I was looking at the shaving section in Shop Rite about 10 days ago and bought a couple of items, Aqua Velva Musk aftershave and Van Der Hagen Shave Butter.
I've used the shave butter six times since I purchased it and I continue to use it, because as the title of the thread says, I'm intrigued by its mediocrity.
The product comes in a six ounce (177 ml) tube and is the color and consistency of sunscreen that comes in a tube. The list of ingredients is OK, it has shea butter, mango butter and macadamia oil, but it has several ingredients that are less than ideal:
Ingredients: Water, Ethyl Macadamiate (From Macadamia Nut), Stearic Acid, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Titanium Dioxide, Fragrance, Triethanolamine, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Phenoxyethanel.
The product is designed to be used without a brush, rubbed on to your wet face by hand. It doesn't lather at all, it goes on as a thin translucent white glop. The best part of the product is that, to me, it smells really nice. The mango and macadamia nut mixture is a pleasant scent, sweet almost like a cherry-almond. The feel is reasonably slick but thin and watery. It's not nearly as thick or slippery as the Dollar Shave Club's shave butter and nothing like gel in a can.
The shave is actually surprisingly not bad. Wetting the razor causes the butter to thin out and run and drip, depositing stuff on you hands and drip on your chest or in the sink. For those of you that prize "cushion", there is none. But it's slick and the razor glides nicely over my face. It needs to be reapplied between passes but it's possible to get an excellent shave with it. It rinses off pretty well. It leaves my face feeling soft and supple, but there is a tacky residue. The scent pretty much disappears when rinsed off.
I keep using it and I don't know why. It isn't terrible by any means but it's not great either. It is quick and convenient but Edge Gel is better in almost every way. It must be the scent. I usually don't like overly sweet scents, but this one is really appealing to me for some reason. I will keep using it until I finish the tube, but I probably won't buy another. But it's good to know that there is an alternative to canned foam or gel available in the supermarket.
I've used the shave butter six times since I purchased it and I continue to use it, because as the title of the thread says, I'm intrigued by its mediocrity.
The product comes in a six ounce (177 ml) tube and is the color and consistency of sunscreen that comes in a tube. The list of ingredients is OK, it has shea butter, mango butter and macadamia oil, but it has several ingredients that are less than ideal:
Ingredients: Water, Ethyl Macadamiate (From Macadamia Nut), Stearic Acid, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Titanium Dioxide, Fragrance, Triethanolamine, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Phenoxyethanel.
The product is designed to be used without a brush, rubbed on to your wet face by hand. It doesn't lather at all, it goes on as a thin translucent white glop. The best part of the product is that, to me, it smells really nice. The mango and macadamia nut mixture is a pleasant scent, sweet almost like a cherry-almond. The feel is reasonably slick but thin and watery. It's not nearly as thick or slippery as the Dollar Shave Club's shave butter and nothing like gel in a can.
The shave is actually surprisingly not bad. Wetting the razor causes the butter to thin out and run and drip, depositing stuff on you hands and drip on your chest or in the sink. For those of you that prize "cushion", there is none. But it's slick and the razor glides nicely over my face. It needs to be reapplied between passes but it's possible to get an excellent shave with it. It rinses off pretty well. It leaves my face feeling soft and supple, but there is a tacky residue. The scent pretty much disappears when rinsed off.
I keep using it and I don't know why. It isn't terrible by any means but it's not great either. It is quick and convenient but Edge Gel is better in almost every way. It must be the scent. I usually don't like overly sweet scents, but this one is really appealing to me for some reason. I will keep using it until I finish the tube, but I probably won't buy another. But it's good to know that there is an alternative to canned foam or gel available in the supermarket.
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It doesnt make sense to me but, its just shaving!
