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Ok, I just stumbled upon this thread. I just discovered Cremo recently and really enjoy it. It makes a good lather for me, as long as I get the water right, like above it's easy to get too wet! I never considered trying it as a preshave. Now excuse my ignorance but you just start as normal and put some on the brush, build your lather and apply then go to another soap/cream and apply that over the first layer of Cremo?
Sorry just seems I'm doing things twice.
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The purposes of a pre-shave are to soften the beard and to increase lubrication (and also maybe to leave the skin moisturized).
This can be done with any cream/soap or with many oils.
I wash my face, leave it wet, spread a quarter-sized dab of Creamo on my face with my fingers, wait a 2-3 minutes, and then brush on a cream/soap that lathers better.
Sometimes for the final against the grain pass, I will rinse and reapply Creamo before lathering.
Not claiming this is the best or only way to do it. Trying new things is half the fun of shaving.
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pipeguy, I use Creamo as part of superlathering. I will prepare a dry brush after soaking it then load up my brush from the MWF with about half or three quarters of the amount I will usually load. Then i put a small amount of Creamo in my lathering bowl, say 1/8 of a measure teaspoon. After that I bring my loaded brush to the lathering bowl and work up a lather as usual. Primarily, the Creamo is used to improve the MWF's lathering and to add fragrance. Works great.
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I understand what a pre-shave is and again for me why use 2 different soaps/ creams to lather? Just use more of what you're going to use and let it sit on your face.
If I used a quarter size amount of Cremo I'd have enough lather to do a 5 pass shave! Maybe I'm lucky but Cremo lathers great for me, and using a dab the size of a nickle I can get a 3 pass shave no problems. I just received some oil I want to try for my pre-shave but just had never heard using Cremo as a preshave, this was the second time in a few days I heard someone use it that way.
Thanks..
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Now that makes more sense. At least using the term! Because that is exactly what will happen if I used the amount Ind. Raz 1 and you described. Now I need to figure out what other soap/cream I have that the 2 scents would work together. Thanks for cleaning that up.
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So, with much curiosity and impulsiveness I decided on the spur of the moment, after reading this thread, to dig out my neglected tube of Cremo and use it as a pre-shave. Result: very interesting. Did give a good base for my uber lather of the day (Aveeno Threaputic, Musco and a few drops of glycerin) and I had a nicely cushioned, very close shave. Final judgement reserved till after several more uses, but it looks promising. Will also try Kiss My Face as a pre-shave to see how that works. Still prefer current pre-shave of washing my face with an olive oil soap from Turkey and not rinsing it off.
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what ever works for you my friend,at 73 just started using a straight razor very slowly and found sometime that works terrific and smells great.Check this out,its reasonable;)Its call PRORASO, do a search and shop around for the cheapest price I use the pre-shave and sandlewood shaving cream which is very thick and will not dry on your skin.After this use the post-shaving cream for the pores-----I never use an alcohol base after shave it drys your skin big time.Also they have a pre-shave cream ----WOW---GIRLS LIKE IT:chapeau
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BTW, right now Cremo is offering a rebate for the price of the product (up to $9.00 per product). I picked up a tube at CVS for $7.95. Look for tubes with the hang tags on them.
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wow ,what web.site?Been trying to contact straight razors for an order and its impossible to order no one at home:gaah:two hours trying to log in everything a mess,finally got in cannot order, nothing opens on pay-pal:boohoo:
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wow--I found it but not at walgreens,found it at wal-mart of all places for $5.97 had a coupon but it was expired.Smells super cannot wait to try it.;)