What is the worst Shaving soap or cream that you have used? How did you get it?:rant:
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What is the worst Shaving soap or cream that you have used? How did you get it?:rant:
I've been lucky and not had any duds. I read lots of posts before buying anything. When in doubt, ask here first ;)
I've heard lots of people complain about Burts Bees soap. Smells good, won't lather for anything.
Worst cream so far is the just discontinued L'Occitane. It smells nice, but the lather is kinda thin and not very lubricating. I'm able to use it by adding a small bit of propylene glycol to the mug before working up a lather. For the same eight bucks I paid, two tubes of Palmolive lathering cream would be an order of magnitude better.
Wayne
Did they in fact discontinue the shave cream?
I thought perhaps they had just reformulated it.
John P.
yea the burts bees is the pits. You can lather for 10 minutes and get just this thin lather that dries up on your face before you can even pick up the razor and begin shaving.
For me it was the three T's. I tried creams from all three and I did't care for any of them.
Three T's ???
Taylors, Trumpers & Truefit?
X
I got a free sample of Zirh shaving cream. Not quite worth what I paid for it!
Randy
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Originally Posted by xman
yup thats it or thems it
I asked because I have used 2 of the T's with really good results. Taylor and Truefitt. What didn't you like about them?
The burn. I never thought that I had overly sensitive skin but those creams burn my face. Taylor and Trumper burn to the point of not being able to make it through a second pass. Durning the first lather it's just a tingle, but the second lather is donwright painful. T&H is a little better, but still not my idea of good time.
JohnP:
That's what I heard. They 'reformulated' it. No feedback on the new stuff, but it can't be much worse. I've had really good shaves with Musgo, Palmolive, Trumper's, and Taylor's creams. I personally will not buy any L'Occitane again when there are so many others I have that do a good job.
Wayne
Just as I suspected.
I recently tried out a sample (I told the lady it was crap and I'd tried it before, but she INSISTED...) and was actually quite surprised when it actually gave me a decent lather and a respectable shave.
The tubes I'd bought of it previously (the old formulation?) at a very high price, were hideous-no matter how much cream I used, it would just "dissolve" and absorb into the brush, never to be seen again, no lather, nothing. Just a faint shea butter smell. Not so the stuff in the sample. If it was cheaper I might would risk buying a tube to see if it was a lot better or not.
John P.
Dick,
Wow they burned you. I haven't had that problem hense the difference of opinion. They did put up a good lather though. :hmmm:
Until a month ago, or so, all of my shaving stuff was unscented so it might have something to do with that.
Well today I found my worst shaving cream. It was a sample of Anthony's I got from Saphora. I would have gotten a better lather from Dove soap. A real disappointment. Thank God I didn't spend money on it.:nono:
Rich,
The best financial move Sephora could make is to STOP giving away free samples. I was in the local store looking at pre-shave oils and was about to drop $18 on ione when the young cleark offered a free sample. Took it home, tried it out and have never gone back to Sephora again <g>
I think they need to stick with womans cosmetics instead. I am sure the mens stuff is there in hope of eaking a few dollars out of us while we wait for out wives, daughter and girlfriends (not all on the same visit of course <g>).
Tony
Tony,
I think you are right. I was interested in trying this shaving cream and the clerk gave me 2 samples of it and the pre shave oil. Boy what crap. The sample pack was 3 times the size I got from Truefitt & Hill and I was thinking boy I've got a number of days from this. I got three days from the Truefitt sample so maybe a week or more. Well the lather was so poor I had to use most of the package to just finish the shave. I threw the second sample away. The oil was also a waste. Should have known better than to shop in a womans store. :D