Overrated Shaving Stuff

Mdc and wickham soaps Trumpers creams and most British hard soaps bar DR Harris.


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1. Catie's Bubbles LPV and Quatre Cent Vingt. These are two of Catie's most loved soaps. Chris Bailey, a trustworthy source, calls LPV the "Soap of the Gods." I do love my Catie's Ocean Grove. But these two made me feel like I was shaving with fire ants. 

4. Trumper's Skin Food and Shaving Creams. The skin food just felt sort of sticky and didn't do much for me. The shaving creams were just okay. 

I love the performance during the shave of my Catie's Bubbles soaps, but I do wish they had a little more going on in the after shaving face feel department. LPV is my favorite, though. Thank goodness I'm not sensitive to many scents.


I find that Skin Food (and any balm/gel with a lot of glycerin in it) works best if your face is damp when you put on. Glycerin is a humectant, so it wants water. If it gets what it needs, it gets absorbed. If not, it kinda gums up. I rinse my face, then just pat with a towel before putting it on.

1. Catie's Bubbles LPV and Quatre Cent Vingt. These are two of Catie's most loved soaps. Chris Bailey, a trustworthy source, calls LPV the "Soap of the Gods." I do love my Catie's Ocean Grove. But these two made me feel like I was shaving with fire ants. 

4. Trumper's Skin Food and Shaving Creams. The skin food just felt sort of sticky and didn't do much for me. The shaving creams were just okay. 

I love the performance during the shave of my Catie's Bubbles soaps, but I do wish they had a little more going on in the after shaving face feel department. LPV is my favorite, though. Thank goodness I'm not sensitive to many scents.


I find that Skin Food (and any balm/gel with a lot of glycerin in it) works best if your face is damp when you put on. Glycerin is a humectant, so it wants water. If it gets what it needs, it gets absorbed. If not, it kinda gums up. I rinse my face, then just pat with a towel before putting it on.

Thanks for the Skin Food tip. If I run across it again I'll make sure to add plenty of water to my face. If I didn't have a bunch of new balms I'd be tempted to get a bottle and give it another go.

A few products that get a lot of praise..
- A&E signature
- Blackland blackbird
- M&F knots
Only my opinion of course

anything small batch .why bother advertising it,just sell it to your buddies..its more like gloating..

Mostly, all "artisanal" items out there.

Can't speak much for the modern stuff but can comment on the vintage. First off let me preface this with I've never meet any piece of shave gear that was so good that I couldn't live without it. With that said some stuff does perform better than others but non to that level for me. Other thing to keep in mind if you shave like a honey badger the differences will be more pronounced, if you don't then less so.

So onto the most overrated vintage gear in my opinion using based on shaving like honey badger don't give a damn with them.

1. Gillette Fatboy - it is not that it doesn't perform, it is that it doesn't perform to the hyped levels this razor has gotten. It is nowhere near so good that a Gillette Slim or any of the Super adjustables just are nowhere in the same league. The opposite is true here and as such it is an overhyped and overpriced razor that deserves neither.

2. Schick Type F injector - Another one that has been hyped up by a few people in wet shaving communities, maybe to chum the waters for the sharks before selling theirs or people telling you how awesome they are and therefor the razor is by owning it not how awesome it is when they sing it's praises. For a razor so awesome and rare all of a sudden you can find 2 of them at minimum for sale these days when the price went north of $100 for them after being hyped up. If they were so awesome people wouldn't be selling them now that the price went like they weren't before when they were going for much less. I've owned one and it is nothing remarkable for a mild razor.

Can't speak much for the modern stuff but can comment on the vintage. First off let me preface this with I've never meet any piece of shave gear that was so good that I couldn't live without it. With that said some stuff does perform better than others but non to that level for me. Other thing to keep in mind if you shave like a honey badger the differences will be more pronounced, if you don't then less so.

So onto the most overrated vintage gear in my opinion using based on shaving like honey badger don't give a damn with them.

1. Gillette Fatboy - it is not that it doesn't perform, it is that it doesn't perform to the hyped levels this razor has gotten. It is nowhere near so good that a Gillette Slim or any of the Super adjustables just are nowhere in the same league. The opposite is true here and as such it is an overhyped and overpriced razor that deserves neither.

I am so glad to see this.  Those are my feelings exactly and because of the hype the Fat Boy has received, I thought I was the only one.  Both my Slim and Super Adjustable easily outperform my Fat Boy.

Understand from experts that the door alignment critical to these Gillette TTO. Is it possible they weren’t perfectly aligned? Personally never had a good shave with any classic Gillette TTO but, to be fair, never had a properly restored razor

My 2 cents: Mitchell’s Wool Fat.