Noxzema (Medicated) Shave Cream - Sensitive

This is going to sound unorthodox, but have a listen anyway:

Noxzema Shave Cream, Sensitive (in a red and white can $2-3 USD).....makes an excellent pre-shave preparation. It has dimethicone in it, which is basically a silicone substance....it may/can help improve your shaves, if they need improvement. Moreover, this cream seems to have some serious beard-softening/swelling effects. My whiskers always seem to be standing straight and fully exposed after rinsing this off.

I am recommending this product for a couple reasons:

1. Cheap
2. Readily available
3. Works (if used properly)
4. Smells good
5. No real offensive ingredients (unlike other canned goo)

How do you use it? Simple:

1. Wet face thoroughly with hot water, as per usual
2. Apply the Noxzema
3. Make lather, using your brush....with whatever the cream/soap du jour is
4. Rinse off the noxzema, leaving behind the layer of slickness the dimethicone creates
5. Apply lather (from brush) to the face
6. Shave

I have sensitive skin and coarse whiskers, and will usually always use some kind of pre-shave product. When I don't consistently use a pre-shave product, my skin gets torn to smithereens.

I have been doing this new process for a couple weeks now (save for a couple days of experminetation with other stuff) and the results have been nothing short of Magical

Its so easy, cheap, and works so well......that its a no brainer.

Now there are other shave creams that you could substitute out for the noxzema, but I think it works just as good if not better and you get a whole can of the stuff for a couple bones.


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Ingredients:

Active Ingredients: Dimethicone

Inactive Ingredients: Water, Stearic Acid, Glycerin, Isobutane, Potassium Hydroxide, Lauramide DEA, Coconut Acid, Propane, Sodium Hydroxide, PVP, Fragrance, FD&C Blue 1

 

Typically i only use it to shave my head, mostly because im lazy and i dont want to spend the money on the good stuff :rofl but, for what its worth... i like how it feels, it shaves me head very well... its a very dense lather, typically i add a little bit of water to the mix to thin it out a little and provide more slickness... that? or some hot 6 oil (ive heard it works wonders.. seems to work for me, but buy a cheapie boar brush for use with oils)

 

Give it a shot, sure is cheap enough.

Seems to help protect a lot and if you load your SC/SS on top of it BOOM! lather explosion.