The Zen Of Cuthroat, Sticky Icky!

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So I have shaved a couple of times since my trip to filli. Once with my Henckel friodur which was amazing and another with my restored Lakevile cutlery Army & Navy which was a terrific shave as well. Todays shave was with my TI sheffield another great shave from a great razor. This shave however started off very poorly through no fault of the razor.
A month or so back during a SCAD binge I ordered shaving cream & aftershave from a new company that I had seen advertised on SRP. I had not however seen anyone post about this particular brand and I should have given that some thought. It was advertised for shavers of all sorts and claimed that you would have to sharpen your razors less. I assumed, as I think most would, that Straight razor shaving falls into the all sorts category. Sadly I was wrong.
I began by squeezing out a nickel sized portion into my new & kick ass Dirty Bird Scuttle...Nothing, no lather what so ever. added a bit more still nothing. OK ill take that, I guess this is a gel not a cream as it states on the packaging. While I have not used anything gel like since I stopped using cartridges and started shaving with a straight, I still gave it the benefit of the doubt. It felt smooth enough going on but not nearly as smooth or satisfying as the warm lather I had been getting from various creams using my scuttle. With the first pass on the right side it was good enough but not impressive. On the second pass the cream/gel had become sticky and caused me to nic my ear. I began to continue with the pass but was forced to stop as the razor both sticked and skipped, not a good combination and uber dangerous as Im sure you all know.
The water in my scuttle was still very hot so I washed all the lame stuff off my face, grabbed one of my Truefitt & Hill samples and whipped up some warm lather. WTG, ATG then XTG done! Another great shave in the bag no thanks to a crappy product that is more suited towards Cartridge shavers and should be marketed as such. While I have not mentioned this product by name in this post your all welcome to PM me and I will share it with you so as to avoid a waste of time and money. I found the after shave just as disappointing it had an underwhelming scent to say the least. Again my T&H sample saved the day.
A lesson relearned ...Dont judge a book by its cover. Nice packaging and ingredients with a slick write up from a decent PR guy dont insure a great product.
My different AD's have me willing to try most products even once, so this is bound to happen and comes with the territory. As I did during my shave you got to wipe it off start new and move on. Good Shaving Gents!
P.S. the shaving cream in the attached pics are NOT, I repeat NOT the product I am referring to in my post

Just as well it wasn't sticky icky icky :p
Maybe try the gel in combination with soap a la uberlather. It could act differently .

Possibly but Im a firm believer that a product like that at that cost should need no adjustment from the consumer . It should work well right out of the box. Its like customizing your new car ...slapping some rims on it or adding a new paint job is cool but I should not have to put a new engine in it. The extra effort should be a choice not a necessity.

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Originally Posted by Omega1975

Possibly but Im a firm believer that a product like that at that cost should need no adjustment from the consumer . It should work well right out of the box. Its like customizing your new car ...slapping some rims on it or adding a new paint job is cool but I should not have to put a new engine in it. The extra effort should be a choice not a necessity.

I agree that it shouldn't be needed or required. But what if you experimented with it, adding various things to improve it and just happened to stumble upon something that resulted in the BEST LATHER EVER hands down? You would have discovered the Lost Dark Art of Uberlather.

True enough. I can appreciate that.