I did use the men-u shave cream and for all their boasts about how "extra concentrated" it is I found it to be a very poor cream. I needed a lot more product than they recommended and I found it to be an inferior shave to the other product I was using at the time which was Boots soap bowl. I mean it's always nice to get something for free but I'm sure I either binned it or PIF to a friend of mine.
Im not saying that the men-u products are all bad or that the brush is really bad. Ive used other men-u products (face wash etc) and found them to be very good.
For most people when they start out, and haven't found websites like this, most of the product you find to start with is supermarket or chemist based and from all the brushes available in places like Boots the men-u brush is probably the best there is. Mine lasted me years and, as previously stated, will probably remain to be a back up brush of sorts. I just feel that for a similar price, and using online stores, other slightly better options are available. Not that I'd advise getting the men-u premier (unless they sent me one for free I wouldn't spend that much blindly on a "revolutionary type of shaving brush"). Have you seen the "demonstration" video kicking about of the men-u premier? It is laughable.
Back on to the topic of the cream though. Price point is about £9.50 for 100ml which, if used as men-u say it sould be, will give you 165 shaves. Sounds great to some but I reckon you could push that out of any £9.50 worth of product (excluding super expensive soaps or creams) Im sure you'd get that out of a great big sexy ceramic tub of Tabac soap. The terminology used by men-u in regard to the cream seems, to me, to be aimed at cartridge shavers.
For me, the worrying thing they say is that the "cream breaks down upon contact with water". Shave with a dry face? No water at all?
Of course they do recommend that for best results with the cream you should always use their premier brush
I didn't mean to turn this into a rant, I just think that we, as educated shavers, can see where men-u (and some other modern companies), take advantage of those who are happy to use a can of foam and M3, and bombard them with advertising and in some cases, false hopes with magical products.
Nice work with the 404 mix kit-kat boy