palmolive stick DISCONTINUED !!!!

My understanding is that the Palmolive stick is still manufactured and sold in Europe, as it always was.

It has been pulled from the UK market, presumably because the sales figures were not good enough here.

But don't take this as gospel, its just something i saw on another forum.
 
My take is nobody really cared about the Palmolive stick until discontinued then suddenly it rose to forum fame :)
I must admit I had never bought any before the talk of discontinuation but it's only human nature to want to get hold of something that is going to be hard to obtain or impossible to obtain so I bought myself a pack of ten from Amazon just on the off chance that it was a wonder soap and I thought I may be missing out, well you do don't you! :)
Anyway as it turned out they didn't do it for me, ok it worked as a shave soap but it didn't set my world on fire, so I've been giving them to friends that are now into traditional wet shaving and won't be that sorry to see the Palmolive Shave Stick discontinued.
Some soaps are worh hunting down and stashing them away when there is a threat of discontinuation but this wasn't one of them! ( for me anyway ) :) P.
 
I enjoy using Palmolive soap stick. It's does everything I want of a soap, but the scent is a bit old lady.
I've been meaning to experiment with essential oils to see if I can pep up the scent a bit. I'll give it a spin at the weekend if I get the time, and report back.

It's my son's favourite shave soap. He's used most of my much more expensive soaps, including Meissner, Wickham, WSP, etc, but he swears Palmolive is best for him.

It's still on the shelves in shops local to me, so UK stocks haven't been depleted - yet . . .

I dare say that canned goo has seen the demise of traditional shaving soaps, (in the mainstream), the same way cartridge razors saw off DE razors in the seventies.

The Palmolive Classic Shave Cream is ok, but imo, not a patch on the stick.
 
I still have a 16 pack of Andrex Supersoft toilet rolls, that i was willing to trade for a 2 bed bungalow a few months ago. As the bottom has fell out of the market, so to speak, i am willing to trade these high quality items for Palmolive sticks. Or has anyone bought in bulk and is now unable to use their garage due to an overload of pasta , toilet rolls ,hand sanitiser and palmolive shave sticks. If so I can ease your problem by purchasing some of these bulky palmolive sticks :cool:
 
I still have a 16 pack of Andrex Supersoft toilet rolls, that i was willing to trade for a 2 bed bungalow a few months ago. As the bottom has fell out of the market, so to speak, i am willing to trade these high quality items for Palmolive sticks. Or has anyone bought in bulk and is now unable to use their garage due to an overload of pasta , toilet rolls ,hand sanitiser and palmolive shave sticks. If so I can ease your problem by purchasing some of these bulky palmolive sticks :cool:

...happy to sell my loo rolls, hand sanitiser and pasta but not my shaving soap :cool:
 
@alfie5542 - pm me - I'll send you one to try if you like. I'm grand for toilet paper thanks. :) - cheers - I.
@Digimonkey Thank you for the kind offer, much appreciated. It was posted as a piece of fun, although I have used Palmolive sticks for years. I never thought they would be withdrawn from the British market. I have 3 grated into a mug.which will do for now. Pity you didn!t want the toilet rolls as i have a lock up full of them..
Stay safe and keep smiling....:)
 
I thought there would be a thread on this. I stocked up many years ago. I grate a Palmolive with an Arko into a shaving bowl and it lasts for many weeks. As I had got down to three of each I decided to reorder. So now it's only available on Amazon and Ebay - several offers at £3 a stick if you buy 4 or more plus postage. Old Scrooge isn't paying that. So I'll cut the three left in half and add a full Arko each time. That might see me out. But I have ordered another 12 Arko sticks at £8.99 delivered. So what might I mix those up with that's decent value?

And just to mention to old friends. I'm still using my old Tech with red personna blades with my small group of New Forest brushes which rarely shed a hair and as good as ever. I have got into bad habits during lockdown. Shaving about every three days. Look a bit like an elderly footballer.
 
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