Should i buy it or not? Pros and cons...Advice needed, please.
500 ml Proraso cream!!
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I'd go for it. It's a great shaving cream and readily available (well, here at least, I'm not sure about in Portugal) and cheap too. Makes a great everyday go-to cream if you are on a budget.
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The cream will be the same as the regular 150 ml green metalic tube?
As far as I know Proraso only makes one shaving cream, since they discontinued the Red Tube.
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I thought so too...Do you think the cream will dry or loose their qualities after the tube being opened and closed so many times?
Probably not, as long as you close it before you put it away.
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It makes sense!! Opening 1 mn a day will not affect the cream, for sure.
If you never used it I might recommend trying the 150ml first. The 150ml will get you going for a while. If you love the product and use it very frequently in your rotation then the 500ml is what you need, I guess.
I'm half way through my 150ml without any problems. I use it frequently as I broke the cap two months ago. If I leave on the counter without using it for more than 2 days, it starts to dry. Otherwise, great product, weak caps!
Last thing, there's menthol in there and in a good quantity (green tube), unless you don't like menthol it should be good.
I'm half way through my 150ml without any problems. I use it frequently as I broke the cap two months ago. If I leave on the counter without using it for more than 2 days, it starts to dry. Otherwise, great product, weak caps!
Last thing, there's menthol in there and in a good quantity (green tube), unless you don't like menthol it should be good.
lamina: are you buying the cream locally? The only place I know that sells this cream is an online store in Spain.
Some guy on here posted an SOTD pick where he took his Proraso out of the tube and put it into a wooden bowl. He said it became like a hard cream then.
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Start spreading the word, i'm...no that's other song!!
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Did it work fine when he lathered it up? I have an empty wooden soap bowl that I'd like to find a purpose for.
Lamina,
Sure! If you're planning on shaving the faces of the entire army of Madagascar!
Sure! If you're planning on shaving the faces of the entire army of Madagascar!
I use it frequently as I broke the cap two months ago. great product, weak caps!
Is this a common issue? That happened to me too!
I guess it is... Or we both got weak caps...
Or we are very vigorous with our cream.
Oh my that sounds dirty.
You should try a smaller one or try to get a sample first. I like Proraso, but some find it irritating or do not like the smell.
Actually proraso use to make 5 different creams,
Red tube, (wheat germ)
Green tube / Green tub (standart mentol)
White tub (Green tea)
Shaving gel
and the least popular canned goo, which is basicly gas lathered green tube proraso
as for the tub/tube debate, in prorasos case i think that they are both the same with the exception that the tub cream is a bit denser, making it a bit harder and is why people mistake it for a soap, i assure you, if you stick your finger in it, you will find its quite soft and far from the density that a soap usualy has, i would clasify it as a "dense cream", there are denser creams like AdP which arent exactly soap,
now, a the 500mL tube from proraso, well, if its all you use and you think you can finish it, go ahead, personaly, since i have a regular rotation, i find tubes of that volume somewhat wasteful,
Red tube, (wheat germ)
Green tube / Green tub (standart mentol)
White tub (Green tea)
Shaving gel
and the least popular canned goo, which is basicly gas lathered green tube proraso
as for the tub/tube debate, in prorasos case i think that they are both the same with the exception that the tub cream is a bit denser, making it a bit harder and is why people mistake it for a soap, i assure you, if you stick your finger in it, you will find its quite soft and far from the density that a soap usualy has, i would clasify it as a "dense cream", there are denser creams like AdP which arent exactly soap,
now, a the 500mL tube from proraso, well, if its all you use and you think you can finish it, go ahead, personaly, since i have a regular rotation, i find tubes of that volume somewhat wasteful,
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I see...i never found the red one, it seems it was discontinued.
I was wondering how long it will last, on a daily basis use?
I was wondering how long it will last, on a daily basis use?
You are very lucky sir!
That could probably be the best shaving store in Portugal.
Two things: is IK=Institut Karite and where is that fine store ?
