DanLaw
Jr. Shave Member
Frankly, view it as an admission the business model less than optimal:
Copied from the Sebum Gold website...(NOT an endorsement of the company or product, I have no affiliation or interest in the company)
"Major Announcement: SG Restructuring & 2 New Sister Companies
Dear Patron,
Products to us are not simply ingredient lists. We believe that brands represent a set of values. A brand’s values should not be thrusted upon you by force, rather they should exist at the customers’ insistence.
Sē'bŭm Gold represents the purest shave products on the planet. We do not use petrochemicals (fragrance oils, preservatives, or plastic packaging). We do not use chemically processed stearic acid. We fashion our Luxury Packaging as an eco-friendly artform of hand craftsmanship, using tools more common in a woodshop rather than a soapmaker’s lab.
After years of feedback we realize not everybody weighs these values with equal importance. Not everyone wants to pay for essential oils, biodegradable consumer waste on behalf of the environment, or the labor necessary to produce authentic luxury packaging. Colloidal Nickel in Stearic Acid, or the devastation of the rainforest due to palm products simply does not matter to some. Brands do not judge, they listen. We are consistently bombarded with request to provide SG stripped down of these values. What people were really asking for, is please listen to my values, which are different than the values offered by SG.
We narrowed down these demands to, “Give me a soap that is easy to lather, excels in slickness, and smells divine. I will pay a high premium for the luxurious soap in the container, but not for the opulence of the container. If you can lower the overall costs with the use of some synthetics, even better.” In response to these demands we have launched Tonka Bean Shave Co, an elite soap formulated around the
lavishly expensive tonka bean butter because of its superior slickness and scarcity, yet the overall product costs are kept in-check by the aforementioned value system.
We realize this will still be out of reach for many in the community, and that is why we will be launching our 3rd sister company Fat Cheeks. With Fat Cheeks we will offer a Premium Shaving Soap that caters to the under $20 crowd. Fat Cheeks will also offer Free Shipping on all orders in the USA. You may sign up for our waiting list to be notified of its launch.
As we roll out these new companies, we will be restructuring Sē'bŭm Gold in the near future as SG Customs; a strictly commission-based business. We sympathize that this will upset some of our loyal customers that wholeheartedly embrace the values that SG represents. We pioneered a product category as the Originator of Post-Shave Serums in the wetshaving community. We are proud to have redefined the word “Sebum” and rescued many men from astringents and alum blocks. Never stopping, we redefined what shaving soap could be, and a year later we released equally prestigious matching soaps at a subsidized price. The sole purpose of this was to make our customers happy and support our serum sales.
As we all know, Soap is King, and our soap sales have created an imbalance relative to our serum sales. Hence it is no longer feasible to support this imbalance by selling stock products at an upside-down price. Our products will still be available for individuals to commission, and we will offset this with random public offerings at a discount, for both our original products and new limited releases prior to their placement in our Commissions Portfolio. We will no longer maintain a running stock list of products for immediate purchase off the shelf.
In the meantime, until we finalize this transition, we will stick with our commitment of bringing you Sē'bŭm Aqua this August, and possibly release some more Gold and Purple to close out the former business model. We encourage you to buyout our current stock, as it may not be available again at these lower-cost production batch prices.
Thank you for your patronage over these last 3 years, and I hope I can serve you for years to come with our future business models.
Sincerely, Rick Sprowl "
Copied from the Sebum Gold website...(NOT an endorsement of the company or product, I have no affiliation or interest in the company)
"Major Announcement: SG Restructuring & 2 New Sister Companies
Dear Patron,
Products to us are not simply ingredient lists. We believe that brands represent a set of values. A brand’s values should not be thrusted upon you by force, rather they should exist at the customers’ insistence.
Sē'bŭm Gold represents the purest shave products on the planet. We do not use petrochemicals (fragrance oils, preservatives, or plastic packaging). We do not use chemically processed stearic acid. We fashion our Luxury Packaging as an eco-friendly artform of hand craftsmanship, using tools more common in a woodshop rather than a soapmaker’s lab.
After years of feedback we realize not everybody weighs these values with equal importance. Not everyone wants to pay for essential oils, biodegradable consumer waste on behalf of the environment, or the labor necessary to produce authentic luxury packaging. Colloidal Nickel in Stearic Acid, or the devastation of the rainforest due to palm products simply does not matter to some. Brands do not judge, they listen. We are consistently bombarded with request to provide SG stripped down of these values. What people were really asking for, is please listen to my values, which are different than the values offered by SG.
We narrowed down these demands to, “Give me a soap that is easy to lather, excels in slickness, and smells divine. I will pay a high premium for the luxurious soap in the container, but not for the opulence of the container. If you can lower the overall costs with the use of some synthetics, even better.” In response to these demands we have launched Tonka Bean Shave Co, an elite soap formulated around the
lavishly expensive tonka bean butter because of its superior slickness and scarcity, yet the overall product costs are kept in-check by the aforementioned value system.
We realize this will still be out of reach for many in the community, and that is why we will be launching our 3rd sister company Fat Cheeks. With Fat Cheeks we will offer a Premium Shaving Soap that caters to the under $20 crowd. Fat Cheeks will also offer Free Shipping on all orders in the USA. You may sign up for our waiting list to be notified of its launch.
As we roll out these new companies, we will be restructuring Sē'bŭm Gold in the near future as SG Customs; a strictly commission-based business. We sympathize that this will upset some of our loyal customers that wholeheartedly embrace the values that SG represents. We pioneered a product category as the Originator of Post-Shave Serums in the wetshaving community. We are proud to have redefined the word “Sebum” and rescued many men from astringents and alum blocks. Never stopping, we redefined what shaving soap could be, and a year later we released equally prestigious matching soaps at a subsidized price. The sole purpose of this was to make our customers happy and support our serum sales.
As we all know, Soap is King, and our soap sales have created an imbalance relative to our serum sales. Hence it is no longer feasible to support this imbalance by selling stock products at an upside-down price. Our products will still be available for individuals to commission, and we will offset this with random public offerings at a discount, for both our original products and new limited releases prior to their placement in our Commissions Portfolio. We will no longer maintain a running stock list of products for immediate purchase off the shelf.
In the meantime, until we finalize this transition, we will stick with our commitment of bringing you Sē'bŭm Aqua this August, and possibly release some more Gold and Purple to close out the former business model. We encourage you to buyout our current stock, as it may not be available again at these lower-cost production batch prices.
Thank you for your patronage over these last 3 years, and I hope I can serve you for years to come with our future business models.
Sincerely, Rick Sprowl "
