Felt like I got maced

Thanks for letting us know man. Actually based on the description, Cryogen does sound like something I wouldn't be interested in.

You should have been warned by its name ---CRYogen.

You do have my sympathy though.

Mickey

It's a face-freezing good old time. I picked some up last summer along with B&M Arctique. Cryogen is no doubt colder bit Arctique satisfies my face freeze desire with better performance and less frostbite.

Seriously, don't sniff the tub immediately upon opening the tub. Many nose hairs will be singed right off. If you think you're big stuff by surviving the Cryogen shave, that will quickly be corrected once you splash on the Cryogen aftershave.

Not for the faint of heart.

I have no idea how you gentlemen do it with mentholated soaps. I just don't enjoy them, especially, those excessively potent ones.

I'm with celestino not a fan of mentholated soaps but I do have 2 creams that are slightly mentholated and their just right.

I love menthol on a hot summer day but don't have any of the ultra-mentholated soaps as a reference.

Do plan on picking up some Snakebite from Fine once I clear some AS room though.

For a mild menthol sensation, iColoniali is like a cool spring breeze.

I quite enjoy Cryogen, I've not been maced but I had a particularly unpleasant CS gas (tear gas) experience in training (you thought I was a rioter?) they burn the stuff in a reasonably enclosed room then give you a leaky gas mask and have you exert yourself so you start sweating - tear gas burns moist skin as well as the insides of your eyes, nose and mouth. Then after a sufficient period of time you must earn your exit from the chamber by removing your mask (which was crap) and telling the sergeant your name/rank/SN. Lots of puking, prodigious snot production from all of the holes in your face and the burning, wow. Good times, Cryogen isn't quite at that level.
Marko

I own Cryogen and admit pulling it out now and then for the menthol hit. It does make your eyes water and is the coldest stuff I own, but it's an experience and has a place in a soap rotation. I would definitely not use it daily...there are other ways to torture oneself!!