Arko is a very nice soap to lather and shave. The scent does not bother me in the steam room....
Arko arrives tomorrow! What have I done?!!!
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I have found the funk peaks while in lathered form on the face. But after rinsing, I get a clean laundry type of vibe which is quite nice in fact. Enjoy your first run with it!
guys .. stop snorting urinal cake! its made your brains loopy!
At this point, there’s no reason to stop.
ARKO!
ARKO!
My Arko is coming from UK probably in the next two weeks.
Do I need to prepare myself for something? Please encourage me!
Do I need to prepare myself for something? Please encourage me!
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My Arko is coming from UK probably in the next two weeks.
Do I need to prepare myself for something? Please encourage me!
I haven't used my tub yet, but...it seems ok to me. Lots of folks say the performance is the real eye-opener. Looking forward to some thick, rich, slick lather.
For me...this makes four classic soaps in my collection...2xTOBS, Proraso White and now...Arko. I may have to buy Cella next.
My Arko is coming from UK probably in the next two weeks.
Do I need to prepare myself for something? Please encourage me!
This is me when I order a vanilla sweet cream cold brew. Please.....I hope they make it right.....
I think that the Scots and the Irish spend more time with their head in the urinals. Must have been them. Kidding of course.
Ivory soap camp. They do share some ingredients, but, to me, smells identical. Not bad, not good.
That's funny because I just ordered some Ivory soap bars to grate and use to break in my boar brushes. I wanted to use the cheapest soap I could find that wouldn't damage my brushes. Final cost was less than 14 cents per ounce.
Here are the list of ingredients for each...
Ivory (Bars): Sodium Tallowate and/or Sodium Palmate, Water, Sodium Cocoate and/or Sodium Palm Kernelate, Glycerin, Sodium Chloride, Fragrance, Coconut Acid, Palm Kernel Acid, Tallow Acid, Palm Acid, Tetrasodium EDTA
Arko (Stick): Potassium Tallowate, Stearic Acid, Potassium Cocoate, Aqua, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Glycerin, Parfum, Parafinium, Liquidum, Tetrasodium EDTA, Etidronic Acid, Disodium Distrylbiphenly, Disuffonate Amyl Cinnamel, Citronellol, Geraniol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Linalool
Arko (Tub): Potassium Tallowate, Potassium Stearate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Aqua, Glycerin, Potassium Cocoate
Parfum, Parraffinum Liquidum, Tetrasodium EDTA, CL77891, Etidronic Acid, Sodium Chloride, Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate, Linalool, Limonene, Citronellol, Geraniol.
You should get yourself a synthetic and save the drama. I did the whole "boar-breaking" thing and boy, that's a year / bunch of money I'll never get back! Biggest wet-shaving black hole you can get yourself into.
Lemony goodness, and better than Williams!
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I have synthetics... and boars... and badgers
And you're right, it is a black hole. But not the only one. If I had it to do over again, I would have three razors (Gem 1912, Goodwill #160, and a Tech), two synthetics, and a kilo of Cella for home, and a few Arko sticks for travel. But I'm still waiting for a few key components for my time machine so I'm stuck with what I have. And since I have all of this stuff, I might as well try to enjoy it. #FirstWorldProblems
Wifey and babby just got me a Maggards 30mm synthetic for Father’s Day and it made my Arko face-lathering faster, softer, and easier to control than my shed-happy scritchmeister Gentleman Jon’s badger brush.
And I’m still eyeing Omega boar brushes…
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Arko lathers quickly and the lather is high quality. I have other soaps that beat it in the slickness category, but it's sufficiently slick. I'll keep it in the rotation.
Arko is in my regular rotation of soaps. I have left mine in an open mug and the smell went away after about a week. It is a great soap and lathers well. I live in South Texas and we have gnats everywhere. My other soaps are kept in closed containers because they draw the pesky things. The Arko sets in an open mug, and the gnats avoid it like the plague.
Fine with the scent...it's the dry skin feel I couldn't handle.
You need to really join the Dark Side and look under “Clubs and Brotherhoods for the “Cult of ARKO”. Then your assimilation will be complete.....[emoji41]
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