Quote Originally Posted by ocelot27 View Post
You're not though. Just rediscovering something that worked well for hundreds of years. Tell me there's no state of the art technology being discussed in the honing forum? I have amassed (at my wife's ire) an extensive collection of old and new straights that I maintain myself. I love honing - it relaxes me and it's satisfying to put an edge on a piece of steel that blows away the best surgical blades. At the same time I'm amazed that Gillette can manufacture blades with just as good of an edge by the millions. I started shaving with a straight razor because I get a closer more comfortable shave than I did with disposables. Why can't you mix the new with the old? Why not use a product that was developed by a big Pharma company by scientists that know a lot more about skin than you do?

John
Not a problem using new tech gear for me. As you mention, with honing I use Naniwa homes and a most favourite shave brush is a Muhle synthetic silver tip. From sad experience I have not found anything to date that came out of a can that was good shaving cream. From that experience I would be shy of trying it again but then times change and Aveeno might just be an exception. That is mitigated by no real need to try it being very satisfied with the soaps and creams I already have. Basically for mr it is a slution to a none existent problem. For others with very sensitive skin it might be a solution to a problem.

Bob