Say, couldn't I just get an extra bottle of my favorite cologne, (Adidas Dare,) and mix it with water or witch hazel and a little alcohol and have a great smelling AS?
I'm thinking of trying it.
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Say, couldn't I just get an extra bottle of my favorite cologne, (Adidas Dare,) and mix it with water or witch hazel and a little alcohol and have a great smelling AS?
I'm thinking of trying it.
Your best bet would be to use alcohol for the diluting agent. The problem with water or witch hazel is it will probably not mix with the cologne, and create a hazy and unclear mixture. Around 2 parts of alcohol to one part of cologne should be the ballpark for a splash, or one part each for aftershave.
Have fun, and let us know how it goes
Best of luck
Also, witch hazel has it's own scent which if unmasked doesn't always go good with other scents.
Just curious, but what kind of alcohol would you use?
Don't use rubbing alcohol!! It doesn't take much to stink the whole concoction up....trust me:)Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeSomebody
Well... I used one part isopropyl 92%, one part witch hazel, one part of my favorite cologne and a few drops of EVOO. Alcohol is an emulsifier, and it joins oils and waters. Oddly enough, when I added the EVOO, it sank and hovered in a ball about 2/3 of the way to the bottom!
Quickly recovering from that neat phenomenon, I gave it a shake and it all blended.
Upon using it after my very first complete shave, I realized that alcohol is mighty strong! :)
I poured a quarter of it out and added more witch hazel.
Since I had cut myself a few times, I decided to add three of those q-tip style styptic swabs' worth of styptic juice to the mix.
Let me say... it all burns like hell, but it stopped the bleeding pretty well and left a fine amount of EVOO on my skin and one of my favorite scents -Adidas Dare.
I smell good, and my face is still smooth after two hours. I think a little tinkering and I'll have a decent enough aftershave tonic. I may add some lidocaine jelly... it's scentless and has a numbing effect to counteract the alcohol!
I'll call it: Scott's Cooling Aftershave and Nerve Tonic. -Takes the anxiety out of straight razor shaving and doesn't smell like an old man! Ladies will swoon! You will look forward to shaving just so that you can feel this on your face afterward!
AS usually has denatured alcohol. That's grain alcohol which has been made Undrinkable with additives.
Use everclear from the liquor store.
Michael
Yeah... the next batch I make will be with denatured alcohol. It's cheap enough, and isn't so damned stingy to the nose! :)
You could also get an unscented AS balm, such as Truefitt & Hill Ultimate Comfort, and mix some of your cologne in with that. There is also an unscented type of Thayers witch hazel I do believe.
The witch hazel I used is unscented, no trace of it in there. The Lidocaine helps lol...
Update:
I added viscous lidocaine, (the kind used for pre-stitches and pre-anesthetic injection numbing,) and found that the jelly had nearly solidified inside the bottle. Ah well.... back to scratch.
I started new.
This time, I used Gosling's dark rum, witch hazel, my favorite cologne, a few drops of EVOO and exactly TWO drops of rosemary essential oil, (the kind that people use for aroma therapy,). About a 1:1:1 ratio on the rum, witch hazel and cologne.
The result is an after shave that starts off smelling like rum and rosemary, which are great together, and then leaves my face soft and smelling like my favorite cologne. My GF loved it. My brothers liked the smell, too.
I think if I add some liquid styptic, it'll be all I want out of an AS.
Not too bad!
Places that sell scent products for do it yourselfers sell a specially formulated denatured alcohol made just for that purpose. usually contains about 40%denatured.
As it happens... this rum has 40% alcohol! heheheheQuote:
Originally Posted by thebigspendur
( It leaves a nice rum smell too.)
I've just recently tried this concoction for a homemade bay rum aftershave. This might be the wrong thread to put this in, but I thought it was interesting. The only change I made was adding a couple of cloves and some pipe tobacco to the mix. http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthr...Rum-Aftershave
I have read that the tobacco can be dangerous to add since very small amounts of nicotine can be quite toxic when absorbed by the skin. Seems like it would be a nice scent though.
I've got a batch which is stewing at the moment: potato vodka, rum, cardamom, cinnamon, allspice, lime peel and some bay essential oil. It's been about ten days and smells about how I do when making holiday cookies after a few drinks. I'll probably cut it with unscented witch hazel before usage. Adding the styptic is interesting. Not sure if I want that on every application, though, but I am curious how the final product comes out.
Aw hell... feel free to add any ideas to this thread. I was just trying to make a relatively simple concoction, and succeeded. It smells good, and leaves my face smooth.
I like to read about other people's concoctions!