Clinique

 Clinique For Men Cream Shave

Most Helpful Critical Review

Great Shave Cream, Terrible Package Change

I love Cream Shave. I really do, but I've stopped using it ever since they changed the packaging from the old conventional toothpaste tube style to the nearly unusable short, fat stubby thing they sell today. I had used Clinique continuously since it first came on the market, so they've lost another... loyal customer. I have two main gripes about the "new" tube. First, it's nearly impossible to squeeze out the last twenty percent of the contents because the tube is very stout at the neck and the tube top and, unlike the old screw off top, snaps off (and it's hard to snap-the top is just not meant to be removed to squeeze the tube top). This top, coupled with the fat, stiff new shape of the top, makes it significantly more difficult to force out the last part of the tube contents-more irritating effort than is worth it. Second, as has been well stated buy another reviewer, the new stubby shape is harder to grab in the shower, harder to manipulate with one hand and harder to squeeze out a usable portion. I'll add that I don't think the new shape packs well into a conventional men's dopp style toilet kit. The old tube was easy to use, easy to squeeze, easy to pack and easier to completely empty. Why they changed from the old tube to the new one is beyond me-it certainly did not result in a "better" package. So join me with the other reviewer critical of the package. A competing company with the blue tube still has the terrific old style conventional tube package for its shave cream, and that's where I've moved. The shave cream is not as good as Clinique's, but the package is way better, so much so that I've actually considered trying to find a way to put the Clinique contents into the competitor's empty tube.