Anyone losing interest?

[donnie_arko]

Arko, Proraso, Williams, no need to spend more than that.

Toby, have you used the new Super Formula Proraso? It really is exceptional.

Eboracum is probably the closest thing to it at the minute:

A Eboracum Hybrid Shaving Soap (Cedarwood and Peppermint Essential Oils) - Signature Soaps

A semi-soft Shaving Soap with all the characteristics of a fine shaving cream. Fragranced with a careful balance of Cedarwood and Peppermint Essential Oils Filled in an oversized tub for ease of lathering A natural vegetable shaving soap made with the finest ingredients enriched with Shea...

signaturesoaps.co.uk

Eboracum is superb.

 

[HMan]

There's more to the hobby than the stuff. Once you have enough, interest there is going to wane, naturally.

It's the actual shaving that's the main thing, for most of us, that bit of quiet with just you and your chosen set up. That's yet to get old for me.

 

[Chris]

Eboracum is probably the closest thing to it at the minute:

A Eboracum Hybrid Shaving Soap (Cedarwood and Peppermint Essential Oils) - Signature Soaps

A semi-soft Shaving Soap with all the characteristics of a fine shaving cream. Fragranced with a careful balance of Cedarwood and Peppermint Essential Oils Filled in an oversized tub for ease of lathering A natural vegetable shaving soap made with the finest ingredients enriched with Shea...

signaturesoaps.co.uk

From the description I'm imagining minty wood?

 

[Boycie83]

From the description I'm imagining minty wood?

I've used both the Eboracum soap and splash and find they both smell the same to me (statinf the obvious there!) - the peppermint note is upfront and is initially dominated but then the cedarwood comes up from behind and eventually takes over without being overpowering. Simple but they work really well together.

 

[Dr Watson]

From the description I'm imagining minty wood?

I've used both the Eboracum soap and splash and find they both smell the same to me (statinf the obvious there!) - the peppermint note is upfront and is initially dominated but then the cedarwood comes up from behind and eventually takes over without being overpowering. Simple but they work really well together.

Got to love this place... A losing interest thread turns into an enablement one

 

[Cleanfoam]

Got to love this place... A losing interest thread turns into an enablement one

I'm a little surprised it took so many pages.....

 

[donnie_arko]

I've used both the Eboracum soap and splash and find they both smell the same to me (statinf the obvious there!) - the peppermint note is upfront and is initially dominated but then the cedarwood comes up from behind and eventually takes over without being overpowering. Simple but they work really well together.

Agree, they work really well together. At first it seems the Peppermint overpowers the Cedarwood but somehow with the lather on your face they seem to combine really well together.

 

[TobyC]

Toby, have you used the new Super Formula Proraso? It really is exceptional.

I have not, but I have an unused green and red tub of the old stuff, which I like, and a bunch of other soaps. Since soap seems to last me forever I may not live long enough to get around to the Super Formula! Or they may have a Super Duper Formula by then.

 

[TobyC]

I've used both the Eboracum soap and splash and find they both smell the same to me (statinf the obvious there!) - the peppermint note is upfront and is initially dominated but then the cedarwood comes up from behind and eventually takes over without being overpowering. Simple but they work really well together.

When they say "cedarwood" are they referring to the aromatic cedar or cigar box cedar? One is a heavy scent, the other is light and pleasant.

 

[Boycie83]

When they say "cedarwood" are they referring to the aromatic cedar or cigar box cedar? One is a heavy scent, the other is light and pleasant.

Erm...... Let's ask the man that makes it @Brianh

 

[TobyC]

OK, (intercom on) "@Brianh, to the front desk please, @Brianh, to the front desk"

 

[Brianh]

OK, (intercom on) "@Brianh, to the front desk please, @Brianh, to the front desk"

There are quite a few Cedarwood Essential Oils - Atlas, Chinese, Himalayan, Virginian, Texan - they all have different notes. I prefer to use Atlas (Cedrus Atlantica) which I would say is the one most people recognise. It is argued that this and Himalayan are the true Cedarwoods. With regards to comment regarding aromatic and cigar I think that relates more to notes created in Synthetic Fragrance Oils.

 

[TobyC]

Juniperus virginiana is the cedar chest or closet liner stuff that most people think of when you say "cedar", it's not a "true cedar".

 

[TobyC]

Cedrus atlantica is a subspecies under Cedrus libani, apparently "All Cedrus species share a sweet, rather citrus-like scent" I am unfamiliar with it.

I am referring to actual wood, so if you say "it smells like..." then I assume you mean the actual smell that folks would be familiar with, not some packaged oil product. I have no experience with essential oils.

 

[Brianh]

Juniperus virginiana is the cedar chest or closet liner stuff that most people think of when you say "cedar", it's not a "true cedar".

Absolutely- it’s not cedarwood