Thread: Stopped by my local Art of Shaving store for the first time

Originally Posted by GeauxLSU

There's an AoS store here. The guys know nothing about shaving with a straight. I have their lavender cream and aftershave balm. It does lather well, but tends to burn my face.

The last time I was there, there was a decent selection of straights (Dovos and TIs) and DEs. I wanted another dozen barber towels. Theirs were $10 each! No way, not when I can get them online for $12 to $15 a dozen. But, if I wanted a TI razor, I'd go there in an instant. That's the only place around here that sells straights, and with TI's hit or miss quality, I'd only buy if I could see it first.

I'd be polishing their name off the thing though...lol

Pretty much the only thing I would get there is the shaving cream, or possibly the soap if they had some of the old tallow formulation still in stock. I've gotten their pre-shave oil and aftershave balm there before, but I've found alternatives for each that were more effective for me and less expensive.

Originally Posted by Taborcarn

Pretty much the only thing I would get there is the shaving cream, or possibly the soap if they had some of the old tallow formulation still in stock. I've gotten their pre-shave oil and aftershave balm there before, but I've found alternatives for each that were more effective for me and less expensive.

I feel the same. I really liked the shaving cream, but I just tried Shave Secret and found the same, if not better results than i had with their pre shave oil and I made my own after shave lotion with shea butter, a lil coconut oil, and sandalwood, kush, and myrrh EO's that I prefer over their AS balm.

Slightly off subject but along the same lines. Body shop is running a 40% sale. I stopped in to check out what they had. Got a tub of Maca Root shave cream and aftershave lotion. The cream lather was super easy to build from a micro amount on the brush. It was an epic fail with a straight razor. The soap made the razor want to dig in and had no glide what so ever. With a DE, it was fine. The after shave was nice but not as good as say, Nivia men care aftershave. Still find myself draw back to Proaso.