Review (5/5): Amazing Product at an Amazing Price!
Excellent quality at a cheap price and long lasting; more than my money's worth. If you use this as it's made to be used it will serve you well. As you can see when you read the ingredients; it is not really scented so I didn't expect it to be. What I wanted was an inexpensive shaving soap that produced long lasting lather, a high degree of 'slickness' that lasts, and as many shaves as possible from each stick. This product exceeds that criteria several fold.
This product is consistent from the first stick to the last. As a daily shaver with a medium/heavy beard and sensitive skin, each stick lasts me about a month. The price I paid for a box of 12 sticks makes each stick cost about 0.85 cents each so it's costing me about .03 cents a shave. Not bad for a product that is better than any canned or bar shaving soap I've ever used. There's enough lather left on the brush of a quality to re-lather for a second shave when I finish the first and it's the same quality lather as the first. It produces a slicker, more comfortable shave than any product I've ever used. In short: I can't find any fault with it.
It was made to be used with a shaving brush. Do your typical prep: Wet and wash your face with hot water and soap, let the soap set for about a minute to soften the beard, rinse, then rub the stick all over your face, then use a wet brush and work up the lather on your face to the degree you want it. Done. Shave. It's not a shaving mug re-fill, it is made to be worked into a lather with a brush after rubbing the stick on your face. (I use a circular motion in rubbing the stick all over my face to get the soap under the beard and stubble for a closer,slicker shave)If other experiments fail; it's not the products fault. It's your money.
I've used this shaving stick with a D/E razor, Trac II and a Schick Hydro 3 and it works great with all three, never clogs the Trac II or Hydro. Arko also makes a tube shave soap and it works the same as the stick. The stick is a better bargain to me.