Thread: What is your Optimal Shave Kit?

Originally Posted by SteveTheCanuck

We all have an idea of what works for us and what we enjoy to shave with. I'd like to ask the following:
1) Are you a Beginner, Intermediate or High Experience User?
2) How many razors do you keep in active duty?
3) What are your favorite razors to have and use?
4) What Pre-shave items you use?
5) What soaps or creams are your go to?
6) What post-shave products do you use most?
7) If money was no object, what would you change?

I would classify myself as a beginner. I own and regularly use a Boker straight and a Lady Gillette DE. The straight is my favorite. My preshave routine consists of hot shower and hot towela. I use 2 creams and one soap regularly. C.O. Bigelow, Real Shave Co., and VDH Deluxe.
Post shave is cold towels and alcohol based AS. Old Spice most of all.
If money were no object? Well, it's nice to dream, but that'll never be. And there's not enough bandwidth on this site to carry the load of what I would do were that a reality.
I'm happy with the razors, soaps and creams I mentioned. I do have it in mind to get a Silvertip and maybe a horse hair brush, just for comparison to the VDH Boar I already have. But I could be happy using just it for the rest of my life, if it lasts that long. I also intend to get another decent straight and another DE, strictly for backup.
But I will be trying different soaps and creams, as there is so much out there, and most of them are fairly cheap, so why not?