The View from Japan: Milk Brand Shaving Cream

Hi guys. I've done some reviews of products available in Japan over on SMF.
It's nothing too serious, just a bit of fun. I just did a new one, and thought I'd share.

These are all available on my shave blog, Eastern smooth. Link's in my sig.

So, I found another brand of non-can shaving cream on the shelves. How was it?
Oh, don't you just want to know!

This is "Milk Brand Shaving Cream". Isn't it pretty?


Milk brand. I mean, wow. How wholesome is that? How clean, and healthy?
When I think milk, I think...Milkmaids, milky white skin, mother's milk...and this old Kahlua ad:

[image redacted for matters of questionable taste in a public forum...]

So it's GOT to be good, right?
So when I saw this stuff in my local supermarket, and a cursory examination of the label showed Aloe on the label, I thought Score!
I was right. Score one for THE DEVIL!!!!

When I got home, A deeper reading of the label showed a pretty picture of a cow.



See? Milky!
And then, looking at the ingredients...AW CRAP! Menthol!
Sigh. Well...I know what happened last time, but maybe that was a fluke, right?

Soooo, I put a bit in my cup, and started to lather. Nothing happened. I added water. Nothing happened. Some more water. Finally, I gave up. My brush was loaded with a thick, pasty white cream, but nothing that could be called lather. Wellllll...

I figured what the heck, and painted it on. It went on like greasepaint. Nothing creamy or luxurious about it at all.

And then the burn kicked in.

The milk did nothing. THE MILK DID NOTHING!!!!

Poop on a stick. I hadn't even set blade to face and my shave was ruined for the day.

Verdict? *Sigh* Back to the barber stuff.

 

What! At least a link to the image should be included!

btw, thanks for the review.

 

apswartz, it's on the blog (plugplug).

sparky5693, I'm almost willing to bet that they don't exist, apart from imports. It's all very much a goo-in-a-can thing here. Even the Kamisori club, which is the big shaving goods supplier to all the department stores and such, only has one Japanese shaving soap available--they make it themselves. Internet searches only reveal the two I've reviewed.
Alas.

 

Feather makes a shave cream. I got some from Classic. I found it worked better as a pre-shave conditioner. Maybe good for the right type of skin/hair, but not for me.

Oh, BTW, the Feather is a non-lather cream. Are you sure Milk is designed to be used with a brush?

 

Devil's Milk ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thanks for the info - I'll be avoiding that one like the Plague.

 

Oh! Good ad!