Thread: vaseline in your shaving cream

Oh. I should probably say I'm far less witty than I think I am, before someone tells you and the secret gets out, I think it's best that it comes from me...

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Oh. I should probably say I'm far less witty than I think I am, before someone tells you and the secret gets out, I think it's best that it comes from me...

I should probably tell you that I am far less funny than I think I am, in fact I should probably carry around a card with a smiley on it for when I make a joke.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Did you use the copy shortcut for all those glycerins, or was it Stanley Kubrick style- he hand typed all the pages of "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy" in the shining, despite only the first few ever being seen in the movie. Oh I had better acknowledge that you are now the winner at glycerins too. :-)

Actually, if I remember correctly he made his secretary type the pages upon pages of 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'. It cost the poor woman months. And you know what the really bad part is? There are non-English, dubbed versions of this movie. Instead of just giving it a subtitle, Kubrick actually made his secretary type out those books in different languages as well.. Kubrick was a bit of a madman when it came to details. Like when he ordered the velvet on the war table to be green instead of the standard blue, so it looked more like a pokertable. Thing is, that was in a black and white movie, so you had no way of telling whether it was green. Or when Tom Cruise had to do a shot which consisted of nothing more than him walking through a door, they refilmed that shot 90 times.

Yes, I will have to try glycerine, I think. I like thick lathers.

Originally Posted by Satyr

Actually, if I remember correctly he made his secretary type the pages upon pages of 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'. It cost the poor woman months. And you know what the really bad part is? There are non-English, dubbed versions of this movie. Instead of just giving it a subtitle, Kubrick actually made his secretary type out those books in different languages as well.. Kubrick was a bit of a madman when it came to details. Like when he ordered the velvet on the war table to be green instead of the standard blue, so it looked more like a pokertable. Thing is, that was in a black and white movie, so you had no way of telling whether it was green. Or when Tom Cruise had to do a shot which consisted of nothing more than him walking through a door, they refilmed that shot 90 times.

Yes, I will have to try glycerine, I think. I like thick lathers.

Ok will defer to your knowledge on that one, I did see the doco about 15 yrs ago, I used to smoke then so my memory isn't what it could be :-)
Speaking of dubbing, mad max has an american English dub option on the DVD I have took me about a quarter of the movie to figure that out, fairly sure American and Australian are similar :-)

Originally Posted by Satyr

Actually, if I remember correctly he made his secretary type the pages upon pages of 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'. It cost the poor woman months. And you know what the really bad part is? There are non-English, dubbed versions of this movie. Instead of just giving it a subtitle, Kubrick actually made his secretary type out those books in different languages as well.. Kubrick was a bit of a madman when it came to details. Like when he ordered the velvet on the war table to be green instead of the standard blue, so it looked more like a pokertable. Thing is, that was in a black and white movie, so you had no way of telling whether it was green. Or when Tom Cruise had to do a shot which consisted of nothing more than him walking through a door, they refilmed that shot 90 times.

Yes, I will have to try glycerine, I think. I like thick lathers.

There's a documentary of him I think it might be called 'boxes' or something; have you seen it? he had all these photos in lots and lots of boxes. There was a particular doorway in a scene in Eyes Wide Shut, and he had like hundreds of photos of different doorways. apparently NONE of them (the doorways) were actually used for the movie!

I don't think you'll ever get that Vaseline out of your brush...I know it will cause permanent staining on clothes. Next time try Glycerine. About 5 drops in your bowl or on the brush will really supercharge the lather, making it hold water longer and making it thicker and slicker.

Originally Posted by Way1170060

I don't think you'll ever get that Vaseline out of your brush...I know it will cause permanent staining on clothes. Next time try Glycerine. About 5 drops in your bowl or on the brush will really supercharge the lather, making it hold water longer and making it thicker and slicker.

Yeah, use glycerin now, the Vaseline did help with razor burn, and sealing cuts/ weepers. That brush has Been retired to make way for my badger brush which will not meet Mr Vaseline. Though it did wash out of the old brush with shampoo.

Give that thing a shot that my barber uses when he shaves my head. He swears by it and it works really well on my noggin. I've never tried it on my face, but only because I don't have any vaseline.

You really want to use water soluble lubrication for shaving. Vaseline ( and many pre-shave oils) is not water soluble, making it difficult to wash off your blade or your face. This is why pure glycerin is so ubiquitous in shaving creams. I buy it by the gallon and use it as a pre-shave lubricant before applying my favorite cream. I pump about a quarter size in my palm and apply to my wet face. You can feel how slick it is. The pure vegetable grade is used as a sweetener - bonus taste when you get it close to your mouth.

Glycerin is more common for a variety of reasons ( most of which have been mentioned already), but there area number of pre shave products that use mineral oil, which isn't quite petroleum jelly, but is fairly close.