Thread: Art of Shaving new shaving cream formulations.

I stopped today at the new AoS store in Utah and I did noticed that the shaving creams have suffered a new re formulation.It seems that the sandalwood one has now fragance instead of esential oils and have introduce the Palmitic and Lauric Acid in the ingredient list.


I did take pics but are so crappy that Ill rather write the new formulations:


-Unscented shaving cream:


Aqua (Water),Stearic Acid,Myristic Acid,Pottasium Hidroxide,Glycerin,Coconut Acid,Triethalonamine,Sodium Hydroxide,Palmitic Acid,Methylparaben,Lauric Acid,Prophylparaben,Diethalomamine.


-Sandalwood shaving crea:


Aqua (Water),Stearic Acid,Myristic Acid,Pottasium Hidroxide,Glycerin,Coconut Acid,fragance,Triethalonamine,Sodium Hydroxide,Palmitic Acid,Methylparaben,Lauric Acid,Prophylparaben,Diethalomamine.


-Lemon shaving cream:


Aqua (Water),Stearic Acid,Myristic Acid,Pottasium Hidroxide,Glycerin,Coconut Acid,Citrus (Lemon) peel oil,Triethalonamine,Sodium Hydroxide,Palmitic Acid,Methylparaben,Lauric Acid,Prophylparaben,Diethalomamine.


-Lavender shaving cream (lavanda):


Aqua (Water),Stearic Acid,Myristic Acid,Pottasium Hidroxide,Glycerin,Coconut Acid,Lavandula Angustifolia (lavender oil)
,Triethalonamine,Sodium Hydroxide,Palmitic Acid,Methylparaben,Lauric Acid,Prophylparaben,Diethalomamine.


And now compare it with the old lavander cream:





and the old sandalwood shaving cream (check all the esential oils):





The creams are still made in England,but now have a thicker consistency and the sandalwood one has a weaker scent,or maybe it was just me.


The soaps are still made with tallow and in Italy (thank goodness)

well with the decrease in quality, i hope they decreased the price....sad day.

I use Myristic acid to get the gunk off my wrenches.

Sad reading

I really like my AOS Sandalwood and Lemon ShaveCreams with the essential oils in them.

Now that Proctor&Gamble have destroyed the heart of the creams, I will surely not repurchase once my 2 tubs are used up !

I stopped using them recently anyway, even though I had some pre-P&G shave cream, since they use parabens and methylparabens; I found this among other things:
Parabens can mimic the hormone estrogen, which is known to play a role in the development of breast cancers. Do you really want to take the chance that they might do so? In the July 2002 issue of the Archives of Toxicology, Dr. S. Oishi of the Department of Toxicology, Tokyo Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health reported that exposure of newborn male mammals to butylparaben “adversely affects the secretion of testosterone and the function of the male reproductive system.”
Granted, this was a report about newborns, but there are so many questionable additives in everything we use, I'm trying to take fewer chances when I can...not saying everyone should react the same way, it's just my personal choice..and it IS sad to see AOS go down the corporate tubes.

Yes.... yes... [steeples fingers] everything is going according to plan...

We have some young soap makers in my area that are making natural soaps ; seahagsoaps.com . They are making a camp soap that's used for shaving. Comes in various scents. You might want to look at their website.

Thanks for the heads-up!

I don't see much difference in the basic formula. Comparing the Lavender cream versions, the only differences are the removal of two of the acid components: Lauric Acid and Palmitic Acid. They're probably worth having in there, so if they play an important role in the performance of the the cream then that would be disappointing.

The replacement of the Sandalwood essential oils with an unspecified fragrance however is definitely disappointing.

Actually, I use unscented soaps because even EOs can irritate my skin. In fact my order of AOS Unscented cream just arrived today, so I guess it's time to see first hand if the performance has been degraded.

Has anyone actually tried the reformulated version to judge its performance rather than judging the ingredient list?

Short report on the new unscented cream - I used it this morning and it lathered up well. It seemed to have the same amount of cushion and glide as my last jar. It actually seemed to dry more slowly, which is notable because here in Southern California we've been having high winds and very dry air for the last couple of days.