It's an excellent and very chilly soap, buddy. I think it's the best Mama Bear soap I ever used.

Monday morning -


Prep - Noxzema & hot towel
Cream - Ingram
Brush - Ever Ready wood refurb w/ 22mm 2-band @ 42mm
Razor - Wade & Butcher 13/16 faux frameback

2 pass
Warm water rinse & cold water splash
Alum block & Witch-hazel AS





Cool & clear this morning, 18ºF/-8ºC and warming to 50ºF/10ºC this afternoon with no breeze to speak of. Menthol Mondays...I don't always jump onboard but did this morning with the Ingrams cream. Lovely stuff with a nice dose of lanolin to boot. The Wade & Butcher was great too and really seems to be holding it's edge nicely. Just a quick strop and it's feels fantastic. Have a good 'un folks.

Sounds like someone is going on Santa's BAD list, and that's not Brush Acquisition Disorder.

SOTD

NOVember 25's (83% there)

Nivea for Men Sensitive Face Wash
C.O. Bigelow Shaving Cream (new tube)
Omega Pro 98 boar brush
Gillette Super Speed '47
Astra SP
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Lemon WH
Pinaud Clubman

Forty-six and cloudy this morning. The C.O. Bigelow Shaving Cream face-lathered very easily with my Omega Pro 98 Boar Brush. Two passes with my '47 Gillette Super Speed and Astra SP blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Lemon WH and then Pinaud Clubman after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

SOTD - Monday, November 24, 2014

Shower
Prep: Lime PSO
Brush: Plisson/L'Occitane synthetic
Soap: Stirling Padre Island
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE89L
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (1)
Aftershave: Floid SE Mentolado Vigoroso

- Don

Shave for 24 November

The Omega Pro 49 is coming into fine fashion and worked up a solid lather with the Vintage Williams. The Type F Schick Injector is one of the most aggressive of the injectors made by Schick. It produced a highly efficient 2 Pass BBS again. Another A/S testing and this time it is Master Checkered Flag. It is nice citrusy fragrance but is not a long lasting fragrance in terms of strength so if you want something to last longer seek another product. All in all a very nice shave.

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Thanks. Mine really didn't need to be re-plated but a retired AF Colonel I knew back in St. Louis had his done and it was gorgeous so I went ahead and had mine done little over a year ago.

I agree. Have tried in the neighborhood of 7 of her soaps and like this one the best.

New Soap and Menthol Monday Shave

Pre: Hot water
Razor: Merkur 23c
Blade: Personna Lab
Brush: Omega 10049
Soap: Tabac!
After: Osage Rub (Menthol Monday)

I had planned on using Glacial Spearmint for my shave, but a puck of Tabac arrived in the mail today, so I had no choice but to try it. This was the first time I've tried it after reading much about it. I can say it lives up to the hype. Lathers quickly. Thick, rich and foamy. Beautiful and shiny. Slick? Laws yes it is. M-O-O-N that spells slick. A very pleasurable shave. The scent is... intersting. It makes me think of an old lady wearing hairspray. I think that might change the more I get used to it. I'm not sure what a good aftershave would be to pair with it. Since it's Monday I used Osage Rub.

Great reference from "The Stand "!

Hahahaha! Excellent! How many languages do you speak?! Wow!

Tomorrow's Planned SOTD 11/25/2014
Razor: Gillette Rhodium Fatboy (S7)
Blade: Gillette Rubie Platinum Plus (D4)
Brush: Muhle XL Silvertip Fiber
Shave Bowl: Georgetown G12
Pre Shave Soap: MRGLO Lime
Pre Shave Oil: Homemade Bay Rum w Lime
Shave Soap: Mikes Bay Rum
Post: Monster Alum Block
Aftershave: Dominica Bay Rum



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I'm not trying to brag - first of all, thanks for your compliment. Here are the languages I'm fluent in:

1) Hebrew (my first language)
2) French (a main language for me)
3) Arabic (6 dialects perfectly and I read and write it as well)
4) German (a childhood language)
5) Russian (also a childhood language)
6) Ukrainian
7) Polish
8) Greek (before moving to Canada we lived in Greece for a while)
9) Yiddish (a childhood language for me)
10) Swahili (I have many friends from Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda)
11) Lingala (a language spoken in Congo-Kinshasa and Congo-Brazzaville)
12) English (quite well now - certainly better than before)

I understand Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian, and I can read Farsi and Amharic. (Amharic is spoken in Ethiopia)

Feather Portable
Permasharp super
Semogue BC Mistura
Institut Karite Soap
Alum
Superior 70

Good Times.

Tuesday:

Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Large Horsehair Barbershop
Super Speed/7 AM day 3
Synergy Frost_byte SS
Gold Bond Moisturizer
Osage Rub AS
Aramis EdT

Wow, when I was lathering up with the Frost_byte soap the menthol effect hit me so friggin' hard that it caused my eyes to start tearing and my nose to run so it's earned an extra point on my Cracky Wacky Ticky Tacky Menthol Scale. The scent has really grown on me, and the skincare is pretty darned good as well. The Gold Bond moisturizer is a super-cooling and soothing product for anyone with sensitive skin, and the Rubby Dubby Doo really froze me out nicely. This shave was simply awesome.

Shave of the day

Pre- Hot shower

Soap/cream- Proraso eucalyptus and menthol

Brush- Omega boar 10810

Razor- Gillette Slim adjustable(5)

Blade- LADAS(2)

Post- Cold water rinse, alum block, Old spice whitewater aftershave and Nivea aftershave balm

Very nice shave. Now... TO THE BOOKS!

SOTD
November 25, 2014

Prep: Hot shower. Axe Shield Face Wash
Razor: iKon SC102 Slant Head/iKon Handle
Blade: Blue bird
Lather: KO Shave Cotton
Brush: Omega Pro 49
Post: Alum. Dickinson WH
Aftershave: Clubman. Axe Shield Sensitive
Doing a winter brush rotation, brought out the Omega Pro 49! Bam! Whipped up a pile of KO Shave Cotton soap. Cotton not only smells fantastic but is a solid performer.
Go out and get it!

November 26, 2014

Prep: warm wash
Lather: Godrej round
Brush: Omega 13522
Razor: Gillette New SC
Blade: Personna (2)
Post: cool rinse and Captain's Choice Bay Rum

This was my first use of the Godrej shaving round puck. It worked remarkably well for such an inexpensive soap. Brush loaded just fine and the thick and shiny lather came together well in my bowl. 3 passes of meditative like shaving and I am ready to take on the day.

Tabacstag
Another excellent shave with Tabac! Sometimes I think about only using Tabac everyday, but I'd miss the unique scents and character of other soaps.
Tabac pairs well with bay rum, and one of the best of this scent is Krampert's it has a less cloven note and plenty of glycerin and other face friendliness.

Prep: Proraso Green pre barba
Soap: Tabac!
Brush: HIS
Razor: iKon SC101
Blade: Personna lab blue (1)
AS: Krampert's Finest Acadian Spice Bay Rum