It is obvious everyone uses the word soap "puck" because many shaving soaps come shaped like a hockey puck.
Shaving Made Easy, a vintage book about shaving, used the word "cake" of shaving soap. This seemed curious to me because, again, everyone uses the word "puck" today on the forums. Now, none of the meanings of the word "puck" is consistent with how we use the word http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/puck
Searching for the definition of "cake" yields the following results: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cake
Thus, I will switch over to the correct terminology. You are all welcome to keep using the colloquial "puck" but I will not.
Shaving Made Easy, a vintage book about shaving, used the word "cake" of shaving soap. This seemed curious to me because, again, everyone uses the word "puck" today on the forums. Now, none of the meanings of the word "puck" is consistent with how we use the word http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/puck
Searching for the definition of "cake" yields the following results: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cake
5.
a shaped or compressed mass:
a cake of soap; a cake of ice.
Thus, I will switch over to the correct terminology. You are all welcome to keep using the colloquial "puck" but I will not.