I recently contacted Rod at Stirling on making a Glacial soap out of his popular Sharp Dressed Man scent. Working with Rod was great. He kept me updated asking the process and didn't mind my input. (I even got to help with the name! ) Now for the review! Stirling Glacial Eskimo Tuxedo: Scent: 10/10 I already love the Stirling Sharp Dressed Man scent, so maybe I'm a little bias. I opened the package and could instantly smell the menthol rolling off of the soap. Lather: 10/10 I believe I got a new version of Rod's formula. It took some getting used to, seeing as how I'm used to his harder pucks, but it loads much easier and is as easy to lather as it is to load. Performance: 10/10 This soap is BONE CHILLING COLD! It still has Stirling's great slickness and skin conditioning, but seriously, I warn you now, it's FREEZING! I highly recommend this soap if you're looking for something with an edge. Thanks for reading.
Thanks for the review! I got my sample a couple of days ago and it will be my first soap to use after this stupid No shave November bet is over at work. I may just call it quits and forfeit my $2 so I can start using my Stirling samples.
@crackstar you won't be disappointed by the amount of menthol. It was intense. I decided on a two pass shave this time around. It probably didn't help rinsing with cold water
I'm sure it does. Rod puts the exact same menthol content in all the Glacial soaps to make them the most frigid shaving items I ever experienced in my entire life. The Wintergreen, Obsidian, Lemon Chill, and Spearmint are so bitterly-cold that they make a normally-mentholated soap feel insignificant and they're definitely more potent than the Yeti Snot and Synergy Frost_byte. My brother-in-law tried a shave one morning with my Obsidian and he suffered a lot of discomfort because he just couldn't handle the effect. It's his fault because I warned him before.
Three years later I'm a proud owner of the Eskimo Tuxedo soap and I'm in love with it. Its scent for those of you who are not acquainted with it, is awesome. (Sharp Dressed Man) and its lather is a pleasure to work up. The menthol power of it can freeze a man's face off so as Dappy commented, be warned. This soap is not a gag - it packs a lethal menthol punch which can shake you up if you can't tolerate it. Like all Stirling soaps, this one is extremely skin-friendly but again, this is a menthol atom bomb.