My video review

The Company

How to grow a mustache is a shaving blog for all your wet shaving needs that is run by a guy named Douglas. He also runs a podcast along Ryan Steven Green called Mustache & Blade, so he is well versed on wet shaving. He started making Synergy soaps a few months back and they instantly received good reviews. I discovered them in early December 2013 at around 6 am in the morning. I quickly decided I wanted to try this stuff and emailed Douglas at around 7:30 am. He responded in 10 minutes. Shortly after, I also asked him what were his popular scents. And he responded in 15 minutes. I was quickly sold and bought 3 8 oz pucks for myself and 1 as a secret santa gift. I instantly fell in love with the soaps and ordered 2 more after that. He’s constantly making new scents, which makes it hard to not spend all your money, but I am holding back till I finish 1 8 oz puck. Then I might get his new scent gondolier!

The Soap

Lather Quality – 10/10: The lather explodes as soon as you touch the puck of 8 oz goodness! This lather builds pretty fast, so when I’m in a hurry I’ll go to this puck. It’s not difficult to whip up whatsoever, so I go to this when I don’t have time to whip up some other soaps that take longer to lather. The lather is clumpy, but easy to spread on your face, and it’s thick, dense, and provides excellent protection.

Scent – 10/10: This smells exactly like pumpkin pie! It may have a little more of a spicy scent to it, but I think that just adds to the attractiveness of the scent. Sadly, this scent isn’t available anymore, but hopefully Douglas will decide to make more at some point. The puck I gave as a gift was quickly passed around and all my friends fell in love with the scent.

Price – 4.5/5: The 8 oz puck is around $16, which puts this at about $2/ounce which is in line with the other artisan products. There is also a 4 oz puck available for around $10.

Slickness – 9/10: The lather provides nice cushion and is pretty slick. I have no problems shaving in a hurry when I need to and I don’t worry about cutting myself. My razor glides effortlessly on my face. The only reason I give this a 9 is because I do have some soaps that are, in my opinion, slicker (Though not by a significant amount).

Post-shave feel: 10/10: This is an important category for me and this is where Synergy products win. They have kokum butter, mango butter, avacado oil, cocoa butter, and coconut oil (probably missed some) which all provide for good moisturizing properties.

Overall: 9.67/10: It’s hard to say anything negative about this soap. It is definitely one of my favorites up there with Barrister & Mann. I think us Americans are fortunate to have such great artisan soap makers available at such a great price to us. I highly recommend Synergy soaps to anyone looking for a good, comfortable shave that wont leave you disappointed.

Ingredients: Kokum Butter, Mango Butter, Cocoa Butter, Chaulmoogra Oil, Avocado Oil, Pumpkin Oil, Castor Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Neem Oil, Safflower Oil, Glycerine, Purified Water, Sodium & Potassium Hydroxide, Soy Bean Protein, Aloe Extract, Pumpkin Powder Enzymes, Yellow Dock Root, Maca Root, Essential Oils