SoS: March 6, 2017 - March 12, 2017

Tuesday's March SE Maddness


Dove Men Face Wash
L'OCCITANE Cade Shave Soap
Jayaruh #144
Gem Damaskeene
CVS SE
CWR, Asma Alum Block
T.N. Dickinson's WH
Pinaud Vegetal AS

The L'OCCITANE Cade Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #144 finest badger brush. I did two passes the Gem Damaskeene and CVS SE blade, I ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse and alum block, I finished off with T.N. Dickinson's WH and then Pinaud Vegetal AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Did you join the Dark Side????

 

Wonderful Doug :happ088:

Seems like winter is a never ending story in your neck of the woods...

 

Monday shave!
Working thru the cabinet put me into the WSP stack...so today...

 

This afternoon's shave: A new soap. "Whiskey" why not? I drink it so why not shave with it. It comes from the Portland General Store in Maine. It faintly smells like whiskey but also a mossy/woodsy scent is in there. I like it. The lather was really thick - like whipped cream (second photo). It is a very hard puck so I expect it will last. The rest of the set up - some favorites - G1 Fatboy with an Astra SP blade, Captain's Choice bowl, Omega Hi-Brush synthetic, Nivea balm, and finished with Cella after shave. An all around excellent shave. The wife even commented that the combined scent of the soap and after shave was very nice.

 

Eh. Way too soon to tell.

 

Great picture!

 

Beautiful picture! I love the way the razor stands out!

 

Wonderful picture! How is the scent of the soap?

 

Thanks very much. Hopefully we will start to see Spring signs by the end of this month.

 

Tonight's shave was with a problem child of a razor. I have re-honed it a couple of times, and finally figured it out.
I had a very nice two pass shave, that was very stiff feeling, but smooth. This is a big chunky blade. Almost BBS result, with only one weeper, on a bump, caused by one ingrown hair. I didn't know it happened, until the aftershave went on.

Razor- Japanese 泰平 TAIHEI 東京
Brush- B400 by Tom
Soap- ARKO/Avon Spicy scented
Aftershave- Vintage Avon Spicy

 

Thanks!...and funny you should ask...because I was just about to ETA my post.

In short...this stuff is FANTASTIC!
I ordered this soap and after shave combo several weeks back and considering the amount of variety I have, I just got around to trying it out today. This easily just became one of my favorites!

If you like vanilla and want to try something different, I highly recommend getting this scent combo. It's really good!

 

Thanks Jim!

 

Cool razor!.....is it modern or vintage?.....nice pic too!

 

Love the scales and the shine of that SR


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Now that's some good looking slather


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Thanks - it's very much a vintage disposable from the 1980's
See a video commercial here that explains the name "Rectractor" a bit:

 

Today was an out the ordinary work day shave. I wanted to shave with both razors so I went with the
Crowne and Crane

WTG and XTG with Army/Navy by Lakeside Cutlery and
ATG with the PAA DOC
Results were phenomenal and some day I will be able to go ATG with a SR.