This is something that puzzles me and maybe you guys can set me straight. I see a lot of talk about certain soaps being desired because of their “great post-shave” qualities. But I don’t think I can detect a difference between soaps with “great post-shave” and soaps that are reputed to have mediocre or no “post-shave” qualities.
At the end of my shave I wash off the soap and apply some sort of aftershave splash, lotion or balm, and it seems to me that the way my skin feels afterwards is mostly to do with the aftershave product, as well as the condition my skin was in before the shave, and how gentle or otherwise the shave was. I really don’t notice any difference post-shave from using different shaving soaps. I’m not even sure that I would want a shaving soap to have a stubborn residual effect on my skin that is still noticeable after applying an aftershave, but in any case I select my aftershave product for this purpose, not my soap.
Do you guys have a different experience or approach, or is “great post-shave” just marketing hype? It is advisable to use an aftershave with some sort of antiseptic property, right, and not simply to rinse the soap off and leave it?
At the end of my shave I wash off the soap and apply some sort of aftershave splash, lotion or balm, and it seems to me that the way my skin feels afterwards is mostly to do with the aftershave product, as well as the condition my skin was in before the shave, and how gentle or otherwise the shave was. I really don’t notice any difference post-shave from using different shaving soaps. I’m not even sure that I would want a shaving soap to have a stubborn residual effect on my skin that is still noticeable after applying an aftershave, but in any case I select my aftershave product for this purpose, not my soap.
Do you guys have a different experience or approach, or is “great post-shave” just marketing hype? It is advisable to use an aftershave with some sort of antiseptic property, right, and not simply to rinse the soap off and leave it?