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Let's All 3017... 2019 Chiseled Face Edition

I will weigh mine tomorrow after my shave. I am definiety going to start mixing up the AS for some variety, but i really am enjoying the soap scent. Nice and Fresh to start the day
 
Alright, with all these GTB shaves going on, who has gotten compliments?
 
Everytime I wear GTB I get compliments.

Haven't gotten one compliment on the Trade Winds. But my wife did confirm that she really likes it
 
dkeester said:
Today was a better shave than yesterday. The soap still lit me up, but it wasn't as bad today. I hope this means that it is just my face being abraded and not actually allergic to the soap.
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i know that Sherlock has the tendency to cause irritation, something in the scent is not sensitive skin friendly. I don’t get a reaction but both my boys do
 
CBLindsay said:
i know that Sherlock has the tendency to cause irritation, something in the scent is not sensitive skin friendly. I don’t get a reaction but both my boys do
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My WAG (wild a** guess) is that it is the mandarin that is the problem child.

That being said, I need to stop the Sherlock and switch to one of my Stubble Buster scents. I shaved with it this morning after two days of not shaving and it started to light me up again. The first pass was fine, but the second gave me the burn.
 
Sorry to hear this Doug. Also it's a shame to have to set it aside when soap is so hard to come by for you lately ??? Just kidding. Hope you have a SB scent that you can enjoy
 
dkeester said:
My WAG (wild a** guess) is that it is the mandarin that is the problem child.

That being said, I need to stop the Sherlock and switch to one of my Stubble Buster scents. I shaved with it this morning after two days of not shaving and it started to light me up again. The first pass was fine, but the second gave me the burn.
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Stubble buster is great stuff, arguably better than the original CFG stuff. No idea what is in the fragrance mix so I couldn’t say much there. I will say that there are two main culprits, cinnamon (cinamide) and vanilla (vanilan)...both are cheaper to use the natural stuff than an artificial version. Vanilla/vanilan isn’t always obvious because it Is used in combination with other stuff to mimic fragrances. A very basic rule of thumb is if a soap is normally white but turns darker with a specific scent, it may have vanilan in it.
 
CBLindsay said:
Stubble buster is great stuff, arguably better than the original CFG stuff. No idea what is in the fragrance mix so I couldn’t say much there. I will say that there are two main culprits, cinnamon (cinamide) and vanilla (vanilan)...both are cheaper to use the natural stuff than an artificial version. Vanilla/vanilan isn’t always obvious because it Is used in combination with other stuff to mimic fragrances. A very basic rule of thumb is if a soap is normally white but turns darker with a specific scent, it may have vanilan in it.
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Well, I know that I have skin reactions to lime, so I am extrapolating from that.

The description for Sherlock is: "It is a warm tobacco based scent blended with toasted caramel, black pepper, moist dirt, and finished with a touch of leather, moss, mandarin, honey and rose."

Skin irritation from citrus is somewhat common. I guess the rose could also be a possibility, although I don't seem to have much problem with the rose Thayer's WH. I suppose if there is vanilla in the tobacco scent that would be a possibility too.
 
CBLindsay said:
Stubble buster is great stuff, arguably better than the original CFG stuff. No idea what is in the fragrance mix so I couldn’t say much there. I will say that there are two main culprits, cinnamon (cinamide) and vanilla (vanilan)...both are cheaper to use the natural stuff than an artificial version. Vanilla/vanilan isn’t always obvious because it Is used in combination with other stuff to mimic fragrances. A very basic rule of thumb is if a soap is normally white but turns darker with a specific scent, it may have vanilan in it.
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Ah. Make sense why Valobra would turn brownish
 
dkeester said:
Well, I know that I have skin reactions to lime, so I am extrapolating from that.

The description for Sherlock is: "It is a warm tobacco based scent blended with toasted caramel, black pepper, moist dirt, and finished with a touch of leather, moss, mandarin, honey and rose."

Skin irritation from citrus is somewhat common. I guess the rose could also be a possibility, although I don't seem to have much problem with the rose Thayer's WH. I suppose if there is vanilla in the tobacco scent that would be a possibility too.
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different tobaccos do use vanilla but you may be right about the citrus. Our pal Cvargo can’t do orange oil at all. Usually the vanilla content has to be higher to get you going but if you’ve got a citrus allergy it only takes a little.
 
Weighed my soap today and i think i might need to change the batteries in the scale or something. 5 shaves in and it says i have only use 1 gram of soap.
 
Yup I am definitely allergic to orange. But strangely some are okay. Probably the synthetic ones. Also stop putting orange slices on my beer!
 
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