- Joined
- Saturday January 15, 2011
- Location
- Norfolk, England
Due to having to take medication first thing on Monday mornings, and not being allowed to eat anything for an hour afterwards, I've taken to having a quick shave while I'm waiting. I can't perform a full shave, as, for the first half hour, I have to sit bolt upright - leaning to rinse my face is vorboten, so I've been using Proraso green SC without a brush, performing a WTG pass only, or, at most, one WTG and one hybrid WTG/XTG pass.
While buying ingredients to make our Christmas pudding in the supermarket earlier this week, my dad noticed the Bulldog cream and asked me if I'd tried it. Curiosity got the better of me, so I bought a tube, and decided to use it this morning. My intention was, if I liked it, to use it on Mondays, thereby saving my Proraso for bowl lathering, which is my preferred method with creams. After a brief face prep, I squeezed a very generous amount onto my left palm, rubbed it between my hands, and massaged it into my face and neck, only to find it seemingly vanishing. Following a rapid WTG pass, I gave up, rinsed and applied some Nivea Sensitive ASB. Though lubrication provided was good, it seemed greasy and oily, so much so that the razor I'd selected, my Rocket HD, became difficult to hold. Admittedly, the texturing on a Rocket isn't the roughest, but neither is it as smooth as my lined handle EJ DE89 either. Post-shave feel was oily and unpleasant, the aroma didn't do anything for me, and, at £3.50 for a 100ml tube, I felt it was overpriced given that I used the same amount of cream that I would for bowl-lathering with a Trumpers product (from which I get 3 passes plus enough left in the brush for touch-ups), yet this was barely sufficient for a single pass.
Does anyone else have any views on it?
While buying ingredients to make our Christmas pudding in the supermarket earlier this week, my dad noticed the Bulldog cream and asked me if I'd tried it. Curiosity got the better of me, so I bought a tube, and decided to use it this morning. My intention was, if I liked it, to use it on Mondays, thereby saving my Proraso for bowl lathering, which is my preferred method with creams. After a brief face prep, I squeezed a very generous amount onto my left palm, rubbed it between my hands, and massaged it into my face and neck, only to find it seemingly vanishing. Following a rapid WTG pass, I gave up, rinsed and applied some Nivea Sensitive ASB. Though lubrication provided was good, it seemed greasy and oily, so much so that the razor I'd selected, my Rocket HD, became difficult to hold. Admittedly, the texturing on a Rocket isn't the roughest, but neither is it as smooth as my lined handle EJ DE89 either. Post-shave feel was oily and unpleasant, the aroma didn't do anything for me, and, at £3.50 for a 100ml tube, I felt it was overpriced given that I used the same amount of cream that I would for bowl-lathering with a Trumpers product (from which I get 3 passes plus enough left in the brush for touch-ups), yet this was barely sufficient for a single pass.
Does anyone else have any views on it?