Thread: French Shaving Soaps

Originally Posted by jcw122

Wow IK sounds awesome. On Amazon it's cheap as heck! $4.50 (or $10 shipped!) for 3.4oz, and they come in different scents! Wow! Gotta try this soon!

Be careful with that. Amazon sells the regular soap, not shaving soap.

Originally Posted by jcw122

Wow IK sounds awesome. On Amazon it's cheap as heck! $4.50 (or $10 shipped!) for 3.4oz, and they come in different scents! Wow! Gotta try this soon!

There is on one IK shaving soap scent, so I think you are looking at bath or hand soaps. Be sure you get the IK SHAVING soap. It's not $4.50.

Originally Posted by loueedacat

There is on one IK shaving soap scent, so I think you are looking at bath or hand soaps. Be sure you get the IK SHAVING soap. It's not $4.50.

Thanks guys lol glad you caught that. I'm not going to buy it anytime soon, but thanks.

I tried the L'Occitane Cade shaving soap, but although it smells wonderful and gives great lather, I could not take the dryness and irritation from it.

Jeff

Originally Posted by crackstar

I tried the L'Occitane Cade shaving soap, but although it smells wonderful and gives great lather, I could not take the dryness and irritation from it.

Jeff

You could try out the L'Occitane Cade Balm after your shave.....

Originally Posted by Blade

You could try out the L'Occitane Cade Balm after your shave.....

Thanks--that's a good idea.

Jeff

Out of the French soaps I've tried, Provence Sante is probably my favorite. It is really an excellent soap - kind of a strange scent, but then again all of the French soaps have a strange scent to my nose. Not bad, mind you - usually a clean, soapy, slightly floral thing happening (with the exception of Cade, which is what I imagine a ski lodge would smell like). Institut Karite comes in at a close second, followed by Pre de Provence and Cade... Monsavon is next on my hit list because it is French AND tallow based.