SoS: August 10-16 2009

Saturday August 15

Pre: T&H ultimate Preshave Oil (sample)
Brush: GFT Best Badger
Soap: L'Occitane
Razor: #16
Blade: Astra Superior
Aftershave: alum block followed by Nivea Sensitive Post Shave Balm
Cologne: GFT Astor

I find the T&H preshave oil to be incredible. It allows me to get a closer and less irritating shave.

Pete

 

Saturday

Merkur HD
Derby Extra (2)
Col. Conk Lime Soap
Thayer's WH with Aloe
Roayll Lyme A/S

 

SATURDAY

iKon
Shark/Day 2
VDH Boar
Fulfix 2006 Badger
Fruit Of The Earth Aloe Gel
Clubman Bay Rum

 

Krasivo momiche! Tya ima golyamo tyalo!

 

Saturday:

Gorey's Chairman
Ming Shi TTO/Derby day 3
Top Ten Menthol-SC
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Max Refreshing-AS
Chabrawichi 555-Cologne

The Bulgarian love affair continues with a very nice cream, and also a very enjoyable and cooling aftershave. Blagodarya toklova mnogo moi priyatel--az nyama da zabravya tova!

 

Saturday

• Soap/Cream:TSD TSD: Tropical Verbena Soap
• Brush:Semogue 1305
• Razor:Bulldog Mastiff with LT NEW
• Blade:KAI (Shave #6)
• A/S: Thayers with peppermint EO followed by C.O. Bigelow Elixir Green

Time to change the blade... It still gave a great shave, but it is getting more uncomfortable ATG. KAI still work as well in the NEW as I remember.

 

Me too, i hope to shave soon with a shaving soap (thanks to you !)

 

Viernes/Friday
Omega shaving cream-Merkur HD with Gillette super thin-Markwtb custom handle with 24mm boar knot from TGN-Gillette AS.
Saturday/Sabado
La Toja SC-Merkur HD with Gillette Super thin(2nd shave)-Markwtb custom handle with 24mm boar knot from TGN-Kinesia Artic AS.
The Gillette super thin blades reminds me a lot of the "Swedes",even more than the ones made in St.Peterbourgh.
The Omega SC with lanolin is really good but I missed the Iced SubZero factor.The wheat cream Ice SubZero is much better.Omega is the same that Santa Maria La Novella by the way.
The boar knot from TGN is breaking faster than I thought.Its like having a "Chubby 2" boar brush cuz is so densely pack and has kind of medium size bristles(50mm).Thanks to Justin and Mason for all!

 

XV AUGUST.

Wash: Fiorentino Rose
Razor: Merkur Long
Blade: Derby Extra
Soap: Trumper's Rose
Brush: C&E Best
Splash: Harris Pink
Finish: Pierre Cardin PM.

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Almost went with Red-Canned Noxzema, but then opted to do things properly today.

Tomorrow, it's Foam.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXEeH6kD5vw

 

Saturday August 15, 2009 Noon

Hardware:
Brush: BBE
Blade: Red IP (3)
Razor: 69 O2 super adj. 9/3

Software:
Cream: My Time Bath and Body +10 menthol
Splash: TSD Double Iced Raspberry
Milk: TSD Raspberry with Osage Rub mixed into it
Cologne: Bulgari Aqua Marine

This is what John Mellancamp meant by Hurts So Good:anifrozen
Cold rinse after shaving was near impossible my face was so cold already.

 

Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil Soap
MWF
Omega 31064
Merkur HD
Super Iridium (3)
Taylors #74 Victorian Limes A/S

 

Dubl Duck Special
Rooney Emillion
Cella soap
Speick after shave

 

I've seen this set-up twice now. You're using a shave stick and a bowl, which leads me to ask:

Is the bowl just rinsing the razor, or do you load your brush using the stick and then take it to the bowl for mixing, or what exactly?

 

Plisson Blaireau noir #10
Mühle r106 + RIP
"Comptoir des savonniers" SS
Vitesse (Puig) ASB


A confortable shave,.....The Mühle+personna are less agressive than Merkur 33c+Derby

 

SUNDAY
1
6.
'9.

Razor: Merkur Long
Blade: Derby Extra
Can: Noxzema Red
Splash: Mennen Spice
Finish: Equipage.

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Unequivocally the best shave I've had in some time.

The Derby's in the trash now but easily pumped out another smooth shave.

No brush, no soap. Noxzema foam in a can.

I don't know if it's that I dislike the effort that goes into lathering (I don't enjoy it) or that the Noxzema foam is genuinely superior to traditional lather, but on my skin it's at least co-planer.

The downside is the lack of scent range (Green-Canned Noxzema smells nearly akin to MWF, only louder) but I especially enjoy not having to dry my brush following a shave.

 

Sunday:

Gorey's Chairman
Ming Shi TTO/new Derby
Godrej Menthol Mist-SC :anifrozen :anifrozen
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Visal-AS gel :anifrozen :anifrozen
Brut-cologne

This Godrej Menthol Mist can give Permafrost soap some good competition. As soon as the brush hits your face, the freezing effect begins, and gets stronger and stronger by the second. The Visal gel adds to the chill, and smells nice, and soothes the skin, and leaves it feeling well-defended against irritation and dryness. This shave was so enjoyable!

 

Sunday: Lord Smart razor / Shark SuperChrome blade / Kell's Original SS (Juniper&Sage) / Rooney brush / T&H West Indies Lime Cologne

What a shave! I look good, feel good and smell great!

 

Wow, Menthol Jackboot to the Mush!!!

Hot shower With Spearmint Eucalyptus soap
NDC Gillette Tech with bakelite handle
TSD Iced Subzero
Ocean Potion Iced Aloe Vera
Osage Rub
Aqua Velva Classic

Shaved the dome and the face in one sitting. Very nice menthol blast I feel like an Altoid from the neck up

 

16 August, Sunday

Merkur Futur w/ Gillette Super Thin
Rooney 3/1 "Super"
EJ Sea Buckthorn SS