made a trade for a tube of FAULDING SHAVE cream from australia.manufactured by sybion co. of australia....nice vintage looking tube,made from good material and sporting a first class flip top cap....nice manly aroma..the first odd thing I noticed about this cream was that it looked more like hand cream as it came out of the spout...it did look thick however..I squeezed a generous dollop of faulding cream into a porous pottery bowl,and in a few swirls of the vie-long silvertip,a big bulb of lather appeared..the lather was loaded with big bubbles !,I use a porous bowl all the time,and I love the aeration it gives,but this lather was very very bubbly...applied to the face,the cream thins out and seperates into curdled "splotches" of thin watery cream...the foam was so weak I could hardly describe it as "lather"...the tube states that its formula contains moisturisers,and it must,otherwise I could have never made it through this shave...the glide was bad,ROUGH, and I believe the saving grace to this shave was the quality of the russian nacet blade and an old reliable tech razor....in the last two photos you can see the vie-long is exhausted,nothing left at all,and dry as a bone...I finished up with a generous splash of humphreys to ease the pain,and a few minutes later a nice cold shot of bulgaria cologne.....faulding = failure
AWFUL from AUSTRALIA
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I'm not a fan of Fauldings.
I'd say use less water, I'm not a fan of Faulding either but I can get a decent lather out of it.
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Judging by those pics I'd say use no water.
LUC ! I think scott is correct.....I will try another shave with a triple size dollop,just to see if it normalizes the lather....more water would thin it out to an unusable condition....this is why I always try to get the first shave from any cream with an exact ,or close to exact,amount of cream...this gives me a guideline....
I've used a couple tubes of Faulding's over the past year. I like it and found it lathers well. I used a 15mm length. I guess that's much bigger than the traditional 'pea-sized' amount. Still, it's so cheap you can afford to lash out.
Firstly, I agree that its not "the best" product out their - but its quite ok too.
I offer the following for you to chew over.
Faulding "SHAVE" is one of only 3 main "traditional" type shaving products that are widely distributed in Sydney supermarkets. The other two being the Palmolive shave stick and Palmolive shave cream.
I agree that both the Palmolive products are better than the Faulding.
When I used it I found you needed a generous amount of cream....remember this product sells for AU$2.25 (say US $1.75)per tube at my supermarket so its definately not a top of the line product - in fact I doubt there are many shave creams in the world cheaper than this stuff so any judgement should be in that perspective.
Try using a bit more cream and a smaller brush.
Not many of its user base would have such a nice big brush like yours and maybe that is where some of the cream is staying (along with the pores in your bowl). I've got a hunch that most of its users are just using the ultimate working mans brush - their fingers so most of the product stays on the face.
This is a working mans traditional shave product so don't expect Proraso type performance at a sixth of the price (Proraso cream sells for $14.95 here when you can find it).
Cheers
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I offer the following for you to chew over.
Faulding "SHAVE" is one of only 3 main "traditional" type shaving products that are widely distributed in Sydney supermarkets. The other two being the Palmolive shave stick and Palmolive shave cream.
I agree that both the Palmolive products are better than the Faulding.
When I used it I found you needed a generous amount of cream....remember this product sells for AU$2.25 (say US $1.75)per tube at my supermarket so its definately not a top of the line product - in fact I doubt there are many shave creams in the world cheaper than this stuff so any judgement should be in that perspective.
Try using a bit more cream and a smaller brush.
Not many of its user base would have such a nice big brush like yours and maybe that is where some of the cream is staying (along with the pores in your bowl). I've got a hunch that most of its users are just using the ultimate working mans brush - their fingers so most of the product stays on the face.
This is a working mans traditional shave product so don't expect Proraso type performance at a sixth of the price (Proraso cream sells for $14.95 here when you can find it).
Cheers
Gateway
From the name of the post I was expecting to find a thread about Haggas. For some reason the term sheep awful has stuck in my head for years after researching what its made of.
Good to see you use Dutch Cologne.
I only tried it once but had no issues with lather. Currently using a Corelle bowl for lathering, seemed to work fine; nothing spectacular but none of the issues you experienced.
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OK !! I will give it another shot ! I will use a much healthier size dollop of the cream,and I actually went back and looked at the label to make sure this is not a brushless cream...it does say "use with brush"...and yes,I do realize it is an economy tube,I do like the scent and the packaging...I will try it with a smaller,firmer brush and smooth mug...we shall see...if so many of you are getting good shaves with fauldings ,it must be me,so I am happy to try it again...
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They're holding at the moment, I'll get to them this week. Any recommendation on which to try first? Today was Proraso shave.
It must sell, it has been around for ever. I actually think I started shaving with Fauldings. It was a long time ago, but as I recall, I didn't even use a brush. I think I just smooshed it all over my face with my hands. Maybe try that.
Everyone probably saw it already but I feel oblige to post it again...
at 40 seconds...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_TB6onHVE[/youtube]
How did you go with round 2 for the lather?
at 40 seconds...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_TB6onHVE[/youtube]
How did you go with round 2 for the lather?
My ladyfriend got back forma semister in austrliia. Apparently she really believed in drop bears.
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