Pass Around Natural Ireland - Bronze Award Winning - UK Freefrom SkinCare Awards 2017- Shaving Soap
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2hot 2trot
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I came home this afternoon to find my fence had blown down and snapped in half.
We have had some severe gusts today coming from the Bristol channel but nothing like you guys in Ireland.
Stay safe, that's all that matters at the end of the day!
We have had some severe gusts today coming from the Bristol channel but nothing like you guys in Ireland.
Stay safe, that's all that matters at the end of the day!
Gordy
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And more on the way it seems, storm Brian will be with us soon enough.
Mr_Smartepants
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Please add me to the end of the list.
ManicDee
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Here is the Provisional list:
1: Manicdee
2: Lann
3: Gordy
4: Fox
5: 2hot2trot
6: Rowlers
7: missingskin
8: Mr Smartypants
9: Mr Smith
10: shavepm
11: Captain HX
If you guys are OK with this I will post out either Saturday or Monday.
There will be three 70g tins of soap and Please Pass on after 7 to 10 days.
I would love to see your reviews of these soap's.
Many thanks
Manicdee
1: Manicdee
2: Lann
3: Gordy
4: Fox
5: 2hot2trot
6: Rowlers
7: missingskin
8: Mr Smartypants
9: Mr Smith
10: shavepm
11: Captain HX
If you guys are OK with this I will post out either Saturday or Monday.
There will be three 70g tins of soap and Please Pass on after 7 to 10 days.
I would love to see your reviews of these soap's.
Many thanks
Manicdee
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Lann
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1: Manicdee
2: Lann - X
3: Gordy
4: Fox
5: 2hot2trot
6: Rowlers
7: missingskin
8: Mr Smartypants
9: Mr Smith
10: shavepm
11: Captain HX
All three soaps arrived safe and sound with me today - thanks Si @ManicDee ! I will begin to post my thoughts in more detail over the next few days. I had a quick smell of the scented soaps and my initial feeling is that they will be quite polarising. I will post more thoughts and pics shortly.
2: Lann - X
3: Gordy
4: Fox
5: 2hot2trot
6: Rowlers
7: missingskin
8: Mr Smartypants
9: Mr Smith
10: shavepm
11: Captain HX
All three soaps arrived safe and sound with me today - thanks Si @ManicDee ! I will begin to post my thoughts in more detail over the next few days. I had a quick smell of the scented soaps and my initial feeling is that they will be quite polarising. I will post more thoughts and pics shortly.
Mr_Smartepants
Genius Member
I'm going to bow out of this passaround. Please remove me from the list.
The rest of you...have fun.
The rest of you...have fun.
ManicDee
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Sorry to see you leaveI'm going to bow out of this passaround. Please remove me from the list.
The rest of you...have fun.
ManicDee
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I found these soaps have great slickness thanks to the seaweed.
Hope you enjoy them, I to eat/use seaweed collected locally for pastries and cake making.
As I am allergic to pork gelatine, So I prefare to use carrageen. It's packed with iodine and minerals.
ajc347
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I'm part of the pass around for this soap on TSR and Si is happy for me to post my experience of the soap here as well.
The soaps arrived today and are interesting to say the least. [emoji846]
The scents are reasonably strong and I must admit that the only time I've ever smelt anything similar is when I've been surfing.
I tried the Irish Stout and Seaweed soap first and the smell is a complex aroma of beer and kelp, with kelp being the predominant aroma. I can't say that it's a particularly pleasant scent but the soap is a good one.
It reminds me somewhat of Klar in terms of performance and provided more than adequate levels of glide and cushion.
I'm going to try the seaweed soap next and see if the sent of it is any better. [emoji4]
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The soaps arrived today and are interesting to say the least. [emoji846]
The scents are reasonably strong and I must admit that the only time I've ever smelt anything similar is when I've been surfing.
I tried the Irish Stout and Seaweed soap first and the smell is a complex aroma of beer and kelp, with kelp being the predominant aroma. I can't say that it's a particularly pleasant scent but the soap is a good one.
It reminds me somewhat of Klar in terms of performance and provided more than adequate levels of glide and cushion.
I'm going to try the seaweed soap next and see if the sent of it is any better. [emoji4]
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Lann
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Okay I had my first run out with the Natural Ireland Seaweed and Stout soap with a 10am morning shave. In order to give the soap as fair a crack of the whip, I used my tried and tested set up of the Timeless .68 SS, a Gillette Silver Blue Blade and my TOBS Super Badger. This is my day in day out kit so I know my way around it in terms of technique and touch. The rationale being, therefore, that because the only different factor is the soap any variation to my shave experience is most likely, due to the soap.
99% of the time I am bowl latherer so again I chose this method to build lather. So I took a small sample of the soap and applied it to the bottom of my Steve Woodhead scuttle. It is soft and pliable, almost putty like. The scent is what it says on the tin - seaweed and stout - which will not appeal to everyone. It wasn't really my pint of Guinness but I think for those at one with nature it certainly adds to the appeal.
Okay down to business. After soaking the brush I shook out the water to make it as dry as possible and began loading adding water as I went in order to try and reach the consistency of lather I like. The soap began lathering up okay and I added more water and dialled in with the result what you see below.
All and All not bad but I now have 3 soaps that I like to use because I know they all work for me - Wickham's, P&B and Eufros - so my bar is high. I thought it was a little thinner with more bubbles than the Eufros Ylang Ylang which I have been using exclusively during the month of October but that could be down to user error first time out rather than the soap.
On the face during the shave I could definately feel the slickness and the cushioning properties were okay, they certainly were not as good, in my opinion, as my experience of the 3 soaps mentioned above, but equally, they didn't let themselves down as much as some I have tried in the past.
For me personally, there was one massive downside however. While on my face, I did feel a tingle from the lather, nothing major, no burning sensations, or such like, but it was there. Must be the iodine in the seaweed I thought. Iodine, for anyone perhaps not aware, is known for its healing properties - so I continued on with my usual routine three passes WTG, XTG and ATG finishing off using whatever lather is left -and there was plenty of it as you can see below - for a post shave face wash. After rinsing off the lather first with warm water and then cold I patted down my face. After a few seconds I began noticing my face was red and I then began fèeling a more burning sensation particularly around the neck which I continue to feel as I write on Saturday morning
This is not a full blown head swelling, skin falling off or being covered in pustules thing, or anything like that, but I am experiencing irritation and some soreness which I am putting down to the iodine but which could be another ingredient in the soap that I'm not getting along with.
I was intending to move onto the seaweed version for the next shave but I think I will just move to the natural offering after I give my face a few days to recover. I will, of course, post my thoughts following that shave.
Remaining lather after three passes.
99% of the time I am bowl latherer so again I chose this method to build lather. So I took a small sample of the soap and applied it to the bottom of my Steve Woodhead scuttle. It is soft and pliable, almost putty like. The scent is what it says on the tin - seaweed and stout - which will not appeal to everyone. It wasn't really my pint of Guinness but I think for those at one with nature it certainly adds to the appeal.
Okay down to business. After soaking the brush I shook out the water to make it as dry as possible and began loading adding water as I went in order to try and reach the consistency of lather I like. The soap began lathering up okay and I added more water and dialled in with the result what you see below.
All and All not bad but I now have 3 soaps that I like to use because I know they all work for me - Wickham's, P&B and Eufros - so my bar is high. I thought it was a little thinner with more bubbles than the Eufros Ylang Ylang which I have been using exclusively during the month of October but that could be down to user error first time out rather than the soap.
On the face during the shave I could definately feel the slickness and the cushioning properties were okay, they certainly were not as good, in my opinion, as my experience of the 3 soaps mentioned above, but equally, they didn't let themselves down as much as some I have tried in the past.
For me personally, there was one massive downside however. While on my face, I did feel a tingle from the lather, nothing major, no burning sensations, or such like, but it was there. Must be the iodine in the seaweed I thought. Iodine, for anyone perhaps not aware, is known for its healing properties - so I continued on with my usual routine three passes WTG, XTG and ATG finishing off using whatever lather is left -and there was plenty of it as you can see below - for a post shave face wash. After rinsing off the lather first with warm water and then cold I patted down my face. After a few seconds I began noticing my face was red and I then began fèeling a more burning sensation particularly around the neck which I continue to feel as I write on Saturday morning
This is not a full blown head swelling, skin falling off or being covered in pustules thing, or anything like that, but I am experiencing irritation and some soreness which I am putting down to the iodine but which could be another ingredient in the soap that I'm not getting along with.
I was intending to move onto the seaweed version for the next shave but I think I will just move to the natural offering after I give my face a few days to recover. I will, of course, post my thoughts following that shave.
Remaining lather after three passes.
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