Originally Posted by
shooter74743
I believe the astroglide was added to their shave soap like some do with glycerin. It's not "needed", just one of those things that someone was experimenting with.
A shower is about all most of us use as a "pre-shave". You could also just use a hot wet towel like the barbers of the old days did. Most of us use an aftershave. Some use an alum block after the shave followed by an aftershave. That's the cool thing about our sport is that after the basics...you can experiment with all kinds of stuff.