RR soaps are very good, especially for their price point, but I find I need quite a bit to really get a great shave. Still a great cost per shave though. MF, as mentioned is one of their best but I find Dead Sea to be a bit better, but the cost is quite a bit more.
Razorock P.160 Wow!
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It's newer, I believe, but I don't see much difference from their base formula.
Dead Sea is a fantastic soap, even at it's price point. Great scent, great skin nutrition, and looks great.
I have an unused tub of RR P.160 I keep meaning to start using, just hasn't made its way into the rotation yet. But it's one of the few soaps I open just to smell, love that scent. Very similar to the original RR Cacao.
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Only issue with P.160 is that I have a bad reaction to it so I had to give it away. Love the scent and performance but just can't handle the irritation. I understand others have issues with it too, mostly the almond scent ingredient, but P.160 is the only almond scented soap that causes issues for me. I really hated giving it away.
I haven't tried Sante Maria Del Fiore recently so for me top comment wouldn't be fair as I'd just be guessing. Mudder Focker was a good deal better than all of the RazoRock soaps that I've tried when I tried them. It's definitely worth trying and I suspect you'll really enjoy it. The scent is inspired by the Terre d' Hermes cologne which is a woody orange scent.
I've moved on to soaps from Grooming Dept, Tallow & Steel and Lisa's Natural Herbal Creations (Premium version) as these are the very best I've found. These are mostly what I use now and what I'd call elite. Next level down for me I'd call outstanding and it includes Wholly Kay, Barrister & Mann, Declaration Grooming, and PannaCrema Nuavia. Elite and outstanding soaps together (for me) make up my tier 1. Mudder Focker would fall in the next level down (tier 2) for me that contains most of the excellent soaps out there. Most soap makers can easily make an excellent soap. Very few make something that is elite or outstanding.
Every so often I'll go to the Italian Barber web site and see what's new and
look at the soap ingredients.
Wow I love cella is the scent stronger then cella or different
Stronger and sweeter with a faint cherry note. I love p160. Still using my vintage stuff.
Cella has more of a faint sporting goods store scent along with the mild almond. It’s always been my least favorite of the traditional italian almond soaps. Also one of the few soaps I’ve had go bad.
Yea, I have had two tubs of Cella Red go bad over the years. But no other tallow soaps. If you buy it you had better love it and use it. I do like it but I like P160 better.
This made me think that I need to order some. Guess what? They're out of stock.
The RR P160 is good. But honestly I can’t really tell much difference between that and the RR classic performance or scent wise. Both are classic Italian almond scented croaps. So if you get the classic it’ll be pretty much like getting the P160. And the classic is just about always in stockThis made me think that I need to order some. Guess what? They're out of stock.
I remember using P160 years ago. It was excellent.
My experience with these soaps is the same. The ingredients of these soaps are identical with the exception that P160 includes tallow as ingredient #6). Likely a low single digit percent of the ingredients as tallow comes after the saponification ingredients.
Another advantage is in price. The Classic Italian often goes on sale for just $3.99 ($5.99 regular price) versus a sale price of $5.99 (regular $8.99) for the P.160 per tub.
Details in the thread linked below where comparisons are also made to TFS Ciotola Rosa (Red Bowl), Razorock XXX and Mudder Focker. See posts #1, 21, 22 and 37. Bottom line is that these are great soaps. Of the soaps I've tried only Mudder Focker, with a different base, provides better core shaving performance. Otherwise just get the Classic Italian unless you prefer the scent of other Italian Barber soaps with the same base like XXX.
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I also found Mudder Focker better than the other Italian Barber (IB) soft Italian soaps. Not entirely surprising as it has a different base than the others I've tried. Great enjoyable scent.
Details in post #37 in the thread I linked in my above post here.
and it's available again
, nice price too:
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, nice price too:
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