Jun. 18, 2024 - Old Spice
- Prep: Shower, Baxter Shave Tonic
- Brush: Heritage Shaving C-Mon 28 mm
- Razor: Star DE (1940s)
- Blade: Personna Platinum (1)
- Lather: Shulton - Old Spice
- Post Shave: Old Spice (1950s)
I could have gone with OSP today, which I'm pretty sure is shut down once again after a brief re-opening in 2022. But I like to make the judges think a bit. Really scratch their heads, you know. Of course, their decisions are always the right ones but why make that decision black and white? What's the fun in being a judge if no one is making you creatively judge. In short, you're welcome, judges.
And so I chose my 1950s vintage Old Spice soap, which came in the mug in the photograph. Of course, Old Spice still exists and still, in fact, has a shaving cream. So how does this fit into today? Well, this mug and soap was made by Shulton, the original company that made Old Spice and a company that is no longer around today. See Old spice is a brand, not a company and is now owned by P&G. However, this product is not from P&G, it is from Shulton and Shulton no longer exists. This isn't a rebrand either since the soap is still Old Spice and Shulton is not P&G rebranded. As such, I think we're all in line here for this soap to be considered from a dead wet shaving company.
Let's all pour one out for Shulton.
EDIT: I'm realizing the soap I used and that is in the photo in the box is a 1970-80s puck. Still Shulton, though.
In leu of writing the once a month w_e request for good Old Spice dupes that go up over there on the regular I will instead replicate the community members from both here and there's responses to said posts.
ahem...
"u/cowzilla3 is your guy."
"Old Spice? u/cowzilla3"
"Yo, u/cowzilla3"
"There's that guy who does the Old Spice reviews. I can't remember his name but he could help."
and my personal favorite...
"u/cowzilla3"
(For real, thank you for tagging me because I don't pay attention that much over there and I do like spreading the knowledge)