- 10oz (4 Bars) Set Includes: Campfire – warm, slightly smoky scent of burning hickory, Fresh Cut Pine – invigorating scent of fresh split pine wood, Leaf & Leather – rich scent of fresh tobacco leaf and old leather, Midnight Swim – fresh, modern intersection of pure water and clean air
- The Great American Frontier Line scents are inspired by the best that nature has to offer. A place where stories are told without emojis and memories are made without selfies.
- Our Big Brick of Soap are roughly 2-3 times the size of other dainty, bath soap bars. We do not include any synthetic dyes or animal derived ingredients in our fragrances. America’s best dudes deserve only the best ingredients. Paraben-free. Sulfate-free, Phthlate-free
- Top Quality Wash: Duke Cannon designs soap bars to meet the high standards of hard-working men who want to get clean and smell good without using overly perfumed shower gels or body washes. Triple-milled for superior quality.
- Made in the USA | A Portion of Proceeds Benefits U.S. Veterans | Cruelty-Free. Our products are never tested on animals, just bad interns.
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Additional information
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
|---|---|
| Product Dimensions | 12 x 12 x 6 inches, 0.62 ounces |
| Department | Mens |
| UPC | 371782000565 |
| Manufacturer | Duke Cannon Supply Co. |
Logan –
I absolutely love Duke Cannon soaps. I was looking for one scent in particular and saw that it Was in this bundle, so I figured I’d try it. Not only do these bars last a long time, they smell amazing. There wasn’t a single scent in this bundle that didnt Smell amazing.
I love what Duke cannon stands for and what they do. The size of the bar makes it great to last long and it lathers relatively nice! Feels nice going on the skin and leaves the skin relatively smooth and clean feeling. I will continue to buy Duke cannon bars of soap!
Hannah Haskins –
Great soap. I have been a shower gel guy for years. I never thought I would go back to a bar soap. Then I got a Big o’ Brick of Soap as a gag gift on Christmas a couple of years ago. I then bought a Duke Cannon soap bag. I haven’t gone back to shower gel since. The only downside to these soapy monstrosities is they are a little difficult to get lathered when they are new in the bag. On the upside, I find they last almost six months at a go. They are great at getting the funk off of you after a long day, they smell great, I can’t really think of a better bar soap. And I have tried a few of the competitor brands; they don’t compare.
K. Tucker –
We love Duke Cannon products. Cleans well. Large soap bar, which last quite a long time. Good quality for the cost. My husband smells wonderful after using this. I liked the sample box so he could decide which one he liked best, but it’s kind of an issue if you don’t like one of the scents since the bars last so long.
K. Tucker –
There are a lot of reviews for Duke Cannon’s Big Ass Bricks of soap to be found online. Unfortunately, too few of them address obvious questions regarding ingredients, practicality, value, and performance.
Fortunately, I can help. I’ve tried nearly the entire line by now, and can speak toward each fragrance as well as the consistency and performance of the soaps overall.
Before I get into the details, my quick review: I was given a four-pack as a birthday gift, and quickly realized Duke Cannon soap is great for my sensitive skin. My beard is particularly sensitive to soaps and conditioners, and not only has this soap not given me any problems, it actually seems to calm my face and scalp irritation better than Selsun Blue. It took just days before I started using this soap instead of shampoo or body wash, and I’ve been washing with it almost exclusively for months now.
In other words, I like this soap a lot and would recommend it. Now, onto the important information.
Size – Is it practical?
Duke Cannon’s Big Ass Bricks of soap are huge. You’ve seen the photos, so you know what to expect. For me, the size is absurd — I can’t conveniently wash my hands or face with a bar that big. Instead, I cut each brick down to 1/6 size, giving me six 1.66-ounce bars that are roughly the size of travel/hotel soaps (just thicker).
How to cut Duke Cannon soap
If you want to cut your own Duke Cannon soap bricks into smaller bars, here’s a foolproof method:
1.) Score the soap brick as desired (for six bars, score the brick every 0.75 inches)
2.) Carefully warm the brick in the microwave. 10-15 seconds, flip it over, then another 10-15 seconds should do the trick
3.) Cut the brick into smaller bars using the scores as a guide
Cutting the bricks into smaller bars provides several benefits. First, you can actually use it to comfortably wash your face and hands. Second, you won’t break your toes if you drop it in the shower. Third, and perhaps most fun, it allows you to cycle through the scents more quickly, instead of locking you into a single fragrance for a month. It’s possible smaller bars will last longer too — more on that below.
Price – Is it a good value?
I know Amazon is iffy with mentioning prices in reviews, so I’ll keep this brief: Duke Cannon bar soap can be expensive. It seems to cost a bit less in stores, and a bit more online. However, the online price for multi-bar bundles takes the cost per-bar down to around what a single bar costs in stores. If you want to try a specific scent and imagine you’ll use the other soaps too, it’s worth buying the four packs over individual bars. If nothing else, you can give the others away, as they make for nice gifts.
Longevity – How long does a bar last?
Going by reviews, it seems most people expect a bar of Duke Cannon soap to last about a month. Mine seem to last almost twice that long, but it may be because I cut them down to size. My smaller 1.66-ounce bars last me between one and two weeks being used both in the shower and as hand soap. Even if a small bar is basically done after a week, each brick gets me six bars — meaning it takes me between six and eight weeks to finish one.
Performance – How does it feel to use?
Duke Cannon soap doesn’t feel like fancy boutique soaps — it’s a lot more old-school. To use, it feels mostly like a tallow-based soap, with a bit of the slipperiness of glycerin.
How much the soap lathers depends on how it’s used. As hand soap, it lathers about as expected, but as a beard wash or shampoo, it makes a very thick lather. It makes for a decent shave soap, too, assuming you’re not used to using actual shave soap. If anything, it’s weakest in the shower, unless you’re also using a loofah or the company’s own tactical scrubber (which I am not).
However, some users report that the soap doesn’t lather very much, or that it leaves their skin feeling rubbery. I suspect the hardness or softness of water plays into how the soap will work for you. My water is very soft, so Duke Cannon’s soap performs as expected or better.
Ingredients – What’s in Duke Cannon bar soap?
Duke Cannon’s bar soaps are all based around the same basic ingredients:
• sodium tallowate and/or sodium palmate
• sodium cocoate and/or sodium palm kernelate
• aqua (water)
• glycerin
• fragrance
• sodium chloride
• iron oxides
• pentasodium pentetate
It’s worth mentioning that certain soaps have additional ingredients, typically to enhance the fragrance or provide texture to the bars. More information on fragrance-specific ingredients can be found in the scent section below.
Fragrances – Which scent is best?
Here’s my take on nearly every Duke Cannon soap fragrance. I haven’t tried them all yet, so for ones I haven’t used personally, I’ve provided extra information gleaned from the company’s website.
• Accomplishment – bergamot and black pepper
4/5 – Accomplishment is one of the weaker scents I’ve tried, but the fragrance itself is wonderful. It’s understated — the black pepper gives an effervescence to what’s otherwise a very subtle citrus. Curiously, though it doesn’t smell like much when in use, the fragrance from Accomplishment seems to last much longer on my skin than others.
Note: Accomplishment soap bars contain both oat kernel meal and activated charcoal, giving the soap something of a gritty texture.
• Bay Rum – citrus musk, cedarwood, island spices
5/5 – I don’t get bay rum from this at all, but the fragrance is still excellent. Out of the box, it immediately reminded me of Viking Blod mead — a blend of hibiscus and honey. It’s a very sweet scent, only held back from being legitimately sugary by those mysterious island spices. This is also the single strongest Duke Cannon fragrance I’ve found — I can smell the bar across my kitchen, and it lasts much longer on my skin than the company’s other scents. Perhaps I got a really fresh batch?
• Big American Bourbon – Buffalo Trace whiskey
5/5 – Duke Cannon’s Buffalo Trace soap is something special. Out of the box, it smells like a pretty gnarly old man cologne. But on my skin, it smells exactly as described — like a charred oak barrel. It’s got a sweetness to it that’s almost like toasted caramel.
Note: Big American Bourbon soap bars contain corn kernel meal, which doesn’t seem to have any affect on texture.
• Big Ass Beer Soap – Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA
N/A – I haven’t tried this one yet. Duke Cannon says it’s scented with citrus, neroli, oakmoss, and sandalwood, which sounds like it probably smells like fresh-type men’s cologne. The company’s website doesn’t have the ingredients listed.
• Big Ass Beer Soap – Old Milwaukee
4/5 – Duke’s Old Milwaukee beer soap fragrance is little more than a simple sandalwood. It smells like many soaps you’ve likely smelled before, only much better — it’s not an exciting sandalwood, but it does smell more refined than expected. As a bonus, this soap seems to lather more than the others.
Note: Big Ass Beer soap contains beer. Maybe that’s why it foams up so much.
• Campfire – a campfire, basically
1/5 – Campfire just doesn’t do it for me. It’s true that it smells kinda like a campfire, which is nice, but it doesn’t necessarily smell clean. It’s also not a particularly strong scent, leaving little fragrance behind on the skin.
• Fresh Cut Pine – fresh cut pine
3/5 – This would probably be among my favorite Duke Cannon fragrances if it wasn’t so weak. It smells great — like pine, which isn’t necessarily a clean smell, but is somehow clean-adjacent. But the fragrance has no presence; I can barely smell the soap when used and can’t smell it at all on my skin. Maybe my bar is old?
• Gun Smoke – smoke, vanilla, and leather
N/A – I haven’t tried this one yet, but it sounds like a banger. Will almost certainly be a very masculine scent.
• Great American Beer Soap – Budweiser
N/A – I haven’t tried this either, but it’s made specifically with Budweiser beer, and is based around cedarwood instead of sandalwood.
• Leaf and Leather – tobacco leaf and leather
5/5 – Leaf and Leather is one of Duke Cannon’s best fragrances. It’s a great masculine scent, more heavy on the tobacco leaf than the leather, resulting something that’s smells smooth and refined. It’s also one their most powerful scents I’ve used, and certainly one of the longest-lasting.
• Midnight Swim – water, air, and crisp greens
N/A – I haven’t tried Midnight Swim, which looks to be one of the newest fragrances. On paper, it sounds like an aquatic/green blend, which may mean that it smells a little like both Naval Diplomacy and Victory.
• Naval Diplomacy – refreshing ocean scent
3/5 – Naval Diplomacy is probably a crowd-pleaser since it sort of smells like a men’s aquatic cologne. It’s not bad — the scent is clean without smelling like soap — it just doesn’t strike me as anything special.
Note: Naval Diplomacy bars contain bits of oat kernel flour, giving the soap a sort of chunky texture.
• Productivity – fresh, energizing mint
5/5 – Productivity is another one of the company’s obvious best fragrances. It’s a fairly strong mint with something of a powdery note underneath — the softness reminds me of after-dinner mints. Great scent for the shower or for the kitchen.
Note: Productivity bars contain peppermint oil, providing a skin-tingling sensation, in addition to bits of oat kernel, giving the soap a chunky sort of texture.
• Victory – clean, fresh, grass
3/5 – Victory is a very green smell, coming off somewhere between fresh cut grass and seaweed. It’s an unusual scent, but one that feels surprisingly well-placed in the shower — almost like if you were bathing in a river instead of a tub.
Note: Victory bars contain bits of oat kernel meal, giving the soap a kind of chunky texture.
Final thoughts: By and large, Duke Cannon’s bar soaps are excellent as hand soap, face wash, shampoo, beard wash, shave soap, and body wash. Now that I’ve tried most of the lot, I’ll probably return to the Buffalo Trace, Bay Rum, and Productivity in the future. However, there’s one prevailing trend I’ve noticed with all of these soaps: The fragrances just don’t last very long. They mostly smell great when used, but almost none of them leave behind a scent that lasts more than a few minutes. I don’t consider that a bad thing; I enjoy the scent in the moment, then move on. But if you were hoping they’d keep you smelling fresh throughout the day, you’d be disappointed — I doubt even the strongest fragrances last more than an hour on anyone’s skin.
Chandler –
I’ve been using this soap for about a year now and I don’t think I’ll be switching to another brand anytime soon. The bars are big and beefy and the smell is unique and good. The bars also seem to last a lot longer than traditional soap bars. I.e., I shower daily and a bar lasts about 2 months. Can only recommend.
GWS –
Love the products, been using Duke Cannon for a few years now. Started with Naval Supremacy and have worked my way through most scents offered. As for this batch, all four are great choices, though Fresh Cut Pine and Campfire do smell remarkably similar, with Campfire just smelling like Fresh Cut Pine with a little bit of a smoky aroma. Personally, my favorite is Leaf and Leather, since it has such a robust scent. You can really smell the leather in it. The leaf refers to tobacco, which is subtle but does add to the complexity.
Now, there are no real negatives about using this product aside from how you use it. It’s recommended you buy the tactical scrubber that they sell to store and use the bar soap more efficiently, but there are a few things to consider.
1. Don’t hang the scrubber too close to the water source if you share it with others, as the bar of soap will become soft and malleable with too much moisture.
2. If you don’t have good bathroom ventilation, store the soap in a better location. That lingering moisture and heat will aid in the growth of bacteria as well as ruin the soap quicker. I hang it from a nail in my wall in my bedroom to keep it dry.
3. Once the bar depletes to a certain size, it won’t be easy to use it while it still remains in the pouch. When this occurs, I remove it from the pouch for lathering before putting it back in to scrub my body.
4. At some point, it won’t be fit for scrubbing at all while inside the pouch. At this point, you can either remove it and use it by hand or with a wash cloth, or just throw away that last little bit and start a new bar. I choose the latter, but when money is tight, maybe saving those little bits could keep you clean for a little longer until you can afford a new bar.
5. When switching bars, be sure to properly clean the pouch before refilling. I wash it in the shower until no more suds are present, then I pour boiling water over it to sanitize it before the new bar. You could probably just rub it a little under hot water to clean out the old bubbles, but I like a fresh start with no lingering smell from the last bar.
All that aside, great products from Duke Cannon, but as the title of this review states, they have a real branding issue. The whole schtick surrounding the brand is that it is a “manly men” kind of product, which is fine and all, but can quickly devolve into cringe the longer you look. Almost every product they sell has an excerpt on the box that describes the intent behind it.
For Leaf and Leather, my favorite soap, it says, “Duke Cannon would rather explore the Great Plains on horseback than navigate the parking lot of an outlet mall in a compact car. It’s in the great wide open, about 1000 miles away from the nearest food court, where a light breeze carries the scents of old leather mixed with fresh rolled tobacco leaves. Take a trip back in time, when a nice, masculine scent didn’t involve citrus fruits or flowers, and experience this American-made soap inspired by leaf and leather.” Starts fine, but quickly get’s goofy with the complaining about malls and compact cars. Goes back to reasonable, then devolves again with the whining about soaps smelling like citrus and flowers? Silly complaint from a brand that sells mint scented shampoo, but I digress.
For Campfire, it says, “Duke Cannon’s idea of a great night does not involve going to that fancy vegan juice bar downtown or binge-watching vampire dramas on the internet. No, Duke Cannon’s perfect night is under a starry sky, by the light of a glowing campfire, where stories are told without emojis and memories are made without selfies. Experience the rich scent of fresh cut hickory and celebrate a return to the basics with this large, American-made soap inspired by the burning wood of a blazing campfire.” Right off the bat, this description dives head first into cringe masculine power fantasy. The entire first sentence could be discarded, as it provides nothing of substance to the brand, but certainly dissuades many potential buyers. Emojis and selfies? No one cares how you feel about people half your age, let them enjoy what they want, but building your personality around your hatred for the youth is silly way to live.
Two examples should be enough, but the point stands. The way this brand carries itself sounds like literal anti-American propaganda. I read these excerpts and can’t help but picture your stereotypical boomer, out of touch with reality and making it a point that you know that they are aggressively straight. The type of man who will get violent if you dare to insinuate they would ever do anything with another man, joking or not. The kind of guy who will tell you that drinking anything but whiskey makes you a wimp, and if you drink your whiskey any way that isn’t neat? You lose your “man card”. We get it, you think America was at it’s best between WWII and Vietnam, and you unironically call anyone who votes differently than you a “commie”.
Listen, I can look past all that because the product is so good. I only want to make the point that sales could be better if Duke would move past being cartoonishly annoying. I would recommend this product to everyone I know, but as it stands, I’d be embarrassed. I don’t want my friends to think I’m the kinda guy whose only defining characteristic is having a beard and hating the majority of Americans for petty things like their hobbies or drink orders. Even just sending the product out in nondescript white packages with just the item name in black letters would be a better way to sell the product than this.
All that aside, these are good products that I will keep buying. If Duke ever needs someone to advise on future advertising, I come cheap. I’ll sell my ideas for a lifetime supply of Duke Cannon products. I only criticize because I hope the brand keeps growing.