Grooming Cream No. 3
Because Azogue flattened your hair. Hold 3 of 10, no shine, made for fine or thinning hair under 4 cm.
€16.50In stock · 22 tubes
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Pomade · water-based · unscented
Azogue Firm Pomade
€17.00 100 ml · €0.17 per ml
In stock · 24 tins behind the counter · ships Thursday
Hold 9 of 10, low shine, slightly dry. For straight to wavy hair, 3—12 cm on top. Rinses out under a warm tap with no shampoo.
€4.50 delivery in mainland Spain, 2—4 working days, free over €40 · thirty days to send it back, opened or not
What it actually does
The same six lines we read out across the counter, in the same order, so you can hold them against anything else you are considering.
- Hold
- 9 of 10. A hard part stays put through a shift and a bus home. It will not hold a quiff taller than about 14 cm, and no water-based pomade will.
- Finish
- Low shine, a touch dry. It looks like clean hair rather than product. Photographs well under a flash, which is why it is the tin in most of our pictures.
- Base
- Water and beeswax, thickened with carnauba. No petrolatum, no mineral oil, no added colour. Unscented, because the barbers who buy it in bulk asked for that.
- Hair it suits
- Straight to wavy, medium or thick, 3 to 12 cm on top. Works on coarse grey hair. Too heavy for fine hair, which it flattens — Grooming Cream No. 3 is the one for that.
- How much
- One fingertip scoop, about 3 g. Warm it between the palms until it turns clear, then work it from the crown forward through damp — not wet — hair. Two scoops only past 10 cm.
- Washes out
- Warm water alone, one rinse, no shampoo. In the hard water along this coast you may feel a film on day three; a plain shampoo once a week clears it.
- Wrong for you if
- Your hair is fine or thinning, you want visible shine, or you want to re-style at midday — once this sets, re-wetting is the only way to move it.
Three minutes, once
Putting it in
One. Towel the hair until it stops dripping. Damp is the word; soaking hair dilutes the hold and dry hair will not take it evenly.
Two. Take one fingertip scoop and rub it between the palms for about ten seconds, until it goes from white to clear. Cold pomade drags.
Three. Start at the crown, pull forward, then shape with a comb. Whatever is on your hands at the end goes on the beard, not back in the tin.
A 100 ml tin at one scoop a day lasts about eleven weeks. If it is going faster than that, you are using two where one would do.
In the box, on the road, and back again
What is in the box?
One 100 ml tin with a screw lid, a card the size of a beer mat with the dose scored into it so you can see what 3 g looks like, and a 7 g sample of Grooming Cream No. 3 in case the hold turns out to be too strong for you. Board box, paper tape, no plastic and no tissue paper. The ingredient list in INCI order is printed on the base of the tin, not on a sticker that peels.
Delivery cost and time
Mainland Spain €4.50, two to four working days, free over €40. Balearics and Canaries €7.90. Rest of the European Union €9.50, four to eight working days, duty paid by us. Everything leaves on the Thursday run; order before Wednesday noon and you are on that week's.
Returns window
Thirty days from the day it lands, opened or sealed, no seal to break and no questions about how much is left. Return postage inside Spain is ours. Tell us what your hair did and we will post the tin we should have sold you instead, charging or refunding the difference.
Ingredients and allergens
Water, beeswax, candelilla and carnauba waxes, castor oil, glycerin, cetearyl alcohol, a PVP film-former and a phenoxyethanol preservative. No parabens, no colour, no fragrance of any kind, so there is no limonene or linalool to declare. Made in a cosmetics workshop registered with the Spanish medicines agency; the batch number is stamped inside the lid.
What if it is wrong for my hair?
Three things usually go wrong, and each has an answer on the shelf. Flat, heavy-looking hair means your hair is finer than this tin wants: Grooming Cream No. 3. No shine at all when you wanted some: Vuelta Oil Pomade. Setting too hard to touch: Media Luz, the same base at hold 6. Send this one back within thirty days and we will swap it.
If this one is not yours
The three tins we swap it for most often, and the reason each time.
Vuelta Oil Pomade
Because you wanted shine. Oil base, hold 7 of 10, combs back all day — and needs a shampoo to come out again.
€19.00In stock · 18 tins
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Tejado Clay
Because you wanted grip without the set. Clay, hold 8 of 10, matte, worked into dry hair on a short crop.
€18.00Sold out · back 14 March
Tell me when it lands
It comes out with water
That is the whole argument for a water-based tin, and the reason this one outsells the rest four to one. Buy it, or spend four minutes making sure.