NOS of BEA sticks

[Luke Sky High]

Last weekend I accidentally discovered a small stash of BEA soap stick in a thrift shop in my local town.
The "mild" ingredients list got my attention, for €1.00 I had nothing to lose and had something new to compare against the other shave soap available locally in Portugal: Musgo Real.
This BEA soap was a pleasant surprise, the scent is almost non existent, it retains a lot of water without dripping, and let me do something that I enjoy: skip the AS balm with a fine face. MR soap has more lubricity even when drier but leaves my skin drier.
Today I went there again and bought 11 more. The boxes are really small making them easy to hide together with surplus blades.

Since last summer the BEAs have a new formulation. Tallow and lanolin have been added, I'm ok with tallow but lanolin is a no go for me. Maybe I'll over hype them 15 years from now and sell them for a profit on ebay.
Photo from the new BEA sticks taken from a spanish forum.

 

[Infernal2]

Interesting. I've never tried Bea.

 

[EscapeVelocity]

Nice find.

 

[Luke Sky High]

I'm still fairly new to soaps, I use them in 2 stages. First a quick watery lather to a leave it on my face softening the beard. This gives time to prepare the final lather for shaving. The MR soap doesn't like water but doesn't give me (much) trouble this way, definitely thought for those who use pre-shave oils and pre-creams.

 

[Hayden]

So is lea and bea the same, just marketed to different places? I know this is kinda off topic sorry.

 

[Infernal2]

Wow, that's some nice looking lather.

 

[Luke Sky High]

I think the new and current in production LEA and BEA are the same or almost the same. The main ingredients do match. But I can't even have access to the modern BEA, much less the higher branded LEA.

 

[Optometrist]

Both LEA and BEA are made by the same company in Vizcaya, Northern Spain. The scents do vary and BEA is sold at a cheaper price.

 

[Luke Sky High]

Then BEA is better, colognes should be the ones giving you the pleasant smell instead of putting those chemicals in our shaved skin. You know what's funny about this? I have 2 soaps, BEA is nicer to my skin but everyday I'm enjoying the scent of MR more and more. And you know what's crazier? I'm only using my time learning the tricks of the MR soap because the females compliment it, not because I truly like it. The scent is raw.