Palmolive Shaving Cream
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Occams Razor
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Great video, but after about 1:20, you're well into diminishing returns territory. Even the lather I get from a quick on-the-face workup with Palmolive Original is more than adequate for me, with plenty of cushioning and glide.
Randy
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I agree
TheChrisC
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Sorry to necro this thread but I’ve just done a head shave for the first time in two years (I was using clippers to keep it low, depression killed a lot of my shaving enthusiasm for a couple of years) using the Leaf and a freshly bought tube of Palmolive Classic.
Really good stuff! I had used the old shave stick when it was still 50p at the supermarket and that was great. This is a really solid performer. Slick, very mild but pleasant scent and nice post-shave. Great little budget cream that punches well above its price point IMO. Takes lots of water, and I like my lather similar to my dear pal @Randy!
Really good stuff! I had used the old shave stick when it was still 50p at the supermarket and that was great. This is a really solid performer. Slick, very mild but pleasant scent and nice post-shave. Great little budget cream that punches well above its price point IMO. Takes lots of water, and I like my lather similar to my dear pal @Randy!
MntnMan62
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This I understand all too well. I haven't been wet shaving now for most of the time since COVID. Depression has been the main reason. I lost the desire for lots of things I used to love. Shaving. Biking. Drumming. Only during the last two weeks have I seem to have refound my passion for shaving. Drumming is a work in progress but I'm still having a tough time focusing and practicing consistently. And forget biking. I haven't been on the bike in a couple years. I plan to change that in the spring. I'm a big talker. But talk is cheap. It's an insidious disease.
Estariol
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I wish this might help inspire you at least a little bit: i don't know if you are familiar with it, but there is a youtube channel, "El Estepario Siberiano". He's a drummer with skills out of this world, and after a bit of research and watching some videos, i found out he defeated his depression after embracing drumming.
TheChrisC
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Absolutely man! I lost both my parents in under two years, my Dad to COVID in 2020. After that I just found myself completely weighed down by everything in life. Depression falls into not taking care of your hygiene, and then the shaving goes. I became a shut in and just shut the world out. Social worker and therapy has helped enormously, and I really wanted 2025 to be the year I begin getting back into the hobby and practising self care again.
I suppose the bonus is that the absence taught me that I don’t need a million soaps and razors, that I can make do with a few things at a time. That’s been a valuable lesson.
I’m a big talker too so I totally get it. It’s a constant battle really and I know I’ll likely never win the war against it, but the battles are winnable if you can push through. I’m taking it every day as it comes now.
MntnMan62
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Thanks guys. Yeah. My issues really started back in around 2016. My dad passed away. Then I lost my job. Then several years later I got divorced after 30 years. I think she left me because I was basically sleeping all the time. I wasn't going out or socializing. I wasn't doing anything. In hindsight she did me a favor because through therapy I realized she was also part of my issues and I also realized that she was part of the problem going all the way back to when we first got married. I was just too stupid to realize it. Don't get me wrong. I am NOT blaming my circumstances on her. But I realized just how toxic she was for me. Ironically, I was stressing out (I do that a lot) about a band rehearsal that was tonight. I hadn't really been putting in the time to learn the tunes and was just relying on my innate ability, which is pretty good, but not nearly sufficient enough to pull it off. So this week I put the time in and I just got back from that rehearsal. The guys were like "You've been putting some work in haven't you?" That really made me feel good. The entire rehearsal went really well. And the other band I'm in is also coming along. So I do have some positives to latch onto. But I also still have LOTS of work to do to get myself back to a fully functioning individual. Nice to know I'm not alone. I too have basically shut myself in. I kept the house in the divorce and I've been using my home as a crutch to keep from having to deal with the real world. It's really easy to do. I guess all any of us can really is not give up, keep plugging along and persevere. Thanks for listening and sharing your perspectives. It really does help, a lot more than you know.