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

As the instructions CLEARLY state, this will foam a bit in the bowl, but that foam will start to collapse as it hangs out on your face. The face is still super slick from the product and that's the whole point of any shave soap or cream. It produces a much better shave paired with my DE razor than my previous shave soap puck which does create the thick 'santa beard' lather. A pea size is almost overkill as you'll never use up all the foam even with a double shave. The scent is subtle which frankly i'm ok with. I love the scent, I just don't want to walk around smelling like anything other than clean most of the time. Hard to describe - I think the description is trying to play on a young professional's cologne smell. Its not musky or woody like cedar or sandalwood but has some earthiness like teak wood, mixed with some herbal fresh and a tiny hint of sweetness. Think Abercrombie mall circa 1999 but waaaay toned down. I'm actually a little sad its currently out of stock because I was thinking of snagging another to keep around when the first one runs out in like a year.

This cream is really smooth and nice, and it smells good. My bf is a peaches and cream kind of dude, his skin is sensitive to razors and creams of many varieties. I got him the Viking Chieftan razor as a stepping stone to the eventual straight razor that he wants, and I also got him this shaving cream and the razor holder-- just to make it more of a set. Unfortunately this cream irritates his skin a little, and he's kind of a baby about it so now he's hesitant to use it in case it really screws with him before work or another event. I think he could probably get away with cutting it a little with his usual cream. It's a nice product, and everything I got him is clearly high quality. His skin sensitivies are not the fault of the company. I'm the Italian gf with skin like armor, I could shave my legs with 100 grit sand paper and be fine, but he's the Irish and Swedish one, and clouds hand-spun with angel fuzz by God himself would still probably irritate this guys skin. I'm hoping he uses it diluted a bit, bc it's a nice product and smells really nice. He knows it's good quality, so if you're usually good with a variety of creams and you don't have sensitive skin, it's definitely worth a try.

I've been wet shaving for over twenty years using the traditional shave soaps and creams that produce a slick lather that I apply to my face with a Badger brush. I purchased this product because of the aroma profile. To my surprise, when I received it, it described the product as one that does not produce lather, instead it produces a slick, foamy product that you apply with a brush after the foam subsides. To be honest, it was the first time I tried a product like this. I followed the instructions, placed some in my shave bowl, added some hot water and started whisking with the Badger brush. It produced some foam that I let subside, resulting in what looked like a whiteish liquid without much body to it. I then used the brush to apply it to my face. The razor glided over my face mowing down the stubble with no pulls, or nicks. all while I enjoyed the aroma from this outstanding product.