Tuesday April 24 - glycerin preshave part 4 "For Science"
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Generic glycerin
Supply Co V.2 SE injector on two - dot plate / Personna ( 10)
Dr. Bronner's Magic Organic Shaving Gel - Lavender (brushless tube)
Alum and TSD Milk Aftershave Lavender
If you are assuming "for science" is shorthand for"crappy shave" - you're right. Short version: if you see a tube of Dr. Bronner's Magic Organic Shaving Gel in your drugstore and wonder if you should buy it -- DON'T! Not even preshave glycerin could help this stuff.
I rubbed glycerin on half my face after a thorough rinse. Then I followed directions and massaged the gel into my face, starting with the bare side so there would be no glycerin contamination. Then I did my first pass.
Ouch! No blood but I swear I felt the blade before, during and after cutting every whisker -- on BOTH sides equally. The glycerin made no difference.
For the second pass, I re-gelled but this time I ignored the directions. Instead of massaging gel INTO my face, I soused a dripping palmful of it ONTO my face so that liquid gel was practically dripping off. The second pass was much smoother - almost pleasant in fact.
Surprisingly the alum was only mildly warm. The milk aftershave has given me a good postshave feel.
So once again, I cannot say that the preshave glycerin helped my shave a great deal. I can definitely say, though, that Dr. Bronner's Magic Organic Shaving Gel has once again done a magic vanishing act back into my handsoap bucket -- and may ultimately travel the full distance to the garbage can...
Edit:. After careful consideration, balancing my dislike of waste against my dislike of Dr. Bronner's Magic Organic Shaving Gel, this has just become the third shaving product I have ever thrown in the garbage. (The first was Burt's Bees equally wretched brushless shaving stuff, and the second was some hopeless homemade soap I got somewhere.)
Question for Adam
@Drygulch -- does it count as finishing off a tube of shave product if you conclude it's awful and bin the 7/8 remaining? It is gone, finished, deceased, no more to be seen in this world, vanished, departed and troubling us no more after all...
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