SoS: Sep 27 - Oct 3 2010

Friday

Prep: Hot shower, soak brush
Coffee: Home roasted Tanzaniz, BLACK
Soap: VDH Deluxe + 2 drops Em's Woodstock EO
Brush: Great Wall boar
Razor: '73 Black Handle Gillette SS
Blade: ASR Platinum Chrome, day 5, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Humphrys Maravilla Lotion + 2 drops M Bomb, ice water splash, B&BW Oak cologne
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Shave Rating: 4 Blades

A darn fine shave all the way 'round.

 

SOTD Friday October 1, 2010

Razor: 11/16 Loeffler & Sykes, Full Hollow, Spike Point
Pre-Shave: Aura Glow as a Pre Shave Oil (Based on the Readings of Edgar Cayce) - (It works quite nicely with the Pre de Provence.)
Shaving Cream: Pre de Provence
Lather Bowl: Ceramic
Scuttle: RAB Ceramic
Brush: Col Conk Barbershop Badger
ASB: Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Aftershave/Cologne: No. 4711
Results: Very Pleasant! :happy005

 

Friday, October 01, 2010

Razor: Jaggerooney
Blade: Iridium Super
Brush: Vulfix 2234 Best Badger
Cream: Body Shop (old formula)
A/S: Generic Witch Hazel, Pashana American Bay Rum

Smooooth and comfortable shave this morning. The Pashana Bay Rum provided an excellent finish. I have also tried it as a hair tonic, but prefer to use it as an aftershave.

 

100110 Still hung up on Rolls

Soap: Taylor's
Brush: Vulfix 41
Razor/Blade: Rolls (1949 Imperial)

5 out of 5 I can't seem to shake this Rolls thing so I'm just going to go with it for a while. I lucked out when my old Rolls, after years in the closet, came up like a champ. Sence day one, it's been performing like advertised.

 

Friday's Shave

Hot Shower
Arko SS
Omega 10029
1952 Steel 'Black Tip' Super Speed/Rapira (Day2)
Arko-Nem Soft Lotion/Arko Cool AS Cream/Arko Cool AS Splash
Guerlain Habit Rouge EDT

Best shave this week...BTW So far I haven't run across a bad Rapira...Seems that maybe they are more consistant than most the other blades I use...At least I hope that continues to be the case....

 

Friday evening

Palmolive sensitiv Cream
Muehle Badger
Fatboy setting 7
ASTRA SP
Majestaet AS

 

Dubl Duck Special
Rooney 1/1 Super
Wilkinson Sword stick
Booster Polar Ice

 

Merkur 38c
KAI Blade
Rudy Vey Finest Badger Brush
AOS Lavender SC
Alcolado Glacial AS
Jack Black Cooling Gel AS

-strange combo of flavors but this was my whim today and I enjoyed it
-Can't wait to try my new SOTQ tomorrow:love008:love008

 

Razor: Rolls Razor
Brush: Simpsons Case
Cream: Prairie-Creation sample 3
AS: AII Osage



Wring 2x. 2 min. 3 pass. Smooth post-shave. Miss the cooling effects of Osage. It's nice considering the heatwave.

 

Saturday October 2

EJ DE86
7 O’Clock Sharp Edge (Yellow)(3)
Home Made Preshave Oil
Vulfix 2235 Super Badger
Arko/TSD Hybrid SS
Master Blue, Master Musk

BBS on 3+ passes. Everything clicked. Best shave in days.

 

That is an awesome shot,

 

Saturday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Rapira day 3
Five Fives SC :love008 :love008 :love008 :love008
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Barbon AS :love008 :love008 :freezing :freezing
Chabrawichi 555 Cologne :love008 :love008 :love008 :love008

A most enjoyable shave this morning--Five Fives cream has the perfect combination of menthol cooling and a lemony scent, so you feel very refreshed during and after a shave. It is a popular cream in Egypt, where it's produced. The Barbon aftershave added its ice-cold delight as well for me.

 

Saturday.

Hot shower with mentholated body wash.

Bull Mastiff Old Type
Iridium (3)
Mentholated Van Der Tea Tree with Bigelow SC superlather
Alum
Ogallala Bay Rum and Sandalwood

I was hoping for more than three shaves from the Iridium Super blade. I had a nice 3 pass DFS this morning, but have my doubts about number four. Will have to see how tomorrow goes.

4 / 5

 

Saturday

Erasmic cream
Vulfix badger
Schick type D injector
Pella blade (6)

I can usually count on these blades for 7 shaves, but I think this one has had it after only 6.

 

Saturday:

Razor - Merkur HD 11C
Blade - Merkur
Brush - Lucretia Borgia Synthetic
Cream - Speick
A/S - Speick

--
John

 

Saturday

Cool Shower
Green Marvy Mug
Omega Pro Boar
AOS Lavender SC
Lady Gillette Pink Stars
Dorco 301 (3)
Cold Water Rinse
TSD Florida Water Type ASM

 

Happy Saturday From Florida!

Hot Shower
RAB Scuttle
TGN Synthetic Re-Knot
Monsavon Soap
1941 Ranger
Rapira Swede Steel Blade (1) (Thanks Alexey!)
Cold Water Rag
TSD Bay Rum ASM
Dominica Bay Rum

4 Passes = 3 Blade Shave. I know better than to make up for a mild shaver by using pressure, but I did it anyway, and now my skin is paying for it!

 

Saturday - It's the weekend! :happy069 Time for the SEs

Being Fall and with cooler temps (finally), thought I'd take a trip to the "woods".

Prep: 30 minute marinade w/ TSD ISZ PSB, hot shower w/ B&BB OAK body wash, apply very thin coating of TSD ISZ PSB just before shave
Coffee: Home roasted Tanzania, BLACK
Soap: TSD SOTQ A-4
Brush: 24mm silvertip set in RED MALLEE BURL from Elite Razor
Str8: Hand Forged Red Imp with BLOODWOOD scales from Glen
SE: MM OC
Blade: Gem, touch-up pass on neck & jaw line
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Humphreys Maravilla Lotion, B&BB OAK cologne
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Shave Rating: 5 Blades

Hmmm.... did I miss anything?

My new str8 from Glen is not only a great piece of art, but a fine shaver, to boot.

A-4 is a soap I will be getting more of. Ahh... the benefits of membership!!

 

I had a very nice shave early this morning. Since the weather is getting cold again, I broke out my GTP scuttle. With a freshly loaded Astra in my 1955 Diplomat, and my steaming hot scuttle, I was ready for the lather.
This morning felt like an Arko morning. So I tossed a few small menthol crystals in the scuttle, and loaded my 24mm silvertip with a generous dose of soap. The lather from that scuttle heated, iced Arko is simply amazing!!
Taking my time, I did my usual two pass plus touch up shave. No nicks, no irritation, and far as I can tell, BBS.
With a splash of TSD 2x iced Cool Water type AS, I was ready to emerge from the shave cave, triumphant and refreshed!!