ETHOS Grooming Essentials A New Line

Just have to chime in on the Sandalo Artistico F base. Absolutely one of the best performing and most luxurious soaps I have tried to date!

Man, I needed something to turn my day around today. Really happy to come home to this after a long day along with a sample of the Bergamotto Shave Cream too. Nice touch with the SFS being shrink wrapped for leak protection. Thanks Frankie !

SOOOOOoooooo glad I got the Tortolo Skin Food Splash too. A soap in this could knock me out of restraint and the Bergamotto Tallow Shave Cream is LEGIT..........

Just have to chime in on the Sandalo Artistico F base. Absolutely one of the best performing and most luxurious soaps I have tried to date!

Thank you for the feedback and encouraging words. That was the first F Base Shave soap where I used the 3 new ingredients that I’ll be using in the F Base soaps.

All the best!

Frank

SOOOOOoooooo glad I got the Tortolo Skin Food Splash too. A soap in this could knock me out of restraint and the Bergamotto Tallow Shave Cream is LEGIT..........

Good morning Dave

Glad you enjoyed the Tortola and the Bergamotto Shave Creme. I wasn’t sure if the Tortola was going to get the love that the traditional Bay Rum would but based on sales they are neck and neck. So it overachieved my expectations.

Cool looking photo BTW my friend.

Health and Happiness!

SOOOOOoooooo glad I got the Tortolo Skin Food Splash too. A soap in this could knock me out of restraint and the Bergamotto Tallow Shave Cream is LEGIT..........

I agree!!!!!  I tried Tortola yesterday afternoon and I was knocked out by the scent.  A soap in this scent would be killer.

Just have to chime in on the Sandalo Artistico F base. Absolutely one of the best performing and most luxurious soaps I have tried to date!

Thank you for the feedback and encouraging words.  That was the first F Base Shave soap where I used the 3 new ingredients that I’ll be using in the F Base soaps.

All the best!

Frank

Frank,

I am excited to hear the formulation will be incorporated in future releases. Also, there may need to be a new economic analysis for this version as well. I recall you mentioned someone did an accounting of the cost per shave with one of your past releases. In my initial experiences, this formulation reduces the amount of starting material required. Albeit I am still primarily bowl lathering, so it might be different loading off the puck. The first shave with Sandalo I started with my normal amount of soap. I tend to use a bit more given the consistency of lather I am after. The produced lather was meaningfully more than past versions. So for the second shave I reduced the starting material by roughly a 1/3. And the third shave I reduced the starting material yet again, and still had more than enough for a 3 pass. I realize there are differing price sensitivities across shavers. But on a cost per shave basis, I have to believe this base is at parity, or lower, versus other mid to premium tier offerings.

I want to get more shaves in with this base and then plan to do a detailed writeup on the Sandalo and new base to share here and another, ahem, forum

How is the stock of Sandalo splash since the soap is gone? I have it in my cart which obviously doesn't save it for me. I want it, but I am trying to hold off a week after all the purchases. Thanks, love that Sandalo fragrance(got the serum).

How is the stock of Sandalo splash since the soap is gone? I have it in my cart which obviously doesn't save it for me. I want it, but I am trying to hold off a week after all the purchases. Thanks, love that Sandalo fragrance(got the serum).

Hello @1700Z shadow 


There no problem on the Sandalo Skin Food Splash. I have a good back up.  I was planning on filling more bottles tomorrow. The Shave soap is  another story. I never thought that it would go that fast and I made a big batch. So it may take longer to get that restocked due to the infusion time and I have to get more Sandalwood oil from that supplier  I got this current batch from which I’ll order tomorrow. I’m at my other job today but I do believe I’m sold out on the Shave Soap. I will confirm that tomorrow morning. Again no worries on the Splash.

Thank you for your order and support.

Just have to chime in on the Sandalo Artistico F base. Absolutely one of the best performing and most luxurious soaps I have tried to date!

Thank you for the feedback and encouraging words.  That was the first F Base Shave soap where I used the 3 new ingredients that I’ll be using in the F Base soaps.

All the best!

Frank

Frank,

I am excited to hear the formulation will be incorporated in future releases. Also, there may need to be a new economic analysis for this version as well. I recall you mentioned someone did an accounting of the cost per shave with one of your past releases. In my initial experiences, this formulation reduces the amount of starting material required. Albeit I am still primarily bowl lathering, so it might be different loading off the puck. The first shave with Sandalo I started with my normal amount of soap. I tend to use a bit more given the consistency of lather I am after. The produced lather was meaningfully more than past versions. So for the second shave I reduced the starting material by roughly a 1/3. And the third shave I reduced the starting material yet again, and still had more than enough for a 3 pass. I realize there are differing price sensitivities across shavers. But on a cost per shave basis, I have to believe this base is at parity, or lower, versus other mid to premium tier offerings.

I want to get more shaves in with this base and then plan to do a detailed writeup on the Sandalo and new base to share here and another, ahem, forum

So you brought up a excellent subject but one I can’t explain at this time and that’s the amount of the shave soap that’s needed to do let’s say a 3 pass shave. My one tester who got the first sample of the Sandalo new F Base called me the day he used it and said exactly what you mentioned. This gentleman btw has just about every Shave soap or Creme I’ve ever made and some custom ones as well. He was like I normally load your F Base about 15 to 20 seconds and I did that today and I homely have enough soap for 6 passes which is what he did just to see how much he got out of that load. The next day he said I tried loading for maybe 5 to 7 seconds and it was the perfect amount for 3 full passes. He also stated that he is going to document how many shaves he gets out of a 4,5 oz jar of the soap. I’ve since heard from a couple of other customers that got theirs quickly that made mention about easy it is to later and how little is needed. I homely at this point don’t have a 100% answer as to why. The 3 added ingredients to me would only effect Slickness and post shave feel but scientifically should have no effect on the lather. So still trying to figure that out. What I need someone to do is a side by side with the Bay Rum to see if they are both the same in that area.

Excellent post as on a certain forum all everyone talks about when someone brings up ETHOS is it’s expensive. I had a tester using a 7.5 oz size of the S Base Lavender Supreme compare it to several brand both less expensive and more expensive and the price per shave was close to the lowest cost per shave. So this base make supersede the S Base in that dept.

Thank you again for your order and support!

Frank