ETHOS Grooming Essentials A New Line

Marcos As far as I know the Oleo collaboration was a single production run and all further Ethos soaps are made entirely by Frank and includes only his base ingredients. The differences are in the scents yet the shave is still amazing.

Another wonderful experience. Building a lather with this soap is truly effortless and it's so dense. Fantastic slickness and protection. The calming lavender scent was just what I needed this morning. I put a couple of drops of B&M's Terrorade onto my hand just before adding the aftershave and it was a sweet coolness that's lasted close to five hours. 

Also I have not found the ETHOS to be very thirsty even if I do sometimes add a few drops of water when bowl lathering. Not sure if it's because I soak my brush heavier than others or my water softener in my home. Either way I can whip up a generous slick and hydrating lather. Looking forward to his future releases as my SAD may be gone or at least curtailed heavily.

If one just glances askew at Ethos it lathers - if threatened with a brush from across state, it would literally explode in a volcanic eruption of lather

Marcos As far as I know the Oleo collaboration was a single production run and all further Ethos soaps are made entirely by Frank and includes only his base ingredients...

I was wondering that myself. Perhaps he'll chime in and set the record straight.

Marcos As far as I know the Oleo collaboration was a single production run and all further Ethos soaps are made entirely by Frank and includes only his base ingredients...

I was wondering that myself. Perhaps he'll chime in and set the record straight.

Yes Marcos aka Marc yes AJ is correct with his statement. The collaboration with Oleo was a one time thing. Vida was wonderful to work with but she has her soap making business to focus on and honestly I wasn't sure at the time I was going to go into this full on like I have. I'm developing and making products almost every day whether in my warehouse or the labs. 

Hope that clears things up.

UPDATE:


Unfortunately I’m sold out of the " Lavender Supreme Shave soap " and just the soap. Still have plenty of the Skin Food left even though that's been selling fast as well but  I made an extra Gallon of that so all's good there.   All of a sudden starting on Friday I got a run on the Lavender Supreme Shave soap like it had just gotten discovered and orders started coming in at a fast pace and today with only 3 jars left on my rack  I went into my storage case as i was positive I had 5 or 6 more jars without labels on them. When I picked them up something made me open one up and take a whiff because it's difficult to tell the Clean from the Lavender  in dim light with no labels on them. So much to my horror I knew that I had labeled all the Lavender and the 3 I had left is all I had as the jars where the Clean soap. ] This weekend and up until today I got a lot of orders! Way more than I thought I was going to get being a new brand that not that many people know of.  So now I have to drop what I'm doing and make another batch of the Lavender asap. I still have to cure the soap so my realistic expected release date for this next batch will be between 3 to 4 weeks from now. 

 With that said I have to give the first 3 people who ordered the Lavender shave soap these last 3 jars and notify the others that I made a mistake and I'm out of stock! How embarrassing!  What I'm going to do is give them a choice as many of my customers ordered more than one item.  They can either get a refund on the Lavender Shave soap or if they don't want that option I can ship theirs out to them as soon as the batch is ready and of course with free shipping.  Whatever they want to do as I feel terrible about this. 

So I have to tell you a short story and I"m not blaming anyone but maybe in a way this was in a weird way a good thing because I certainly learned a lesson.  So I have throughout the years made a lot of friends in the Shaving world from razor, brush and shave soap makers so when I asked a few of my friends in the business for some advice and what I should expect as far as coming out with a new brand. Their answer was yes some folks may know you from the Dragonsbeard shave soap & Skin Food collaboration with Oleo Soapworks but I don't think many know the name ETHOS as far as the brand name goes so they mentioned figure on about 30 to 40 orders total and the average sales in aftershaves are about 25 to 30% compared to Shave soap so figure if your making 100 jars of soap you'll sell about 25 to 30 bottle of aftershave.So I'm like OK thanks and that is what I was prepared for.  Well that didn't happen and I'm almost quadruple their estimate as of today.  Also my Skin Food splash is averaging 67 to 100 when compared to the Shave soap sales.  So can I say a little overwhelmed kinda where I'm at but I'm catching up as I posted it's going to take me a little longer to get all these orders together and get them shipped out and especially in this Corona 19 world where what normally took only an hour now takes 2 hours or more. I am good on all the other products as far as inventory goes as I made more of those products but many of them didn't have labels on them or in the case of the Skin Food need to be filled and labeled so I've been working more hours to try and catch up! The reason I didn't make as many Lavender shave soaps as the others is because of waiting on a shipment of Lavender oil from France. So  I made less than half the amount I made of the other 2 soaps.  All I know is this is not the way I want to run my business! I want consistency and a staple like Lavender should be available at all times for my customers to purchase. So lesson learned and again I will do everything in my power to not let this happen again. So my oligopolies to anyone who won't get their Lavender Shave soap who ordered it out of this batch. 

I will be in touch as I go through all the orders. 

Thank you all for your overwhelming support and patience!  

Frank  

Growing pains in every new business my friend,  no worries, most of us have enough soap for years to come. I love your Lavender and with how little you need to use it will last a long time.

Had a nice email exchange with Frank today. He thoroughly answered any questions I had. Looking forward to trying the Ethos soap and splash.