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Reddit mentions of Speick Men's Shaving Stick, 1.75 oz
Sentiment score: 2
Reddit mentions: 2
We found 2 Reddit mentions of Speick Men's Shaving Stick, 1.75 oz. Here are the top ones.
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Contains relaxing lavender oilDoes not contain preservativesDermatologically and allergologically testedDoes not contain mineral oil-based ingredientsDoes not contain gluten or lactose.
Specs:
| Height | 3.3464566895 Inches |
| Length | 1.574803148 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Size | 1.75 Ounce (Pack of 1) |
| Weight | 0.1322773572 Pounds |
| Width | 1.574803148 Inches |
Not sure what your budget is, but here are a few soap of the lower-cost, Amazon available soaps that I would recommend.
Pré de Provence
Pré de Provence is an excellent triple- or by some accounts quad-milled soap French soap, and strikes one of the best cost/performance/longevity ratios I've ever seen on a soap. It creates an excellent, slick, protective lather and provides an awesome post-shave feel even after you rinse it off. It comes in two scents:
Pré de Provence is a light, herbal scent that seems to have a strong sage note in it. I haven't used it, but I have used its brother. $11.99USD for 150g on Amazon.
Pré de Provence No. 63 is a warm, spicy cologne sort of scent that has notes of pepper, cedarwood, leather and tobacco leaves among others. $14.04USD for 150g on Amazon.
Cella Crema da Barba
Cella is a soft Italian soap that has a mild scent of cherry and almond. I don't know if it would be considered "manly," but this stuff has been around for nearly 120 years, and men have been shaving with it for all that time, so it has to be doing something right. It's also a great performer with good post-shave feel. $12.00 for 150g on Amazon.
La Toja
La Toja is a Spanish soap in stick form, containing mineral salts. Its scent reminds me a bit of briny sea air and talcum powder. La Toja's claim is that the addition of the mineral salts helps as a skin conditioner. $6.00USD for 50g on Amazon.
Speick
Speick is a German soap whose scent comes from the speick plant and lavender essential oil. It's one of my favorite soaps of all time in terms of both performance and scent. $8.08USD on Amazon.
Chiseled Face Groomatorium
Chiseled Face is one of our US artisans, and his products are among the best performing that I've ever used. He has a handful of different scents that you may find interesting, but my favorite of them is Ghost Town Barber.
Chiseled Face Ghost Town Barber has notes of bergamot, basil leaf, white patchouli, oakmoss, texas cedar, leather, smoke, and gunpowder (I copy/pasted that from his description). $14.99USD for 113g on Amazon.
 
These are all US links, so I hope they work for you. I'm sorry to say that I can't help with the dry skin thing; my skin is fairly oily and not overly sensitive.
Not bad at all. I highly recommend that for the razor you go with one of the Edwin Jagger DE8x series, which come in a variety of handles. Some cost less than the Merkur you picked, and all have the newer and (IMO) better head than the Merkur Classic head.
You might also want to take a look at this low-cost, high-luxury kit suggested by Bruce Everiss.
My one quarrel is with the soap and brush kit. I think you'd be better off with a Tweezerman brush ($12.50) and a Speick shave stick ($6). The brush is adequate for a beginner, and the shave stick will create a fine lather if you have a normal beard: you rub the stick against the grain all over your wet beard, then brush briskly with the wet brush and the lather arises as if by a miracle. The brush holds plenty for subsequent passes. (You lather before each pass, as you probably know.)
The shave stick does require a normal beard to scrape off enough soap. A young man just starting to shave has a sparse, soft beard, and a shave stick may not work with that.
I would recommend a pre-shave wash of the beard at the sink with Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil soap (MR GLO): wash the beard, rinse with just a splash of water, and start working up the lather over the MR GLO residue, which adds lubricity. I find that really does help my shave. Note that MR GLO is a pre-shave soap, not a shaving soap.