Thread: Da - BOMB cream?

It is the bomb. By far one excellent product. Don't delay if your thinking of buying this product. A +++ super lather smells great. Slick as can be. it's made by Alraz.

I couldn't agree more. I have Al's Bomb in Cedar and love it.

yup - makes shaving a new experience. i have bodega and tangiers. love both scents and the lather is by far superior to anything else i have tried. highly reccomended.

Originally Posted by CANUDIGIT

It is the bomb. By far one excellent product. Don't delay if your thinking of buying this product. A +++ super lather smells great. Slick as can be. it's made by Alraz.

Boy you said it! Good stuff

I have tried many different brands over the years and The Bomb is what I use almost exclusively now. I have been using the Saigon and Sweet Neroli and just PMed an order over this morning for the Calypso (Bay Rum) and Bodega (Cedar). I will be taking samples of this stuff to our Missouri Meeting in June for the guys to test, in case they haven't already. At some point I plan on having his whole stable of scents. Yup.
MIke

As always, different strokes... I have tried two, and they were very nice. For artisan products, they are indeed outstanding. That said, they are not the very best I have tried. And being a subscriber to the beginners-should-get-the-best-they-can in the pre shave preparation department, I would beg to differ with respect to this round-robin recommendation - albeit slightly.

Regards,
Robin

Yeah, different strokes is right. I will not use this thread as a window for promoting The Bomb, that would be uncharacteristic of me. However, as the maker, I would like to clarify a few things regarding its performance. When I send Bombs, there is a disclaimer about the performance of the samples, as they are meant only to showcase other scents and densities. The containers I use keep them fresh for a limited time. I shipped the vetiver sample that you reviewed (I cannot track down the ChillWhip) to hoglahoo on October 17, 2009. Unless either him or Slartibartfast, whom you received the samples from, put it in an airtight container, you reviewed a product that has been exposed to air for around 5 months. In spite of that, The Bomb received a very generous score of 85 points from you, the lowest The Bomb has ever received but a lot higher than other "artisan" products. Considering what I explained, I am very happy with the score and your kind comments, thank you. Robin, I think you did great though, you got a lot more that what you paid for ;-).

The other thing that I would like to add is that the categories in the reviews are incomplete in my opinion, there is no mention of "glide" (which you touched in your review) and volume of lather (economy); two categories where The Bomb surpasses Castle Forbes (I am yet to use Caraceni). I am not touching the conditioning or the closeness of the shave here because you used samples that were not optimized. These improvements come at the expense of a minimal loss in latherability but we are only talking seconds, if that. Out of the many Bombs I have shipped around the world, only one exploded in my hands ;-) and that was the result of me trying too hard to make a super lasting Bomb for a special friend.

The big question here is other than texture and other intangibles what would you like to see in The Bomb to make it a solid overall 10? but perhaps we should continue this by PM.

I would leave up to others to comment on whether The Bomb should be an option for newbies ...

Al raz.

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

As always, different strokes... I have tried two, and they were very nice. For artisan products, they are indeed outstanding. That said, they are not the very best I have tried. And being a subscriber to the beginners-should-get-the-best-they-can in the pre shave preparation department, I would beg to differ with respect to this round-robin recommendation - albeit slightly.

Regards,
Robin

I don't understand why being exposed to air would matter. I guess it would dry out the cream a bit, but can't that be made up for with some extra water when lathering? Does the stuff "go bad" or something? I remember when... I think it was shavingshop.com was selling some "dried" creams at a discount, and I tried some of it out. I found no ill effects to the cream's performance when comparing it directly to the "fresh" stuff.

Also, I'm not sure "economy' would make sense as a category for a review. As I see it, this would be the amount of lather per dollar, not the amount of lather per quantity of cream. I mean, if I have to use 5 times as much cream A as compared to cream B, and cream A costs 1/5 as much as cream B, I'd rate them the same on price (assuming they were equally good as well). As such, "economy" would be factored into "price."

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

As always, different strokes... I have tried two, and they were very nice. For artisan products, they are indeed outstanding. That said, they are not the very best I have tried. And being a subscriber to the beginners-should-get-the-best-they-can in the pre shave preparation department, I would beg to differ with respect to this round-robin recommendation - albeit slightly.

Regards,
Robin

That just does not make sense to me. Why make the best the enemy of the good, especially for people new to wet-shaving? Are you honestly saying that a beginner should spend rather large (and in some cases superfluous sums of money on a product the quality of which they have no means of appreciating? By that rationale, a new driver should learn to operate a clutch on a Ferrari, or a toddler should learn to read by starting with Shakespeare or Goethe.

If I were a beginner, I doubt your advice would encourage me. Rather, it would make me think straight-shaving is an elite and well to-do club whose ranks were not open to me. Yet is not the point precisely the opposite?

My apologies if I diverted the thread needlessly.

Originally Posted by Gldbird1

By that rationale, a new driver should learn to operate a clutch on a Ferrari, or a toddler should learn to read by starting with Shakespeare or Goethe.

You can't ruin cream as you would a car, and it's easier to produce good lather from better products so your second analogy doesn't relate (to me it seems backwards, actually). Using the best products possible makes learning to shave easier, so yes, I agree that it is worth it to get the best you can in order to minimize frustrations and ease the learning curve as much as possible.