My possibly unpopular opinions:
- There are no big differences in artisan soaps today and most of them are pretty close and pretty good. Most opinions are based on sympathy, appealing design, artisans personal story etc.
- Special kinds of tallow, oils, milks, mumbo jumbo is not important to have a slick, protective lather and in the end a great shave.
- A thick, dense, yoghurty, creamy,cool whipy lather is not important to have a proper shave, it just looks better and people talk too much about ''dialing it in'', finding the perfect recipe to create that perfect lather - see any barbershop videos, old YT videos like Steven Faragher....
- Related to the previous - adding glycerin, creating super uber lathers is pure bullshit.
- The post shave feeling of a soap is not important. Except if one doesn't use aftershave. Which most people do.
- Blooming is not beneficial and not necessary to get a proper lather.
- Don't see any benefit to pre-shaves.
- Cartridges are not the reason for bad shaves and I don't believe that triple blade technology causes irritations.
- We all know higher prices don't mean better product but when it comes to brushes this is most expressed. People pay way too much for brushes.
- Blade differences are way less pronounced than people claim they are
- Modern razors are better than vintage razors in terms of smoothness and efficiency.
- Modern (synth) brushes are better than classic badger/boar. The differences are not that big in terms of performance and effort to use it is minimal.
- We're all too crazy, it's only shaving.
) is the Muhle synthetic I bought from your good self.
