SoS: November 24, 2014 - November 30, 2014

-10 years, looking great!!!

 

The Ancients of Mu would approve of that razor! Cool IDF artifact!

 

FRIDAY
An ultra-smooth three-pass shave using a fine forgotten soap—the Razorock XXX. Easy to lather & good performance.
I need to work this product back into the regular rotation!
Have a great Friday, all!

 

Cat o nine tails, how is it?

 

Friday:

Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Large Horsehair Barbershop
Super Speed/7 AM day 4
Mama Bear Awakenings SS
Gillette Intense Cooling AS Balm
Alcolado Glacial Menthol Splash
Polo Original EdT

I'm not really a that big a fan of glycerine-based soaps but there are some which I enjoy occasionally and this Awakenings is one of them. I find it a lot easier to lather well if I soak the puck in hot water for a couple of minutes and then start with a fairly wet brush. The scent is very strong, but pleasant - it's a mixture of menthol, peppermint, and perhaps tea tree oil. The menthol sensation is really strong - in fact it's about the same as Iced Subzero, and the skincare is fairly good. The Gillette Intense Cooling balm is very, very cooling and soothing with a hell of a nice scent and the Penguin gave me a great post-shave freeze. This morning I got BBS in two easy passes.

Have a nice weekend, folks!

 

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

Another nice shave.

 

today's shave
hot water wash with nivea men's
Parker pure badger
Pyrate' Cove lavender
Gillette slim(I1)(7)
persona lab(3)
ICED Barbasol pacific rush
today's shave went well. I started another soap round. Pyrate' cove lavender, the scent was very nice, performed well also. three passes with granddad's slim, clean 'n smooth. finished with iced rush.
hope y'all did as well, or better.

 

Do you open a soap put it in your OS mug and use only that one until you use it all up?

 

depends on storage, and how much I like the soap, and if it comes back out of the mug.
sometimes they go into Ziploc bags, sometimes they get stuck in the mug. usually got three mugs loaded.

 

Fantastic Friday Shave
Maggard's London Barbershop is some amazing soap and aftershave. The soap performs as well as any I've tried, with a refreshing scent. The aftershave is a match and just makes my face feel good. I'm not shopping today, so our main task is setting up the Christmas tree. Have a great day everyone.

Prep: Proraso Green pre barba
Soap: Maggard's London Barbershop
Brush: HIS
Razor: iKon ShaveCraft 101
Blade: Personna lab blue (3)
AS: Maggard's London Barbershop

 

Al right =) I saw you typed "I started another soap round" I thought you might just use just one soap

 

Friday

Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Scots Pine Bath Soap
Soap: WSP Rustic Shaving Soap-Mahogany
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Gillette Platinum (2)
Brush: Elite Razor Silvertip-24mmx50mm
Aftershave: Country Club-Modern Fougere

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

Rustic Shaving Soap-Mahogany today. 20 seconds: load & go with the ER Silvertip. Always great lather! Gillette Platinum in the Slim. Great, smooth, close, nick free shave. I finished with Country Club-Modern Fougere.

Bob

 

11/28/14
Traveling shave
Prep: warm wash with Dove bar soap
Lather: Old Spice cream
Brush: Omega 13522
Razor: Gillette flare to Super Speed
Blade: Merkur
Post: cold rinse and John Varvatos aftershave cream

2 passes with the SS and I ought to be good enough for the drive home

 

SOTD: Just Plain Performance Edition

Mike's Orange, Cedarwood, Black Pepper soap
Whipped Dog Silvertip badger brush
Schick Krona razor
Polsilver Super Iridium blade
Stirling Black Pepper Lime AS

You'll get a barrage of slick looking advertising with all the Black Friday deals. There is nothing flashy about the products in this shave, but they all do their job well. Got a nice warm up on a cold day from the Black Pepper in the Stirling AS. Have a good Friday.

 

Friday 11/28/14

Prep: glycerin soap
Pre-Shave Oil: Shave Secret
Brush: 20mm Whipped dog set deep
Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery
Razor: Gillette New Long Comb
Blade: Voskhod
Lather: L'Occitane Cade
Post: Alum sprayed on
Witch Hazel: Generic unscented
A/S: Stirling Sharp Dressed Man
Balm: Avon Musk Marine After Shave Conditioner

Another delicious 3 pass shave. I hope everyone had a great day yesterday.

 

Frey's Day:

Hot shower, Healthy Accents Daily Renewal cleanser, TSD Jasmine Sambac Preshave balm
Simpsons 56 Best Badger
RazoRock Cumba Cheech
Merkur 41c 1904 OC
Asco Super Stainless (2)
WTG, XTG, ATG (4, 5, 6)
Cold water splash, Bloc Osma Alum, Dickinson's WH, RazoRock Cumba Cheech AS balm
Jasmin et Cigarette by Etat Libre d' Orange

Folks, if any of you have any difficulties in getting a good lather, I strongly recommend you at least consider a RazoRock soap; the ones that I have basically produce lather whenever I look at them while holding a brush. Three passes - the third starting to hint at a bit of aging in the blade already - produced BBS results without any bloodshed. Apparently the shoveling and general out-and-about in the winter weather I've done the past couple of days dried out my skin some, as the Cumba Cheech balm absorbed readily, which is highly atypical for me. The scent of the Cumba Cheech really goes well with the Jasmin et Cigarette, as both are citrusy jasmine.

 

28 November 2014

* Weber DLC + UFO U2V1 Graphite Black
* Super Iridium
* WSP Stubby 2-Band + Rubberset 400
* Mystic Water Sardinian Honey
* Unrefined Shea Butter

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I love it! It has a great morning kick (burn)

 

Slept through the alarm and no time for picture taking this morning.

Razor: Gillette Rhodium Fatboy (S5)
Blade: Tomac Super Stainless Steel (D3)
Brush: Semogue 830
Shave Bowl: Woodhead Medium Scuttle
Pre Shave Soap: MRGLO Lime
Pre Shave Oil: Jasmine Orange Vanilla
Shave Soap: Tiki Seven Seas
Post: Monster Alum Block
Aftershave: Florida Waters

 

Shave - 28 November 2014

A very nice two pass BBS shave. The Omega Pro 49 worked up a great lather with Figaro. The Long Handled SA with the Big Ben behaved flawlessly.

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