How many "consumables" do you use in your usual shave?

[ateace]

Hmmm...specifially for my face, I use:

1.) Shampoo -- hair, face, neck all at the same time in the shower.
2.) Blade
3.) Shaving cream or soap
4.) AS product - usually one per shave, but sometimes two. Splash, balm, WH, etc.

 

[BarbaGnosa]

Interesting to see extended economically and environmentally aware consumables vs. product research traditional lists. Since my shower is a shave prep in part, I'll include those things used for shower pre-shave. Since the OP seems focused on traditional product research consumables, so will I.
Usual:

1. Shower Face wash: Dr. Bronners Pure Castile soap
2. Sink Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Lyme pre-shave, oil, or Noxzema
3. Lather: Cream or Soap
4. Blade
5. Alum block
6. General Facial Moisturizer: currently Olay
7. Intense spot moisturizer on my lips, goatee, mustache, neck, and any areas of irritation: Burt's Bees Hand Salve
8. Aftershave: currently Clubman

Occasional:

1. More than one sink pre-shave, I've started experimenting with combining Musgo followed by oil or Noxzema
2. super or uber lathers containing a soap + cream
3. I've started experimenting with doctoring lathers with a couple of drops of glycerin and/or lanolin, which enables me to get a pretty good or even great lather out of just about any soap or cream.
4. styptic pencil
5. cortisone 10 cream (for irritations, niks)
6. Bag Balm as alternative or additive to Burt's Bees Salve

 

[gsurko]

Wash face with any old soap.
Shaving soap
Str8

 

[Redstickjohn]

Water
Soap
Blade
Aftershave

 

[mikey]

Face Wash

Shave Gel
Blade
After Shave

Styptic Pencil (as needed)

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Howl1nWolf]

1. Coconut/lemon soap to wash face.
2. Proraso pre-shave cream
3. Glycerin based shave soap.
4. Blade
5. Coconut oil on neck and EJ aloe aftershave on the rest of my face/head

 

[MrLara]

In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.

 

[oldbluelight]

Hmmm? I kinda wondering if the towels and wash clothes should count? After all they do wear out. And let's not forget the light bulbs and the the plumbing fixtures, again consumed over time. Anyway I use all that and Ivory soap, a brush that will wear out eventually, a razor, again a definite if extended life span, a blade, shaving soap, lather bowl, subject to breakage, witch hazel, after shave and lots of hot water. OH yeah, the ultimate, irreplacable consumable - time. I mean when it's gone - it's really gone. I guess you could say it goes down the drain with every shave.

 

[Wyokid]

1. Hot water
2. Pro Shave pre-shave with hot moist towels
3. Glycerine
4. TOBS, Trumpers or DR Harris cream
5. Shaving Oil prior to 3rd pass
6. AOS Alum block
7. Trumper's Sandalwood Skin Food
8. Jack Black Dragon Ice for irritation
9. Zirh Protect