My Favorite Shaving Cream - Discontinued! Edge ActiveCare Shave Cream has been discontinued. I am sad and frustrated because it was the best shaving cream I've used in over a quarter of a century. It is rich and creamy, helps the razor glide across my face and slice through my beard, rinses clean, and leaves my face feeling calm and moisturized! It's not drying or sticky the way so many other shaving creams are. And now it's gone! My husband loves it too, and this is our last tube of it. I looked online, and you can't even get this stuff on EBay anymore. (Someone was selling it for $10 a tube, but they ran out. Someone else was selling it on Amazon for $14 a tube, and only had 5 left as of last night.)
But there is a sliver of good news. I called S.C. Johnson & Son just now to verify that the product had been discontinued and to request that they start making it again. They told me that the product was, indeed, discontinued in March, but they also told me something great. When they discontinued it, they bought it back from retailers so they could sell it by mail order to customers who loved it enough to call and ask about it. And they're not selling it for $10 or $14 a tube-- they're selling it for $4 a tube plus shipping and handling. I just bought four cases, six tubes per case! The shelf life is two years, so that should last me and my husband for the next couple of years or so. Sure, I could buy a bunch of cases and sell it on EBay for a profit, but I'm going to do loyal Edge ActiveCare customers a favor: just call S.C. Johnson & Son at 800-558-5252, tell them you wish they would put Edge ActiveCare Shave Cream back on the market, and order a case of six for yourself while supplies last. No, I am not employed by S.C. Johnson & Son. I just love this product and want to get it back on the market. Selling it on EBay for a profit is not going to accomplish that. Sharing this information with fellow customers and asking them to call, voice their demand for the product, and order it from the manufacturer at an affordable price just might do the trick! (And it couldn't hurt my karma, either.) P.S. I blogged this. Comments
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Judging from one of your recent self-portraits, I'd think you wouldn't be having much use for this stuff anyway. :-)
Seriously, I understand how you feel. I never used this myself, but am always looking for the perfect shaving cream. One of my all-time favorites was the menthol version of Gillette Foamy, which I discovered during my mission and used regularly for many, many years thereafter. It was discontinued several years ago, and I still miss it.
Incidentally, I use a shaving brush now, which hasn't always been true. In February, 2001, I had surgery on my right pinky finger, and bought the brush to help me shave while I was recovering from the surgery. But I ended up liking the brush so much that I have been using one ever since, as part of the daily ritual.
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