Trumpers skin food

[sonny]

Agree with poster who said to keep face a little wet and then massage in the skin food/whatever balm/moisturiser you are using. Apparently, this locks moisture in - whatever it does, it feels good. I currently use a moisturiser from LUSH that lasted me ages. Their moisturisers are designed for the effect you want (matifying, clearing, moisturising etc.), rather than one's for girls and one's for boys. They come in black pots too which are great! Wise to keep them in the fridge as they use tons of natural stuff and can go off if kept unused.

[NatJag]

I thought I'd write some comments on Trumpers Skin food.

I have all three Coral, Limes and sandalwood. Trumpers staff will inform that the different scents pair/match with other products. Sandalwood obviously pairs with other sandalwood scents. Coral skin food goes well with coconut cream, or so they tell me. This is the reason I have all three, I will admit to limes being a sample bottles I managed to blag. After being told this information it does seem to work, the scents compliment rather than compete.

Skin food as already mentioned can be used as a pre shave and post shave. All of them have rose oil which is supposed to cool the skin and glycerine. I initially purchased as a pre shave product and used as a post shave as well. You only need a small amount, about a 10p size to rub on your face. As a post shave it does work better is you face is slightly damp and you apply to the face while its wet as a pre shave. I personally don't use it much now as a pre-shave. When I do, I found it much better then T&H's offering.

I have quite dry skin and it can easily look like I've got scabies around my mouth if I don't apply some sort of moisturizing product. After applying skin food I also apply Trumpers unscented moisturiser. One or the other isn't enough for me. It's both or nothing. I have tried T&H balms from a sample set and they didn't perform the same. I'd still get dry skin. If I had to use only one it would be the skin food.

I'm yet to try Nivea, In fact researching which Nivea ASB to get, or another alternative prompted me to post this brief review.

As a last note, the first of the 3T shops I walked in where I felt welcome was Trumpers, they were more helpful. This is part of the reason much of my shaving software has their name on it, I may be slightly biased towards them. Also I prefer the smell of their creams.

[Big.Dave]

I use Trumpers skin food lime. I first used it as an after shave it was not that good after a short while my face would feel dry and tight but it does smell nice so I decided to use it as a pre shave and BINGO!! nice smooth shave it works very wel with the trumpers lime shave cream.

before using skin food as a pre shave I was using Proraso cream this did not work very well as it was cooling my face before I had started shaving closing the pores not a good idea but now I use it after the shave and it works great.

[IanM]

it's like wallpaper paste (or something else . . .)

If you want a product that looks like "something else", then get some of the Castle Forbes Pre-Shave. It reminded me of my post-vasectomy tests.

I tried samples of skin food, and it either did nothing, or made me feel like I was wearing a mask.

Ian