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Aluminum seems a very poor choice for a bowl...especially such an expensive one.
I only bought the refill puck and tossed it in a latte mug...
I only bought the refill puck and tossed it in a latte mug...
I'm a big fan of Cade as well. Great soap, lousy bowl. Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid corrosion? I get black deposits all over the soap from the oxidizing aluminum. Kind of wrecks an otherwise excellent product?
Aluminum seems a very poor choice for a bowl...especially such an expensive one.
I only bought the refill puck and tossed it in a latte mug...
Aluminum does not really oxidize (rust) -- that's why they use it in the aerospace industry.
My bowl is 9 months old, gets used regularly, and it still looks absolutely like new.
The new ones are anodized. Mine's about five years old, and made of untreated aluminum. Aluminum does oxidize, just at a much slower rate than steel, and the byproduct is not the red rust you find on ferrous metals. I was just wondering if anyone had faced similar problems with the older style bowls. I'll try some oven cleaner.
After today's shave, I think I will convert to being a soap user if soaps deliver the kind of lather and shave CADE produced for me this morning.
Well, after all the hubub lately about CADE I had to run out and get a puck. So this afternoon I went to the KOP Mall and picked one up. I just got finished with my shave and I'll be darned if it wasn't an excellent experience. I soaked the small Beehive and then gave it one shake moving to the puck with a relatively wet brush. I swirled in my usual fashion a count of 20 clockwise and then a count of 20 counterclockwise. I then gave the face a good splash of warm H2O and went at it. Simply put there was a surfactant explosion of wet, slick and nicely scented lather. The shave was as good as you could expect from any soap. I do however agree with many posters that it does leave the face a little dry post shave, but in a nutshell this soap seems to be a very good value and will certainly move into the rotation. Thanks for all who have brought this to my attention through your informative posts.
Does anyone on here not use the aluminum bowl? All of my other soaps are trumpers (80g), or MWF in the ceramic bowl. Does CADE fit into other 100g wooden bowls? I think I'm just going to ditch the aluminum, try to find something more suitable.