My favorite of all the bay rum soaps out there.
Price: QED is well priced for its size and for the inclusion of only essensial oils.
Quality: Excellent.
Scent: This is where this soap shines!! What a wonderfully strong scent. It is so spicey and wakes you up.
Lather: As with all QED soaps the lather is very easy to create and it lasts throughout the shave.
Efficacy: The hair softening properties and the glide that ones gets from this soap are top notch.
Moisturizing: The perfect balance for me. Not too much and not too little.
Comments:
Many people who have used this soap have found that it irritates their skin. Or that the EO's burn when applied to the face. I have to say that the burn is there. But in this case that doesn't mean that it is irritaiting the skin. I love Bay Rum. My favorite being St. John's (it can sometimes feel like liquid acid going on). But the benefits from the bay oil to facial skin and scalp (if used as a tonic) are great.
I live in a very humid climate (although I grew up in a very dry one) and have slightly oily skin and this Bay Rum soap coupled with a alcohol based bay rum splash leaves my skin less oily and less irritated during the hot summer months.
The burn people feel is most likely the clove EO, as clove is a hot oil and will heat up on the skin. This doesn't mean that it is irritating it though. The burn is quite relatable to a very strong mentholated soaps/creams/***. The numbing effects of the menthol may or may not irritate your skin. Yet as with the Bay Rum 'burn' so too is there a Mentholated 'cool'. These go hand in hand in my opinion. Bay Rum is supposed to heat up.
Too bad Charles pulled this product as it is my favorite. But I bought out the rest of his stock (tubs not shave sticks) so I will be fine for a few years to come.
Price: QED is well priced for its size and for the inclusion of only essensial oils.
Quality: Excellent.
Scent: This is where this soap shines!! What a wonderfully strong scent. It is so spicey and wakes you up.
Lather: As with all QED soaps the lather is very easy to create and it lasts throughout the shave.
Efficacy: The hair softening properties and the glide that ones gets from this soap are top notch.
Moisturizing: The perfect balance for me. Not too much and not too little.
Comments:
Many people who have used this soap have found that it irritates their skin. Or that the EO's burn when applied to the face. I have to say that the burn is there. But in this case that doesn't mean that it is irritaiting the skin. I love Bay Rum. My favorite being St. John's (it can sometimes feel like liquid acid going on). But the benefits from the bay oil to facial skin and scalp (if used as a tonic) are great.
I live in a very humid climate (although I grew up in a very dry one) and have slightly oily skin and this Bay Rum soap coupled with a alcohol based bay rum splash leaves my skin less oily and less irritated during the hot summer months.
The burn people feel is most likely the clove EO, as clove is a hot oil and will heat up on the skin. This doesn't mean that it is irritating it though. The burn is quite relatable to a very strong mentholated soaps/creams/***. The numbing effects of the menthol may or may not irritate your skin. Yet as with the Bay Rum 'burn' so too is there a Mentholated 'cool'. These go hand in hand in my opinion. Bay Rum is supposed to heat up.
Too bad Charles pulled this product as it is my favorite. But I bought out the rest of his stock (tubs not shave sticks) so I will be fine for a few years to come.