Not every time but sometimes I use Proraso green preshave cream and then apply hot towel on it. It feels really good.
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Not every time but sometimes I use Proraso green preshave cream and then apply hot towel on it. It feels really good.
No.
Over the years I found that it is not worth the effort, as long as you take the time to moisten your face and let the facial skin absorb the moisture.
All I use in the morning is wet sponge, or hotel washcloth when I am travelling.
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About as close as I come to a preshave, is I might put some hair conditioner on my face, after I wash my hair in the shower, and rinse off just before I get out.
Years ago I tried various preparations and routines for pre-shave and found they made little or no difference.
These days it's just clean my face apply soap and shave.
I'm with the "no" guys. I tried a few, including olive oil after a post on here somewhere long ago, but I've found that most pre-shave concoctions I've tried mess with my lather, even after I've rinsed well. More often then not, I just wet my face some (not a lot) and then build the lather on my face, adding water to the tips of a mostly dry brush as I go. It takes some work, but I get the slickest lather that way, and enough usually lingers on the brush to get a 2d pass, which s usually the most I do (since I don't work anywhere outside of home anymore).
If my shave is good enough for my wife to not to complain, that's good enough.
I found that after a hot shower, pre-shave is not necessary (but I'm using it anyway - just because I like it:p). Otherwise for me, glycerin-rich GFT skin food improves the shave feeling quite a lot. Just give it a couple of minutes to absorb - for example while you are soaking your brush (or blooming your hard triple-milled soap).
I use MWF for pre-shave face wash and post-alum face wash, whatever soap I use for lather (which is sometimes MWF as well).
Yes. I have tendencies towards red rashes on my skin (not matter which way I shave, so it isn't a SR problem). I put Trumper's Skin Food and, sometimes, Nivea Shave Balm and also a pre-shave oil on. I also mix Trumper's shaving cream with other ingredients to make it a very mild lather.
I use proraso white before each shave. I don't use it to add to the lather, I use it to open my pores and soften my whiskers. I just find I tend to get a closer shave when I use it. In my mind its because my pores are opened up and more of the hair is exposed. I could be completely wrong though.
