The best girl in the world (that’d be my wife) recently got me a number
of shaving goodies to try out, figured it was about time to put some of them to
the test. The first one in the list was
Prince shaving cream, the second was the companion moisturiser to it, called
Celestial. The naming of them
notwithstanding, because as with all Lush objects, it’s covered in various
promotional writings and inspirational BS (such as “No Princess wants to be
prickled by her Prince...” think they could have chosen better than that....),
and doesn’t do much to tell you anything about the cream itself.
So, dipped in the brush and started trying to lather it up...
One tired arm later, I checked on the instructions again and found that
it said to simply lather it on your face.
I suspect the word Lather to be the wrong one here...
Smear seems to be a better
word, this stuff does not Lather at all, not in the way that we think of...
So, having smeared my face in the aforementioned, started shaving it off
only to find that suddenly my Wilkinson blade was blunt and wouldn’t do
anything. Confused by this, I checked
the razor to find that the blade was filled with the cream and the remnants of
the hair it had sliced off before becoming clogged. Unwilling to hack at my face with a fresh blade
in the clip, I opened up the razor and cleaned the blade on both sides, then
continued.
Half a minute later, opened up the razor, cleaned the blade on both
sides, then continued...
Half a minute later, opened up the razor, cleaned the blade on both
sides, then continued...
Rinse and repeat that statement a few times...
Finally, having got all the hair off (and not all that satisfactorily),
went to the moisturiser and once again smeared
it on, had to rub it in for a while to avoid leaving white lines all over my
face...
Doesn’t feel so bad now, but there was definitely a moment of “I’m not
sure about this...”
So, in summary, this stuff is probably great for cartridge razors and
in fairness, that’s probably where it’s aimed at, but for those of us using
real razors...?
Give it a miss...
