Post shave feel

Burry

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I find haslinger, P&B, OSP, fine are all top for post shave feel. I've tried wickhams and SV (and many others) as they also get great comments about post shave feel, but for me, my face is tight after using them (great to shave with). Easily sorted with a moisturiser, but my preference is the tallow soaps. Proraso red cream (not soap) and body shop maca root are also great in this area. Creams seem to be a little gentler on the face for me, though I prefer the slight extra slickness of a soap.
 
Burgundy

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What is 'post-shave feel'? I swear this has only come into the wet shaving lexicon in the last year or so.
 
Burry

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I can only say what it means to me - simply how my skin feels after the shave. The main thing i want to avoid is dryness or tightness, which I find common with a lot of soaps.
 
Burgundy

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I suppose it's become another fad.

Given the variation in climates, occupations, age, diets, skin types etc - surely 'post-shave feel' as too subjective to be useful as a standard by which to judge the quality of a soap? To my mind, describing a soap as having 'excellent post-shave' is meaningless. Instead, what's needed are descriptions as to what these post-shave qualities are; i.e. 'It leaves my dry skin feeling moisturised.' This is because a heavily-superfatted soap may feel leave your skin feeling nourished in November but greasy come June.

Similarly, 'Martin de Candre is drying' is the current groupthink yet, go back a couple of years, it was widely praised for its simple ingredients and 'cleansing' effect. Its fall in status has coincided with a fetishisation of artisan superfatted tallow soaps, which probably explains a lot.
 
Reevers

Reevers

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I usually don't shun a soap out of my rotation if it is a little drying. Like others have said, that's what balms are for. But I do appreciate a soap that leaves my face feeling healthy. Notable soaps for this...

Pannacrema Nuavia,
Faena (with lanolin)
@phoenixandbeau
 
Burry

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Burgundy said:
I suppose it's become another fad.

Given the variation in climates, occupations, age, diets, skin types etc - surely 'post-shave feel' as too subjective to be useful as a standard by which to judge the quality of a soap? To my mind, describing a soap as having 'excellent post-shave' is meaningless. Instead, what's needed are descriptions as to what these post-shave qualities are; i.e. 'It leaves my dry skin feeling moisturised.' This is because a heavily-superfatted soap may feel leave your skin feeling nourished in November but greasy come June.

Similarly, 'Martin de Candre is drying' is the current groupthink yet, go back a couple of years, it was widely praised for its simple ingredients and 'cleansing' effect. Its fall in status has coincided with a fetishisation of artisan superfatted tallow soaps, which probably explains a lot.
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Perhaps you are right in describing it as a fad - or perhaps not, it matters not. I find most of the matters we discuss here are rather subjective, and subject to an enormous number of variables which make direct comparison between our experience and others rather difficult, but I rather enjoy the comments and discussions anyway. I agree - post shave feel is a vague term, but sometimes it may be as simple as 'it makes my skin feel great'.
I must try Martin de Candre one day - then I will be able to form my viewpoint on it.
Perhaps one day the group will return to the groupthink that values MDC more and re-develops the fetishisation of this soap as opposed to the superfats. (Tongue firmly in cheek of course).
 
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UKRob

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Burgundy said:
I suppose it's become another fad.

Given the variation in climates, occupations, age, diets, skin types etc - surely 'post-shave feel' as too subjective to be useful as a standard by which to judge the quality of a soap? To my mind, describing a soap as having 'excellent post-shave' is meaningless. Instead, what's needed are descriptions as to what these post-shave qualities are; i.e. 'It leaves my dry skin feeling moisturised.' This is because a heavily-superfatted soap may feel leave your skin feeling nourished in November but greasy come June.

Similarly, 'Martin de Candre is drying' is the current groupthink yet, go back a couple of years, it was widely praised for its simple ingredients and 'cleansing' effect. Its fall in status has coincided with a fetishisation of artisan superfatted tallow soaps, which probably explains a lot.
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I agree entirely with the argument that skin types are so different as to negate any person to person comparison - but individually, the comparison of how one soap feels to you when compared to others is still valid.
 
Burgundy

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UKRob said:
I agree entirely with the argument that skin types are so different as to negate any person to person comparison - but individually, the comparison of how one soap feels to you when compared to others is still valid.
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It is valid, I agree, so long as the comments do make those comparisons. 'x has nicer post-feel than y' is meaningless whereas 'x leaves my skin feeling ______ but y leaves it feeling ______' is actually useful.
 
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