Later On

A couple we know through The Wife’s job is having a big holiday open-house today, so a shave seemed appropriate.

The thing on the left is Edwin Jagger Hydrating Pre-Shave Cream. It is unlike a pre-shave oil, and in an unusual turn, the product page lists things that are NOT in the product (e.g., parabens) but does not list the ingredients actually used. I’m a little taken aback by this approach, especially since the list of things not in the product is woefully incomplete (for example, I expect that list includes also coal tar, bananas, pencil shavings, …  a very long list), and we’re completely in the dark about things the product contains, that being of interest to people with allergies and skin sensitivities. I think we can take it as read that the product includes water (aqua), but what else? Don’t know.

Does it work? It’s hard to say after only one use, but it seems possible: unlike shaving oils, this product did not seem to interfere with the lather. OTOH, to determine whether it truly helps, one has to use it for a while. Certainly not a night-and-day difference, but I did get a very nice shave today, for which this may be partially responsible.

I also used, as you see, Martin de Candre soap, and once again picked up the Omega 11047 boar+badger brush. It works more like badger than like boar, BTW, and it does a super job.

The S3S with its Personna 74 blade performed superbly, as usual, and three passes later I was splashing on the Pashana.

UPDATE: In comments, someone in effect wanted the ingredients of the EJ cream:

Aqua, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Glycerin, Alcohol Denat, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Cetearyl Alcohol, Titanium Dioxide, Menthol, Cetearyl Glucoside, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Zinc Oxide, Equisetum Arvense Extract, Arnica Montana Flower Extract, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Xanthan Gum, Camphor, Menthyl Lactate,  Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Magnesium Nitrate, Magmesium Chloride.

For comparison, the ingredients of Noxema Deep Cleansing Cream:

Water, Stearic Acid, Linum Usitatissimum Seed Oil (Linseed), Glycine Soja Oil (Soybean), Fragrance, Ammonium Hydroxide, Camphor, Menthol, Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Oil, Propylene Glycol, Gelatin, Calcium Hydroxide

The commenter suggested that the two products are the same. I don’t see that.