Palmolive Shaving Stick

Palmolive fox · Saturday July 2, 2016

I use grated down Palmolive Shave sticks in a ceramic bowl from Asda,i find adding 4-5 drops of Glycerin to my mixing bowl i get a wonderful lather and great slickness, i actually like the scent, childhood memories, i suppose my grated down palmolive sticks are in regular rotation with my other soaps and creams...and at 50p each great value if your just starting out in the DE shaving world.

Gerry from Tas · Sunday July 3, 2016

I just rub a good thick smear of my German made Palmolive stick in a cheap Chinese rice bowl and is enough to give a really good lather .

Apostate · Tuesday July 5, 2016

The stick is surely one of the few truly great shaving products available on the UK high street. Bic Sensitives 1 @ 10 for a pound being another.

Reevers · Wednesday July 6, 2016

I couldn't shave with this soap every day because the scent is too boring, but I could easily shave with it a couple of times per week as part of a varried rotation, for that reason I'll be stocking up on the sticks just in case they do vanish from the shelves.

TRXnMe · Monday July 18, 2016

I saw they were back in our local Asda on the weekend at 49p each, I had 3 and have pressed them into a ceramic bowl I had laying around

Another one here who finds the soap brings back some good childhood memories, a bit like the old spice aftershave

Whosthedaddy · Monday July 18, 2016

What's the deal with pushing them into a bowl? Use a stick as its intended? Find the face rubbing and building a lather straight on the face a nice break from a bowl.

Ben Hunt · Monday July 18, 2016

joe mcclaine said:
If we can generate some hysteria on the US-centric forums we can make a killing. They'll buy it for $10 a stick if they think it's being discontinued.

It's sold for about $10 a stick in the US, by the bye.

edit: I take that back, it's *only* $8.21 on Amazon.com

Bogeyman · Tuesday July 19, 2016

Ben Hunt said:
It's sold for about $10 a stick in the US, by the bye.

edit: I take that back, it's *only* $8.21 on Amazon.com

http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Palmolive-for-Men-Classic-Shaving-Soap-Stick_p_676.html

Ben Hunt · Tuesday July 19, 2016

Bogeyman said:
http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Palmolive-for-Men-Classic-Shaving-Soap-Stick_p_676.html

Actually on eBay one can get it from the UK to the US for $2.89 including postage. That's still like a 500% increase over the local UK shops price.

Gerry from Tas · Tuesday July 19, 2016

Whosthedaddy said:
What's the deal with pushing them into a bowl? Use a stick as its intended? Find the face rubbing and building a lather straight on the face a nice break from a bowl.

I do it both with Face Lather and Bowl Lather you do get more Lather from the Bowl method ,why not give it a try .

TRXnMe · Wednesday July 20, 2016

Whosthedaddy said:
What's the deal with pushing them into a bowl? Use a stick as its intended? Find the face rubbing and building a lather straight on the face a nice break from a bowl.

I find I get a more 'reliable' lather on the brush if I load the brush with soap out the bowl rather than trying to smear it on my face

I'm interested in trying the smear in a bowl technique, I use a stick when I'm travelling and don't always get the amount of soap on my face right, which can result in the razor being clogged with excess soap after the first pass..

Whosthedaddy · Wednesday July 20, 2016

TRXnMe said:
I find I get a more 'reliable' lather on the brush if I load the brush with soap out the bowl rather than trying to smear it on my face

I'm interested in trying the smear in a bowl technique, I use a stick when I'm travelling and don't always get the amount of soap on my face right, which can result in the razor being clogged with excess soap after the first pass..

More water is needed

rhtoras · Monday July 25, 2016

It is a good shaver stick with a great fougere scent.It is not the best but i like it.
I also prefer the previous version from around 2000 etc...It's scent is similar but a alittle more refined than the last formulation.

TRXnMe · Thursday July 28, 2016

Whosthedaddy said:
More water is needed

Or less soap smearing on my face. Probably less soap smeared on my face....

I have a tendency to be heavy handed with the stick, whereas if I smear heavily into the bowl then I'm assuming less of a problem.

Bezoar · Friday July 29, 2016

if you smear more on the face, then simply start with a wetter brush and work it slightly longer.

Eeyore68 · Friday July 29, 2016

rhtoras said:
It is a good shaver stick with a great fougere scent.It is not the best but i like it.
I also prefer the previous version from around 2000 etc...It's scent is similar but a alittle more refined than the last formulation.

I cannot remember that the old version (when it was still sold in the Netherlands) was very different from the current version. Strangely, the current soap is sold in Germany and Belgium, but not in Holland.