April 25, 2006
Relief from Shaving Cream Hell
The Shaving Cream Racket, by Jeffrey Tucker
Shaving cream is the source of the trouble.
Why don’t people imagine this possibility? Because shaving cream seems so frothy and innocent, the glorious barrier that stands as a guard or shield between your skin and the sharp blade. The cream is our valiant protector, so surely that is not the source of the problem!
In fact, it is not our protector. Shaving cream is destroying your skin, turning it into a whining, pathetic, dependent, beaten, insipid layer of pasty pulp. Your skin has become the fatted calf that has been killed, the lamb slain on the altar, the virgin sacrificed in some ancient cannibalistic ritual of an uncivilized people.
Not sure if Tucker is a nutter or not, but I’m willing to give the baby oil trick a shot. After shaving I look like I’ve gone 20 minutes in the Octagon with Bas Rutten — a bloody mess.
April 25th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
You mean hair conditioner?
April 25th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
In American Psycho the psycho says that shaving cream alcohol dries out the skin and makes it look older.
April 25th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
jb: I haven’t seen it. Is it a movie you’d recommend?
April 25th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Let me know if the baby oil works. I have skin issues as well after shaving.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
Yeah I think you’d like it, if you put yourself back in the frame of mind of a 20-year old, but all I remember is the skincare advice. By the way, Cetaphil is also good. Better than soap.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
jb: Baby T uses Cetaphil. Maybe I should steal some of his precious supply (it’s impossible to find in China, or Hongkong for that matter).
April 26th, 2006 at 4:51 am
try using a shaving soap with the brush
April 26th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Dean,
When you use shaving soap and brush you should use Alum. Alum acts as mositurizer to the skin.
April 27th, 2006 at 11:12 am
What a bunch of metros. Real men wear their nicks with pride.
Speaking of movies and real men, Bas Rutten has a good instructional video on bar fighting. No advice on shaving I’m afraid, though his bald head always looks smooth.
p.s. I think maybe the first post in these comments is getting deleted.
April 27th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
chud: I don’t mind the occasional nick, it’s the blood streaming down my neck onto my chest that gets me. (All of Babak’s comments got killed when Spam Karma identified him (erroneously) as someone with bad karma… thus my first comment makes no sense.)