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5.0 out of 5 starsSmells Good, Works Well, Priced Reasonably, No Bad Ingredients
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
Van Der Hagen Shave Butter works well, smells good, contains no questionable ingredients, and is reasonably priced. All those qualities together in one product are nearly impossible to find.
Just identifying a shaving cream or gel that has no undesirable ingredients is going to eliminate at least 95% of the products out there... no exageration... it is extremely rare to find a shaving cream that has ony a small list of mostly natural ingredients... but this is such a "junk free" product.
Once you have identified the fewer than 5% of shaving creams or gels that have an acceptable healthy list of ingredients, you are hit with the next problem: most high quality shaving products (and even most of the low quality ones) are shockingly expensive. The often run $2 to $5 per ounce or more. Some are unashamedly close to $10 per ounce! Particularly the higher end of that pricing scale is absurd, and offensive. I mean, SILVER is $23 per ounce as I write this... are you really going to pay one quarter to one-third of the spot price of SILVER bullion per ounce for your shaving cream? This Van Der Hagen Shave Butter is close to $1 per ounce, which still seems a bit pricey to me, but actually places it among the lowest cost products of its kind.
Next, it smells good. Many shaving products do not.
Finally, it works well. Super thick aerosol shaving creams which create a Santa Claus like layer of whipped cream on your face an inch thick are silly. The only part of that actually providing moisturization and lubrication for your beard is the perhaps 10% of it that is right on your skin... the rest serves no purpose. This product does not foam up thick and tall... it just creates a thin layer exactly where you need it... on your skin.
I have not found anything better.
