Thread: A Blind Study? One Shaving Cream To Rule them All.

As i was going for my shave last night i noticed im going to have to buy some more Shaving Cream. But with whatb brand to go with? Everyone has there Go too shaving cream or are still trying every brand until they find that go to cream.
So here is what i was thinking. We take the top 10 brands (not worring about sents) Disturbute it at one of the Meets between 10 drifferent wet shavers just giving them enought for one shave per cream in a dime bag or some thing. Have one person to mark the bags 1 thur 10.They would have to agree to use the same brush,razor,pre-shave, and prep for each shave so we can remove some of those other factors.
Judged only on Texture,Latherability,Cushion,and Moisterising. 1-5 scale. Have the guys post there findings as they go and at the end of it reveal what creams they have been using.

It was just a idea that i thought would be cool. I also think it would be very helpful for our newer members.

Sounds like a good idea.

We have a Toronto area meet coming up in 3 weeks, so how do we do it?

I like the idea, and I'll volunteer my face for testing.

How do we chip in for this, and what brands do we use. It'll get expensive if someone wants to put Martin de Cadre in a dime bag!

This might work....

In the online flyfishing community we have fly swaps that are done by mail. Here's how it works.

Lets say we have 10 people interested in doing this. Each one prepares 10 doses of soap or cream in a small bag or plastic bottle and sends them to the swapmeister with a note telling him what the brand is. The swapmeister ends up with 10 sets of 10 doses. He then makes 10 sets with one of each in them and mails those out to each of the 10 participants. Each participant is responsible for supplying their 10 doses and enough money for return postage of the "variety" pack. The swapmeister is the organizer and keeper of the list.

After everyone involved has had a chance to use all 10 soaps and grade them, they send their results to the swapmeister and he publishes the results.

I would suggest that we use small ziploc bags that we can buy at very low prices. We can distribute 10 bags to every participant at the meet and go from there.

What do you think?

Ziploc bags would work great. i think because we are meeting we can just divy it out there we dont have to worry about mailing it out. And we should keep it as a unknown as to what your shaving with until everyone is completed with all the creams. Just need to get more guys on board. What should be the 10 different shaving creams be?

I'm not sure how practical this is, considering that the top shave creams are insanely expensive, with the best ones being discontinued at an alarming rate. As well, how are you going to compile a top 10 list?

Here, I'll narrow it down to the top 3 for you: Domenico Caraceni, Castle Forbes and Xpec.

Originally Posted by TrilliumLT

in a dime bag or some thing

Did someone say dime bag count me in

Originally Posted by Dllandry

Did someone say dime bag count me in

I was going to try smoking the menthol Proraso I have but I just couldn't get the darn thing to light

Originally Posted by joebehar

I was going to try smoking the menthol Proraso I have but I just couldn't get the darn thing to light

Have you tried making brownies with it?

This is a very interesting idea, but the scents might mess up the "double-blind" part. I know that even with my eyes closed I can tell proraso and Martin de candre apart from anything else. Just a thought

Also, it would be better to use experienced members so any inexperience making lather is removed.