris all good as others have mentioned, only one thing to note: Their almond soap is quinine scented, it's name is derived from the almond oil it contains, not the scent

Floris are decent but stinky, proper old fogey scents, or perhaps timeless and gentlemanly... You know how it is, one man's meat is another's poison and all that. Trumper soaps are duds, basically a hand soap formulation sold as shaving soap.

Only for tourists

 

[Randy]

I’ve been using Harris Marlborough for the last few days and really enjoying it. I think the puck must be about ten years old and it still performs like a champ.

Does it even lather Chris?

 

[AndThatsARockFact]

I’ve tried Geo F Trumper’s Eucris, Sandalwood, Almond, and GFT creams. They’re all excellent.

Eucris was my favorite, recently finished. Tempted to try Spanish leather or Rose next.