FBXL Social

Completely random.... I'm on the road and forgot to pack my razor. So I buy one locally but they don't have shaving cream (Western civilization is doomed).

I ended up pretty bummed, but I was thinking about the properties of shaving cream and wondered if I could just lather up soap and have it do a similar job.

Nothing fancy, just some lathered up bar soap, and you know what? Worked well! I wouldn't give up shaving cream, but I wouldn't panic if I didn't have it now... Probably would have worked even better with fancier soap.

(Maybe everyone other than me already knew about this, but I thought it was neat)

I was aware of burma shave as a brand but not what it was exactly. That's pretty interesting!

For those who are young and not versed in advertising, burma shave had signs on the highway with short messages you'd read as a series.

"Shaving brushes

You’ll soon see ’em

On a shelf

In some museum

Burma-Shave"

They were considered Americana and referenced in pop culture.

There's a song by Tom Waits called burma shave where the signs were used as if a destination marker since they were everywhere, so if you're "on your way to burma shave" you're just going down all the roads. Ironically it was written 11 years after the signs were all removed.