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Shaving cream   /ʃˈeɪvɪŋ krim/   Listen
Shaving cream

noun
1.
Toiletry consisting of a preparation of soap and fatty acids that forms a rich lather for softening the beard before shaving.  Synonym: shaving soap.






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"Shaving cream" Quotes from Famous Books



... of any sort to describe the contents of the pots and bottles. He examined them one after another, and stopped at some recently invented French shaving-cream. "It smells lovely," he said, assuming it to be some rare pomatum. "Just what I want, it seems, for my head." He rubbed the shaving cream into his bristly iron-gray hair, until his arms ached. When he had next sprinkled his handkerchief and himself profusely, first with rose water, and then (to make quite sure) with eau-de-cologne used as a climax, he felt that he was in a position to appeal agreeably to the senses ...
— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins



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