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    Default Oh no! Soap sensitivity

    This is not good.
    I think I have developed a senstivity to my block of cavendish black.
    I am so disappointed, it was my favourite soap to use, and now whenever i lather up, it starts to burn my skin before i even finish stropping.
    Any advice as to what i may be sensitive to? (Is it frangrance oil based?)
    Anybody else sensitive to any particular ingredients in soap?
    Any ideas would be appreciated
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    You're not the first to say so about that one. May I recommend Colleen's creams? I've had nothing but great shaves with them.

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    I'm not particularly sensitive to any soaps but in general I "feel" better when using essential oil soaps ---- sometimes the fragrance oil soaps are a little too much.

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    CB's known to do that. Even though I have sensitive skin, it's just tough enough to handle the FOs in it, thank God

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    I have that with some soaps as well.
    There is one commercial soap that I can use well (homme & homme I think) but I like colleens unscented soap best of all.
    It does not irritate at all, and I don't like scented soap anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jaegerhund View Post
    I'm not particularly sensitive to any soaps but in general I "feel" better when using essential oil soaps ---- sometimes the fragrance oil soaps are a little too much.

    Justin
    To be honest, I don't think it's a matter of essential oils vs. fragrance oils. This is a fallacy that has become accepted as fact. There are some very harsh essential oils and some very gentle fragrance oils. It is more a matter of dosage: I find many soaps have really intense scents: the down size of having such potent scents is that the dosage of perfuming substances is probably very close to the threshold level tolerated by many people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tryphon View Post
    To be honest, I don't think it's a matter of essential oils vs. fragrance oils. This is a fallacy that has become accepted as fact. There are some very harsh essential oils and some very gentle fragrance oils. It is more a matter of dosage: I find many soaps have really intense scents: the down size of having such potent scents is that the dosage of perfuming substances is probably very close to the threshold level tolerated by many people.

    I stand corrected.

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    What about trumpers coral skin food? I just remembered that this is one other product that I find burns my skin unless I have a very gentle one pass DE shave.
    Does it contain fragrance oils, or large quantities of anything?
    I posted this before and nobody else seemed to know why I have had a reaction to it, but now i have had this with the cavendish black, maybe it is an oil issue.
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    Yes, my skin is sensitive to Coral skin food. It feels great, then it starts to burn a little. Maybe not 'burn', but, well, something less than burn. It's particularly bad when it comes into contact with a patch I've done too many strokes/passes on.

    Problem is, I absolutely love it, so always use it. It only feels that way straight after a shave. When I put it on the next day (I only shave every 2 days) it doesn't react at all.

    Go figure.

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    Thats exactly what i found. It isn't my sort of after shave treatment really. I like the american crew moisturiser, which burns much less, and is much more moisturising, and has a less sticky feel to it.
    To me it seems strange that companies would use these ingredients in a product that is meant to be soothing. I guess there is just too much demand for fragrance these days. I have to say, I like frangranced soap, moisturiser i would prefer to have no smell whatsoever, but i can't find one!
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