VIKINGS BLADE Luxury Shaving Cream, Sandalwood & Western Red Cedar, Silky Buttery Smooth, Surfactant Base. Refreshing, Clean, Close, FOAMING Shave Cream

Not what I expected in so many ways…..
EDIT: I am not going to deduct a star from this product review, but after a month of use, I find that I am completely bone dry. I think this shaving cream is vastly superior to the standard tub fare, but it certainly does not last as long. So, $20 a month is a bit pricey for a month’s worth of shaves in my opinion.I happened upon this product by sheer mistake.Actually, I was looking to see if one of my favorite shaving soaps was available on Amazon. Usually, I have to buy it directly from the vendor.During my search, THIS product came up. The reviews were very favorable. I thought, “Okay, let me try this one instead.”The tub is the same size as my favorite soap, which I found to be very nice. There is an ample amount of product inside.When I opened the tub for the first time, I was a bit upset. There was not the usual “soap” I was accustomed to inside. Instead, it was cream — like the Noxema type you would rub into your face.Now, I have spent my years of wet shaving using the kind of soap you dip your brush into and swirl around for about 30 seconds before adding the brush to a cup of water.This is a completely different animal.You kind of have to take your brush and dip it into the cream, just taking a little bit away. You then put the brush in a cup, add a few drops of hot water and lather it up.Again, I wasn’t very happy about this process at the onset.However, after a few days of figuring out the right amount of cream to apply and the amount of water to add, I have been getting a tremendous lather.Best of all — and this is THE BEST OF ALL — this soap outperforms my other brand (which is Krampfert’s Frostbite Shaving Soap).The reason why I love this soap is that it has a better lubing effect to it. The blade slides across the face without any effort. It’s like my face was given a grease job (without the grease effect) and I can run a blade without it suddenly stopping and giving me a nick.Whether this will last as long as my other “soap” brand, I don’t know. It’s just a different experience for me and it seems I can get a lot of lather from a very little amount of cream.The scent? It’s negligible. I get more scent from my aftershave than I do with this product. However, scent is not something that is at the top of my list.I would highly recommend that you try this product. I think it really does a better job on lubing the face than other soap dish products I have tried.

Works very well
I lather on my face rather than using a separate bowl. This worked very well. As noted, the lather sort of evaporates, but I found it left a perfect lubricating coating. Great shave. I’ll get it again when I run out.

The perfect shaving cream!
If you’re like me, then you’ve spent a very long time looking for the right shaving products. This right here is some of the best shaving lather I’ve used in my entire life. I’ve spent years trying to find just the right stuff. As someone with sensitive skin and coarse facial hair, nothing ever seemed to give me the right results.Every single shaving gel/cream I’ve used just left me with very dry skin. I could even physically feel my skin drying out while it was slathered all over my face right in the middle of a shave. And every single one of them burned to some extent. They also never really seemed to do much lubricating. Many a razor would pull and drag, resulting in a lot of unwanted pain and misery. On top of all of this, after finishing up and rinsing everything off, my skin would just feel very tight and dry.This stuff though? It’s a league of its own. I’ve tried wet shaving in the past, but never with something like this. As the item title states, this is a NON-LATHER. It does foam when you first mix it up with a brush, but the lather eventually evaporates. Some of it may still remain, but the point is it’s not like your typical shaving cream. It leaves behind this incredibly slick, almost oily substance. It gets in every nook and cranny and sticks to every little hair on your face. And it doesn’t dry your skin out, nor does it burn. It creates a protective layer on your skin, ensuring that your razor performs a perfect glide with every single stroke. It has a very pleasant, but not too powerful aroma of sandalwood while also having a nice cooling effect if you apply it mid-shave.To top it all off, there is A LOT of this stuff. The container is 5.3oz, and while that may not sound like a lot, a little goes a VERY long way. 1/4th to 1/2 a teaspoon is all you need for a shave, coupled with a brush and some water to lather it up.This stuff works great with the other Vikings Blade products (especially the Forest Frost aftershave and the Dark Stallion/White Knight brush). If safety razor shaving is not your kind of thing, I still recommend this if you use a typical cartridge razor. I think no matter what razor you use, this stuff would be leagues ahead of what you might be used to.