If you want to get a little bolder, Cremo now comes in four new scents: Sandalwood and “ Cooling” (with peppermint, menthol and tea tree oil) for men who want a bit of tingle after a shave and Lavender Bliss or Coconut Mango scents for women who want a botanical vibe. In 2018, Cremo started selling an exclusive Bourbon scent at WalMart.

Botanical extracts (from plants with non-medicinal beneficial properties) can soothe irritation and provide extra moisture for dry skin. We’ve used a brush in our demonstration pictures to show just how foamy each sample is in a more uniform way, but our testers weren’t using brushes for the shaving data we collected. Canned shaving cream Cocoa butter, shea oil, lanolin, aloe, glycerine and other ingredients help moisturize skin after most of the skin oil has been washed and scraped away during a close shave. Other additives like menthol, eucalyptus and witch hazel will tone and soothe skin. (Note that excessive use of ‘toning’ botanicals can irritate some sensitive skin or lead to allergic reactions, as was the case with Proraso and Nivea for one of our testers.) Economy If you really want a canned product, but want more protection than old-school foam offers, this is probably your best buy. It performs very much like Aveeno’s “Therapeutic” gel (they both note colloidal oatmeal as a key ingredient), but Edge typically sells for a dollar less per can (maybe even less if you get it on sale). Between the two, Edge seems to protect a bit more, while Aveeno gets you a closer shave.

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While there are no fragrance ingredients, this does smell like salad oil. Most of the scented formulas that you can find online are said to have only very, very mild fragrances; the lavender or “Natural Man” versions are reportedly the only ones with a lasting scent. Beard-wearers note: if you rub leftover Taylor of Old Bond Street shaving lather into your facial hair you might never buy beard oil again: the cocoa-seed butter makes this a great conditioner.

For guys who crave a chill shave, Lab Series for Men Cooling Shave Gel's menthol and peppermint extract work together for a frosty face refreshment. Cremo shaving cream offers a close, smooth shave and claims to leave skin “astonishingly smooth” because of its unique texture. Instead of becoming a lather or foam, the cream mixes with water to create a substance more accurately described as a lubricant. Contains ingredients like water, Palmitic Acid, and Triethanolamine. See the label for a complete ingredient list.

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The number of shaving products on the market is staggering. On one end of the scale, the major health and cosmetics brands have shaving product lines worth billions. On the other end, there are also limited-quantity batches of artisan soaps made for shaving aficionados.

Let’s dig a little deeper and discuss where you can find it, and the different options available based on skin type and scent. Recommendations and opinions about shaving products abound on the internet. A diverse cast of characters has devoted their time to shaving info: guys like straightrazorplace.com’s Lynn Abrams, all the Youtube shaving-how-to celebrities, podcasters, wiki editors and helpful forum commenters. For this review we compiled long lists of popular products and combed the forums for information about regional availability of everyone’s favourite tubes and tubs. Parabens and sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) have made many lists of “ingredients to watch out for,” despite reassurances from most researchers and regulators that the compounds are quite safe at the concentrations we see in products like shaving cream.That said, the most frequent complaints we saw in our blind test are probably related to all-natural botanical ingredients: one of our testers got a rash from both Proraso and Nivea creams, which contain eucalyptus and chamomile respectively.