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Over the next few weeks, I'm going to use and react to 9 facial cleansing products. I'm on a quest to find a replacement for my lifetime soap, which will also be my baseline soap - Musgo Real Lime Glyce Soap. I used it daily in the shower before the shave, for years. Then, it was joined by Kiehl's Facial Fuel, which I'll also react to. Well, the Musgo is harder and harder to find, and the last two times I purchased it, the stock was clearly very old, and roughly handled. Like the last one out of a very old box.
Ach Brito, who makes (made?) the Musgo soap, also makes a Lime Glyce soap under their own brand, that in all practical and reasonable respects is the same soap as the Musgo puck, except the smell. I still prefer Musgo, but I fear the writing is on the wall.
So I'm starting a search for a new soap to use to help hydrate my beard and clean my face gently. I have assembled the following products:
1. Musgo Real Lime Glyce (the baseline)
2. Neutrogena original formula facial bar
3. Cetaphil Daily Facial Cleanser
4. CeraVe Foaming Facial Cleanser
5. Kiehl's Facial Fuel
6. Nivea Men Moisturizing Face Wash
7. Thayer's Ph Balancing Daily Cleanser
8. LaRoche Posay Hydrating Gentle Cleanser
9. King C. Gillette Beard & Face Wash
This is not an exhaustive list in any sense except that it is what was available at the local Walgreens. If I find the need, I'll continue on to an Autumn of whatever different is at CVS, but I'll worry about that if I have to.
So, my plan, life events permitting, is to use each product for a week, and then decide if I want to give it another week. For the project, two weeks with a product should give me some sense of questions like drying out or oiling up with use, and more time to shave with whiskers that have been thoroughly massaged with this stuff to see if there's any noticeable effect on the whiskers, when compared to the baseline.
So I'll try each one and write up my experiences, in turn.
I have no plans to rank them, but if I have a problem with one, or if I have a clear favorite, I'll try and explain why.
My first post will be about Musgo Real Lime Glyce and Kiehl's, which I already know, so I'll use that post to try and develop a picture of what I'm looking for in a shave prep soap, and why I've used these soaps so much for so long, and why I switch between them.
I'm not inclined to pretend I'm doing some kind of controlled experiment. My goal is to describe and compare my experiences meaningfully. I won't recommend anyone putting a particular product on their face, but I feel free to recommend against it, should I encounter a compelling reason.
That being said, I do not plan on changing other elements of my prep or my shave. Impulsive whimsy after lots of pondering is just too important a part of the fun of setting up my shave of the day. This is all about the role of these cleansers in prepping my face for a shave.
If you have any advice about how this could be most excellently done, I welcome it!
Frank
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Ach Brito, who makes (made?) the Musgo soap, also makes a Lime Glyce soap under their own brand, that in all practical and reasonable respects is the same soap as the Musgo puck, except the smell. I still prefer Musgo, but I fear the writing is on the wall.
So I'm starting a search for a new soap to use to help hydrate my beard and clean my face gently. I have assembled the following products:
1. Musgo Real Lime Glyce (the baseline)
2. Neutrogena original formula facial bar
3. Cetaphil Daily Facial Cleanser
4. CeraVe Foaming Facial Cleanser
5. Kiehl's Facial Fuel
6. Nivea Men Moisturizing Face Wash
7. Thayer's Ph Balancing Daily Cleanser
8. LaRoche Posay Hydrating Gentle Cleanser
9. King C. Gillette Beard & Face Wash
This is not an exhaustive list in any sense except that it is what was available at the local Walgreens. If I find the need, I'll continue on to an Autumn of whatever different is at CVS, but I'll worry about that if I have to.
So, my plan, life events permitting, is to use each product for a week, and then decide if I want to give it another week. For the project, two weeks with a product should give me some sense of questions like drying out or oiling up with use, and more time to shave with whiskers that have been thoroughly massaged with this stuff to see if there's any noticeable effect on the whiskers, when compared to the baseline.
So I'll try each one and write up my experiences, in turn.
I have no plans to rank them, but if I have a problem with one, or if I have a clear favorite, I'll try and explain why.
My first post will be about Musgo Real Lime Glyce and Kiehl's, which I already know, so I'll use that post to try and develop a picture of what I'm looking for in a shave prep soap, and why I've used these soaps so much for so long, and why I switch between them.
I'm not inclined to pretend I'm doing some kind of controlled experiment. My goal is to describe and compare my experiences meaningfully. I won't recommend anyone putting a particular product on their face, but I feel free to recommend against it, should I encounter a compelling reason.
That being said, I do not plan on changing other elements of my prep or my shave. Impulsive whimsy after lots of pondering is just too important a part of the fun of setting up my shave of the day. This is all about the role of these cleansers in prepping my face for a shave.
If you have any advice about how this could be most excellently done, I welcome it!
Frank
Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk