Clinique Cream Shave - Found an old tube

[Renato1]

While moving stuff from my old house, I found a tube of "Clinique Cream Shave" in a value pack of Clinique stuff that I'd bought about 10 years ago and forgotten about. It's a brushless cream and I gave it go. There appeared to be nothing wrong with the cream as I applied it, but I got a lousy shave from it - it didn't glide well, and I got razor burn.

Once again I marvelled at how sub average US made brushless creams are in comparison to the Australian made ones.

Hopefully, any current version of this cream is better than the old tube which I tried - it would want to be, given Clinique prices.

Has anybody tried it?
Regards,
Renato

 

[RobAtSGH]

Hopefully, any current version of this cream is better than the old tube which I tried - it would want to be, given Clinique prices.
Has anybody tried it?

I've tried it about two years ago. Similar experience. It's made to be used for a one-pass shave with a multi-blade cartridge. Same deal with the brushless cream from Origins.

 

[Renato1]

I've tried it about two years ago. Similar experience. It's made to be used for a one-pass shave with a multi-blade cartridge. Same deal with the brushless cream from Origins.

Thanks for that information.
I just don't understand why so many US made brushless creams are so poor. Numerous regular brushing creams actually work better than brushless creams if they are used in brushless mode with DE razors.
Regards,
Renato

 

[RobAtSGH]

I just don't understand why so many US made brushless creams are so poor. Numerous regular brushing creams actually work better than brushless creams if they are used in brushless mode with DE razors.

Yeah, a lot of the "modern" shaving products are really just tailored to the one-swipe cheese grater user. That's the market, not us.

 

[Renato1]

Yeah, a lot of the "modern" shaving products are really just tailored to the one-swipe cheese grater user. That's the market, not us.

I think you are being a tad harsh on cartridge razors in general, though I've thrown out some that could be categorised as cheese graters. It's interesting though, I've noticed that 5 blade Schick Hydro and 4 blade King of Shaves Azor don't work at all well with very slippery creams like Trumpers and AOS, but work quite well with less slippery creams. Whereas standard Gillette Fusion (not Proglide) worked extremely well with Trumpers cream.

I'll test the Clinique cream out with the Azor razor and see how it performs.
Cheers,
Renato