Proraso White Soap

Proraso, which I’ve reviewed before, is all vegan – so if you’re looking for good vegan shaving products, check them out.  As I mentioned before, my pre-classic wet shave days, I was shaving with a cartridge razor and Proraso white foam, so the shift over to Proraso white soap seemed to be a pretty good, and safe, lateral move.

The Proraso white line is designed for those with sensitive skin.  The white soap is “green tea and oatmeal” which, I guess is good for sensitive skin?  I don’t know.  Well, to start, it was great on my face.  It’s quite nice, its very gentle, and has a nice smell to it.  The scent isn’t overwhelming, but it is present.  I can’t say it smells like green tea or oatmeal, but it’s quite nice.

The soap is nice and even, and didn’t create any uneven bumps or lumps, which I hear some soap does (although I don’t have experience with that).  The soap feels … soapy …. on the skin – it isn’t as thick or foamy as a shaving cream, but it does cover the face nicely.  It leaves your skin feeling clean, and doesn’t either dry out or irritate the skin, so that’s nice.

There’s one downside to the soap – it doesn’t create as much of a thick lather as a shaving cream does.  It takes more effort than I initially expected to create a good lather.  This has meant, on a few times, I have nicked or cut my face when shaving – which hasn’t happened when I’ve shaved with shaving cream.  To be fair, I could work a bit harder to make a thick lather, but who wants to put that much effort in when cream does the job better.

Now.  Proraso white soap retails for around $10 both online and in brick-and-mortar stores, and lasts a pretty long time.  It’s great value for money, and does make a decent shave.  For a few months it was my daily shave, and I now have a tub of the soap kicking around, and still shave with it from time to time.

 

Proraso White Soap

Proraso White

 

Proraso White Soap: 4/5.

tl;dr: a very good and affordable shaving soap that gets the job done, even with a bit of thin lather.

Until next time, be kind to animals.