I'm not talking about things you disliked from the first, like me and Acqua De Parma, which does not get along with my skin, alas. I'm talking about things that you liked for a while, then banished from your shave den because you realized they just did not work for you. Here's mine.
Muhle shave soap in the Blue Concrete bowl. Good soap. I like it. But when I got halfway through, the lather started to be blue, and it got more blue as I used up the cake. No. Into the trash it goes.
A custom razor in CPM-M4 steel. I honed this for a gentleman on another forum, and got a great shave from it, and sent it off to him, with high hopes. He got disgusted with it and offered it to me for free, for my honing efforts, and I eagerly took him up on the offer. When I got it back, the edge was full of chips. OK, maybe he doesn't know how to shave yet. Nope. This steel, however great it may have looked as a razor steel, on paper, with its dense grain and all, chips really easily at razor dimensions, and is really hard to hone. I can't bear to toss it, and I'm sure that one day I will take the trouble to give it an edge and shave with it some more, but my former infatuation with it is utterly gone.
Muhle shave soap in the Blue Concrete bowl. Good soap. I like it. But when I got halfway through, the lather started to be blue, and it got more blue as I used up the cake. No. Into the trash it goes.
A custom razor in CPM-M4 steel. I honed this for a gentleman on another forum, and got a great shave from it, and sent it off to him, with high hopes. He got disgusted with it and offered it to me for free, for my honing efforts, and I eagerly took him up on the offer. When I got it back, the edge was full of chips. OK, maybe he doesn't know how to shave yet. Nope. This steel, however great it may have looked as a razor steel, on paper, with its dense grain and all, chips really easily at razor dimensions, and is really hard to hone. I can't bear to toss it, and I'm sure that one day I will take the trouble to give it an edge and shave with it some more, but my former infatuation with it is utterly gone.