Re: Re:TOTD 112708: masculine/feminine

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I asked that because the trend now with young men is taking care of their skin

and hair and I've just been delighted at some of their choices in the varied

scents of my soaps.

 

Many males LOVE a blend I do with citrus and litsea with my vanilla and I call

it 'fruit smoothie'......I sell 8 bottles of showegel/shampoo combo to one

college male and several of my deceased daughter's husbands sneak their wife's

bath soaps I make and one flat out told me 'I'm secure in my manlihood to ask

you to do a lavender /vanilla for me. I love the stuff!'

 

I have one I did with lemon verbena and had two males wanted lemon, one wanted a

true lemon tart sour glycerin bar.....that one was easy , the other wanted a

sweet lemon which I have and made for a friend's little girl and I call it

'Carolina'.......only one fo is used. Oddly, the scent is called 'got milk?' but

it doesnt even remotely have a cream scent or milk, it has a sweetened or

powdered sugar scent . When this is dry, you smell the soft sweetness, when you

get it wet, the verbena 'bloom's nicely and a lot of men like that.

 

I am not a fan of lemon grass. Tho litsea does make it smell better. The after

scent of lemon grass I just cannot get past. So Verbena for me. I finally found

a nice White Sage essential oil, so my verbena and sage is very fresh.

Previously I was making a sage tincture and finally it was so strong I could use

it in a forumulation and capture the scent and the bonus was the color was

extracted by the alcohol.

 

I'm simply thrilled that young men now use things that typically sold to women.

Bottom line these guys like scents we do and will use them.

 

So I tend to create scents that are unisex and it seems that the body chemistry

of male vs female change the scent notes which I think is fabulous.

 

I have done a shaving soap using lime/mint with kaolin clay, silk, glycerin in a

cp shea butter soap. This went over so well these young men bought shaving

brushes and their skin is awesome. They tend to perfer a glycerin bar so I've

compromised. I blend cp vegan shea butter soap and a natural based glycerin soap

with added castor, silk, clay and if a dry skin or older skin,

hydrovance.....this stuff is just great. The women like using a bar of this

blend for the bath.

 

If I leave the clay out, you can use the bar to wash your hair. Because there

are no scaries like sls, sles,  propylene glycol, alcohol (except my sage) ,

sugar, detergents, surfactants etc..it seems that their hair has improved and

the hair loss has stopped or significanly slowed....so, finding those eo's I can

use are scant, neroli I have and bergamot , all of the citrus, the basics any.

 

I have the usual suspects in the more herbaceous families as well. As for

creating a high end blend......not so sure I have the right stuff according to

what I've  seen referenced here.

 

But I am clearly seeing a trend change in scent that men like. Marketing simply

is in the packaging. Plain and simple....I just use a more masculine bottle like

'black' etc...but the scent is dually marketed and I'm curious to see if in

cologne/perfumery area if the trend is also the same.

 

evie

good grief, I cannot for the life of me keep an email short but I'm working on

it LOL!