Saturday night Razor: Star Blade: CVS/ASR (2) Brush: ER resto Soap: TSD lanolin "Mojito" Alum block. Cold water rinse.
Sunday: #6 Horsehair Dovo Bismarck 5/8 Noxzema SC Lubriderm unscented moisturizer Booster Mosswood AS My favorite kind of shave of the entire week except for Menthol Monday - the Dovo Bismarck cleaned me up so beautifully and got me so BBS. It also felt so good to use my Noxzema cream, because of all the creams and soaps that I have, this is my absolute favorite. The scent, the lather, and the cooling sensation and skincare are the best. I also love the Booster Mosswood aftershave - it smells so old-school and barbershoppy.
5/8 Bengall Tabac SC 28mm WSP knot Great shave. I've been playing around with shaving cream a lot since the first of the year. I've never had much experience with them because I've always been a soap user (40 years). At any rate, I have a pretty good collection of creams right now and consider Tabac SC very close to the top in performance. I'll quit rambling, have a good one.
Sunday Prep: Hot shower, TSD ISZ PSB, hand strop blade Coffee: Master Chef, BLACK Soap: TSD SOTQ D2, Cherry Lemonade Brush: Vulfix 406, The Burlington SE: Gem Jr. Lather Catcher Blade: Gem, day 1, 3 passes Post: Cold water rinse, Dickenson's WH, Curve, hand strop blade 'Stache Wax: Firehouse Wacky Tacky Nice!
Sunday morning, May 5, 2013 Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (2) Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush, TABAC shaving soap with hot water lather, finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!
This is the one cream I've always wanted to get since I started traditonal wet shaving, but I can't find it anywhere!Where do you get it?
Sunday: Cetaphil Face Bar Shave Secret Oil Williams Mug Soap Afta Fresh Lord and Master Omega Boar Cadet Robusto with a Treet Durasharp carbon EJ89L with a Voskhod Fat Handled Tech with a Red IP andTried Bruce's 3 razor system for the first time and I'm completely sold on the validity of it. I thought he was crazy when I first read it, but now makes perfect sense to me. One more for the
I bought a bunch of tubes from a vendor in the States, but unfortunately this company closed up and several years ago the Noxzema lather cream was discontinued.
Blade: Voskhod Brush: Mekur Futur Silvertip Soap: T ++ H Grafton Razor: Futur on 3 Shave /Balm: DR Harris Arlington Edt: Uplands of Bonny Doon Farm
Cinco de Mayo shave MWF Omega 49 EJ89dl Vokshod (3) 3 passes Masters Bay Rum I've used the MWF 4 or 5 times now and have not managed to get a good lather. Next time I'll have to really work at loading the brush and see if it improves.
SOTD Sunday 5-5-2013 Gillette Old Type/Weber Wave Astra Superior Platinum Blade Proraso PSC Palmolive Classic SC GT G4 Scuttle Vintage Austrian Barbershop Boar Thayer's Witch Hazel Nivea Replenishing ASB Pinaud Lime Sec EDC Outstanding and, it was mild! (Don't know why but I thought of that old cigarette commercial) I'm becoming very fond of the Lime Sec Cologne. Very refreshing scent for a warm sunny Sunday. Great week of shave Gentlemen. Thanks for sharing!
Sunday May 5: Gillette #77 The Colonel in Best Personna Platinum TOBS Almond SC Lucido AS Axe Chilled Gel I wanted to see how the #77 handled my blade of choice, and I am happy to say it was a super smooth 3 pass shave this morning! Everything performed perfectly! I will continue to use the #77 for the remainder of the week, just so I can het the angle down, before moving onto another razor.
Fatip on Tradere handle Rapira Swedish Supersteel Institut Karite Semogue 2000 Alum Superior 70 I've had tunnel vision with the new R41, but it is nice to pull out a fantastic shave from the Fatip.
Pre: Hot shower, warm water splash, AoS Unscented Preshave Oil Razor: P.H. Hahn 5/8 full hollow Brush: VDH basic Boar Soap: RazoRock Cumba Cheech Post: Cold water rinse & AoS Unscented A/S balm I purchased this P.H. Hahn 5/8 full hollow straight razor recently and was in a hurry to try it out, so I used it in spite of the fact that it still needs some work. The blade is in excellent condition, but it does need to be honed. With a quick run across my barber's hone and balsa strop it did a serviceable job. P.H. Hahn was an importer who was in business during the 1880s and then promptly disappeared, so this razor is from somewhere in between 1881-1890. Hahn was like the Col. Conk of the 1880s in that all of his products were manufactured by others and then rebranded. He mostly imported German razors, so I would guess that this one is no exception. It has nice horn scales and I can see it being a favorite once I get it shined up and honed. The Van Der Hagen brush did not agree with my choice of soap. A poor lather that I had to work at was the sad result. The brush is an excellent choice for hard soaps or for days when the stubble is heavy, but using it with underperforming soaps can be like using a sledge hammer to pound in a tack. I want to love the RazoRock La Famiglia line of soaps, but I just don't. I am much happier with RazoRock's LOA line and should probably just stick with those. The soap smells nice and left my skin fairly soft, but it was nothing spectacular. I'll try a superlather with some Karo Classic and a different brush next time. The Art of Shaving unscented preshave oil did a fine job of making my face nice and slick and the unscented after shave balm is always nice when you just need something a little relaxing. All in all, even with the Art of Shaving products performing well, it was a somewhat disappointing shave. I have no irritation or nicks, but today's shave also wasn't all that close or all that enjoyable. Oh well, you can't win them all.
Sunday CeraVe face wash Mike's Natural soap, unscented HIS Synthetic brush Vintage Bakelite slant Gillette yellow blade CeraVe lotion Two day stubble mowed down effortlessly by the slant! Smooth 3 pass shave giving BBS result. Feels great, makes me smile on a perfect sunny spring day.
I am not shaving today. I have decided to make a conscious effort to not shave every other Sunday. I'm going to wear my leather #3 Dale Sr. hat, and with the stubble I ought to look extra redneck-ish. Off to watch some NASCAR and my Reds close out this sweep. Enjoy your Sunday gents!
I can not figure out how to add a picture to an already submitted post, tapatalk does not seem to work in this area and I use the actual web site so little that I have no idea how to add a picture in while editing...I really have to stop accidentally hitting the submit button too early. In any event here's my SOTD picture.
