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What was the very first shaving cream or soap you ever used (by applying with a shaving brush). Do you still use it?

For me it was Edwin Jagger Sea Buckthorn shaving cream. My wife got me started in wet shaving by giving me a razor, brush, the EJ soap & mug last Christmas. Little did show know the monster she would create!

Since I just started wet shaving 7 months ago, I still have that puck and I'm using it this week.

 

Real Shaving Company cream - inexpensive and reasonable good cream. I still occasionally use it, with a few drops of M-Bomb added... I gave a tube of it, along with a bar of Mikes Natural Soap and a badger brush, to my Dad for father's day. He was pretty excited - he is 73 and doesn't remember ever using a brush or real cream/soap before!

 

Maca Root shaving cream from The Body Shop. Fortunately, we picked a winner and I still use the stuff!

 

English leather shave bowl - back in 1972.

Graham

 

Old Spice 1965


At that age, I was easily swayed by REALLLLY good looking women or even the dumbest hint of one in a stupid advertisement. So I decided a long time ago that I'd better marry one or my life was going to be a real mess. One of the few of my plans that's actually worked out right.

 

Mine was VDH deluxe from the kit... I have been shaving for a little over 3 months now and I still use it... On my second puck now.

 

Weleda shaving cream was my first . Excellent cream, I still use it, and I'll buy it again when I'll finish it.

 

Seems like first was dove or ivory soap ends in a mug. Then what ever got for birhday or Christmas then back to regular soap.

 

VDH. I used my first puck to make some VanderWilliams(which I'm still using)

 

VDH. Just used it Sunday, as a matter of fact. Still have plenty in stock, and always will.

 

I made some with my first puck too. I use it to beak in new brushes.

 

My first was with my own blend, though it was made for my husband. I borrowed his brush, because I wanted to know why he made such a fuss over it. I quickly understood. We still use the same kind of soap, but his brush has since been replaced, and I have gotten one of my own.

 

Mine was Old Spice. When I was little my parents bought me a shave kit with a brush, but I would just grab a can of goo from my dad's bathroom. I thought it was never ending, so I would spray a whole bunch of goo on the brush and rub it in thinking I was accomplishing something.

 

My first was Proraso Green SC, still have the tube.

 

Burt's Bee's Bay Rum I used the whole puck and really liked it untill I tried other soaps and realized that it smelled nice and that was about it

 

awesome topic!

my first soap was a vanilla scented puck from classicshaving. I used up that puck and then tried a puck of Herban Cowboy... I think I tried one more puck of classicshaving then moved on to other soaps/ creams. I haven't tried the classicshaving brand since.

 

Mine was KMF Key Lime. Loved it, I hand lathered for a while before getting my Marvy Mug. The only time I use KMF as a stand-alone product these days is when I shave Jeff's neck. (I know that pic shows a puck of soap, but these days it's KMF).

When I use KMF today it is to build a super-lather to give my soap or cream just a bit more back-bone. Luckily, I have four full bottles in reserve ... just in case.

 

Not the start of my wet shaving, but to answer the specific question at hand ... Cake of Colgate and a VDH brush. ~1992. Purchased both at a KMart of all places.

Colgate disappeared shortly thereafter and I moved on to VDH soaps. Got 15-16 years of use with that original brush and replaced it with a new one. Wish I hadn't tossed it ... It was nicely broken in!! But ... I didn't know any better at the time.

 

The first soap I used was Williams. My first cream was GFT Almond. Not currently using either one.