July 5, 2023 – A Can and a Man with a Plan
- Brush: Omega 11126, Ovangkol Wooden Handle
- Razor: Fatip Piccolo
- Blade: Personna Platinum Chrome (1)
- Preshave: Baxter Shave Tonic
- Lather: Old Spice – Can
- Post Shave: Old Spice – Indian
I really have to apologize for that Air Bud Rules guy. No idea what’s going on with him but hopefully he doesn’t crap up anymore.
Today I am 100% using canned shave goop but I am not 100% sure I’ll be getting any credit for it because this is a truly ancient can of Old Spice’s shaving foam, which they no longer make. I’m not sure one should actually something like out loud and make the judges DQing your points easier but let see what happens here.
This can of Old Spice shave soap is probably ten years old and possibly one of the last of its kind on planet earth. While you can pick up some vintage ones for far more than one should pay for canned goop on eBay I’ve never seen one from the last run on there. I honestly only use it once in a very, very little while because it is almost empty. In fact, every time I use it I’m pretty sure it will be the last time I use it because it must be empty, but it miraculously has one more shave in it each time. I picked this can up probably over ten years ago before I started wet shaving and right around the time I heard they were going to discontinue the Old Spice canned goop for good. I bought 12 cans at once from some supplier in Canada (I think) because even then I was a bit obsessed.
This can is the last of those 12 and I, honestly, was probably never going to use it again, letting it sit in the back corner of my bathroom cabinet like an old friend. I used Old Spice shaving foam since I started shaving and its discontinuation and the slow death of this can actually led me to wetshaving and this wonderful community where, despite my best efforts, I’ve made some great friends. This can, sitting there, represented a bit of that, not to mention a whole slew of shaving memories. But I pulled it out, cleared of the dust, from the lid, popped it opened and prayed that I’d get “just one more.” And I did. Old Spice canned goop lives to shave another day!
Of course, the issue is that while this canned goop was once prevalent on any and every store shelf in America that supplied the world with goopy cans of shaving foam it is no longer. You can’t pick it up and the rules (damn them) say that it needs to be geographically close. Obviously, most people don’t hold on to long discontinued cans of shaving foam or if they do find one they throw it the fuck out because why would you keep it? I think the rules were written around that assumption and laid out this way to ensure no arguments for what is canned goop.
Yes, the ex-Air Bud guy, is once again eying a loophole but not one that will shake the very foundations of the Games themselves as before. One built out nostalgia and a serious issue with throwing once ubiquitous shaving foam away.
A perfect original scent? Hmmmm, it would have top notes of citrus and spice, floral mid notes, and a musky base of sorts. I'd probably brand it with a boat or something and call it something Spice... or Old something. Something like that.