06-29-2016, 10:45 AM
Not counting the Gillette Mach 3 and 5 carts that I used for about 20 years, my longest time using a single product on a day to day basis was 1 1/2 years. I bought 250 Feather DE razor blades on Ebay and used them every single day.
I still love Feathers, but also like to mix it up now with Voskhods, Personna Med Preps, Iridium Supers, GSB, etc.
What's the longest time you've used a single product?
Eric
I still love Feathers, but also like to mix it up now with Voskhods, Personna Med Preps, Iridium Supers, GSB, etc.
What's the longest time you've used a single product?
Eric
06-29-2016, 11:21 AM
It's up there with the cartridges, but I used Kiehl's White Eagle brushless shave cream for well over a decade. It was the first answer to the irritation and burning I would get from canned goo. Once I learned about using a good quality soap and brush, I never looked back. I still have about half a tube of it sitting somewhere around here.
06-29-2016, 12:29 PM
I've been in this hobby two years now, and though I haven't run amuck getting things, I've gotten enough of the various products that a small rotation has turned out to be my approach.
I've never done the 3017 treatment.
However, after my wife brought me back a bottle of Valcan aftershave from Japan last summer, I used it daily for probably several weeks in a row.
I've never done the 3017 treatment.
However, after my wife brought me back a bottle of Valcan aftershave from Japan last summer, I used it daily for probably several weeks in a row.
06-29-2016, 12:53 PM
(06-29-2016, 10:45 AM)EricM Wrote: Not counting the Gillette Mach 3 and 5 carts that I used for about 20 years, my longest time using a single product on a day to day basis was 1 1/2 years. I bought 250 Feather DE razor blades on Ebay and used them every single day.
I still love Feathers, but also like to mix it up now with Voskhods, Personna Med Preps, Iridium Supers, GSB, etc.
What's the longest time you've used a single product?
A virtual tie between a Vulfix 2234S super badger brush (never lost a hair that I was aware of!) and Col. Ichabod Conk Amber shaving soap: for about a quarter-century those two were my daily companions.
06-29-2016, 01:23 PM
(06-29-2016, 12:53 PM)Mel S Meles Wrote:(06-29-2016, 10:45 AM)EricM Wrote: Not counting the Gillette Mach 3 and 5 carts that I used for about 20 years, my longest time using a single product on a day to day basis was 1 1/2 years. I bought 250 Feather DE razor blades on Ebay and used them every single day.
I still love Feathers, but also like to mix it up now with Voskhods, Personna Med Preps, Iridium Supers, GSB, etc.
What's the longest time you've used a single product?
A virtual tie between a Vulfix 2234S super badger brush (never lost a hair that I was aware of!) and Col. Ichabod Conk Amber shaving soap: for about a quarter-century those two were my daily companions.
Wow, that has to be a record!
06-29-2016, 01:49 PM
When I first started wet shaving, and for the many years before this actually became a hobby, I used Proraso green cream in a tube exclusively for at least 2 years, then I switched to Tabac soap and used that for probably 3.5 years...again, exclusively. I believe I then rotated between those two for another 2 years or so before I picked up MWF which took the spot for about another year. During those years I also used Astra XPs exclusively, and I started with a 34c then used a EJ89 razor for a few more years. I was wet shaving for probably 11 years or so before it became a hobby, and during that time my entire "den" fit in a corner on my bathroom counter.
During those "dark ages" I really had no desire to try other products...the DE was just a good and cheap substitute for carts. Of course, somewhere along the line I got "curious" and so it went--now it would be very ambitious of me if I can manage to use the same product for a week straight
During those "dark ages" I really had no desire to try other products...the DE was just a good and cheap substitute for carts. Of course, somewhere along the line I got "curious" and so it went--now it would be very ambitious of me if I can manage to use the same product for a week straight

06-29-2016, 09:01 PM
In my early shaving days before I regressed into the use of Cartridge Razors , I used Wilkinson Sword Blades and Yardleys Black label shaving Stick. Must have used them for approximately 15 years. Fortunately , I gave up Carts over 2 Years ago and use mainly SE/ Injector blades and miscellaneous soaps .
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