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Clay Face
Honolulu, Hawaii
(This post was last modified: 02-14-2017, 02:56 AM by Bouki.)
Unscented Preshave Butter (Mickey Lee Soapworks) & Rose de Pushkar (Le Père Lucien)
Mickey Lee’s Preshave Butter may be the best addition to my den this year. I have a rack of lean vegetal soaps that smell terrific but leave my skin tight and tender. Until conditions are perfect or curiosity throws caution aside, they gather dust on the shelf. I think they will be coming off the bench much more often now thanks to this preshave butter. It lays down a moist base and takes care of the post shave drying that may lead to irritation. A blend of coconut oil, glycerin, avocado oil, sweet almond oil, and jojoba oil, it smells like a light vegetable oil, but not so much as to interfere with the aroma of your soap. It’s easy to use. Wet your face, rub a small dollop of the butter between your hands, and then massage it into your skin. It goes on a bit sticky, so pat it again with some water and let it soak in while you make your lather.
Rose de Pushkar smells as sweet as any bud in the garden, but its lather has a tendency to dry out after about seven minutes. What starts as a plush, thick, velvety cushion sometimes flattens into a bumpy, irritating froth. Mickey Lee’s preshave butter doesn’t hold the lather together longer, but it helps protect my face at the end of the second pass when things start to get crumbly. And after I'm done scraping – ah, relief – no tightness, no tingling.
Mickey Lee’s Preshave Butter may be the best addition to my den this year. I have a rack of lean vegetal soaps that smell terrific but leave my skin tight and tender. Until conditions are perfect or curiosity throws caution aside, they gather dust on the shelf. I think they will be coming off the bench much more often now thanks to this preshave butter. It lays down a moist base and takes care of the post shave drying that may lead to irritation. A blend of coconut oil, glycerin, avocado oil, sweet almond oil, and jojoba oil, it smells like a light vegetable oil, but not so much as to interfere with the aroma of your soap. It’s easy to use. Wet your face, rub a small dollop of the butter between your hands, and then massage it into your skin. It goes on a bit sticky, so pat it again with some water and let it soak in while you make your lather.
Rose de Pushkar smells as sweet as any bud in the garden, but its lather has a tendency to dry out after about seven minutes. What starts as a plush, thick, velvety cushion sometimes flattens into a bumpy, irritating froth. Mickey Lee’s preshave butter doesn’t hold the lather together longer, but it helps protect my face at the end of the second pass when things start to get crumbly. And after I'm done scraping – ah, relief – no tightness, no tingling.
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