5 Wet Shaving Products I Still Love & Use After 20 Years

Mar 23, 2021 8:01 pm

What Your Father Didn't Teach You About Shaving

5 Wet Shaving Products I Still Love & Use After 20 Years

I recently came across this "shave of the day" picture from 2005 in my old Flickr account:

A couple things in the image jumped out at me immediately: the tube of Trumper Violet and the Merkur Progress adjustable razor.

Trumper Violet was the first wet shaving product I tried with a floral scent--and also when I realized that floral scents can be quite masculine. Plus Trumper Violet performed (and still performs) the best overall out of the Trumper shave creams for me.

The Merkur Progress epitomizes my preference for adjustable double edge (DE) razors. It was my first "real" DE razor and I still prefer the Progress style, even though I now use a Parker Variant--which is very Progress-like but addresses most of the little annoyances I had with the Progress.

Click/tap here to read about the other three products....

(So OK, one of the other three is from this email's sponsor, Castle Forbes. Their Limes shave cream has been a favorite of mine for years!)

The Key Detail In Lathering That Almost No One Gets

I wrote about this in a previous email and it got some really good response so I thought I should mention it again.

Every now and then I see arguments about lathering--generally after seeing someone on Youtube doing it badly. The observations usually boil down to "there's not enough water in the lather!" Followed by helpful (ahem) advice about how to lather "correctly." All these techniques boil down to one thing: water in the brush.

But it's not so much how much water is in the brush as much as where the water is in the brush.

The most efficient, effective mixing of water and shave product (hydration) to create lather occurs in an area near the bottom of the brush knot sometimes referred to as the breech.

Click/tap here to read more on how to get a better lather by knowing where the water needs to be.

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