Thread: Attention newbs!

Originally Posted by unit

Thanks guys.

I was using some great soap and really feel like I discovered how to get the most of it.

Recently I tried Proraso red and Bigelow. The Proraso red is some fantastic stuff (Bigelow is good too, might be better in the summer though) and it works really well for me. As I say, nothing paramount...it's perhaps one of the most used creams? But I never tried it because I thought I had the hot ticket.

Now...what is next?

Hey Unit,

I did the same thing! I guess great minds work alike . . . ahhh well that may be a bit of an over statement since I'm sure the old timers have already learned what we are just finding out.

Anyway, I found that if I load my brush up with my favorite soap and squeeze a half inch of Bigelow in the bowl, then lather it all together, that I get a nice lush lather that holds the moisture through out the whole pass.

AND, the added benefit for me was that my razor burn discomfort level that I had been experiencing in my problem areas, was much less.

Less pain = more fun shaving . . . whoo hooo!!

I don't plan on crossing over to the Dark Side of the Lather. I will stay with my Soap till Cream shows up. If I get it through a giveaway then maybe I will cross over. But I will have to figure out how to face lather with cream then.

Originally Posted by Zephyr

BTW: The Proraso red is fairly new, it was released this summer. I just got a couple tubes and being a soap guy it really impressed, it's one of the best creams I have tried.

There was a proraso red that was discontinued a few years ago that I read some favorable reviews about, but I never had the chance to try. I wonder if this is the same stuff you're talking about or something different

As to the thread topic, you don't know what you don't know!

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

There was a proraso red that was discontinued a few years ago that I read some favorable reviews about, but I never had the chance to try. I wonder if this is the same stuff you're talking about or something different

As to the thread topic, you don't know what you don't know!

I tried the red one for the first time this summer, so I wouldn't be able to say if it has changed since the last time it was offered.
The "new" one is a decent performing product though. Well worth a try.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

There was a proraso red that was discontinued a few years ago that I read some favorable reviews about, but I never had the chance to try. I wonder if this is the same stuff you're talking about or something different

As to the thread topic, you don't know what you don't know!

Oh, I didn't know there's been a red version before. Do you remember what scent it had?
The new one is Sandalwood, and like the new green series it's free of parabens (but probably added something else they will figure out is dangerous in a couple years )