Last Tuesday night I posted the following at the end of my post for the Soviet Super Shavers (SSS ☭) :
Hello all,
Back in the tail end of June I ordered a variety package of Russian shaving creams, well they finely arrived! The package contains six different creams. They are Мыльный/Soapy, Яблоневый цвет/Apple Blossom, викинг/Viking, Старт/Start, Знахарь/Wizard and ТимБри/TimBreeze (timber and breeze combined). The whole package cost $15 from a vendor on eBay, no shipping was charged.
As I go through them I will review each, and today I will review the first one I choose to use.
The first one I choose was Яблоневый цвет/Apple Blossom, I picked this one first because it was the whole reason I ordered the sampler in the first place. I initially saw this cream on voskhod.eu but it was sold out.
As with all of the Russian creams this one comes in a tube (this one contains 40g). The directions say to apply a 2-3cm dollop onto a brush that has been moistened with warm water and work up a lather on your face, then shave. This cream along with Мыльный/Soapy and Старт/Start are made by Svoboda. Яблоневый цвет/Apple Blossom claims to be for sensitive skin (my type)
This stuff smells great! It saddens me to say that my results were not that good. I used my best set-up for a razor (my Gillette Ball-End Tech and a Rapira Platinum Lux blade). The directions say to apply a 2-3cm dollop onto a brush that has been moistened with warm water and work up a lather on your face, then shave. The lather was good as to quantity but I had no glide and no lift (I have a medium coarse beard but only had a days worth of stubble on my face). So my shave was not that good, usually with this set-up I get a BBS in one pass using one of my 3 go-to soaps (Williams Mug, Stirling Gentleman or VDH luxury). With this soap even 3 passes weren't enough to get all the stubble off especially on the area under my chin and on my Adams Apple area. So we won't be buying this one again! However perhaps I need practice with lathering on my face, since I've got 40g I might play with it some more.
Next shave will be with викинг/Viking ('cause it is such a great name). The instructions are similar. So keep tuned in.
Founder of The Soviet Super Shavers (SSS ☭)
I think it got lost so here it is again.
Hello all,
Back in the tail end of June I ordered a variety package of Russian shaving creams, well they finely arrived! The package contains six different creams. They are Мыльный/Soapy, Яблоневый цвет/Apple Blossom, викинг/Viking, Старт/Start, Знахарь/Wizard and ТимБри/TimBreeze (timber and breeze combined). The whole package cost $15 from a vendor on eBay, no shipping was charged.
As I go through them I will review each, and today I will review the first one I choose to use.
The first one I choose was Яблоневый цвет/Apple Blossom, I picked this one first because it was the whole reason I ordered the sampler in the first place. I initially saw this cream on voskhod.eu but it was sold out.
As with all of the Russian creams this one comes in a tube (this one contains 40g). The directions say to apply a 2-3cm dollop onto a brush that has been moistened with warm water and work up a lather on your face, then shave. This cream along with Мыльный/Soapy and Старт/Start are made by Svoboda. Яблоневый цвет/Apple Blossom claims to be for sensitive skin (my type)
This stuff smells great! It saddens me to say that my results were not that good. I used my best set-up for a razor (my Gillette Ball-End Tech and a Rapira Platinum Lux blade). The directions say to apply a 2-3cm dollop onto a brush that has been moistened with warm water and work up a lather on your face, then shave. The lather was good as to quantity but I had no glide and no lift (I have a medium coarse beard but only had a days worth of stubble on my face). So my shave was not that good, usually with this set-up I get a BBS in one pass using one of my 3 go-to soaps (Williams Mug, Stirling Gentleman or VDH luxury). With this soap even 3 passes weren't enough to get all the stubble off especially on the area under my chin and on my Adams Apple area. So we won't be buying this one again! However perhaps I need practice with lathering on my face, since I've got 40g I might play with it some more.
Next shave will be with викинг/Viking ('cause it is such a great name). The instructions are similar. So keep tuned in.
Founder of The Soviet Super Shavers (SSS ☭)
I think it got lost so here it is again.
