SOS July 2019

Excellent picture and setup with a great looking bowl Guy.

 

SOTD 20190724.

J&T® purpleheart / Oumo Brush synth.
Extro "Lavanda Muschio" shaving soap.
Vintage Souplex / Stork Ti "Classic" handle.
Personna Platinum Chrome (2).
Extro "Lavanda" EdT AS.

 

July 24 SOTD:

Razor: Rocnel Adjustable
Blade: Rapira PL
Brush: Razorock Plissoft
Lather: Wilkinson Sword Shave Bowl
Aftershave: TSD Floid Blue Type

 

July 24th
Razor: Timeless Bronze OC
Blade: Derby Extra (1)
Brush: WWB Limedrop/TDR Fanchurian V2
Pre-shave: Stirling Mentholated
Soap: B&M Reserve Fern
PAA Galactic witch hazel
PAA unscented Star Jelly
AS: B&M Reserve Fern


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Wednesday

Prep: Warm Shower-Stirling Bergamot Lavender
Soap: Bulgari Man in Black
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Vintage Gillette Platinum Plus (14)
Brush: Thater 2-Band Badger-26mmx55mm
Aftershave: Bulgari Man in Black

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

Bulgari Man in Black today. 20 seconds to load the Thater 2-Band Badger brush. Easy, thick, slick, lather. Vintage Gillette Platinum Plus still in the Gillette Slim. Excellent smooth, close, shave. I finished with Bulgari Man in Black EdT.

Bob

 

Williams Wednesday's Shave


Cold Water Rinse
Williams Mug Shaving Soap
The Brush by Tom
Gillette Techmatic
Techmatic Adjustable
CWR
Granddad's Blend AS

My prep was just a cold water rinse. The Williams Mug Shaving Soap face lathered well with The Brush by Tom. I did two passes with the Gillette Techmatic razor with a Techmatic Adjustable razor band and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Granddad's Blend AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Wednesday morning:

Razorock Plissoft 26mm Monster
Super Speed/Wilkinson day 3
RVT Frosty Bay Rum SS
Prep ASB
Pinaud Bay Rum AS Splash

It’s been too long since I used this wonderful soap and it sure felt great to shave with it today. I had oodles of magnificent lather along with that gorgeous bay rum scent and a most pleasant cooling sensation. The Prep’s scent to me anyhow seems to pair perfectly and as always it gave me A1 soothing as well as lots of moisturizing. The Pinaud Bay Rum smells so nice in a real old school American barbershop way, and after the initial little sting it feels great on the skin. Three passes made ashes and dust of my rough stubble - no way can I be smoother!

 

What are your thoughts on the WS shave bowl?

I think they are ok. Certainly decent VFM. It is no SV, but it costs pennies.

 

Wednesday, July 24

Meißner-Tremonia~~Simpson~~Dovo
Have a great day!​

 

Yes, I definetly missed it: I am sorry for asking again!
Thank you for the information!

 

7/24
Lion razor
Lion blade day 2
KMF Lavender
Omega Boar
Harris pink AS


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2019-07-24, Wednesday

A hectic morning: rushing out after a safe and easy shave: no tests, no evaluations...



Sapone PS: Valobra Glicerolanolina
Sapone: TOBS, Jarmyn St. for Sensitive Skin
Pennello: Frank Shaving, Silvertip Manchurian HMW, 22
Rasoio: Mühle, R89, Rosegold
Lametta: Gillette, 7 OC Verde
AS: MilMil, Figaro Gel
EdT: Farmacia Vaticana, Acqua di Colonia
ST: Etta James

 

Some old and some new products! Great shave today!

 

Thanks Doug!!

 

Alfredo, you always pique my curiosity with your post shave juice. "vatican aqua di colonia". What is it like?

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Pre: Cold water splash
Brush: Semogue 1470 Boar
Soap: The Sudsy Soapery Uplift
Razor: E-R 1912 UK
Blade: Gem PTFE
Post: Cold water rinse, Myrsol Agua De Limón ASL

This is my favourite citrus soap if you like the smell of sherbet lemons and a great performing soap, I highly recommend it.
Happy Shaving one and all.

No worries, it's easy to miss posts.
I hope you like it if you decide to try it.

 

Well I had mentioned that next up would be the Merkur 39C to further my research on the “Battle of the Slants”. However, while I was poking about the collection, I spotted the Rockwell 6C which has not graced the SOTD in a while so it was drafted immediately. With a few days growth I went with the R5 plate and loaded up with a Personna Lab Blue.

Soap of the day Barrister & Mann Seville a lovely smelling and performing soap. I could gladly use it everyday but that wouldn’t be much fun now would it? The Simpson Colonel X2L made quick work of the soap and left me with buckets of lather to play with!

Proceeded to get through a fantastic two pass near BBS shave. Wow! I have to say I don’t know why it has been left out of the rotation for as long as it has but the 6C was a very smooth and impressive shaver! It just sang along with superb audio feedback and made quick work of the beard. Fantastic all around. Midweek and starting the decent to the weekend. Enjoy the week and happy shaves all!

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Rockwell 6C
Blade: Personna Lab Blue
Brush: Simpson Colonel X2L
Lather: Barrister & Mann Seville
Aftershave: Barrister & Mann Seville
Additional Care:
B.I.G. Co. Alum Block
Calvin Klein Aqua For Men

 

Anytime I have a soap that is not a good performer from the beginning, I usually reserve judgement just to give me some time dial it in. This one would realistically fall into that category. This was my first use, and it was OK, not great. It doesn't seem terribly slick, but the post shave feel was a bit better than anticipated. Scent is pleasant enough.

 

Haven't tried Barrister and Mann before. What do you recommend from them, scent wise? Will add it to my list.

EDIT: Decision has been made: I saw they had an old-spice clone. I'm a sucker for old spice clones. Done and bought a container.

 

It will probably remain at "Ok". Which is ok i suppose.