Rxiern: Save Money by Using Alternatives to Shaving Cream
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As a logical progression from resharpening your razors, the obvious next step would be looking at potentially cheaper alternatives to brand name shaving cream.
We’re going to throw this one out to the audience as there’s different views about what you should put on your face or legs depending on where you look.
For example, yes you can use soap versus no you cannot use soap.
You can apparently also use peanut butter or honey but I’d rather eat the peanut butter or honey. Plus, you end up smelling like peanut butter or honey, so I’m going to look at the other items on the list first.
Anyway, I’m sure there’s cheaper alternatives than the brand name specifically marketed items but since in practice the effects can vary on your skin and maybe not in a good way, has anyone in our audience out there got any ideas on what might work best or from experience has worked best for them?
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You can defo use soap, especially, erm, shaving soap, designed for that purpose and predating shaving cream by a few decades. You should use it with a brush though (traditionnally a badger hair brush), to whip it into a thick enough foam.
Personnally I use oil these days. Castor oil is great but a little too thick -not a problem except that it sticks cut hair together in a nightmarisly thick cement -, while almond or grapeseed oils are great but a little too thin and thus provide slightly less lubrication than desirable, so, you guessed it, I usually mix them to get the desired texture.
It is somewhat cheaper: 0.5 L of grapeseed oil + 250 mL of castor oil, about 6-9 month worth of daily shaves, cost around 10 bucks around here if you just go for the cooking varieties and not the aromatherapy shop varieties. I mean, why would you pay 10x more for something you put on your skin than for something you put into your stomach? Seriously ?
Moreover, shaving cream is a crime against nature and common sense (I’m referring mostly to the pressurized can variety here), and using oil completely got rid of the nasty neck rashes I frequently had (my facial hair is somewhat rebellious like that).