Old Spice Shaving Cream

I have to agree with the reviewer here and say that OS canned cream is a nightmare.

I've had the exact same experience - the cream is actually hard right out of the nozzle. It takes work to mold it onto the contours of your face and neck, and by then it has de-poofed into a thick mat-like substance that is about as useful as a backache for the shave. It absolutely clumps off your cheeks as you run the razor through it, leaving naked swaths like you never even applied cream at all. It has zero moisturizing qualities, zero fragrance, aside from a very muted ghost of a suggestion of some base note of Old Spice, and really, for .99 cents at CVS, the price is the only thing it has going for it. But by the time you're done using this cream, you'll need every penny of the money you saved on it for the healing process, which would certainly involve gallons of witch hazel, facials, and maybe even cosmetic surgery.

This stuff is made in Canada under license from Proctor and Gamble.

Stiff lather, works OK, any Old Spice scent is extremely faint and fades on contact with air.

This is a completely soulless product. If you were sentenced to a Hell of bland shaving, the devil would hand you a can of this stuff at the gate.

I hate that yacht logo. I hate that the Old Spice name has sunk from great old tallow shaving soap to this completely unremarkable canned foam.

On a deeper level that I can't fully understand, this stuff represents a whole lot that has gone wrong in the world since the days of Shulton Old Spice.

Depressing, bland, demoralizing.

It does dispense a blob of foam that grows and mutates as you watch...

This actually gave me a week of great, close shaves during a recent week at the beach. Not very slick, but does the job very nicely. Cost me 99 cents. Just fine in a pinch.

better than foamy

I still use creams in a can somewhat regularly. So when this came out a couple of years back, at an astounding .99 a can, I was all over it.

First, the smell is not really bad but it smells more like a cheap knock-off dollar store version of Old Spice. You really won't mistake the scent for anything out of the OS line- just poor use of the OS trademark IMHO. This could have been named Noxema Fresh Scent for what it's worth.

Anyway, it comes out puffy, no smooth lather like Gillette Foamy, not even as smooth as Barbasol. You put it on your face and it just sits there. No moisturizing, no lathering- it just falls off when you get near it with your blade. You would have better results lathering your face with a bar of Lever 2000 over what you'd get with OS Shave Cream.

I used it once and threw the bottle out. Last year for Christmas I received another can as a stocking stuffer by a well meaning friend. I figured I'd give it another shot, giving the previous can the benefit of the doubt in that maybe it was just a bad batch.

This new can was even worse! I sprayed half a can of propellant out before I saw cream. I used it to lather up and did a half a stroke with my DE before every bit that was on my neck just sort of fell off my face. Can went into the trash can.

Don't be suckered by the Old Spice logo. This .99 cent can costs .98 cents too much.

i love their High Endurance spray (when i can find it geez) but this cream was blah.

if youre short on cash i say go for it but for canned stuff ill take gillette or barasol.

I have some of both the regular and sensitive to use up before trying other creams.

After experimenting with some ARKO last week I've gone back to the Old Spice this week. The OS regular has lanolin, and offers a better cushion. After letting it soak into my skin for 20 seconds or so, it has a tingly, menthol-y feeling like Noxzema. So far, less irritation than with the ARKO.

You should try a can of Old Spice Sensitive with Aloe and Lanolin. It's quite good and smells nice too.

On its face, this is not very good. Try building a lather in bowl. It works fairly well then

You'd be better off buying the proper lather shaving cream in a tube.

Yes pickles

That'll teach me to be swayed by nostalgia. I was at CVS picking up injector blades and saw, for .99 cents a can (!), Old Spice Shaving Cream. Heck, I use OS deodorant, after-shave, this familiar little red can could be a nice "emergency" can o' cream, right?

Wrong. This product makes Gillette Foamy or Barbasol seem luxurious. It's pretty stiff, and doesn't seem to penetrate the skin at all, but, rather, lays on top of it. A swipe with the blade just removes it, and it falls off in the sink.

And despite the listing of "fragrance" in the ingredients, the only thing I could smell was the propellant that jettisoned this product from the can. I could not detect one iota of the CLASSIC OS fragrance.

I can only assume they produce this stuff to get you to advance to their fancier, more pricey creams.

What a wholly unsatisfying product.