Thread: Help Me Find the Burn

As my skills developed using a straight I realized that the burn consistently reduced (duh!)
At the Yakima meet Glen spouted the burn of Captains Smith's Bay Rum. After trying it I was a little disappointed in how little burn it had.
I took my Ogallala and added a touch more clove to the bottle!
BTW the Ogallala bath soap gave a little burn. Yay
I have been debating on searching through the homemade bayrum threads to just make my own.
I request from the greater good. Apart from straight alcohol what would give me back the burn I so very miss?
Doesn't have to be bay rum I have some osage on order.

If you like the burning freeze of menthol. May I suggest adding menthol crystals to your favorite AS. You can dial it up as much as you wish with crystals, but you must be a careful or your eyes may be still watering and your face beet red an hour after your shave.

Its not so much the menthol that I like. I just like a burn and thought that with the summer coming the menthol burn would be nice.
I used to really like what I got from most of my splashes, witch hazel and rose water.
I have been debating lately to make a final scraping pass just to get the burn, but I really can't handle the wind chapping after I do that.

Yeah yer on the right track with the Osage Rub, that stuff is pretty good...

I find Aqua Velva gives me a good burn

to me.. there is no other burn better than that which is provided by pinaud clubman virgin island bay rum.. hell.. that stuff burns even if i havn't shaved.

Yep the clubman is almost pure alcohol so if anything could burn thats it. Of course if you really like burn why not go to the liquor store and get some everclear and just splash that on. We'll hear you screaming.

Unfortunately Everclear is illegal to sell in the State of Washington. This isn't far from what I have been considering. I think I will pick up a nice smelling liquors and see what I like.

i was using a 50/50 mixture of knob creek and witch hazel for a small bit.. still didn't burn as much as the clubman bay rum.. i think it's the cinnamon that does it..

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Yeah yer on the right track with the Osage Rub, that stuff is pretty good...

Clubman Bay Rum does indeed sport quite the burn but Osage Rub is the big boy on the block IMHO. The neat thing about Osage Rub is that it will burn like the fires of Hades for about 5 minutes or so then you get the menthol cool.