Thread: Show us your Supermarket Special

I used to hate shaving.

I used to have a Mach 3.

And think it was pretty good.

I used to buy whatever was on the supermarket shelf. Usually a gel or foam, and a balm.


Now I really enjoy shaving. I no longer use a Mach3… But I tend to look at shaving stores online and wistfully think about what next cream or soap to buy. I kinda miss the simple supermarket stuff.


So show us your cheap, easy to find, big brand products! I'm a bit partial to good old Fauldings

All my soaps and creams are (or were) easily available in supermarkets or drugstores around me:

-Crabtree & Evelyn Sandalwood soap

-Palmolive Classic cream

-Proraso green

-Speick cream

-Tabac cream

-Tabac soap

-Wilkinson black puck (off the market, replaced by blue)

-Williams sensitive cream (off the market, not replaced I think) - it smells like a diluted Speick

You have much classier supermarkets in Germany than we do in Australia I see!!

Originally Posted by nonick

You have much classier supermarkets in Germany than we do in Australia I see!!

Classier than in Canada too.

Bob

Almost all American supermarkets only care the canned crap and multi-bladed pieces of junk. Not even a puck of Williams to be found there. There are, tho, a few discount chains that care Williams and Nivea Sensitive AS Balm. Mail order is the order of the day as specialty shops are few and far between. Big cities might have brick and mortar specialty stores.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Almost all American supermarkets only care the canned crap and multi-bladed pieces of junk. Not even a puck of Williams to be found there. There are, tho, a few discount chains that care Williams and Nivea Sensitive AS Balm. Mail order is the order of the day as specialty shops are few and far between. Big cities might have brick and mortar specialty stores.

Hey Razofeld, I like you live in Oregon. Walmart is carrying a few like Niva and some new Dove for men products. You also have anew store sort of close to you in Washington Square Mall, "the Art of Shaving" is now open as well as the Asian market in Beaverton had a few last time I was there.

Agree with Razorfeld, we only have Williams, VDH, and Real shaving cream (good stuff the R.S anyway) and the rest is pressurized cans like Barbasol, Colgate, Nivea, Gillette....
You really have to look for the Real shaving cream to find it.

Originally Posted by nonick

I used to hate shaving.

I used to have a March 3.

And think it was pretty good.

I still do... but only once-a-year.

Q: What month does a soldier hate most?
A: A long March!

Even Williams puck soap is getting hard to find around here. Thank goodness for Amazon.

I have found Williams at a Walgreens and VDH premium and luxury soaps at Walmart. I really like the VDH luxury so once they started stocking that I had to grab a couple pucks incase they stop selling it. Anything else I have to order. Used to have a Bath and Bodyworks that sold Proraso, but not anymore.