Well as most of you know, I bought some TOBS Jermyn Street shave cream from shavenation.com and I bought the pre-shave gel from westcoastshaving.com because shavenation didn't have it. I give this pre-shave gel and cream combination 5 out of 5 stars. So lets' start with the pre-shave gel first:
^ The scent is awesome. It resembles a cologne that used to be made here in the U.S. back in the mid to late 1990's called "Boss Elements" only it doesn't have the woody undertones that the cologne had which I use to love. It's a nice masculine type of a scent that the ladies seem to love. The slickness and cushioning ability that the pre-shave has is beyond belief. Now if you're using Proraso's creams or soaps then it will hold up better than most but not as good as it normally does due to Proraso's thirst properties. You're better off using Proraso's pre-shave stuff with Proraso's creams and soaps IMO which I think they done on purpose myself. The ingredients list was a little hard to photograph, but I managed to get a couple of photos. Here's the first one:
The second photo was taken without a flash so I could capture the pre-shave gel's ingredients list sorry it wasn't to clear:
The amount you need to use before shaving is a drop that's about the size of your thumbnail. The price point isn't to good on the pre-shave gel. I paid $21.99 dollars for it at Westcoast Shaving and got a 1.75 ounce tube which gives it a price point of $12.57 per ounce for the pre-shave gel. That's a little bit on the extreme side, but you don't need alot which is a good thing. I just wish you got a little bit more product for the price. Now onto the cream. The same great scent that I mentioned earlier only without the woody undertones:
The slickness was really good, but not quite as good as the All natural formula is. The cushioning ability was excellent. I had more than enough protection through out the entire shave. Combined with a Gillette Silver Blue DE blade, it seems very hard to cut yourself even with a Merkur 37C Slantbar. Here's the ingredient list on the back of the container which was alot easier to photograph than the gel was because of the white label with black ink:
This cream is indeed a lather monster so be carefull on how much cream you use. At first I thought I didn't use enough cream because it does take a slightly bit more effort to build a good lather compared to the all natural formual. Here's what it looks like when I first opened it:
^ It has a medium level of softness to it. You can stand your brush up in it, but it will not stand on its own for very long. Here's how much cream I used:
^ Like I said earlier, it's a lather monster. At first I thought I didn't use enough cream so I added a another dolop of cream and worked it a little bit more and got this:
The lather does slowly disipate a bit but that can be fixed by working the cream in between passes. In fact the more you work it, the better it gets. This was after the 2nd pass:
The lather does have some staying power to it if you work it between passes. This was taken after a 4 pass shave with a Merkur 37C slant bar:
^ The post shave felt really good. It was nice and smooth and had a small amount of slickness to it, but it also had that clean and fresh feeling to it as well and the scent is really good. The cream did not leave any residue on my shaving equipment which gives it a clean rinsing characteristic to it:
^ All in all, I would definately recomend and buy this shave cream again. Here's my shave of the day photo that I used over on facebook. I threw in some lather for you guys,L.O.L:
The next shave will be better because this was my 5th shave with this blade and it was extremely dull so the next shave will be with a brand new Gillette Silver Blue DE blade. I've got one more soap review left and that's the Proraso white and then I'll pretty much do a general review on Proraso in general because I've done tried all of their soaps and creams in general. I don't want to try Proraso's styptic gel or aftershaves because I pretty much know what I'll get out of them in terms of use and I already have a really good idea as to what works for me in that category.
^ The scent is awesome. It resembles a cologne that used to be made here in the U.S. back in the mid to late 1990's called "Boss Elements" only it doesn't have the woody undertones that the cologne had which I use to love. It's a nice masculine type of a scent that the ladies seem to love. The slickness and cushioning ability that the pre-shave has is beyond belief. Now if you're using Proraso's creams or soaps then it will hold up better than most but not as good as it normally does due to Proraso's thirst properties. You're better off using Proraso's pre-shave stuff with Proraso's creams and soaps IMO which I think they done on purpose myself. The ingredients list was a little hard to photograph, but I managed to get a couple of photos. Here's the first one:
The second photo was taken without a flash so I could capture the pre-shave gel's ingredients list sorry it wasn't to clear:
The amount you need to use before shaving is a drop that's about the size of your thumbnail. The price point isn't to good on the pre-shave gel. I paid $21.99 dollars for it at Westcoast Shaving and got a 1.75 ounce tube which gives it a price point of $12.57 per ounce for the pre-shave gel. That's a little bit on the extreme side, but you don't need alot which is a good thing. I just wish you got a little bit more product for the price. Now onto the cream. The same great scent that I mentioned earlier only without the woody undertones:
The slickness was really good, but not quite as good as the All natural formula is. The cushioning ability was excellent. I had more than enough protection through out the entire shave. Combined with a Gillette Silver Blue DE blade, it seems very hard to cut yourself even with a Merkur 37C Slantbar. Here's the ingredient list on the back of the container which was alot easier to photograph than the gel was because of the white label with black ink:
This cream is indeed a lather monster so be carefull on how much cream you use. At first I thought I didn't use enough cream because it does take a slightly bit more effort to build a good lather compared to the all natural formual. Here's what it looks like when I first opened it:
^ It has a medium level of softness to it. You can stand your brush up in it, but it will not stand on its own for very long. Here's how much cream I used:
^ Like I said earlier, it's a lather monster. At first I thought I didn't use enough cream so I added a another dolop of cream and worked it a little bit more and got this:
The lather does slowly disipate a bit but that can be fixed by working the cream in between passes. In fact the more you work it, the better it gets. This was after the 2nd pass:
The lather does have some staying power to it if you work it between passes. This was taken after a 4 pass shave with a Merkur 37C slant bar:
^ The post shave felt really good. It was nice and smooth and had a small amount of slickness to it, but it also had that clean and fresh feeling to it as well and the scent is really good. The cream did not leave any residue on my shaving equipment which gives it a clean rinsing characteristic to it:
^ All in all, I would definately recomend and buy this shave cream again. Here's my shave of the day photo that I used over on facebook. I threw in some lather for you guys,L.O.L:
The next shave will be better because this was my 5th shave with this blade and it was extremely dull so the next shave will be with a brand new Gillette Silver Blue DE blade. I've got one more soap review left and that's the Proraso white and then I'll pretty much do a general review on Proraso in general because I've done tried all of their soaps and creams in general. I don't want to try Proraso's styptic gel or aftershaves because I pretty much know what I'll get out of them in terms of use and I already have a really good idea as to what works for me in that category.
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