Artisans Products

The availability of Artisan products has transformed the wetshaving industry here in the U.S. (IMHO).
No longer are folks limited to drugstore brands or the Three T's and Proroaso. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of them, but variety is now here and it feels pretty damn good supporting smaller businesses.

My life has been equally as fulfilled before I began using artisan products (or DE razor shaving). But if I knew it were out there and I read on DFS how many people loved these artisan products, wouldn't I be foolish not to try some?

The availability of Artisan products has transformed the wetshaving industry here in the U.S. (IMHO).
No longer are folks limited to drugstore brands or the Three T's and Proroaso. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of them, but variety is now here and it feels pretty damn good supporting smaller businesses.

to add onto that, I think if people were forced to stick with the somewhat subpar products found in drug stores, they'd move on and go back to cartridge razors and canned gel/foam.

my first introduction to 'wet shaving' was probably 10 years ago. I thought it was really cool how barbers used to use a brush, an old mug and a puck of soap before shaving their clients. so I went to walmart, picked up a crappy puck of williams soap, a burma brush and some random mug in my cabinet. I gave it a few shaves before moving on. I had no idea what I was really doing and moved on back to canned gel and cartridges because I just couldn't be bothered with worse shaves than I was getting previously.

I started with a VdH set from the local market. No idea what I was doing and watched a ton of Mantic vids, etc. to try and cut my shave down from :45 without drawing blood.

To Gareths's point, at the time there weren't a ton of options, particularly from US artisans.

Flash forward 10 years and it really is a great time with so many options available, most that have any amount of presence of very high caliber.

Great for the shaver, terrible for the wallet