Shaving Foam or Shaving Cream | Which is Best for Shaving?

Do men need shaving foam or shaving cream to shave?

You will come across dozens of options when it comes to shaving foams and creams. The choices are endless but the question remains: which one do you choose and why?

In this article you will find the difference between the two so you can easily choose the best option.

Beards are much harder on the skin and if you try to shave without any protection between your face and any razor or traditional razor you will probably not have an extremely unpleasant experience that we would not recommend.

What you need to do for a proper and safe shave is to put some shaving foam or create foam with a traditional shaving cream or traditional shaving soap to make the shaving blade or a traditional safety razor, creating less chance of irritation.

Whatever you choose to shave, the use of a shaving foam or cream - soap should meet the following:

Keep your skin hydrated during shaving.

Have a layer of protection between the safety razor and your skin,  to help keep the skin as hydrated as possible to avoid irritation.

For some men shaving is a routine, where they may not see the huge difference. But for others who are looking for and want to make the shaving experience more enjoyable, one key question is:

What to choose, Shaving Foam or Traditional Shaving Cream: What's the Difference?

Shaving foams.

Shaving foams are a product that was discovered relatively recently, in the early 1960s, after the Second World War.

As a product it is widely used worldwide and many prefer it because of its ease of use, variety and availability and many prefer it for the immediacy of creating foam.

It is essentially a cream with lubricating agents in liquid form packaged together with some pressurized gas in a metal container.

The creation of the shaving foam is immediate since by pressing the valve located at the top of the container the gas comes out together with the cream and foam is created. Simple, austere and effective.

However, it should be mentioned that the shaving foam that comes from a container is just enough to help you have a mediocre shave.

But why;

 As mentioned above, shaving foam is a quick and immediate solution while the materials used for the immediate production of foam do not have the necessary ingredients to give the ultimate result for your facial skin.

If you shave daily with shaving foam, the result will be that the foam will leave your facial skin damaged and dehydrated, depending of course on the hardness of your generations.

Therefore, shaving foam that clearly contains chemical ingredients and additives, to keep it in its container, is not the number one choice for the health of your skin, if of course you want something more.

Its practicality is positive, since you do not need to use a brush to create foam and that is why it is still a preference for many.

On the other hand, there is a much better solution than shaving foams - traditional shaving creams as well as traditional shaving soaps.

Traditional shaving creams.

Compared to shaving foam, they are quite different in both composition and function.

In recent years they have begun to gain a large audience again since the quality of their materials is of a higher class than that of shaving foams and many are those who realize that they want a superior quality shave.

Traditional shaving creams or soaps are a much denser formula of lubricants and moisturizing ingredients that, when mixed with water and treated with a shaving brush, create a rich and creamy lather that moisturizes and protects the skin during shaving.

Until a few years ago it was very difficult to find traditional shaving creams. Nowadays there is a huge variety as they are available in specialty stores with razors, but also in department stores.

Also, the use of a shaving brush is essential.

So unlike shaving foam, traditional shaving creams are better. Their ingredients are more natural, with little or no chemical additives and their composition is specially designed to protect the skin.

It should be noted that traditional shaving creams can easily clog any commercial razor with many blades (4-5 blades) as their texture is richer, so it is advisable to shave with a traditional safety razor in case you decide to use some traditional shaving cream.

Various oils such as jojoba oil and shea butter, argan oil but also formulas with animal fat, offer a higher quality slipperiness and protection of the skin while the difference of protection, slipperiness and hydration of the skin of a traditional shaving cream compared to a shaving foam is incomparable.

With the help of the shaving brush, the foam created with a traditional shaving cream and then applied with the shaving brush help to soften the beard and lift and can quickly penetrate into the hair follicles.

This is why you feel that shaving is so easy after you have worked the shaving cream on your face.

The choice is yours !