I recently decided to forgo the typical aerosol can shaving cream and return to the old school method of lathering soap with a brush.

It is kinda strange I know to go ‘backwards’ in technology…but there were just a few items I could not get around:

• Packaging waste – I dislike waste and it seemed that each aerosol can contained more packaging waste then a small bar of saving soap. Or, to use different words, an aerosol can is made with metal of which there is a limited supply in the earth. Saving soap is wrapped in a thin cardboard box made of wood which is a renewable crop.

• Lather waste – No matter how hard I tried, I always managed to spray more cream/later out of the aerosol can then I needed. Meaning that the valuable product I bought was being washed down the bathroom sink. With a bush, you can control how much later is ‘created’ and where it goes – meaning less waste and longer lasting shaving soap (not to mention less water!).

• Travel Ease – Since aerosol cans are pressurized, they can not be taken on an airplane, which is a pain because you have to either buy some saving cream at one’s designation, or try to use the shaving cream out of a tube (tried it; don’t like it!). A saving soap and brush, on the other hand, is easy to travel with. Just throw it into your bag and live on; no worries.  🙂

• Coolness Factor – Come on, what is cooler then a 100% natural boar bristle bush and a hand-dipped ceramic bowl?  😀