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

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.