Tuesday September 13 - Single-edge, Supply, Semogue, Stirling September
Razor: Supply matte black 2.0 injector retrofitted with SE comb plate / Supply Black Label (1)
Brush: Semogue Owners Club cherrywood badger refitted with APShaveCo Tuxedo knot
Soap: Stirling Scots Pine sheep
Post: Rinse, alum, rinse, Stirling Scots Pine splash
Since S is for September, I went all-out today.
I was never happy with the Semogue SOC badger brush. The cherrywood handle is beautiful, but the badger knot always seemed too thin, wispy and floppy. Jason
@jtspartan kindly reknotted it for me with a Tuxedo synthetic knot and it is now one of my favourite brushes. It did its usual excellent job face lathering the Stirling sheep soap.
It has been a couple years since I used Stirling, and I had forgotten what excellent soap Stirling makes. The sheep soap with mutton tallow and lanolin is especially slick with a superb post-shave skin feel.
Two passes had me nearly BBS. The blade wiped away the whiskers as if they weren't even there -- I definitely should have changed out the last blade well before its 21st shave...
No complaints from the alum. A bit of burn from the alcohol-based splash, but then the other ingredients quickly went to work. Another quality Stirling product.
I am now clean-shaven, refreshed and smell like I am ready to head out into the Big Timber to do some Lumberjackin'.
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