Cornerstone Shaving Set Review
Cornerstone – Shaving. Simplified.
You know when you hope a product is good, but then you find out it’s even better than that?
I had that experience this week.
I first heard about Cornerstone when I was listening to The History of England Podcast (I’m a bit of a medieval history fan) and it was advertised on there.
“Subscription-based shaving system. That’s a great idea” I thought. You sign up and they send you the razor, blades, face scrubs, shave gel and after-shave balm to your door.
It works for my contact lenses, why wouldn’t it work for my razors?!
When I was given the chance to review them and I jumped at it. I would have been a customer anyway, but this way I had the opportunity to test it out first.
My first impression was a good one when I saw the contents of the box….
The magazine is genuinely interesting – I thought it would be like one those crappy in-flight magazines, but I did enjoy flicking through it. The instruction booklet was as expected, but the products were the main attraction.
The box contained the razor, 6 blades, face scrub, shave gel and the post-shave balm.
The face scrub is great. I like the exfoliating element of it – I sweat in the gym most days so want to scrub my face clean of grime. It’s charcoal based which gives it a really cool gun-metal grey colour.
The shave gel has a subtle but nice smell and did the job perfectly well. I’ve used every shaving gel known to man and this was every bit as good as the best.
The post-shave balm is cooling and smells nice. Nothing astringent or face-stinging in this stuff. It didn’t leave my face greasy at all, which is always a bonus!
Overall, I achieved baby-arse levels of smoothness and was really impressed.
The razor itself has a solid feel yet retains a nice lightness. It also comes customised with your initials engraved into it… (yes, those are my lounging-around-the-house-on-a-sunday-morning trousers. You can blame Rachel for them).
After a teenage experience where a Wilkinson Sword razor caused me more bleeding than shaving with a chainsaw, I vowed to never leave Gillette again. That’s changed though – the Cornerstone razor is every bit as good, probably cheaper and is way more convenient given they deliver to your door.
The hippy in me also likes the fact that Cornerstone is a start up with a personal service, not a multinational faceless conglomerate. A great product at a great price. Nothing more to say really.
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