Thread: I'm number one!

Originally Posted by churley

Good Afternoon Gents!

Its a beautiful sunny 80 degrees here today and I'm thinking I should start my tomato plants. Does anyone else here raise a garden, or maybe just a few tomatoes ?

Just a quick question.....I wanted to know if the amount of shaving cream in each bag is adequate for test purposes ?

XXWarm Regards, Colleen

No garden here in NYC We live in an apartment my sister down in DC however has grown tomatoes the last 2 years and boy do I enjoy fresh garden tomatoes. Thankfully I get along with my sister.. lol

Cream in the bag was enough for two shaves per bag.

Originally Posted by RichZ

Hey is everyone enjoying package #2.. I am.

Why sure. I always like trying new things... this is sorta like the wine tasting of shaving accouterments. Now if we only had cigars and a masseuse

Originally Posted by churley

Its a beautiful sunny 80 degrees here today and I'm thinking I should start my tomato plants. Does anyone else here raise a garden, or maybe just a few tomatoes ?

When I lived in Pennsylvania and New Jersey I always had a good sized vegetable garden. I have a very small one here in Arizona. In the Phoenix area you plant two gardens a year... one in late Winter and one in the Fall, but from early June to October it's too hot for much to grow well. The soil and water here is very alkaline, so many things you take for granted back East don't grow well here... honestly, I haven't tasted a decent tomato since I moved here. And, since we don't get very many cold nights in the winter, nothing that requires a significant number of winter-chill hours (eg, apples, peaches, pears, raspberries) bears much fruit here either.

Originally Posted by churley

Just a quick question.....I wanted to know if the amount of shaving cream in each bag is adequate for test purposes ?

Was plenty for me.

Originally Posted by churley

Just a quick question.....I wanted to know if the amount of shaving cream in each bag is adequate for test purposes ?

XXWarm Regards, Colleen

Maybe! If you get the cream/ratio down quickly, I think so. I noticed that #2 had what appears to be considerable more content than 1 and 3. I ran out of #1, but it appears I have an ample supply of #2.

RT

Originally Posted by rtaylor61

Maybe! If you get the cream/ratio down quickly, I think so. I noticed that #2 had what appears to be considerable more content than 1 and 3. I ran out of #1, but it appears I have an ample supply of #2.

RT

Yes indeed....the all important cream/water ratio

This remains one of the difficulties with the cream and it is two-fold. I have learned that there are two outside elements that affect the cream, one I am learning to modify and the other is out of my hands.

Part of the difficulty with the cream/water ratio, has to do with the hardness of the water where you live. I have drawn this conclusion over a period of time based on endless comments from Gents where in one state the cream works great, but in a different part of the country the cream only performs satisfactorily, and this is after some amount of experimenting with the water ratio.

This is actually a drawback from a "sell" point of view....unless a person is interested in the fact that there are no SLS ingredients in the cream, this is why the cream can behave so differently.

aannnnddd the other thing I've learned is that humidity or lack thereof plays a HUGE part when I formulate a batch....the liquid ratio in my batch is different by as much as 6 oz when the when the weather begins to change from cold to warm....and then warm to cold.

Sorda like how the oil companies say we have winter gasoline and summer gasoline.....

I appreciate your comments Gentlemen !!

XXWarm Regards, Colleen

Colleen,
You've got a PM of my review of package #2.

As to gardens...if my blisters could talk.

Actually, we've cut back dramatically on vegetable gardening since moving to Alabama. In Missouri, my vegetable garden was about 1000 square feet of bottomland soil. We grew enough vegetables to keep us in canned and frozen vegetables all year long. Here (thank goodness) the deer make it difficult to grow any vegetables at all without substantial fencing. It's cheaper (and easier) to visit the local farmers market each week. Even so, I still put in a few tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and a bunch of herbs each year. I've also got enough blueberries to freeze 20+ pounds (deer tend to leave vaccinium's and most herbs alone).

Cheers,
Ed

How's everyone coming with their testing of the 2nd package of samples? Ed posted he's completed and I'll be filing my report this weekend. How much longer do the rest of you need?

Also, please make sure you provide some specific details in rhe evals you send to Colleen... ie, specifically what you liked and what you didn't regarding fragrance, various aspects of the conditioning, etc. Just telling her it was "ok", or that you "didn't like it", etc. will not give her any clues on how to make the next round meet our needs better. I know... duh... but I had to say it since a couple of our testers filed little or no evaluations for the first set... we need the second set to go better.

Originally Posted by azjoe

How's everyone coming with their testing of the 2nd package of samples? Ed posted he's completed and I'll be filing my report this weekend. How much longer do the rest of you need?

Also, please make sure you provide some specific details in rhe evals you send to Colleen... ie, specifically what you liked and what you didn't regarding fragrance, various aspects of the conditioning, etc. Just telling her it was "ok", or that you "didn't like it", etc. will not give her any clues on how to make the next round meet our needs better. I know... duh... but I had to say it since a couple of our testers filed little or no evaluations for the first set... we need the second set to go better.

I'll finish the second bottle this weekend and be done with the third by the end of next week. Yeah, I'm slow!

RT

Originally Posted by azjoe

How's everyone coming with their testing of the 2nd package of samples? Ed posted he's completed and I'll be filing my report this weekend. How much longer do the rest of you need?

Also, please make sure you provide some specific details in rhe evals you send to Colleen... ie, specifically what you liked and what you didn't regarding fragrance, various aspects of the conditioning, etc. Just telling her it was "ok", or that you "didn't like it", etc. will not give her any clues on how to make the next round meet our needs better. I know... duh... but I had to say it since a couple of our testers filed little or no evaluations for the first set... we need the second set to go better.

Originally Posted by rtaylor61

I'll finish the second bottle this weekend and be done with the third by the end of next week. Yeah, I'm slow!

RT

Good Morning Gentlemen!

I had a very busy day yesterday and couldn't seem to squeeze in 5 minutes for a quick post, BUT.....this morning here I sit with my cup'a Joe and I have about 30 minutes before I have to get to work on filling all of my Pre-Orders

Joe I have to admit that I found your poll/questionaire to be "extraordinaire" ....... this is all soooooo helpful, and now for a girly note.

I think that everyone is beginning to see that testing can be a long process, it takes time. The entire process just takes time......I imagine often times what it must be like for these big companies with their laboratories, and all the latest technology, and the very expensive testing equipment they have....I can see them all running around in their white coats with the trusty clipboards in hand.....

And then...there would be the Soapmistress and you fine Gentlemen testers...affectionately dubbed some time ago as the "Razormen" the brave testers who go where no man has gone before.....

Each of you contribute in your own special way, which I think is the clue to giving us an edge over the fancy laboratories and their controlled studies. Ha, take that big business!!

So the Razormen go off on their quest of searching for a great aftershave, with Sgt. Joe directing the group's mission. Up front we always have RichZ who runs point out there ahead of everyone searching for any immediate dangers.....like "causes skin to peel from face"...LOL.

Then we have our middle group of Razormen who like to feel the situation out, and ponder over the notes in the Aftershaves...."like a fine Wine".... and you send excellent detailed reports back to camp, including notes on how your mission is affecting your loved ones at home. "This has been a HUGE eye opener".

And then..... we have Randy............

Randy brings up the rear. A most important position, as he tries to search out anything and everything that others have missed along the way. Going to the extremes of testing, trying to be sure that after your mission is complete....that the Men who come after;.... in search of SRP's labeled AS, will only have to experience an Aftershave that is cooling, soothing...and stops all weepers dead in their tracks.

So I raise my cup'a Joe to the Razormen of SRP....Here Here!

Soapmistress...now I gotta get to work !

I don't think I've ever been called "slow poke" quite so elegantly!

RT

Originally Posted by rtaylor61

I don't think I've ever been called "slow poke" quite so elegantly!

RT

True or me being called speedy in a very manly way