Thread: brushless shave cream anyone?

Originally Posted by vthomlinson

i also get great shaves with dr. bronners liquid soap... i've used the almond scent for years and love it.. i does dry fast and you pretty much have to cake it on.. but it does do a damn fine job and it produces a dfs

as for now i'm saving my money for a puck of mwf and i also wish to finally try the bomb. i know for sure i want calypso and goodfellas... but also.. which scent is recommended for someone who enjoys almond?

The Bodega has a nice almond tone included with the cedar. For someone who dislikes cedar I really enjoy the bodega. Also you can pm al and ask for a custom fragrance.

Only ever tried one, hackett, and it was awful.

I have used brushless cream with a straight before, it's ok, but not the best.
Although, today I used it as a pre-shave and it was fantastic, lots of glide.

Oh, and Nightblade, the SRD Opus X (Tobacco scent) Is amazing.
I love the smell to it, sweet, but a little bit spicy.
Very interesting.

Originally Posted by Stubear

Just for fun last week, I tried a DE shave with the handsoap in the bathroom! I put a good dad in my hand, just like going to wash your hands, then rubbed it into my beard and went at it with the DE.

It was a suprisingly good shave actually, good and close and no pulling or irritation. The hand soap provided good glide and the only problem I encountered was a slight tendancy for the soap to dry out a bit towards the end of the shave.

It definately works in a pinch or if you're really pressed for time.

I first tried this about ten or fifteen years ago whilst using cartridges. I'd run out of foam-in-a-can so gave the handsoap a go (just applied with fingers, no brush) and promptly put several good slices down my face from far more glide than I'd ever experienced.
I took more care next time, and found it so much better than the canned crap that I used it daily up until a few months back when I started straight shaving.
Will give it a go with the straight once I've more experience. I've actually been tempted a few times, but the memory of the inch-and-a-half stripes I left on my face last time has caused prudence to win-out so far.



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Originally Posted by Nightblade

I,ve heard good things about MWF.Someday I'm gonna shell out the dough for some. I can only wonder as to how nice it must've been back when the Straight was king and all these kinds of products were commonplace. and probably cheap for their time. I wonder what was considered the generic blade back then as well ?

Not sure if it will put MWF (fantastic stuff) into your price range, but found a link to this place in another thread the other day:

Wingham Wool Work

...where you can get MWF refill pucks for about $6.55 USD a piece - with shipping on one puck running about $4.40... and on 3 pucks ~$7.95.

Even with shipping, still a fair bit less expensive than most other places - especially if you pick up 2-3 refill pucks instead of just one.

As for brushless shave cream, my wife got me a Lucky Tiger Organic kit (by Caswell-Massey) for Christmas that contained brushless cream, after shave tonic, face wash, and face moisturizer...



The shave cream works well both with and without a brush. Not quite on par with TOBS, Harris, etc. but pretty decent. Decent for traveling - bottle is a little big (about size of a deodorant stick) but still better than full-size tub of cream, and no need to pack a brush.

and how is the scent on the lucky tiger? i love their bayrum

im not sure if you have a lush soap shop in your area, but the shave creams the have are brushless also.

I havent tried them but i have heard of good things about them.

Originally Posted by Malacoda

Not sure if it will put MWF (fantastic stuff) into your price range, but found a link to this place in another thread the other day:

Wingham Wool Work

...where you can get MWF refill pucks for about $6.55 USD a piece - with shipping on one puck running about $4.40... and on 3 pucks ~$7.95.

Even with shipping, still a fair bit less expensive than most other places - especially if you pick up 2-3 refill pucks instead of just one.

i had seen this before and foolishly made the assumptionthey didn't ship to the states.

does shipping add a bit to the total.. or no?

Originally Posted by basil

im not sure if you have a lush soap shop in your area, but the shave creams the have are brushless also.

I havent tried them but i have heard of good things about them.

i have used the "king of the mods" hair product before and love it.. i hadn't thought about the shave creams.. they're probably a bit more pricy than i'd like.. how are the scents? i may be mistaken.. but i recall the scents being really odd.. things like peanut butter and other oddball scents.