Yep, I really like the faded C8 logo in the background with the name of the particular soap in a darker color! VERY cool!!
Just going with my my flow of thought here, but as a woman I might not pick up a bar labeled as "gentleman's soap" since that brings to mind (to me anyway) shaving soap/deodorant soap.
And BTW I adore men...I like everything about them including the way they smell! In fact, my husband thinks it's funny that I prefer men's scents to the traditional "female" florals. I like my personal scents to remind me of the man I love...after all, what's better than thinking of your man while showering?
Maybe "Soap for Gentlemen and the Women Who Love Them"....?
It's weird. I had printed out all of my ideas and had my oldest (19) step son flip through it and he also picked the faded "C8" background. I was kind of surprised.
Its interesting that you mention liking the men's scents over women's. In my pre-marital youth I knew a couple girls that liked my smell. I thought this was kind of creepy and stalker-ish, but once I got passed that I understood it. After all I liked how they smell right?
To address the soap for men issue, I did have the idea of, if it ever lead to it, doing a "C8 Soap for women" line also. I will admit my one issue to address ever since getting interested in this hobby was to do soap for men and only men and make the soaps as many and masculine as possible and to have those soaps address all of those manly needs. Not that I dont like ladies but I figured this was such a lady dominant hobby that they already have all sorts of choices. But I suppose that I am 2.5 years into my first (and last) marriage, I could have my wife help me with the ladies line and figuring out scents and stuff?
I think the one thing I am having some issues with and kind of a battle is that I want to do MANLY soap. So manly that testosterone is in the bubbles and that the soap even has a pair of....Ok maybe not THAT manly, but you get it I'm sure. Yet the for refined "pretentious" expensive imported shaving cream loving side of me is saying "keep it classy and designer like." Then the reasoning side of me is saying "ok lets find a way to make it manly and classy." I hate having so many voices in my head...lol
Maybe when it comes to each individual soap I can address the packaging on a type basis. So for instance the two soaps that use Armani FO's, I can make the packaging very clena and elegant. Then when it comes to say, the hunters soap (another idea I have), I can make the packaging very manly and hunter like. I thought about doing a style of packaging that would cut on black ink usage, assuming I print my own, and I feel would still look very cool. The idea was to do all white but then with faded black backgrounds. So for instance, the hunters soap would be printed on white stock but maybe have a faded black woodsy/field scene with some deer. Just to continue on the idea in hopes to give you a better understanding, my mechanics soap I want to make would again be wrapped in white stock but will have a faded black image of dirty, greasy, grimy hands (ill be using mine for the photo) holding the bar of soap. So really each package would be wrapped in white stock but have a different faded "theme" that illustrates the use for that particular bar.
