Thread: Soap/Cream for dry skin?

Huge +1 on the Mitchell's Wool Fat always one of my favs
and recently I would add the Valobra Soft Almond soap to this list...
Becoming very enamored with this stuff

I usually use Colleen Hurley's soaps and creams from The Gentlemen's Quarter mostly and LUSH Celestial face moisturizing cream. LUSH Ambrosia is amazing stuff for moisturizing, but tends to stick to the blade a little.

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I strongly recommend C&E Sweet Almond Oil shaving cream, if you can find it. It's the most moisturizing shaving cream I've ever used.

I also get dry skin when the humidity drops and it gets colder. Putting a shaving oil as a pre shave and a skin food or moisturiser post shave is really effective

REN make men's really good pre and post shave products. They sound expensive but they go along way and they do what it says on the tin. They work. They protect your face during the shave and they put back the oils that the shave and the dry atmosphere remove.

Also Geo F Trumper make a post shave skin food which is just great for dry skin.

A less expensive and really very effective option is to put some Aloe Vera gel on your dried face and after your shave

Shaving creams are generally more oily than hard soaps and I agree that of the hard soaps, almond oil soaps is the least offensive on dry skin.

Originally Posted by TstebinsB

I strongly recommend C&E Sweet Almond Oil shaving cream, if you can find it. It's the most moisturizing shaving cream I've ever used.

You get my hearty agreement with this. In addition it has a great scent....... I can't imagine why it is so hard to find.

Rich,

I think they have taken it off their range.

That is a real shame because it is by far my favorite in their line.

Originally Posted by English

Rich,

I think they have taken it off their range.

The Sweet Almond was discontinued, and it is a sad sad day in shavingdom
I was hoarding my last half tube of it, trying to find some of it... Then out of the blue one of our members here sent me a tub of it, but I will be looking to score more....

Originally Posted by gssixgun

The Sweet Almond was discontinued, and it is a sad sad day in shavingdom
I was hoarding my last half tube of it, trying to find some of it... Then out of the blue one of our members here sent me a tub of it, but I will be looking to score more....

Oh I hate you. You lucky bas&#*d. I am nursing my last half a tube as if it was gold. Like that Seinfeld episode Is he sponge worthy? Well it's if I am going out to a special occasion I will use some.

Here is what I recently discovered. The cutlery shop where I buy my straight razors recommended using Vaseline Coco Butter Body Lotion as an after shave balm. It works great. I recently tried it as a shave cream and the experience was superb. It gave me one of the smoothest most confortable shaves I have experienced. It is an excellent skin lubricant and the razor just glides over my face without any discomfort. The lotion is also not expensive. Give it a try.