SOS: February 2025

Excellent shave from the big W&B

Hot water preparation
MSC Frosted Lavender Shave Soap
Romera Wenge Chubby Manchurian Badger
Wade & Butcher The Celebrated Ground Hollow Razor 9/8
MSC Frosted Lavender After Shave



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Friday Shave
RAZOR: Shield Predator Titanium Gem Razor
BLADE: Personna Coated Gem
BRUSH: Zingari Man 26mm SHD Manchurian Badger
LATHER: Pre‌ ‌de‌ ‌Provence‌ ‌No.‌ ‌63‌ ‌shave‌ ‌soap‌
POST: Ethos Mélange d’agrumes Skin Food Splash

 

Thursday, February 13

ETHOS Dragonsbeard~~Simpson CH2 Synthetic Badger~~Cobra Classic/Schick Proline~~Frederic Malle The Night
Have a great day!
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Friday SOTD


Razor: Shield Cerakote Titanium Evolution
Blade: Feather Super Pro (5)
Brush: Paladin PK-47 26mm Blonde Badger
Bowl: Captain's Choice Copper
Pre-Shave Scrub: PAA Iced Cube 2.0
Pre-Shave Oil: Taconic Bay Rum
Shave Soap: Le Père Lucien Bay Rum
Balm: Viking Soaps Bay Rum
Aftershave: Le Père Lucien Bay Rum

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Friday 14th February
Pal Injectomatic Deluxe + Schick Proline B #8 + DScosmetic T4 Synthetic + Wolfpac Italian Orchard + Alvarez Gómez Bergamota de Calabria EDT + Aloe Vera Gel

 

Friday February 14, 2025
Brush: Simpson Berkeley
Soap: Tabac
Razor: Henson
Blade: Feather
P/S: Osma Alum Block
P/S: Thayers Witch Hazel
P/S: Tabac

 

Friday's Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
b-pure Shave Soap
Jayaruh #18 Silvertip Badger Brush
Merkur 37c Slant
Gillette Silver Blue Blade
CWR
Humphrey's Witch Hazel
Aqua Velva 5 in 1 ASB

The b-pure Shave Soap lathered well with Jayaruh #18 Silvertip Badger Brush. Two passes and touch ups with the Merkur 37c Slant razor and the Gillette Silver Blue Blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Humphrey's Witch Hazel and Aqua Velva 5 in 1 ASB. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Friday morning:


Quick shower
Yaqi 30mm Barber Pole
Super Speed/Wilkinson day 10
Erasmic Supreme Shaving Stick
Prep ASB
Booster Polar Ice AS Splash
YSL Pour Homme EdT

This Erasmic Supreme stick has been sitting around underneath my bathroom sink for ages so this morning I decided to give it a spin and I’m happy that I did. I love its old school barbershop scent, it lathers awesomely, it’s so SLICK, and it leaves such a great postshave feeling. I believe it was discontinued quite a while ago - what a pity. The Prep and the Polar Ice aftershave were such a great finishing combination - love it. Finally the Yves Saint Laurent fragrance and everything is in perfect order. Another terrific three pass BBS shave that was so pleasurable!

Wishing you all a great weekend - be well and stay safe!


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Great shave Karl - icicles in your face again!


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How would you compare Polar Ice to Osage?

 

Preshave: Hot shower
Soap/Shave cream: Cella Red
Brush: Maggard 24mm
Razor: Pearl Flexi
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux (2)
Post shave: Pinaud Clubman

 

Great shave this morning, closing out(until next time)the Barbershop combo. Nice work at the Loading Dock with the Proraso Professional Omega brush. Clean&clear shave all around. No damage anywhere. More work required at the dreaded Northeast corner of N.Porcupine(shall I say N.E. Porcupine?). One wrong move up there and my nose will get a cut. 2 passes. Fine close from the Clubman A.S. As Outstanding As It Gets.

 

I just had a peek at Le Pere Lucien......probably a great line of products, but too $$$ for me.

 

Friday afternoon "Valentine's Day" 14/2/25

Hot shower
Razor : Blacklands Blackbird SS Satin finish.
Blade : Gillette Nacet (1)
Brush : Yaqi caramel cats whiskers synthetic.
Soap : Chiselled Face Cryogen Ultra Menthol.
Aftershave : Ralph Lauren Polo Blue.
Weight : 94 grams.

Hi all,
A fantastic shave this afternoon with the blackbird SS and it just gets better and better with each shave.
This is my fourth shave with this razor and I feel I have just about got it dialled in.
The third shave with a Wizamet on shave 3 almost had me nick myself as the blade had dulled
as I was Applying a very slight pressure to try to compensate for the dull blade.
Instead of letting the razor do the work . ( This razor almost shaves by its self it real is that good)
The Nacet is a very good blade which works well in the Blackbird SS.
Unfortunately I only have a couple left and they seam to be a bit hard to get locally.
As for the soap the menthol is a bit to over powering (the name says it all) I only had a sample of it.

After splashing of my only fancy aftershave and dressing up a bit my wife and I went out to dinner.

Cheers every one.

 

-Friday-
french market aristocrat jr
semogue soc
mdc
crabtree & evelyn

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Osage Rub is freezing cold. Polar Ice lists menthol as an ingredient but it’s not detectable at all.


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Gillette Fatboy / Gillette Platinum
Stirling / Vanilla Sandlewood
Hotoffthelathe Silvertip

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Gillette tech

 

IKON B1 SB Razor
CG Hammered Copper Handle
Rapira Swedish Supersteel Blade (1)
WCS Tux Brush 24/53

Maggard Tobacco & Leather Shave Soap

Henri et Victoria Cognac and Cuban Cigars After Shave Splash

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What better way to do Presidents Day Week-end than:

prep-Dove Men + Care Bodywash(Exfoliating Deep Clean)in shower
lather-Strike Gold Shave(Ike)*
brush-Large Dark Blu Synthetic
razor-Blade Pivot DisposeABLE
A.S.-Strike Gold Shave(Ike)*

*With Ike, you get 2 Presidents in 1(the feature scent of Eight And Bob was a JFK fsvorite)