30 Day Rule/Focus; August 2025. All Are Welcome!

Fabulous Feather shave Chris.

 

Fine Fatboy shave Gary.

 

Normally I use Q-tip and a toothpick if needed to clean but this was not coming off with the Q-tip, this was building up. It was only a small thin cut on the finger that has almost healed up now.

 

Thank you Joe.

 

12th August 2025.



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Shaving Recipe for today.

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

Pre:
Cold wet flannel to my face.
Pears Transparent Bar Soap.
Brush: Omega 49 boar.
Face & Head Lather.
Lather: Palmolive Classic Shave sticks.(grated)
Blade: Lord Shark Super Stainless. (D1)
Razor: Baili BD177 Rose Gold TTO.

Post:
Cold water Face & Head wash with brush squeezing's, Cold Water Face & Head Rinse./Alum Rub./Cold Water Rinse/Homemade (~Spring/Summer mix~) Lemon, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Essential Oils.3 Menthol Crystals Mixed Together With 200ml of Care+Witch Hazel./Nivea Men Fresh Moisturising Gel./ P&G Old Spice Whitewater ASL.

Greetings,

Early morning combined face & head shave.

The Palmolive classic stick duo never fails to provide a superb lather, and works so well with the Omega 49 boar brush.

Finishing the shave off with a generous splash of P&G Old Spice Whitewater ASL.

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

Keep safe, and enjoy your day ladies & gentlemen.

 

Cool container for the Gent's Gin

Exactly!

thanks Joe

Fancy looking razor and yet another successful clean up Barry

 

thank you Joe.

 

and thank you again Joe.,sv is always a nice lather

 

thank you Chris..seemed a bit more appropriate than a plastic bottle..

 

and again..

 

fine tuesday shaves and pic Barry.

 

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good morning gents
nice quick but wonderfully efficient work shave
have a fine day everyone
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12 Aug 2025

Adjustable/Australian

2 Days growth

Hot Water Prep and Preshave = Derby Menthol shave cream
Cream/Soap = Australian made Woolly Wash Soapery Tropi-cool
Brush = Semogue Pegasus C7 finest badger
Bowl = coconut
Razor = Gillette Slim I-4 @ 6 (same one)
Blade = Feather (3)
Passes = 2 +
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayer’s rose petal
ASL = Pinaud Clubman
ASB = TOBS Royal Forest
Scent = Burberry Hero

Super fine shave, but very hot alum. Feather might be starting to dull a bit…?
Or maybe I am still getting used to the Slim's weight, I will stick with it a bit longer, in the spirit of the thread

Super day to one and all

 

again Gary.

 

Thank you Chris.

 

fine slim shave and pic Chris.

 

Well, my "dig-in" persuasion for the Stephan tub cream worked fine. I'm going to use most of this cream in the fall/winter months anyway, matching it with my Stephan Bay Rum A.S. Should be around for a few years. A nice smooth feel on my skin led to a nice smooth shave all across my face and neck. No damage. Might have done a little better on the right sideburn area. Finished off again with Stoylin Glacial Lime A.S. AHHH! Very pleased. Super Duper Outstanding.

 

August 12 SOTM Head and Face shave

Schick I-1
Pella SE Blade (2,3)
Hembree/Maggard Timberwolf Synthetic Brush
TSD Orange SS and AS
Stirling Alum Block
Lucky Witch Hazel
Beard Growtn: 2 Days
Dome Turf: 5 days.

I was very surprised that my Schick I-3 was able to take down my dome turf in 2 passes because it is a very mild razor. However, I did have to do heavy buffing for each pass. Anyway, I also did 2 passes on my face and neck. I achieved a bloodless BBS result all around. I didn't have any alum feedback
Finished the shave with the witch hazel and aftershave treatment. Sorry, I didn't take a pic of my setup. Take care.

 

Today's shave was a 9.5/10 because I did get a micro mini cut on the moustache area that was more like a single hair ripped out. I used mostly dial 3 though on chin I used dial 4 due to how rough that area is. Day 11 of topside, I could have gone one day with on the wrong side.

I used like always my Gillette slim handle H 2 without case.

I used some foaming hand soap on face letting soak in, then water on the blade and the head of the shaver. This soap is because I skipped Monday shave for some reason however I used the shaver being careful.

Clean up I did the right thing using toothpick for scraping to get the green and white buildup on the inside corners of the butterfly but first Q-tip for the hair that was not coming out easy even getting one side of Q-tip wet.

The new book I got on July-31, King C. Gillette, the man and his wonderful shaving device https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316009377/?tag=thshde-20, my early era of King C Gillete blade before the company moved to the thinner Chinese models, and my Gillette shaver are proving they are still a great trio for this month. I am into chapter 8 just after WWII around 1946--1947 talking about a specific thing the 3rd president of Gillette did.

 

awesome shaves gentlemen.