Shave Sticks

I got a Palmolive stick last August,  in Cologne. It's a fair deal for just 0,75€, but I'd prefer Lea,  with his plastic base and lid or tub. Both of them have tallow and ingredients are pretty similar. If could be found proper tub for Valobra or Arko I probably would try them. But I dislike a lot the stick alone. Lea is quite good for travelers and its lather (face,  not bowl) fix to the face,  in the all style. It's not MWF,  but few times you need such amount of foam.

this is probably the best you're going to find: http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Twist-up...p_649.html

Sticks are definitely good. But I quit using them in stick form because of what I considered to be mess, so I shred them and press them into a puck with a bit of water added to facilitate their compression.

FWIW, even a soap that isn't offered as a stick can be used as something like a stick. The hard puck can rubbed on the wet face the same as a stick, and lots of folks will convert a puck to stick form on their own.

I got a Palmolive stick last August,  in Cologne. It's a fair deal for just 0,75€, but I'd prefer Lea,  with his plastic base and lid or tub. Both of them have tallow and ingredients are pretty similar. If could be found proper tub for Valobra or Arko I probably would try them. But I dislike a lot the stick alone. Lea is quite good for travelers and its lather (face,  not bowl) fix to the face,  in the all style. It's not MWF,  but few times you need such amount of foam.

this is probably the best you're going to find: http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Twist-up...p_649.html

Love sticks...

I have MWF in one of these sticks. Simply soak the tip and a great face on lather

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Came across this thread late, but had to comment. I love shave sticks.

One of my early "Wow!) moments came with the arrival of the light, green wonder that is Palmolive soap. I wet the tip of the stick in sink water and began rubbing that tip against my wet, freshly- showered beard. I instantly saw the soap building up on my whiskers and could easily see how much soap I had loaded on my face. A quick lather building with a TGN Finest brush easily made a thick, slick lather.

When I applied the razor to my face - the sun shone through the early, morning clouds. Celestial music filled the morning sky and songbirds and butterfly's danced outside my bathroom window as whiskers just about flew off of my face. Later on that morning, I excitedly shared my experience on a shave forum, where after much virtural handshaking and backslapping, someone I respect, said, "wait until you try Arko". He, of course, was right.

Since then I've added Speick, Tabac, Wilkinson Sword, Lea (tallow) and La Toja to the collection and enjoy them all.

Tip: When you get to the end of the stick, there are two choices:

1. Remove the end of the paper wrapper, wet the flat base and stick it on to the flat top of the next stick.
2. Save your shave stick stubs and then grate/press those remnants into a small, shave soap container.

It's funny, I'm not sure why but everyone seems to forget about Mama Bear Soaps. She currently has some interesting offerings in stick form, but I believe she'll make any of her stock list in stick form if you ask her.

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Glycerin (Melt & Pour) based soaps seem to be taking a back seat to other artisan soaps the last few years.

All evidence has been buried.  All tapes have been erased.

When I joined one of the larger forums back in 2007 Mama Bear was the top glycerine soapmaker. I've bought her soaps and I like them. She makes her own soap base she doesn't buy it like most of the other melt and pour soapmakers. I really like her menthol based soaps.

Clayton

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Came across this thread late, but had to comment.  I love shave sticks.  

One of my early "Wow!) moments came with the arrival of the light, green wonder that is Palmolive soap.  I wet the tip of the stick in sink water and began rubbing that tip against my wet, freshly- showered beard.  I instantly saw the soap building up on my whiskers and could easily see how much soap I had loaded on my face.  A quick lather building with a TGN Finest brush easily made a thick, slick lather.

When I applied the razor to my face - the sun shone through the early, morning clouds.  Celestial music filled the morning sky and songbirds and butterfly's danced outside my bathroom window as whiskers just about flew off of my face.  Later on that morning, I excitedly shared my experience on a shave forum, where after much virtural handshaking and backslapping, someone I respect, said, "wait until you try Arko".  He, of course, was right.

Since then I've added Speick, Tabac, Wilkinson Sword, Lea (tallow) and La Toja to the collection and enjoy them all.  

Tip: When you get to the end of the stick, there are two choices:

1.  Remove the end of the paper wrapper, wet the flat base and stick it on to the flat top of the next stick.
2.  Save your shave stick stubs and then grate/press those remnants into a small, shave soap container.

I grate the end pieces into a round plastic Ziploc container. Right now I have a Frankensoap that consists of Palmolive, and Speick. Shortly I'll be adding the remnants of a Wilkinson Sword soap stick. It doesn't look pretty but the shave is awesome.

Clayton

I grate the end pieces into a round plastic Ziploc container. Right now I have a Frankensoap that consists of Palmolive, and Speick. Shortly I'll be adding the remnants of a Wilkinson Sword soap stick. It doesn't look pretty but the shave is awesome.

Clayton

I'll bet - three terrific shave soaps.

I grate the end pieces into a round plastic Ziploc container. Right now I have a Frankensoap that consists of Palmolive, and Speick. Shortly I'll be adding the remnants of a Wilkinson Sword soap stick. It doesn't look pretty but the shave is awesome.

Clayton

Sounds like my mystery remnants tub. It is about 150-200g of whatever was left in the 3017d tubs of : Haslinger, MdC, MW, LaToja, Harris, RR and a few others. I haven't used it yet, but it smells amazing and I expect it to be a great performer.

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Came across this thread late, but had to comment.  I love shave sticks.  

One of my early "Wow!) moments came with the arrival of the light, green wonder that is Palmolive soap.  I wet the tip of the stick in sink water and began rubbing that tip against my wet, freshly- showered beard.  I instantly saw the soap building up on my whiskers and could easily see how much soap I had loaded on my face.  A quick lather building with a TGN Finest brush easily made a thick, slick lather.

When I applied the razor to my face - the sun shone through the early, morning clouds.  Celestial music filled the morning sky and songbirds and butterfly's danced outside my bathroom window as whiskers just about flew off of my face.  Later on that morning, I excitedly shared my experience on a shave forum, where after much virtural handshaking and backslapping, someone I respect, said, "wait until you try Arko".  He, of course, was right.

Since then I've added Speick, Tabac, Wilkinson Sword, Lea (tallow) and La Toja to the collection and enjoy them all.  

Tip: When you get to the end of the stick, there are two choices:

1.  Remove the end of the paper wrapper, wet the flat base and stick it on to the flat top of the next stick.
2.  Save your shave stick stubs and then grate/press those remnants into a small, shave soap container.

I grate the end pieces into a round plastic Ziploc container. Right now I have a Frankensoap that consists of Palmolive, and Speick. Shortly I'll be adding the remnants of a Wilkinson Sword soap stick. It doesn't look pretty but the shave is awesome.

Clayton

nothing wrong with using it all up!

Came across this thread late, but had to comment.  I love shave sticks.  

One of my early "Wow!) moments came with the arrival of the light, green wonder that is Palmolive soap.  I wet the tip of the stick in sink water and began rubbing that tip against my wet, freshly- showered beard.  I instantly saw the soap building up on my whiskers and could easily see how much soap I had loaded on my face.  A quick lather building with a TGN Finest brush easily made a thick, slick lather.

When I applied the razor to my face - the sun shone through the early, morning clouds.  Celestial music filled the morning sky and songbirds and butterfly's danced outside my bathroom window as whiskers just about flew off of my face.  Later on that morning, I excitedly shared my experience on a shave forum, where after much virtural handshaking and backslapping, someone I respect, said, "wait until you try Arko".  He, of course, was right.

Since then I've added Speick, Tabac, Wilkinson Sword, Lea (tallow) and La Toja to the collection and enjoy them all.  

Tip: When you get to the end of the stick, there are two choices:

1.  Remove the end of the paper wrapper, wet the flat base and stick it on to the flat top of the next stick.
2.  Save your shave stick stubs and then grate/press those remnants into a small, shave soap container.

I grate the end pieces into a round plastic Ziploc container. Right now I have a Frankensoap that consists of Palmolive, and Speick. Shortly I'll be adding the remnants of a Wilkinson Sword soap stick. It doesn't look pretty but the shave is awesome.

Clayton

nothing wrong with using it all up!

Plus if I use it up I have an excuse to buy more,lol.

Clayton

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Came across this thread late, but had to comment.  I love shave sticks.  

One of my early "Wow!) moments came with the arrival of the light, green wonder that is Palmolive soap.  I wet the tip of the stick in sink water and began rubbing that tip against my wet, freshly- showered beard.  I instantly saw the soap building up on my whiskers and could easily see how much soap I had loaded on my face.  A quick lather building with a TGN Finest brush easily made a thick, slick lather.

When I applied the razor to my face - the sun shone through the early, morning clouds.  Celestial music filled the morning sky and songbirds and butterfly's danced outside my bathroom window as whiskers just about flew off of my face.  Later on that morning, I excitedly shared my experience on a shave forum, where after much virtural handshaking and backslapping, someone I respect, said, "wait until you try Arko".  He, of course, was right.

Since then I've added Speick, Tabac, Wilkinson Sword, Lea (tallow) and La Toja to the collection and enjoy them all.  

Tip: When you get to the end of the stick, there are two choices:

1.  Remove the end of the paper wrapper, wet the flat base and stick it on to the flat top of the next stick.
2.  Save your shave stick stubs and then grate/press those remnants into a small, shave soap container.

I grate the end pieces into a round plastic Ziploc container. Right now I have a Frankensoap that consists of Palmolive, and Speick. Shortly I'll be adding the remnants of a Wilkinson Sword soap stick. It doesn't look pretty but the shave is awesome.

Clayton

nothing wrong with using it all up!

Plus if I use it up I have an excuse to buy more,lol.

Clayton

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I try to get my wife to use up my opened shave sticks when she shaves...she already uses up my more expensive tubs of soap (tabula rasa & GFT)...sigh