Weleda Shave Cream

I picked up a tube of Weleda today and tried it. I've never used it before.
I did some reading online and as I understand, it's meant to be worked in with hands but I squirted a bottle-cap sized amount into my lathering bowl and worked it with my badger brush.
My first impression was it doesn't generate a fantastic lather; a little foamy and not a lot of it. Generally speaking, to generate the same amount of lather as say as TOBS, you need about twice the amount of cream. I added more, as I ran out after two passes.
I did like the scent and despite a thin coating and fair slickness, the protection was quite good. I achieved a smooth, irritation-free shave with no redness afterwards.
On Amazon and other retail sites, the ratings were good. However, the reviews on Badger&Blade were generally poor. I have to say it's a decent soap. Not great but good. I'll keep it in the rotation for at least a while.

Jeremy

 

Thanks for the review - I had forgotten all about Weleda.
The cream and AS were some of my first purchases after I started wetshaving , and I remember liking the creamy almond scent. Their selling point is that the products are made from natural ingredients/mild/for sensitive skin.
According to their website, you can apply the cream with either brush or hands.

 

I had never heard of them. I was in a local barber shop buying some pre shave gel and I saw it on the shelf.

 

Thanks for the review. To many good ones out there to settle for a subpar preformer.

 

It was my first shaving cream. I loved it but you need quite a big dollup of it and it's quite pricey. However it has lots of good skin-protection qualities.

 

My thoughts exactly. It's a good cream but to get the most out of it on a regular basis, you would use a lot.

 

All the health store/natural cosmetic brands shaving creams are not that exceptional with the exception of Speick. Weleda, Annemarie Borlind, Logona, Lavera etc.

 

Thank you for the review Jeremy.

 

Weleda is sold in my local Whole Paycheck store. It is likely that their other stores also carry Weleda. Thanks for your review! I was wondering how well Weleda worked, and know now.

My take is that heavily censored sites tend not to have the most accurate information, and that Amazon is a better source for reviews than Squirrel & Nut.

 

Perhaps add Kiss My Face to the exceptional list?

 

The above are European products, I have never seen Kiss My Face products here, are they available in Health Food stores?

 

I would generally have to disagree with this. IMO, B&B may be fairly restrictive on types of product discussion, but it does consist of conversations among wet shaving enthusiasts. Amazon reviews are populated with everything from paid shills, to the Joe Schmoe who just tried his first mug and brush shave, was enamored with the process, and is excited to give his Colonel Conk/Escali badger combo 5 stars.

Most forums seem to have their favorite product's fanboys, and product recommendations site wide sort of trend in that direction. It isn't hard to see through and form your own opinions, and the truth is, the recommended product trends are generally good quality ones. On Amazon, it is somewhat funny to see bad to mediocre products getting stellar reviews.

The time it takes to sort through them looking for hints in the text that show the reviewer has a clue, is too much. The only Amazon wet shaving reviews I read are the one stars, just for the comic relief.

 

So. . .is Weleda worth a try?

 

Whole Foods, a nationwide US health food store chain, sells both Weleda and Kiss My Face creams, in addition to Herban Cowboy and Badger brands. The Kiss My Face creams are sold in the UK, too. Amazon is your friend!
Kiss My Face Moisture Shave

 

Whose discourse, as you noted, is restricted. Censored wetshaving sites might have enthusiasts as members, but the censorship greatly devalues their content. It is a shame really, and B&B is not the only forum so affected. I use the Leisureguy test for forum censorship. If Leisureguy is banned at a venue, I do not consider the forum a terribly reliable source of information.

And there aren't any shills on the wetshaving forums? B&B has them, as do most of the other forums. Heck, even the reincarnated Damn Fine Shave has one or two, and they welcome vendors with open arms and encourage them to have discussions with members. Shilling is completely pointless and unnecessary there. I found it fairly easy to spot the shills at the various places online, though.

I also found what you say to be true, but still maintain that Amazon reviews are better than censored forums. It takes time to sort through the posts, too. Of course, if one wants to get accurate information, it makes the most sense to go to a forum with relatively unfettered discussion. The Shave Den, of course, and also the reincarnated Damn Fine Shave, Straight Razor Place, The Shaving Room and Reddit wicked_edge.

All in my humble opinion.

 

Vitamin Grocer ships from the US, it's not really the same as being in any stores ...

 

I agree with everything you wrote. Your sentiment is spot on, I just think the awfulness level of Amazon review content is too high to take them seriously at all. Examples:

Escali Pure Badger Shaving Brush - 4.5 out of 5 on 6200 reviews.
Colonel Conk Soap - 4.5 out of 5 on 700 reviews.
Weishi TTO - 4.5 out of 5 on 400 reviews

I am not even trying to trash these particular products, as there are people who use them and get value and enjoyment from them. But do they deserve these kinds of scores?

And it doesn't bother me so much knowing that a newbie reading Wicked Edge is going to have 95% of people tell him to buy a synthetic from Maggards, or B and B people cheering for Plissoft at IB, as long as he didn't get stuck with a massively shedding waste of ten dollars.

Just my opinion too.