The time and concentration required to get a perfect shave, the potential for nicks, the post-shave dry skin… who wants to deal with all the hassle? However, In the last couple of weeks though, I’ve changed my tune. I was shopping at Trader Joe’s a few weeks back when I passed their beauty products and soaps in my search for my favorite cereal.

Now, I’m a big believer in organic, free-range, hormone-free, preservative-free, locally grown, all-natural, blah blah blah foods, but I’m wary of any of those terms applied to my beauty products.

I don’t doubt that a lot of natural ingredients are effective, but I’m paying for all the R&D cosmetics companies pour into turning the latest and greatest technology into products that show significant results. Better living through chemicals, my friends. But I digress… while I was browsing the many bottles of hand soap, I came across a large, bright orange tube of shaving cream. The fun packaging and promise of honey mango scent (I’m sucker for exotic fruity scents) made me pick it up, and when I saw the price ($2.99!) I decided to take it home and test it out.

As if it wasn’t already obvious, I should mention that I’ve never given much thought to my shaving cream. I buy the Aveeno Shave Gel, because I have sensitive skin and hate the scent of all the Skintimate products, but I’m pretty ambivalent about it. But a couple days later when I was getting ready for a special dinner with my boyfriend, I decided to try it.

I’m used to using gel and foam formulas, but the Trader Joe’s Shave is a cream, which you squeeze out of a plastic flip top, which makes for convenient application. It’s thick and creamy (duh) and smells FANTASTIC, a mix of mango and coconut that reminds me of my favorite mango sorbet. Yum.It goes on fairly translucent, so it’s not as easy to see where you’ve shaved, but this is my only complaint about the product. My razor seemed to glide on easier, and though it may be in my head, it certainly felt like a closer shave. But when I got out of the shower, my legs felt amazing, super soft and moisturized, not raw and sensitive as they often are after I shave.

They also smelled like mango/coconut (though this didn’t last long). I also still had to apply lotion, but with my dry skin, I really have no choice.I’m not going to go as far as to say that I like shaving now, but I have to say that I actually kind of look forward to it. I really hope that Trader Joe’s comes out with more products with this scent, because I’m kind of addicted (I sniffed the tube about 5 times while writing this post, all in the name of accurate reporting).

If you’re looking to upgrade your shaving product and have a Trader Joe’s in your area, you should definitely check out their Moisturizing Cream Shave. It’s good enough that I plan on giving some tubes to friends for Christmas gifts. Oh, and it’s for men and women, so if you know a guy who could use a smoother shave, you could offer to share your tube… then again, for $2.99, it might be better to just buy him his own. You’ll want to keep your tube to yourself.

posted Fri, Jan 05

on Faking Good Breeding

Originally Syndicated via RSS from Coutorture

January 5th, 2007
Categories: Beauty . Author: Kat

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