Thread: La Toja

Thank you for the detailed information! So the shave stick soap is part of their regular production while the Manantiales soap is more of a "boutique" production? While I was on the island I took a photo of an old abandoned building with an inscription on the wall ("Manantiales de la Toja 1905") - I thought this was the old factory but perhaps it was rather a spa of some sort?

Originally Posted by Oolong

Thank you for the detailed information! So the shave stick soap is part of their regular production while the Manantiales soap is more of a "boutique" production? While I was on the island I took a photo of an old abandoned building with an inscription on the wall ("Manantiales de la Toja 1905") - I thought this was the old factory but perhaps it was rather a spa of some sort?

Yes the shavestick is sold in supermarkets and great stores, it's dirty cheap (about 2€) and everybody knows it. The Manantiales soap in bowl is an old formulation of the stick, and it can only be bought at the Manantiales soap and Museum in the La Toja Island and in the webstore of Mannatiales.

You're right as always, the 1st factory was a part of the spa, and the spa was part of a resort. The 3 activities were in the same building, as you can see in the web of manantiales: ····· 1899 > 1904. El manantial se llena de vida __________________________________________________ _____________________
The spa&resort is the Gran Hotel La Toja now http://www.granhotellatoja.com/es/index.php

In the 1st years of XX century, la Toja started to sell the water and the salts, then they make the soap factory. Before the spanish civil war (1933) the factory was bought and the production was moved to A Coruna, the next province of the north, initially the factory was installed in Pasaxe, but in few years they moved to Culleredo when they stayed for years becoming the most important soap factory in Spain, but they make a complete range of cosmetic products: cologne, deodorant, toothpaste, body milk, shower gel,.... In 2007 Henkel closed the factory and moved the production of "la Toja" to Poland, only the salts are the originals from the La Toja island in Galiza, now they continue to be extracted from the water from la Toja

Oolong this thread is becoming a complete history of La Toja, well done

Gentlemen:

Razor Blades and More has a new supply of La Toja and it seems to be on sale. I have already ordered mine. If you are interested, here is the link:

La Toja | Razor Blades & More Co.

Oh, such wonderful toys. Thanks to my good friend rearviewmirror for bringing up La Toja.

Regards,

Obie

From what I understand, they got 35 bowls of it in. Enjoy Obie!

Originally Posted by Obie

Gentlemen:

Razor Blades and More has a new supply of La Toja and it seems to be on sale. I have already ordered mine. If you are interested, here is the link:

La Toja | Razor Blades & More Co.

Oh, such wonderful toys. Thanks to my good friend rearviewmirror for bringing up La Toja.

Regards,

Obie

Bienvenido | Gifts And Care sells the bowls, the aftershaves and some spanish products

La Toja, Floid & Lea | Gifts And Care

Hello, du212:

Thank you for providing the additional website for La Toja. It's good to know. It's been bookmarked. I have also been interested for quite sometime in La Toja's aftershaves, but I'll save my question about those for a new thread and keep the focus here on my good friend rearviewmirror's original post — the soap.

Regards,

Obie

I received my La Toja Mannatiales soap a few days ago and have used it a couple of times. I think it is a really nice soap. Good cushion, excellent glide, moisturising and with a really interesting and unique fragrance. For me the lather is more finicky than MdC and eShave (my two favourite soaps). It seems to need just the right amount of water and quite a lot of lathering (similar to MWF).

The fragrance is related to that in the basic La Toja cream (red tube) but whilst I find the cream overpowering and quite a chemical smelling, the soap's fragrance is far more subtle and well-integrated.

All in all not the best soap I own but better than most I have tried.

Claude

My La Toja bowl arrived this last week... I have not had the time to try it yet. Indeed the smell is fantastic. I have an empty La Toja bowl as well and it still has the fantastic sent.. I have been using the La Toja cream for several months now.

Is the scent much different than that of the stick?