Thread: Great Cremes That Irritate

Folks,

There are lots of great soaps and cremes out there, and
I've had the privilege to have used a few of them. Some
of my favourites in terms of scent and performance just
irritate my face:

CF Limes: Wow, amazing scent, unbelievable lather. I
love this stuff, but can't use it... *sigh*

Musgo Real: Nice scent, great performance. I can get
amazingly smooth shaves with it, just not comfortably.

Do any of you find yourselves in the same unfortunate
position?

Regards,

- Scott

Originally Posted by sebell

Folks,

There are lots of great soaps and cremes out there, and
I've had the privilege to have used a few of them. Some
of my favourites in terms of scent and performance just
irritate my face:

CF Limes: Wow, amazing scent, unbelievable lather. I
love this stuff, but can't use it... *sigh*

Musgo Real: Nice scent, great performance. I can get
amazingly smooth shaves with it, just not comfortably.

Do any of you find yourselves in the same unfortunate
position?

Regards,

- Scott

Absolutely. In fact, I have the same problem with Musgo Real. Anything with any Menthol in it, in fact.

I got seriously burned by Institut Karite Soap, and had problems with C&E Sienna, as well. Sad stuff.

Originally Posted by JimR

Absolutely. In fact, I have the same problem with Musgo Real. Anything with any Menthol in it, in fact.

+1 here as well for Musgo. Not good for my face, no matter how much water I use. I think I must be alergic to menthol. My face reacts angrily to it...

I usually don't have much sensitivity to creams or soaps. However, I used Harris Arlington and Marlborough and they irritated my face. That has been a couple of years ago. I recently picked up a couple of samples of those creams again to see if it was an isolated incident. I hope so as I have been using creams more lately and really want to give the Harris creams another shot.

Chris, I thankfully don't have any issues with Arlington soap, as
that is another one of my favourites!

- Scott

I had a bad reaction to MWF. It has been the only one ever to really bother my skin. I could feel it after the first pass and finished with some Nancy Boy replenishing to calm my skin down.

Good thing I got it on the BST for a song w/o the dish.

I had some burn from Colleen's Lime Margarita, which was a darn shame cuz I love the smell of that stuff...

I have a man's skin, not very sensitive, and a man's approach to skin care (as long as it doesn't hurt, I'm fine with it). Having said that, I'm sure there are some essential oils that I would not want in my soaps or cremes (toxicodendron radicans comes to mind), but then I'm pretty sure no one, or at least no one in their right mind would add this to a soap.

There are of course some fruits, vegetibles and herbs that are know to have irritating properties; any type of citrus, or mango are good examples. Citrus oil is after all used as a degreaser and mango skin is known to be very irritating.

i have issues with the almond scent GFT and TOBS use in their almond creams.

Originally Posted by rum

+1 here as well for Musgo. Not good for my face, no matter how much water I use. I think I must be alergic to menthol. My face reacts angrily to it...

I'm sorry to hear this--Musgo is a wonderful cream, but I guess you have a bad sensitivity to it. There is so little menthol in this cream that it cannot really be felt. Perhaps the lanolin is causing the bad reaction?

Jeff