Castle Forbes Cedarwood and Sandalwood Essential Oil Shaving Cream, 200ml

As a head-shaver whose hair comes in thick and quick, I need a shave soap that provides moisture & lubrication and is easy to lather. This is my first time trying Castle Forbes (coming from Barrister and Mann) and it’s incredible. Easy to lather, especially in a proper shaving bowl for aeration, smell is wonderful and not over-powering, the lubrication also makes for a wonderful shave with plenty of cushion. Highly recommend and will be buying more in the future.

One of the Best Creams

Castle Forbes Cedarwood (CFC) performance is protective and slick with maximum glide. CFC has a light scent of hand-sanded cedar and sandalwood (you woodworkers know what I mean). Scent and soap rinse easily and cleanly. I found CFC does not perform well with hard water. However, with soft water it is one of the best creams available. CFC is a top shave cream with easily repeatable and predictable performance, as is the case with all Castle Forbes soaps.

Customer review

Not Maggard's fault but wow.... this stuff is horrible to me. The smell and ingredients are great, thats why there is 2 stars but the lather and performance is just awful. I will say I bought this in a sample... but why should that matter? Highly disappointed. I was a click away from buying a full sized container since I always wanted to try it... man am I glad I held off!! The lather just wasn't slick at all, and I need a ton of soap to get it thick and peaky.. Bottom line: Solid pass for me.

Customer review

Bought one of the "empty" containers and this one arrived. The container is huge, 6.8 oz! There is enough for probably a couple shaves that I could scrape out. Let me tell you, this whips up so nice into a great lather! Reviewer John described this one well. I would buy a full tub of this right away if I hadn't just received yet another Maggard's order.

Customer review

I own 3 CF creams, prefer the Lavender and Lime for scent resons, but still this is a 5 out of 5 stars product, can't go any lower. Castle Forbes needs water like a soap, once you learn that CF needs a lot of water and patience to build the lather, you get the arguably best shaving cream/soap money can buy. It's that good. Trust me on this. I own a cream and soap or 2 or 5 or 50 or shall we say a couple of 100's.