Thread: cream drying on my face

Getting the lather you want in the end is all that matters. At least now you have a little better idea on the water/cream ratio.There is a whole thread on glycerine (no doubt you've seen it by now) but I found mine at CVS. Don't know what you have down there other than kangaroos and koala bears

Originally Posted by RFP357

Getting the lather you want in the end is all that matters. At least now you have a little better idea on the water/cream ratio.There is a whole thread on glycerine (no doubt you've seen it by now) but I found mine at CVS. Don't know what you have down there other than kangaroos and koala bears

i'm getting a better idea of the water/cream ratio. today i made what seemed like a great lather, but when i applied it to my face with my brush, it quite literally - disappeared. i was very confused! taking a brush with seemingly good lather and watching it disappear was quite perplexing. i ditched the lather and made a new one but this time with some glycerine. i had found some at price line pharmacy, also chemist warehouse sells it but they had no stock (if you live in australia). the guy at price line asked me if i needed help. when i mentioned that i was looking for glycerine he then asked "what are you using it for?" i then replied "i'm making a bomb" his face almost fell off! i then reassured him it was for shaving and he seemed relieved hahaha. poor guy. but i guess i gave him a story to tell .

anyway, in short, i seemed to find that the glycerine helped a lot. the lather didn't dry, it was thick, shiny and applied very well. i haven't seen any comments or reviews on fauldings shave cream but i guess it does ok with a bit of glycerine. i'm actually waiting for my order of vostok cream it should be here this week, i can't wait to try it.

Originally Posted by elgeeno

i'm getting a better idea of the water/cream ratio. today i made what seemed like a great lather, but when i applied it to my face with my brush, it quite literally - disappeared. i was very confused! taking a brush with seemingly good lather and watching it disappear was quite perplexing. i ditched the lather and made a new one but this time with some glycerine. i had found some at price line pharmacy, also chemist warehouse sells it but they had no stock (if you live in australia). the guy at price line asked me if i needed help. when i mentioned that i was looking for glycerine he then asked "what are you using it for?" i then replied "i'm making a bomb" his face almost fell off! i then reassured him it was for shaving and he seemed relieved hahaha. poor guy. but i guess i gave him a story to tell .



anyway, in short, i seemed to find that the glycerine helped a lot. the lather didn't dry, it was thick, shiny and applied very well. i haven't seen any comments or reviews on fauldings shave cream but i guess it does ok with a bit of glycerine. i'm actually waiting for my order of vostok cream it should be here this week, i can't wait to try it.

Yeah i bet you got that pharmacists heart going. Yesterday I had the best shave since I started. I used probably a teaspoons worth of glycerine with my AOS shave cream. It turned out great almost no razor burn and my neck wasn't sensitive afterwards like it usually is. I'm hoping it was as simple as the extra glycerine. I'm going to do some experimenting so I can try and confirm it.

That's weird that it dried up so fast before you used the glycerine, maybe someone else will have some better insight on that.