shaving cream

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a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.

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Which Word of the Day means “happening within or being the created world of a story”?

First recorded in 1825–35

Although you can keep things dry if you want to, Panasonic electric shavers work particularly well with shaving cream.
Best electric shaver: Get a smooth shave with our picks|Jeremy Helligar|December 18, 2020|Popular Science
But Huckabee (akin to Elizabeth Warren on the left) is like an ice cream sundae.
The Devil in Mike Huckabee|Dean Obeidallah|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Serve with the warm sauce and your choice of ice cream, whipped cream, or yogurt.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding|Carla Hall|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding|Carla Hall|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks|M.L. Nestel|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Plaza Hotel cooked a fancy-pants latke with red wine braised oxtail, horseradish sunchoke cream, and crispy kale.
I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed|Emily Shire|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
"I have had a letter from your friend," she remarked, as she poured a little cream into Edna's cup and handed it to her.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
He had "taken the cream" out of those old law-books, if studying them could do it, for he had been at them pretty often of late.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
At the old Rosewater dances we never had anything but cake and lemonade—ice-cream in very hot weather.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
As he sat there young Jim Hands drove up with his girl, alighted, and went into the ice-cream parlor for refreshment.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland