La Toja
What shave stick did you use today?
- Thread starter Rusty Blade
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Thank you!
Excellent soap
Wasn’t a big fan of the Palmolive stick. I do enjoy the red and green Palmolive creams though
Agree that it’s stinky but good. Never could get past the underlying skunkiness though
The tallow version is great as is the cream in the tube. Have the vegan version of the stick but haven’t tried it yet
Jikoryen is my favorite Turkish stick that I’ve tried. I think the performance is slightly better than Arko. The scent is similar as well but I don’t detect any underlying skunk.
Edit: It’s possible that the Arko stick I had was on the older side and that could be why there was a slight skunky smell
Thanks for the info! Even though we have skunks here in Alabama, I have been lucky enough to have never had to smell them. So I am not sure if Arko is skunky or not LOL. However , I am sure that it is a VERY strong smell, although I am willing to overlook that because it performs so well.
I was hoping today's shave with the Palmolive wasn't as good as the one I had yesterday with La Toja, simply because once I'm done with this there will be no more.
But, it was yet another wonderful, slick and irritation-free shave.
Whoever thought I would be bothered by that LOL.
I am also starting to think that it is me now using the Henson that seems to be making the difference from when I tried these all before.
It seems to pair perfectly with these types of soaps and no matter what just glides effortlessly with them.
I'll have to try these with a different razor to see if that's part of it.
But I'm now starting to see that I will probably never use a shave cream ever again.
Yeah. That’s why I like the Jikoryen over Arko. Smells good and it performs very well
Some posts on Jikoryen over in a brush thread got me checking. It appears to be hard to find in the USA at the moment.
I found the same thing in my searches today.
Tabac tallow shave stick
LEA tallow
Today I used Van Der Hagen Luxury soap. I made the puck into a stick and its performance is fantastic.
I wanted to try Van Der Hagen and ordered some and it looked like pure glycerin LOL.
Next time I'll try the green box.
As of this morning - I haven't tried a shave stick that I dislike.
ALSO tried with a different razor (Fatboy) as the Henson just seems to work with a lot of things.
I have no idea why the last 18 years I have primarily focused on using shave creams - with very mixed results.
Started trying different soaps and sticks recently and I'm wondering now what was keeping me from it all this time.
MUCH more consistent results with so far NO shave bumps or irritation.
I could only sometimes get that with creams.
Consider me a happy convert!
It seems that there’s only one vendor (that I’ve seen) selling it on eBay at the moment. They only seem to get about 10 12 packs in at a time and they go relatively fast. And they only sell them by the 12 pack
TOBS Sandalwood shave stick
I know what you mean. I didn’t think I’d care for shave sticks either. But now I use them more frequently than anything else.
Speick is one of my favorites to use.
