In honor of @
clint64 ...Looks like you probably getting deadly with the stick...I remember discovering shave sticks...
I was spending the Summer in South-Side Turkey on the Med. And my wife picked up an Arko Stick at the store and left it on the sink in my shave cave...I immediately upon finding it, ripped the end off and discovered how much I loved it...
Also I found, the first time I soaked my whiskers in hot water, and soaked the stick in hot water and started applying it in tight little circles on my whiskers, That......for the first time....I could really see the direction my whiskers grew in...What an eye opener....Wasn't what I thought, and armed with that info really

Rocked my shaving World...
A couple weeks later I went to get a hair cut and watched the Turkish Barbers lathering technique....Coooool...
Those cats, do the hot whisker rinse and hot steamy towel, and then hit your face with a hot wet Arko stick and apply it in tight little circles all over your beard like I was doing, while they chat....and then I realied, they kept applying the stick for over a minute...I mean, they seriously put some soap product onto your beard...Every hair not only has a ball of soap hanging, but they keep applying....then when they hit that with a hot wet brush....BOOM!!! Lather Explosion!!! News worthy Lather Bomba!....
No wonder those guys are famous for their shaving prowess...with that thick and rich a lather, you can't get cut by those Shavettes...your face is so protected and slippery.....its blade proof....lol
Of course in the following years I watched many Turkish Barbers and they all seem to have the same Mad Dog Arko approach....I dig it....I implemented it into my regime aswell...One day I invision someone opening the door to my shave cave and I come flowing out on an ocean of lather like something from a Chaplin movie....roflol!
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