Thread: Really lost now...

You know your budget, simply buy the best you can afford. and build on it.

Here in the uk, you can buy a synthetic brush and soap for less than £10 from asda.

all you need then is a razor and a strop. Yupu can build your collection from there, getting better products as you go along. itsd what i did and i`m quite happy with my set up.

You need a decent quality razor and strop. The rest doesn't need to be expensive. Plenty of reasonable shaving brushes that won't break the bank.
I'll probably get shot down in flames by the others, but many of the soaps, pre-shaves and aftershaves are very overpriced and overrated.

The basic make-up of most of the soaps and creams is very similar. I bought an inexpensive tube of Palmolive shaving cream at the supermarket, apart from the smell, it's performance is about the same as my expensive tub of Trumpers cream. In fact, it doesn't dry out quite so fast on the face.

People often ask how they can tell good from bad, to be honest, common sense works wonders.

BeBerlin wrote an excellent article on shopping as a beginner.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/begin...beginners.html