What's wrong with Oscar?

Item (14) was Oscar, Natural Shaving Oil. I got this as a free sample at a conference, used it twice or three times and won't use it again. Perhaps I'm odd because I shave in the shower, but there's something wrong about smearing oil over your face when you want to shave. For one thing, you can't easily tell where you've shaved, unlike the satisfying scrape away of shaving foam: the absence of white shows the absence of stubble.

For another, the packaging is wrong. The lid is hard to get off when your hands are wet, and there's a fiddly little spray button that is hard to work when you have oil on your hands, which is funnily enough what happens when you're using Oscar. And I'm not sure whether you're supposed to spray oil onto your hands, or directly onto your face. If it goes on your face you don't know if it's there or not; and if you spray it on your hands, you get oily hands that make holding your razor less comfortable than before.

Coming soon: What's wrong with Mach 3?