Item Description
I got this when I first started DE shaving. I had my bride take a whiff. The wife was repulsed, said it reminded her of her Granddad, and it had to go! I fished it out of the trash when she wasn't looking and promptly forgot about it.
Thought about it again when I had a rough shave weeks later. On went the Afta. It was soothing, after some mild initial burn, and the irritation on my neck went away. There was something to this drugstore stuff.
It's pretty goopy, certainly not a splash, and the first impression I got on application that it was greasy and that I'd regret putting it on. The greasy feeling faded quickly, and it wasn't noticeable to the touch after a couple minutes. The scent, love it or hate it, fades in about an hour or less on me. A little goes a long way, and when I do use it it usually goes only on the neck.
If you like natural stuff, look elsewhere. The ingredients read like a chemistry textbook, with the first two being water and alcohol. That PPG-2 Myristyl Ether Propionate sounds mysterious, and the Diazolidinyl Urea just doesn't sound good at all. Maybe it's best not to read the ingredients.
Surprisingly, the wife has decided she doesn't despise the smell, she merely dislikes it. Oh, well.
I'm not an Afta fanatic, and I have since acquired some other balms that I reach for first.
Every once in awhile, however, I find myself putting on the Afta. Maybe it's the goofy name, maybe it's the, er, nostalgia of the scent, maybe it's because I can still hear the little "By Mennen!" jingle in my mind when I see it, or maybe it's because it does work as a balm, afta all.
I'm a little curious as to why this classic hasn't had a review yet, and I suspect that Afta has a reputation in the wet shaving world akin to the girl in school who was a hard on the eyes but easy otherwise. It's not something you'd brag about, but by golly, it's there.
Thought about it again when I had a rough shave weeks later. On went the Afta. It was soothing, after some mild initial burn, and the irritation on my neck went away. There was something to this drugstore stuff.
It's pretty goopy, certainly not a splash, and the first impression I got on application that it was greasy and that I'd regret putting it on. The greasy feeling faded quickly, and it wasn't noticeable to the touch after a couple minutes. The scent, love it or hate it, fades in about an hour or less on me. A little goes a long way, and when I do use it it usually goes only on the neck.
If you like natural stuff, look elsewhere. The ingredients read like a chemistry textbook, with the first two being water and alcohol. That PPG-2 Myristyl Ether Propionate sounds mysterious, and the Diazolidinyl Urea just doesn't sound good at all. Maybe it's best not to read the ingredients.
Surprisingly, the wife has decided she doesn't despise the smell, she merely dislikes it. Oh, well.
I'm not an Afta fanatic, and I have since acquired some other balms that I reach for first.
Every once in awhile, however, I find myself putting on the Afta. Maybe it's the goofy name, maybe it's the, er, nostalgia of the scent, maybe it's because I can still hear the little "By Mennen!" jingle in my mind when I see it, or maybe it's because it does work as a balm, afta all.
I'm a little curious as to why this classic hasn't had a review yet, and I suspect that Afta has a reputation in the wet shaving world akin to the girl in school who was a hard on the eyes but easy otherwise. It's not something you'd brag about, but by golly, it's there.
