Last year I ordered 2 tubes of Palmolive Shave Cream to test out. It lathered super easily and performed beyond my expectations for a cheap tube of cream. The scent is hard to describe, but green, minty, old-school, clean and almost medicinal comes to mind. It's not overly complex, although I probably just made it sound complex! 
Fast forward to just the other day... I purchased some items off a BST shave forums. The seller was kind enough to throw in a new stick of Palmolive as a freebie. The packaging is nothing to brag about and the scent seemed just slightly more faint compared to the cream.
I tried it as a stick and was again impressed (just like the cream). But the little stick was just not my style (nor am I doing any traveling these days), so in a bored stupor, I finely grated it into a small, decorative pottery bowl.
After pressing it into the bowl, I did a quick test lather... oh my word, this stuff exploded into the thickest, most yogurty nice lather I've seen in perhaps forever. Quite honestly, the consistency of the lather topped nearly every top-tier, elite, high-dollar soap I've tried over the years (and yes, there's been an embarrassingly high number of them).
So, take this information, steal your wife's cheese grater and have fun my friends. Again, the stick is awesome, but grating the stick and bowl lathering it is on another level altogether.
I see smallflower.com has the 50g stick "in-stock" for $6.50 (no affiliation), but I feel like I've even seen it cheaper other places in the past.
I will post some later pics later... maybe even a video!
Fast forward to just the other day... I purchased some items off a BST shave forums. The seller was kind enough to throw in a new stick of Palmolive as a freebie. The packaging is nothing to brag about and the scent seemed just slightly more faint compared to the cream.
I tried it as a stick and was again impressed (just like the cream). But the little stick was just not my style (nor am I doing any traveling these days), so in a bored stupor, I finely grated it into a small, decorative pottery bowl.
After pressing it into the bowl, I did a quick test lather... oh my word, this stuff exploded into the thickest, most yogurty nice lather I've seen in perhaps forever. Quite honestly, the consistency of the lather topped nearly every top-tier, elite, high-dollar soap I've tried over the years (and yes, there's been an embarrassingly high number of them).
So, take this information, steal your wife's cheese grater and have fun my friends. Again, the stick is awesome, but grating the stick and bowl lathering it is on another level altogether.
I see smallflower.com has the 50g stick "in-stock" for $6.50 (no affiliation), but I feel like I've even seen it cheaper other places in the past.
I will post some later pics later... maybe even a video!
