Hello gents,
As SWMBO and I cleaned our out closet, there were more than a few comments about the amount of shaving products that amassed in the early days of my wet shaving career. Last time I was in India for work, my colleagues surprised me on my last day in the office and gave me a bag filled to the brim with Indian creams (after I had gone and gotten shaves each day from a local recommended barber and talked about my love for traditional shaves.)
Originally I had planned on making 2016 the year of using creams, but we moved in September and I decided to use up some of my heavier soaps. I am worrying about the creams longevity, so that, coupled with the comments from SWMBO confirmed that 2017 is the year to go through my stash!
This will be where I document my journey for myself. Hopefully this will be useful for some people as I work my way through some common (and some uncommon) shave creams. I am exclusively a face latherer, and use synthetics about 95% of the time. My standard morning shave before work is a quick one pass plus touch ups that, with good product, results in a DFS.
As a dedicated 3017-er, I tend to weigh my products before, during, and at the end of their lives to document the average usage and price per shave. I plan to continue that with creams as well.
Here is the starting stash of creams :
Up first will be one of the few non-Indian creams, a partially used tube of Palmolive picked up in the U.K. a few years ago. I'm already very familiar with this cream - it is a great cream that seems to have a very wide water sweet spot. It doesn't take any special attention to hydration or product quantity for me to get a super thick, creamy, yogurty lather. Unfortunately I don't know the starting weight of this tube, so can't do g/shave calculations, but it is a great benchmark to measure future creams against.
As SWMBO and I cleaned our out closet, there were more than a few comments about the amount of shaving products that amassed in the early days of my wet shaving career. Last time I was in India for work, my colleagues surprised me on my last day in the office and gave me a bag filled to the brim with Indian creams (after I had gone and gotten shaves each day from a local recommended barber and talked about my love for traditional shaves.)
Originally I had planned on making 2016 the year of using creams, but we moved in September and I decided to use up some of my heavier soaps. I am worrying about the creams longevity, so that, coupled with the comments from SWMBO confirmed that 2017 is the year to go through my stash!
This will be where I document my journey for myself. Hopefully this will be useful for some people as I work my way through some common (and some uncommon) shave creams. I am exclusively a face latherer, and use synthetics about 95% of the time. My standard morning shave before work is a quick one pass plus touch ups that, with good product, results in a DFS.
As a dedicated 3017-er, I tend to weigh my products before, during, and at the end of their lives to document the average usage and price per shave. I plan to continue that with creams as well.
Here is the starting stash of creams :
Up first will be one of the few non-Indian creams, a partially used tube of Palmolive picked up in the U.K. a few years ago. I'm already very familiar with this cream - it is a great cream that seems to have a very wide water sweet spot. It doesn't take any special attention to hydration or product quantity for me to get a super thick, creamy, yogurty lather. Unfortunately I don't know the starting weight of this tube, so can't do g/shave calculations, but it is a great benchmark to measure future creams against.
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