I just had the best shave of my SR days so far with their cade last night and I'm wondering what other people's experiences with it are? Like it or no?
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I just had the best shave of my SR days so far with their cade last night and I'm wondering what other people's experiences with it are? Like it or no?
Cade? Soap or cream?
The pre shave oil, cream, and as.
All the Cade stuff is great!
I use aos unscented and some glycerine and the cade cream to make an uberlather and its smooth as velvet!
Gentlemen:
I find L'Occitane Cade soap quite good. The cream, however, fails to impress me.
I have not used the Cade soap but I have the cream and by itself it doesn't do anything for me. Bad lathering, very thin and the bubbles just dissolve. Once mixed with a soap for uberlather though it works very well. Might just be the hard water we have here.
I love the scent of the cream, but regarding it's performance it is a big dissapointment. Maybe I'll uberlather it to get a nice lather...
I've made nice uber lathers with the cream and soap together. I don't like the cream alone.
Their AS balm is the best I've ever used in years of looking.
The cream performs wonderfully with my hard water. I've gotten used to small bubbles with just about every cream/soap I use at home but the case stays light while still providing ample cushion and glide.
I've never tried their cream but I have the soap and enjoy it very much. I'd buy it again and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
Tried the cream only once and couldn't stand it. The above idea of combining it with a soap might resurrect it tho. Maybe I'll combine it with my Mitchell's.
Love the smell but do not like the lather so much-not terrible but not great. I have only used the soap cake so cannot speak for the cream.
I use their soaps and balms including their Edt, all excellent products, where as the Cade soap as many admirers, the cream it seems does not.
Jamie
I have tried the soap, the cream, and two of their balms.
The soap is good. I liked it and I will buy it again sometime in the future.
The cream is unacceptable. It is not a shaving cream, it is a failed product that should be withdrawn.
The balms are good, with a very nice scent, but too oily for me.
Did you try the cream after they reformulated it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Slur
It's not great on its own, but it's good in an uber. I never tried it before reformulation
Perhaps you haven't tried it after?
I agree that the soap is very good and the better of the two. I just didn't find the cream all that bad.
Quote:
Originally Posted by maddafinga
I didn’t know that the cream has been reformulated.
I don’t know which one I tried, but it is very likely that I have used the previous formula and not the improved one.
Thank you very much for the information! :chapeau
I have seen in other threads where many people don't like the soap or cream, but love the scent. I haven't tried the cream, but I have found that the soap is a weak performer compared to the few soaps I keep(Martin De Candre, Scottish fine soaps, Institute Karite, Czeck and speake). I find it is not worth the effort to get it to produce a decent lather.
I do agree the Cade aftershave is some of the finest I have tried to date.
You mean the lotion or the balm justin?Quote:
Originally Posted by justinA
The balm sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slur
Would anyone care to provide a list of ingredients, if you have it in hand? A lot of places don't seem to provide a whole lot of information, or they have conflicting info.
I'd like to try this soap as it seems scent wise it would be something I would like. I have to watch what I bring home my daughter is allergic to nuts, and one place listed macadami nuts as an ingredient in Cade. L'Occitane site didn't list anything.
eDIT: found the ingredients fella's.....
I love the Cade soap. That juniper scent is one of my favorites and I love how the smell sticks around for a while.
Just bought the soap, and balm. Glad I made the purchase after reading all the comments. I'm not a huge balm fan but this stuff is pretty good. Wish they made an AS splash in Cade, apparently they use to.
I have never smelled the juniper scent but if the C&E scents of the hard-milled soaps never make it through.. I've got my stock-piles. I can't get a meaningful scented-soap from l'occintane 'tc and so I've got a few years worth with the C&E hard-milled sienna, nomad and sandalwood soaps.. I will just believe in the regular-milled (relatively) unscented l'occintade bars of truly awesome shaving action.. rather than the stupid crap pervaded by the C&E vintage crowd...
I've been using the cream for almost a year in my rotation and I love it. Maybe it's the density of my water or my lather building technique (not that it's spectacular), but I think it is one of my best creams. The scent is by far the nicest and the one the ladies like the most.
I have mixed feelings with the soap :(
I love the scent, every time I go to the bathroom I open the bowl and take a deep sniff... but the lather is no amazing stuff unless I do something else than swirl my brush.
Hard water is what I have at home and I've had no problem lathering less expensive soaps (VDH, Tabac, Omega, Arko) but this soap gave me disappointment after disappointment till I used what I call an "add in"
I use an almond size amount of Noxzema cream in my lathering bowl and then add the foam I get from my L'occitane soap. Only then I get a thick rich lather. I find this disappointing because:
- cheaper soaps do great without the cream
- the scent is lost among the strong camphor scent.
I still like the soap and I think I'll buy it again, but I wish it could outperform the other soaps without the noxzema cream (or at least that I could find locally an odorless replacement for that cream, I have tried with Care). I used a little bit of Cade AS to enrich the lather and it did work but I am not eager to spend the AS that's about 35$ the tube when I can use the Nox that is about 10$ the kilo haha.
Anyways, I do agree the scent is awesomesauce, but I don't think I would recommend it to someone with hard water :(