What was your very first shaving soap/cream?

[Marcus52]

When you started shaving as a youngster, do you remember the first soap/cream you used?

Mine was Noxzema brushless (the pink stuff), in the blue jar. That's what my father used, so it was my first. I also started with a single edge injector, because that's also what he used.

 

[DarthHatchet]

Green Gillette gel goop. Can still smell it!

 

[Bglayer]

Gillette shaving cream.Used to borrow my fathers and his Bic disposable razors.I remember that lovely white cream turning pinker and pinker at every stroke.

 

[Star_Wahl_Clipper_Treker]

Was, and still is, my first shaving soap

 

[Alum Ladd]

Gillette Foamy Lemon n' Lime with a nice pic of half of said fruit each on the tin.

I was quite sophisticated back in the day.

 

[Tirvine]

Start with Foamy and quickly converted to Yardley's and a brush.

 

[guitarslinger]

Gillette Foamy Lemon n' Lime with a nice pic of half of said fruit each on the tin.

I was quite sophisticated back in the day.

Me too. I wouldn’t mind using it again.

 

[silverlifter]

At home, an Old Spice puck in a mug that my father bought me (it was his preferred soap).

At boarding school, canned goop. Don't remember the brand, but it was sold at the commissary and was cheap and smelled awful. To this day, I cannot, and will not, use menthol products because of this early trauma

 

[PRobots]

Barbasol green shaving cream, soothing aloe I think. Used it because it’s what my dad used.

 

[santamariasteve]

Gillette canned goo in 1951

 

[Ravenonrock]

Foamy, menthol comes to mind, but the images are foggy.

 

[Vespasian]

Yardley Lavender, wooden bowl. I still miss it.

 

[Star_Wahl_Clipper_Treker]

Yardley Lavender, wooden bowl. I still miss it.

Hi there!

So, when I was doing searching for a shaving lather bowl, I discovered that they still make wooden shaving bowls today. There are also shaving bowls made in ox horn, ceramic, marble, and steel. I'd stay away from the plastic shaving bowls if I were you, I'd just consider those as outdoor camping bowls if I were you.

Have a look on Amazon, West Coast Shaving, Shavenation, Maggards, Mens Room Barbershop, heck even Ebay. One of those places has got to have a wooden shaving lather bowl that you would like.

 

[borwish]

First for me was probably a can Edge gel because that's what my father used. I tried many different canned stuff and finally settled on the aloe Barbasol. When I switched to wet shaving my first soap was Stirling's Sharp Dressed Man and my first cream was Proraso red.

Currently Stirling is first or second largest part of my stash (competing with Captain's Choice) and Proraso red will always be in rotation.

 

[HazMat Shaver]

My dad taught me and used bar soap. It was good enough for him so it was what I learned with. No wonder I never wanted to shave back then.

 

[NaturalLog]

Good ol’ original formula Barbasol. Before dabbling in all of the various soaps and creams, it’s all that I would use.

 

[rbscebu]

Palmolive bath soap because that's what my father use to use.

 

[FarmerTan]

My dad taught me and used bar soap. It was good enough for him so it was what I learned with. No wonder I never wanted to shave back then.

This may have been what I did. Or regular old Noxzema facial cream. One of the two, because that's what my Dad did 99 percent of the time. Then some kind of canned foam, probably whatever was on sale! When I started buying my own I know that I bought that Edge Gel stuff a lot!

 

[HoosierTrooper]

Hi there!

So, when I was doing searching for a shaving lather bowl, I discovered that they still make wooden shaving bowls today. There are also shaving bowls made in ox horn, ceramic, marble, and steel. I'd stay away from the plastic shaving bowls if I were you, I'd just consider those as outdoor camping bowls if I were you.

Have a look on Amazon, West Coast Shaving, Shavenation, Maggards, Mens Room Barbershop, heck even Ebay. One of those places has got to have a wooden shaving lather bowl that you would like.

Yardley shave soap was discontinued around 30 years ago and is one of the most highly sought after vintage soaps. It was sold in small wooden bowls with a lid.

 

[linty1]

My first shave was with an electric razor I got for Christmas one year, an entry level, single foil Braun. It was... not bad actually, it served its purpose, mowed things down, good times. I remember dutifully taking the foil off and brushing the hair-dust off, replacing the cutting block every few years. I tried looking for the same razor to reacquire, for nostalgia and was unsuccessful.