SoS: June 2025

That’s an impressive lineup my Lantzman! Very nice!

 

SOTD: 14th June 2025.


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Shaving Recipe for today.

Prep: Warm shower:/Cien Men Kenya Shower Gel.

Pre:
Cold wet flannel to my face & head.
Pears Naturalé aloe vera & olive oil bar soap.
Brush: Yaqi Sagrada Familia 24mm Synthetic.
Bowl Lather.
Bowl: Tesco's Ceramic 'Cosmo' Side Bowl
Lather: Cella Extra Extra Bio Organic Aloe Vera Shaving Cream.
Blade: Gillette Wilkinson Sword. (D1)
Razor: Parker 22R.
Razor: Gillette Guard. (Head/Dome) (D4)

Post:
Cold Water Face & Head Rinse./Cold water face & Head wash with brush squeezing's,/Alum Rub./Cold Water Rinse./Homemade (~Spring/Summer mix~) Lemon, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Essential Oils.5 Menthol Crystals Mixed Together With Care+Witch Hazel./Aloe Vera Gel./ Cella Bio Organic Aloe Vera ASL.

(Face & Head Shave)

Greetings,

A new shave set up to start the weekend..

The Cella extra extra Bio shaving cream provided a wonderful this vegan version is equally as good to it's tallow sibling and like the tallow version it's slick protective and doesn't dry out and leaves your skin feeling hydrated and smooth. The mild-light fresh & Citrusy ASL is very pleasing leaving a good post shave feel.

Another close comfortable combined face & head shave with no errors to report.

Finishing the shave off with a generous splash of Cella Bio Organic Aloe Vera ASL.

My face & precious swede are feeling smooth and smelling divine.

Stay safe, and enjoy the start of the weekend ladies & gentlemen.

 

Gillette 195 adjustable razor 1962
Tobs soap
Tobs pure badger brush
Tre Teste vintage blades made in Italy

 

Interesting

How does the Schick Injector II perform?
Can one notice a difference?

I ordered mine by mistake a year or two ago, haven't tried them yet.
Easy to load?

 

Back to back shaves:

Friday 13 Jun 2025

1 Days growth



Hot Water Prep and Preshave = Derby Menthol
Soap = Derby
Brush = Pura Setola
Bowl = White Plastic
Razor = Eversharp Hydromagic black handle L-1
Blade = Personna PTFE (4)
Passes = 2 and done
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayer’s rose petal
ASB = L’OCCITANE Homme CAP Cedrat provided the necessary skin protection
ASL = Clubman Pinaud
Scent = Pinaud Lime Sec Cologne

20 swirls on the puck today, added glycerine to the lather for the 1st and the 2nd pass. Looked nice and shiny. Lathered up easily, but looked better than it performed.

I might be imagining it but the SE blade felt a bit rougher today. Checked it was seated fine. Yup. A-OK. Might just be because of 2 days in a row SE shave. Could be the Derby is not as good as others. Might give this another run with different software in the days ahead.

Lovely scent from the above combo, receiving my wife’s seal of approval

Enjoy the weekend one and all



Saturday 14 Jun 2025

1 Days growth



Hot Water Prep and Preshave = Derby Menthol
Soap = Derby with added glycerine
Brush = Pura Setola
Bowl = White Plastic
Razor = Gillette No 66 1958
Blade = Gillette 7 o’clock Sharp Edge (1)
Passes = 2 and done
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayer’s rose petal
ASB = L’OCCITANE Homme CAP Cedrat
ASL = Clubman Pinaud
Scent = Pinaud Lime Sec Cologne

Much better shave today. Same software, so the roughness from yesterday was from the SE shave. Can’t be sure if it was the Hydromagic or the SE blade

Either way I am glad I stuck with the Derby: it reassures me that it is good stuff. Got to get the right hardware and software working together

Minor alum feedback
As smoooooooooth as it gets

Have a great day everyone

 

They're excellent and extremely efficient. Just as easy to load.
I'm fascinated to find out how many shaves I can get before blade change.

 

Saturday 14th June
Schick G1 + Schick Chick # 5 + Jayaruh 289 Timber Wolf + Ach Brito Mogno + Boots Freshwood AS + Aloe Vera Gel

 

The Saturday Shave.

 

Saturday's Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
Arko Shave Soap
Jayaruh #47 Synthetic
Vintage German DE Travel Razor
Gillette Super Blue Blade X3
CWR
Humphrey's Witch Hazel
Pinaud Lilac Vegetal After Shave

The Arko Shave Soap lathered well with Jayaruh #47 Synthetic Brush. Two passes and touch ups with the Vintage German DE Travel Razor and the Gillette Super Blue Blade X3 Blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Pinaud Lilac Vegetal After Shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Thanks so much my Lantsman!

You have no idea how much I enjoyed this shave and how fabulous it was!


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Another awesome shave on your side too!

With Tabac you’re a guaranteed winner!


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Fantastic shave my friend!

You put some icicles in your face with the Glacial Citron soap!


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Merkur Progress @3
Indian Astra SP (1)
La Toja stick
B+M Cool Splash​

I used to like Astra SP, but since mainly switching to vintage Gillette razors, I find the performance a bit underwhelming. However, in this Progress and its clone Variant, ASP shines. It is also possible that the Indian version of this blade is a little sharper than the venerated Russian one. At any rate, it was a close, smooth shave.

This is also my first use of La Toja shaving stick, and I am very impressed. It performs as well as Arko, and smells nicer (not that I was ever bothered with Arko smell). It's of course three times more expensive (at the whopping $3 per stick, it's still pretty cheap).

All in all, a great shave. I may end up using my large stash of Astras, after all.

 

Master Splash Creations gets the feature for this week-end. The Saturday plan:

prep-Nivea 4 Men Bodywash(in shower)
lather-Proraso(tub)-Refreshing
brush-Large Dark Blue synthetic
razor-Gillette Sensor Deuce Pivot DisposeABLE
A.S.-Master Splash Creations(Frosted Spearmint)

 

Preshave: Hot shower
Soap/Shave cream: Stirling Soap Hot Apple Cider
Brush: Simpson Trafalgar T2
Razor: Parker SoloEdge
Blade: Shark Super Stainless (1)
Post shave: Gillette Gel

 

I'm sad to hear this-wanted to give Noxema another try this summer.

 

A great shave , thanks for your post. I still have around 10 tucks of my russian Astra SP blades. I think I've liked them in every different razor used with them. Some blades are good in one razor and mediocre or lousy in another. I've never tried the new Astra SP blades.
I have the La Toja Shave Stick and Shaving Cream. Both are solid performers for me.

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Gillette Red Tip / Gillette Silver Blue
Razorock / Don Donato
TurnNShave Synthetic

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Thanks. It's a great soap, and in the summer even more so.

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