Some of you guys are super fancy! I've tried a few want to be fancy shave soaps and feel like the cheap stuff like Van Der Hagen to the actual fancy stuff acts about the same. If I found anything to be better it was the sort of translucent glycerin pucks of soap. I do prefer a warm water soaked boar brush to the softer and way more expensive badger brushes. I kept getting crazy specials on hundred packs of blades so I probably still have over a thousand double sided blades.
And yet I can shave just as well with some Softsoap or Head and Shoulders.