I have an awful lot of time on my hands.
About a month ago, on a whim, I bought a Flintstones toy shaving kit off the bay. I was curious as to whether the brush and soap supplied in the kit were actually functional. A Gem blade was attached to the included plastic shaving hatchet using two part epoxy and I used a Fine shaving bowl to build a lather.
Ingredients: Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Cocoate*, Water, Petrolatum, Sucriose Laurate, Glycerin, Titanium Dioxide, Fragrance, Pentasodium Pentatate, Tetrasodium Etidronate. *May also contain Sodium Palm Kernelate.
The Shave: The puck was soaked in hot water for about ten minutes. The brush has absolutely no backbone, so I loaded it from the supplied plastic cup and then built a lather in a Fine shaving bowl. It wasn't all that difficult to build a lather, but the lather wasn't very stable, nor was it very slick. There was little to no residual slickness after the first stroke of the blade. Even rewetting the face didn't help. I carefully finished up the first pass and re-lathered with some vintage Colgate Barbers soap for the XTG pass. What a difference.
As far as the brush goes, it stank to high hell. It smells very strongly of moth balls and industrial dye. When I was cleaning it after the first and last pass using the supplied soap, it began to leak some really nasty dark brown fluid all over the place.
Yabba dabba doo!
About a month ago, on a whim, I bought a Flintstones toy shaving kit off the bay. I was curious as to whether the brush and soap supplied in the kit were actually functional. A Gem blade was attached to the included plastic shaving hatchet using two part epoxy and I used a Fine shaving bowl to build a lather.
Ingredients: Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Cocoate*, Water, Petrolatum, Sucriose Laurate, Glycerin, Titanium Dioxide, Fragrance, Pentasodium Pentatate, Tetrasodium Etidronate. *May also contain Sodium Palm Kernelate.
The Shave: The puck was soaked in hot water for about ten minutes. The brush has absolutely no backbone, so I loaded it from the supplied plastic cup and then built a lather in a Fine shaving bowl. It wasn't all that difficult to build a lather, but the lather wasn't very stable, nor was it very slick. There was little to no residual slickness after the first stroke of the blade. Even rewetting the face didn't help. I carefully finished up the first pass and re-lathered with some vintage Colgate Barbers soap for the XTG pass. What a difference.
As far as the brush goes, it stank to high hell. It smells very strongly of moth balls and industrial dye. When I was cleaning it after the first and last pass using the supplied soap, it began to leak some really nasty dark brown fluid all over the place.
Yabba dabba doo!
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