I am new the the forum . Why use shaving soap or shaving cream?I saw on you tube a guy mixed both why? thank you
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I am new the the forum . Why use shaving soap or shaving cream?I saw on you tube a guy mixed both why? thank you
Welcome to SRP.
I'm a bit confused by your question. Do you mean to ask why we use shaving soaps/creams at all, or why use them instead of canned foam?
first.. welcome to the forums..
i'm surprised we have yet to make this a sticky as it's been discussed several times in the past...
basically.. people use different types of product for different reasons.. soap is said to provide more glide.. while creams are thought to provide more cushion... mixing the two would provide both..
simply experiment.. you'll find the right combo.
And as for canned gels/foams, stay the Hell away from them. They may work for a cartridge razor (and that's even questionable), but won't provide you with what you need for a good SR shave.
Thank you for the reply. You have been a great help.
not a problem.. once again.. welcome to straightrazorplace
And besides that...........Lard or butter doesn't work too well,especially in the summer .:roflmao:roflmao
but they sure is good eaten!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightblade
Just ask Kramer....Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightblade
YouTube - Best Of - the butter shave - Seinfeld
EDIT: Sorry folks, the link doesn't want to work, but I'm sure you can see where I was going with this....
Is he talking about "Uber Lather"?
Leave it to Kramer.....I just knew it !!:roflmao:roflmao
The personal taste first, when a person arrives to wetshaving the 1st benefit is the ability to customize the shave, you can choose a lot of creams or soaps or aftershaves or razors or brushes....In this way you can use soap or cream or both, it's up to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbriz
The answer is different among the people, it's like asking people about their preferences for drinking...beer, wine, water, cola, gin-tonic ....:gl:
:p Lynn was smart founding straightrazorplace.com, if he had started with shavingsoapandcreamplace.com he should had a lot of problems, I guess :rofl2:
Beef fat.. or Tallow is more commonly found in soaps and it gives a luxurious cushion, feel, shave and overall wonderful experience. Try Tabac, MWF, Palmolive stick or Cella. Maybe I am biased:shrug: but if I am given a puck full of beef fat and a boar brush I am in almost shave related orgasmic bliss:D
I wish you great shaves.
Hey MykelDR, maybe your last post is for the "Castle Forbes" reformulation thread?
:HJ: I'd love to see someone release a human fat-based shaving soap with the scent of human sweat. Can't you just see it now?
http://c0000745.cdn2.cloudfiles.rack..._club_soap.jpg
Okay, back to the soap vs cream original topic:
I find that, so far (12 shaves into this obsession) that I prefer a cream during the week because there's less muss & fuss. On a weekend shave, where I'm slowing down more and really enjoying the whole process, then I'll generally grab a soap. I'm not good enough with all this yet to discern differences in cushion or lubrication -- as long as I get a decent lather and a pleasant scent, then I'm good to go.
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Originally Posted by LAsoxfan
I'm not posting this little anecdote to try and deliberately irritate anyone.....
I had to travel from Lancashire to London the other week in a bit of a hurry, and forgot to pack any shaving tackle at all.
(Normally Dovo 986810 or FatBoy de + Droyt's Glycerin Soap or Palmolive stick+glycerin)
So I bought a 5-pack of twin-blade disposables in the hotel pharmacy, but all they had, no surprise, were tins of foam or gel.
I haven't bought either for about ten years. Now foam it seems can only be lightly smoothed on -- if I try to work it into the beard it just disappears. I find it to be utterly useless. Gels not much better but when worked in, they rip then break up.
Anyway, I picked a white tin with smart black lettering - and more importantly marked 50% off! - called King Of Shaves "Azor" and sloped off for the night.
Next morning, expecting the worst, I lathered up. And lathered. And lathered.
Thick, thick cushion, that I could work in with three fingers of each hand, could add hot water to, and it stayed extremely creamy -- no ripping at all. That was all from a squirt about the size of a fava bean.
Well, it's not been discarded in the hotel bathroom, it's come home with me.
Now, as quoted above, it's not really suitable for a straight razor at all, well not with me, because its too cushiony, I really need to keep a very accurate idea of exactly where that edge is, not guess it's somewhere underneath! So I can't gallop back to the Droyt's quick enough. However, with the FatBoy, it's proved to be a real marriage.