Something I Just Remembered .....

[jgkeegan]

Earlier today, in a post about the Simpson Milk Churn, I wrote something along the lines of "I don't use soap (just cream)."

A few moments later, I remembered something I hadn't thought of in decades. When I was in high school and just beginning to shave, there was a wooden bowl in the family bathroom where all of the old pieces of bathing soap were tossed and then my father and I would use that to shave, using brushes to whip of a functional, but I think, very thin lather.

Then one Christmas, someone gave me real shaving soap in a fitted wooden bowl. What a treat that was.

Then came university and the Vietnam years, and when I returned to DE shaving, it was creams all the way.

I wonder if I am missing something.

james

 

[hitemfrank]

Why not give a soap another try? What have you got to lose apart from lots of money if you end up enjoying soaps again?

 

[jgkeegan]

Why not give a soap another try? What have you got to lose apart from lots of money if you end up enjoying soaps again?

Perhaps I should. Of course, like many other B&B'ers, I have enough cream to last me until I am 172 years old.

As it happens, I will be in Gentlemen's Best at 10AM this Tuesday coming to have a cup of coffee with Ray. What do you think the chances are that I'll get out of there without buying anything?

james

 

[hitemfrank]

If I had a store like that nearby I would end up broke but with a stupidly large amount of shaving supplies.

Your chances of leaving there without anything are slim and none. He has some nice soaps

 

[Defend Tacoma]

Thank you for your service, James! I'd say its time to get some soap!!!

 

[Rivguy]

My experience was similar but mostly with soaps. I started with soaps and a few creams. In college we used the caned goo with purchase prerequisites base on cost, volume and velocity rather than tonsorial excellence. Then for a time it was Navy issue tubes of cream until we could select one of our own liking. Then I was largely a soap user with an occasional swerve into cream. Now I use both with an emphasis on soaps but I very much look forward to those TOBS creams coming around in rotation.

There are some fine soaps out there that I think that you might enjoy so give that brush a whirl around a few.

Happy shaving,

Doug