Thread: Do you use a pre shave before your soap or cream?

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.

Originally Posted by barryflash2727

I wondering how many use a pre shave, weather it's an oil, Noxzema, or something else. I've only been wet shaving for a few months and done it both ways. Does the pre shave affect the soap or cream? Does anyone apply the pre shave and remove it before applying the soap or cream?

Also do you wet your face again after you lather in a bowl before applying the lather to your face. I'm trying to get down a routine that works. I seem to get a DFS to BBS no matter what I do. Thanks for your input.

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I found that after a hot shower, pre-shave is not necessary (but I'm using it anyway - just because I like it). 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.