Thread: An experiment gone wrong

Most brands of hand soap don't usually give a very good shave. They dry out too fast and give the razor a "sticky" feel as they don't have much lubricant.

If you absolutely have to use a normal bath product give shampoo a try...maybe even with a small dash of conditioner.

In a pinch I have gotten a few pretty decent shaves using shampoo.

If you want to stay on the cheaper end, Proraso is the way to go. I believe it's superlather.com (one of the vendors in the vendors' section) that sells the giant tubs and tubes. I don't remember the exact price, but I know it's hard to beat.

(I did manage to beat it though. At Bath & Body works they had an insane sale where you could buy anything in the store and get any item under $10 free. Turns out they sell gift bags for $1 and tubes of Proraso for $9.something. I was only able to get two, since it was a one-per-person and I was with one other person.)

One of my workmates is a Thai in his mid twenties. He only needs to shave every couple of weeks.He says that's normal for Thai males. Maybe that's why there isn't much of a choice in shaving products.His father in Thailand works as a mechanic earning about fifty times less per month than his son in the UK doing the same job. I suppose that in Thailand there isn't a huge market for high end products, for shaving or anything else. Mind you, the way the UK economy is going maybe that'll be the same here soon.

I have used it many times and still do in a pinch: toothpaste. It is not cream by a long shot but it works better than hand soap.