The Real Shaving Company

[Mick]

My wife brought it home for me when she found it in the sale bin at one of the local grocery stores (no idea why they had it as I had never seen it on the shelf)

Way to go honey!!!!!

 

[wagstaff]

It's $4.99 for a tube at my local Rite-Aid. Definitely good for the price.

 

[Brew Swain]

When it goes on sale at Shoppers I pick up a tube, but at their regular price, I'd rather buy the Proraso. I think they sell for the same amount at Shoppers.

The reason I stopped in was to see if they had the Proraso cream in stock. I have the soap and the pre-shave (love the pre-shave) and I get on well with both, although I think my lathering could be improved. I can't be sure as I am a tactile type of guy, and I do not have a touchable reference. I just thought I would give a cream a run. I'm thinking about face lathering too, but I may wait until St. Nick brings me a new Silvertip brush.

 

[SuperChris]

I have both the "moisturizing" cream and the "sensitive" cream. IMO they are both excellent performers, especially for about $5. I just wish they were scented a little bit better.

 

[BBrad]

Both RSC creams work well for me both bowl and face lathering. The scent may not be to everyone's liking, but they aren't strongly scented and once I rinse my face and splash some clubman the stink is long gone.

 

[pipskicks]

The reason I stopped in was to see if they had the Proraso cream in stock. I have the soap and the pre-shave (love the pre-shave) and I get on well with both, although I think my lathering could be improved. I can't be sure as I am a tactile type of guy, and I do not have a touchable reference. I just thought I would give a cream a run. I'm thinking about face lathering too, but I may wait until St. Nick brings me a new
Silvertip brush.

Next time get noxema. It's the same as the pre shave.

 

[Brew Swain]

Well I tried this out this morning. It performed well but I will have to reserve final judgement until tomorrow. I am working through a blade sampler, and just switched to a Gillette Silver Blue this morning which means that I am unable to give an unbiased opinion. I will switch back to my Proraso soap for tomorrow morning to give me a comparison on both the blade, and the cream.

Pipsticks, i have not seen Noxema in any of my local stores. I'll keep looking though. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks for all of the feedback.

 

[jmsodpc]

For me a site specific Google search always works better than the forum search box.

"Type what you are looking for here without the quotes and add" site:badgerandblade.com

For example the BB site search for RSC would look like this:

Real Shaving Company site:badgerandblade.com

See the search results here.

Great tip.

 

[tacchini]

its one of my favourite creams , a no nonsense shaving cream that works well for me, you can buy it in the uk for about £1 to £1.30 a tube, i find the moisturising one better than the sensative one.

 

[Unadan]

I really like this cream too. I also like the scent - kind of woodsy. It grows on you.

 

[michiganlover]

I have both the "moisturizing" cream and the "sensitive" cream. IMO they are both excellent performers, especially for about $5. I just wish they were scented a little bit better.

The performance of their creams are great. The scent is pretty polarizing though. It's a very earthy scent, that I could never quite love.

 

[Brew Swain]

I can't say that the smell was obnoxious. In fact I cant say that it was anything. It didn't smell too much at all. Perhaps it's me, perhaps they have changed the formula.

 

[Speedwell68]

Well I am amazed!

Another shaving related product that incites polar opinions.

Go figure!

Before I left the UK to move to Canada I was seriously in to air cooled VW's. The endless debate was "which is the best oil for my .........." It seems that every past time and hobby has at least one of these, but shaving! Yikes!

Were you on VZI per chance? I have a '68 Bay and a '81 Mexibug and the best oil 20/50.

 

[Brew Swain]

Were you on VZI per chance? I have a '68 Bay and a '81 Mexibug and the best oil 20/50.

I was on VZI at one time, yes. I also lived in Cornwall. Falmouth to be specific.

 

[5savages]

The scent of the menthol version is pretty nice.

 

[Giant Kiwi]

Like it.
I used it exclusively for about 2 years until I found you lot.

 

[pipskicks]

I can't say that the smell was obnoxious. In fact I cant say that it was anything. It didn't smell too much at all. Perhaps it's me, perhaps they have changed the formula.

That's how mine was, a very generic scent that smells like Ivory soap or something very plain. Maybe even less than Ivory, you're right my tube lacks much of a smell, has a little medicinal-type smell though.

I just checked, mine is "Moisturizing" not sure if it's an old formulation or not.

 

[kw108]

It's a high end cream at a low price, and widely available on the high street. What's not to like?
I have been using it this week and enjoyed it.

 

[NCJack]

I like it alone, and with my DR Harris almond soap, or Williams or VDH for that matter, it makes a terrific superlather with just a "half snurdle".

 

[Mick]

I like it alone, and with my DR Harris almond soap, or Williams or VDH for that matter, it makes a terrific superlather.

I have a tube of TOBS Sandalwood cream that has gone a little south (still smells great but is having trouble lathering) so I squirt a little RS in the scuttle with it and I get mountains of really nice smelling lather