Favorite shaving supplies

[JamesRoe73]

Although I'm pre-T I do shave sometimes, but I've become unsatisfied with my shaving supplies and was wondering what is your favorite razor, shaving cream and after shave?

[xAndrewx]

I use a Gillette Fusion razor and the Gillette shave gel for sensitive skin when I have cash. The cartridges are kinda pricey though so when I'm broke I just buy some cheap men's razors and barbasol cream. Once I start T I think I'm going to invest in an electric razor. Hope that helps

[Carson]

Gillette fusion power razor. I don't use shaving cream or after shave. Just water.

[M.Grimm]

I use a shaving brush and shaving soap (my current puck is L'occitane, which smells amazing) for lather. For the razor I have a basic parker safety razor and chrome razor blades. Prior to that I was using a gillette fusion razor which did shave nicely but the replacement cartridges were so expensive I switched.

[Tad]

I think I have the gillete titanium with 5 blades. Cartridges are expensive.. but they last a while so I don't mind.

[Sharky]

I just use a single blade Bic. What ever shaving cream is around. Its normally Barbasol or Noxzema with aloe. I don't care as long as it's not gel.

[Sean]

I buy the disposable bic or storebrand razors with 2 or 3 blades. It is much much cheaper than the replacement cartridges, and I'd rather use a new blade every time (or at most everyone other time with disinfectant) to cut down on issues with bacteria/acne.

[Renard]

I use a Gilette Fusion for my face. I'm pre-t (well, pre-everything) so there's barely anything there, but it's still fun to do. I use girly razors for anything else, because I don't want to wear out the Fusion cartridges - as others have mentioned, they aren't cheap!

[Noah G.]

I used to use the shaving cream and razor deal -- usually Barbasol was in the cupboard, then borrowed my brother's Gillette, I believe. Now I borrow his electric razor.

Once I start getting in enough hair to worry about it I'll probably buy my own electric: easier, less mess, and don't have to worry about replacing blades or anything. Or buying shaving cream.

[Nathan.]

I use a Gillette Fusion razor and Gillette shaving gel.

[Tad]

oh wait i got schick titanium quatro atm It's lovely.

[Osiris]

Gillette shaving gel, the kind that lathers up as you apply it, and just a regular ol disposable razor. Whatever happens to be on hand at the moment is fine.

For in between close shaves I use my electric shaver. It's also handy when I've gone for months between a shave (like now) and have some looong chin fuzz that needs to be chopped down before I shave with a razor.

[Quicksand]

I have a straight razor and a bowl with a brush--I use a bar of special shaving soap which I whip into a lather with the brush.  straight razors are awesome if you struggle with post-shave acne/in-grown hairs, and also if you hate paying for cartridges.  all you have to do is sharpen it or get it sharpened.

however, most of the time I just use an electric beard groomer set to the shortest setting.  because you're not really touching your skin at all or cutting the hairs that short, it eliminates all discomfort, plus it's faster, can be done without showering or getting your face wet, the blades don't have to be replaced, and to me it still looks just as good!

[Alexmakenoise]

Is there actually a difference between razors for men and razors for women?  Or is it all marketing?  If there is a real difference, what is it and what's the point of it?

I just buy whatever's cheapest and I shave in the shower with a bar of soap.

[Osiris]

No real difference. Sometimes the handles are shaped differently for the womens razors to make it easier to grip while shaving her legs. But that's about it.

BTW: Dunno if I mentioned this before but you rock for having a great early picture of Jimmy Page as your avatar.

[Alexmakenoise]

BTW: Dunno if I mentioned this before but you rock for having a great early picture of Jimmy Page as your avatar.

Thanks!  You're only the second person to notice (I mean the second to say something about it).  It's one of my favorite rock and roll photographs from that era.

[Nikolai_S]

I'm just shaving peach fuzz right now, but I use Preserve Triple Razor (because it's what my mom has in the house that I can borrow) and Gillette Shaving Foam. I bought a pack of cheap, one blade disposables when I first tried out shaving. I wasn't a fan, required too many runs over the same area to be efficient. And the Preserve is more comfortable for some reason.

[Teknoir]

Just switched from a Mach 3 to some quad blade thing (along similar lines) with a built in electric beard trimmer (with guards) in the handle.

Haven't used the blades yet, but the trimmer is nice. Still using the Mach 3 in the shower for the sides (until I run out of cartridges), trimmer on the psuedo-goatee.

I got some Mach 3 cartridges cheap off dealextreme. They're a Chinese version - but compatible with my Australian bought razor (it's the same thing, just different languages on the box. No big deal). They were less than half the price of what I can buy them for over here.

I don't use shaving gel, as I shave in the shower. I just use whatever acne face wash stuff I have around as a lather.

I use distilled Witch Hazel as an aftershave. It's cheap, mostly alcohol (as is actual aftershave) and odourless (so I can wear whatever I want afterwards without it clashing).

[Jamie-o]

Irisch Moos shaving soap, lathered with a 20mm badger shaving brush that I restored myself, a straight razor, and witch hazel for aftershave.

[PixieBoy]

I've heard that men's razors are usually sharper and give a closer shave than the women's ones. I don't know if this is true or not, I once used a "Women's only-section" of a forum as a kind of "rule book" to learn to be a real woman, and there was discussion of periods and shaving and stuff like that in it.