Thread: Cream or soap?

What do you fine and brave gentlemen use on your dome? cream or soap? Me personally I use MFW and I'm lovin' it before discovering MWF I'd use TOBS unscented. Cheers!

P.S. Not brave enough to use a straight on the head so I use a DE instead.

I find headslick to be very effective and easy to use. anything I can just wipe on in the shower works for me. I wonder though if using a bar could work the same way? something to try at some stage.

Soap for me. I have never used a cream that equaled the consistent slickness and protection of a soap.

AoS or Truefitt&Hill creams are as slick as they come.

Originally Posted by Attila

Soap for me. I have never used a cream that equaled the consistent slickness and protection of a soap.

You use a straight or DE?

Originally Posted by Rachmaninov

What do you fine and brave gentlemen use on your dome? cream or soap? Me personally I use MFW and I'm lovin' it before discovering MWF I'd use TOBS unscented. Cheers!

P.S. Not brave enough to use a straight on the head so I use a DE instead.

My answer is "yes". I use them both. I still don't use a straight on the back of my head...but one day!

Whatever I have to hand. At the moment it is MdC sans fragrance soap. Over Christmas I took a tube of palmolive cream to my mother's. Personally I have found that the cream/soap distinction doesn't matter. It's mostly about how well whatever you use performs.

James.

Just shaved the head with the SR for the second time.. (took about an hour with about 7 days growth)

I used Floid's pre shave oil on the dome before i set up the scuttle.

I just got a new shaving cream called Prince from a company called Lush so i smeared that around as well. It doesn't lather.. you just spread it on. I shaved my neck with it yesterday and it works pretty well.. Saves time if you don't want to lather up with a brush.

I still made a lather (Taconic Shave Soap) so id have a hot brush in the scuttle and i used that to touch up as i went.

Overkill?? Nah.. i'm worth it.

BTW the G20 scuttle from Georgetown Pottery is awesome. I had a bowl i was trying to keep warm and it was a royal PITA. I have a small electric kettle in the bathroom. After i filled that thing with the boiling water my brush stayed hot for the entire shave.

To be honest, four drops of shave secret oil + two or three drops of almond oil + a smidge of coconut oil and a dollop of Bigalow's shave cream in the shower using the hottest setting in the shower has, has been working like a champ for the last five years or so using a safety razor, albeit, the last year or so the safety razor has a swivel and a ball.

The thing is—I'm absolutely ready to use a straight razor—and even have a straight razor all picked out, it'll need honing though. And that's the rub, I don't exactly know where to get that done, save for sending it out in the mail—then waiting for a couple of weeks.

It don't take two weeks , and until you've got enough experience it's worth waiting as long as it takes to have a properly honed razor, so just do it, now as to this safety razor, I've been using one for the better part of 45 years never seen one with a ball and swivel,,so I,m guessing your using the cartridge stuff. Your process of adding all this stuff to do a head shave would be simpler with just one lather and good razor, try a real safety razor (DE) and brush and lather and see how you like having a good sharp edge on your dome. Tc