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Williams 'Lectric Shave Preshave
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It's a great idea...but I think it's been done before...
Aye, Aye, Top, but I mean with Williams not regular soap.
I do a variation of this pretty often. I can't get along with Burt's Bees Bay Rum Shaving Soap as a shave soap, so in the shower it went. I'll often use it as a pre shave face soap.
Most shaving soaps have ingredients that are designed to soften the beard, so using them as a pre-shave face wash makes perfect sense.
Most shaving soaps have ingredients that are designed to soften the beard, so using them as a pre-shave face wash makes perfect sense.
I am not surprised: any good shave soap can be used for pre shave lather. So, Williams qualifies
I use remainders of my shave sticks for this, tho, as I can not get Williams downhere...
I know, it says electric razor on the bottle and pre-shave, not aftershave... This stuff is available at pretty much any supermarket or pharmacy that I walk in.
I'm looking at the ingredients:
It says pre-shave but the ingredients seem ok to be used as an Aftershave? Does it work?
I'm looking at the ingredients:
It says pre-shave but the ingredients seem ok to be used as an Aftershave? Does it work?
Yes, it does, IMO. If you like the fragrance, I think you'll be please with its AS results.
Something to note, on my block of osma alum it states it can be used as a preshave for electric as well. To my mind it makes sense that a preshave for one might be a good aftershave for the other.
When I first started wet shaving coming from electric I tried the alum and it did seem to work nicely.
When I first started wet shaving coming from electric I tried the alum and it did seem to work nicely.
From what I see, other than having a lot of alcohol in there, it doesn't seem too bad unless I'm missing something...
So, I did some research and it seems like it's either borderline ok as Aftershave or it will dry the skin too much because of the alcohol... I think this is a case closed...
So large a percentage of men my age have always electric shaved, that I have made numerous attempts to go along with the majority, and failed every time. Only as a portable emergency, not to be used on successive days, I own and keep charged, a Norelco cordless, which rides around in my car about half the year (the less-overheated half), when it won't be damaged by the kind of heat that can build up inside a car in a South Texas afternoon's sunlight.
I tried 'Lectric Shave several times, and it hasn't gotten any better, but Mennen's Afta is available as a pre-electric. Same as Afta altershave, it is a lotion, not a splash, and while it might not make the emergency shaves with the shaver end up any closer, I think it does reduces the level of skin irritation some.
re: Isopropyl Myristate
It's liquid wrench
Wrench [rench]
verb (used with object)
1. to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist.
2. to overstrain or injure (the ankle, knee, etc.) by a sudden, violent twist: When she fell, she wrenched her ankle.
3. to affect distressingly as if by a wrench.
4.to wrest, as from the right use or meaning: to wrench the facts out of context.
Shouldn't there be a #5 that explains why we don't use this here?
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Ok, I'm digging up an old thread, but I like the scent of Williams 'lectric shave and wanted to know if there is something that has the same scent; either in aftershave or cologne, but with out the EDTA or HEDTA in it.
I have used Williams Lectric Shave for years, and am happy with it except for one issue. I keep it in the medicine cabinet on a plastic shelf, and the lotion runs down the side of the bottle after use and forms a scum-like residue on the shelf where the bottle rests. I have tried a number of things (WD-40, alcohol, etc.) to remove the reside, but with no success. Any ideas?
More elelectric shave on a rag. If it dissolved it to begin with, it should again.
