Sexy nails, yes?

Saturday May 16

Preshave: Proraso
Brush: E-Shave silvertip
Cream: T&H 1805
Razor: Silver plated 1908 Gillette single ring
Blade: Astra Superior
Aftershave: Nivea Cooling Aftershave Balm
Cologne: Parfum de Nicolai 'New York'



First shave with this 100+ year old razor and I must say it performed very well. More aggressive than the Gillette TTO razors I normally use, but still only got 1 small nick.

Pete

She took the photo with the camera in her mouth.

LOL, no - I took it

MY GOD HAVE I USED THE BEST SHAVING CREAM EVER.

Kent Black Label.

I've the Red too and will try it tomorrow for comparison.

Produces the best lather by light years - the smoothest, the slickest, it works like a dream and has the best skin conditioning I've ever experienced. What's more, the menthol kick is just right.

OMG!

This product is decidedly in a league of its own. Most SCs and Soaps are more similar than different. I've never used a product like this. It ever looks different than other SCs - out of the tube, it resembles hair conditioner.

I'll get to BIC later. I'm in awe keeedddsss

Good to hear Pete... I love those old open comb razors. welcome to the club. Now try a SE.


1910 Gem Junior
Pella <D5>
Omega SS
Vintage Badger Ever Ready <face lather>
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Osage Rub AS..WOW... just WOW


Very nice shave, DFS and the Osage is a great addition. First time I have used it, <thanks Bill for the very Generous sample>

It blows me away to think that something made 100 years ago still peforms perfectly today. They made things to last in those days. I seriously doubt in 100 years time that Fusion's will be highly sought after collectors items.

Pete

FRIDAY'S. SECOND. SHAVE.

15
MAY
2009.

Lord Click
Feather
Kent Black
C&E Best
Skin Bracer.

...

I should firstly note that there's a fabrication below and it's that I didn't use a Feather Old Hi-Stainless but a New. The old style merely went better with my photo

Secondly, this Kent SC is unequivocally the best lathering product I have ever used. Squeezed out of the tube, it is unlike other SCs I've used in that its consistency is like that of hair conditioner. The lather it creates is just in a league of its own, the amount of menthol it contains perfect.

I have the red tube too, and will have to try it tomorrow.

WHAT A DISCOVERY FOR ME!

Fatboy w/ feather
Kent BK4 brush
Omega SC
La toja AS splash

Saturday 5/16 . . .

• [*]Prep: Rite Aid Skin Cleansing Cream & Hot Towel
  [*]Brush: ER C40 Boar
  [*]Soap: HoneyBee Spa's Ye Olde Barbershoop
  [*]Razor: '25 Gillette NEW Standard - Gold for face & Braun 7526 Electric for the head
  [*]Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock SharpEdge (shave 3)
  [*]Oil Pass: Leisureguy's Last-Pass Shave Oil
  [*]A/S: Thayer's Lavender Witch Hazel Toner & Clubman Club Complete ASB
  [*]EDT:Nine Flags Manzanilla from Spain Cologne
  
  [*]Result: BBS. No blood. The Ye Olde Barbershop is my favorite scent. Just brings back memories of the barbershop when I was a kid. Hey, haircut was 75 cents then. Use the electric on the head for a quick change of pace.

Saturday:

Gorey's Chairman
Dovo Bismarck 5/8
Karo Classic-SC
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Max Disinfecting-AS
Black Garter-cologne

Wowwwwwwwwwwww, is this Karo Classic cream nice--so nice a scent, and lather for 5 guys to shave with. It comes from Bulgaria, and I received it from trade with a gentleman at Gut Rasiert.

Saturday/Sabado

Mercadona pure badger brush
Homemade soap in superlather with Speick cream
Micromatic clog pruf with GEM blade(1st shave)
NOS french Gillette aftershave
Weleda ASB

The Micromatic are great razors but I cant get more than 2 shaves from the GEM blades.Looking foward to try the Ted Pellas blades that Bong did send me.

Pete, is that a glass soap dish in the back right corner of your photo?
Where did you get it?

Yup.. I agree completely. Not only did they last.. but they perform wonderfully.

Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum razor
Dettol cool shaving cream
Osage Rub

TI Ebony 5/8 (Face) // Plisson 20 HMW // Headblade S4 (Head)
Coates Sandalwood // Spanish Floid Vigoroso
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Saturday:
Rolls Razor
Erasmic Stick
Thayers/Adidas Dynamic Pulse

Saturday

Shavemac DO1
DOVO Bergischer Lowe 5/8ths
Noxzema lather Shave cream
Osage Rub (thanks Bill)

Not BBS, but DFS for sure.

By my standards it's above-average.

When I see a product marked Coconut Oil, I immediately think Trumper's.

Manufactured in Turkey, BIC SC is indisputably superior to Trumper's Coconut Oil SC, the worst purchase I've made in wetshaving: GFT's product shaves well (as do a plethora of other creams and soaps), but it has no real scent and is laughably overpriced.

The BIC cream has a light, non-offensive fragrance, is a pale green in hue and lathers like dynamite. The lather is high-quality and the price dirt-cheap.

Where it loses points - and this is really where my personal biases come into play - is it's not highly perfumed.

I think it's intended to be a sensitive solution - no bigtime fragrance, no menthol blast and, for whatever it's worth, it has Vitamin-E in it

Now let's say it smelled like Mysore Sandalwood, T&H Rose or Arko; or it had a menthol blast like Ingram or Kent, then it'd be something to scream about.

Habibi, Vitamin E is very good for the skin. Corinne makes me take it every day, and even in skincare products, it is important!

My moisturizer has it anyway!

BTW, those perfume oils are a dime a dozen in the Middle-East.

Yeah, I heard they are not expensive. They are Hallal products, with no alcohol, so they can be used by Muslim women and men, who observe the laws of the Quran.