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10-31-2011, 07:54 AM #1
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Thanked: 485Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman
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10-31-2011, 08:26 AM #2
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Thanked: 2Welcome to SRP, I don't call mine cut throats or straight razors, they're just "razors", all the other kinds are "disposeable razors"!!
I picked up a little omega brush from my barber, but the large omega profesional seems to get ok press and its not dear, its probably my next purchase as the little one doesn't allow much room for big fingers(good for travel though) - i don't have brush acquisition disorder.
Ive got faulding cream in a tube, down here chemists and supermarkets have it along with palmolive tube, it does the job but one of my favourites is Taylor of old bond street, its thick and slick and very easy to use, Tabac soap works pretty well too, i got them both from ebay UK
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10-31-2011, 09:17 AM #3
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Thanked: 983Geez another Mick! Place is just crawling with blokes with top names.
I'm a fan of himage.com and Mensbiz.com myself, but if you want to try a decent cream (although scent is as good as could be) Gaia for men is available in the local Woolies and Coles. Fauldings is boxed up and simply labelled "Shave cream" with the lable fauldings either in small print or not mentioned at all. Depends on the stock (New or older). C&E saops are nice. Wahl is cheap and will do the job well, but again, scent is not worthy. Penyhaglions shave creams are (in my book) one of the best for scent and lather, but they are pricey here.
Brushes, I have a Comoy badger brush that has served me well for many years now. I have also tried the coles/woolies brushes and ended up tossing the mangy thing. I also have a Cyril Salter pure badger, but find it a little on the spineless side, but with a name like Cyril I suppose you would half suspect it to be a bit limp .
Oh yes, and I'm the Mick, Carl meant when he referred to strops.
Mick
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10-31-2011, 09:52 AM #4
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Thanked: 485Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman
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10-31-2011, 12:13 PM #5
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10-31-2011, 02:22 PM #6
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Thanked: 0Oh I totally am an obscene consumer, but my consumerism is based on buying quality products so they last a long time, therefore requiring less manufacturing and use of natural resources
I probably should have stated earlier on, to date, 95% of my shaving has been done using disposables.. Musgo Real must be a pretty good brand, it's completely sold out on the mensbiz website :S. What exactly is an Überlather? I read a thread that MickR had made saying he wasn't making them anymore due to obligations on the farm... Mick if you have one available I'd love a roo strop.
Thanks for the input, I think 60ish isn't too bad either, and I think a good quality brush is going to last longer, and do its job better, so the extra cash is worth it. And I will buy quality creams, I promise.
This actually looks pretty good, think I'll try it out, as well as a few others.
*penny drops* OOOooohh I DID see it then, great! The packaging was so plain on that, I would never had guessed.
Yep, as I said a few paragraphs prior, I saw your roo strops but thought you didn't have any left. If you do, I am interested.
I like the scents that Taylor of Old have, so I'm going to get the lime one and a few other things from 'Himage'. Glad to hear its a good performer too. I figure $17 AU from ebay UK shipped isn't that big a saving on $19 plus combined shipping. Thanks for the feedback.Last edited by ShaneVE; 10-31-2011 at 02:35 PM. Reason: because musgo
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11-01-2011, 08:58 AM #7
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Thanked: 485There's a great video on the Wikki about Überlather. Basically, it's simply a mixture of shaving soap, shaving cream and glycerin. You load the brush with soap (it's best if you put a little hot water on top of the soap while you have a shower), then place some shaving cream in a bowl, with a little bit of glycerin (size of a five cent piece) and mix. It makes a really nice mix that, in my opinion, is really nice. I think one needs to try an Über at least once. BTW, my comments about consumerism were just a joke of course (I do tend to make outrageous comments at times) and I completely understand about buying quality goods :-)
After watching the video you may think that an Überlather is complicated, but it's not really....Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman
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11-01-2011, 08:51 AM #8
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11-01-2011, 02:05 AM #9
Yes one of the twilight Zone soap/creams
"We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother, err, sister "
That Gaia stuff may not be ideal for all skin types. It contains Sodium hydroxymethylglycinate, a formaldehyde releasing preservative: Sodium hydroxymethylglycinate. [Dermatitis. 2010] - PubMed - NCBI“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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