SoS: January 5, 2015 - January 11, 2015

Saturday's


Nivea Men's Face Wash
Tabac
Wild Cherry PTS
Schick M2 Adjustable
Personna Injector
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
FD Old Spice AS

The Tabac Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Wild Cherry PTS Brush. Two passes with my Schick M2 Adjustable and Personna Injector 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 Rose Petal WH and then Family Dollar Old Spice after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

PLANNED SOTD FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 10th

Razor: 1958 (D4) "Black Handle Super Fat Boy"
Blade: SuperMax Platinum (new to me)
Brush: Semogue 1520
Soap: Proraso Green
AS: Barbasol Pacific Rush

OK, gents take a gander at this one! I had my tired, old, reliable 1958 fat boy custom replated (all rhodium - white and black). Chris Evatt at Razor Plate has done an amazing job on the replate and Cap'n Murphy has made sure the mechanics are "spot on". The mechanism is smooth as silk and the razor, IMHO, looks amazing. Although I've used this razor before, I've been anticipating this shave for about 2 months.

:wave:

 

Awesome job on that replate job. Happy shaves....

 

Thanks....I hope so.

 

SOTD January 9, 2015

This is the eighth day of my 30-day adventure to improve my shaving skills using the Mongoose. Preshave consisted of a facewash with Stirling Sheep soap and warm water. I used my Kent BK4 brush and face lathered using a Mike's Natural Soap shave stick. Mike's is one of my favorite soaps, as it has great slickness and skin conditioning. I was short on time this morning and forgot to use glycerin. It made no discernible difference. I like my larger Kent BK8 for daily use. I usually reserve the BK4 for travel, since it is smaller, but I'm sticking with it for the duration of this adventure.

I shaved WTG followed by XTG on my face and XTG/ATG for both passes on my neck. The Feather blade on day five performed well and should easily last a week or more. I finished up with Thayer's Lavender Witch Hazel and unrefined shea butter.

All was good on my two-pass plus touch-up shave - no nicks or irritation! I would be satisfied to stick with this set up indefinitely. I will have more time tomorrow morning, so I'm planning my first three-pass shave of the week. I've found that my skin can tolerate an occasional three-passer.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

 

Sweeeet!

 

That's a unique razor plate! Great choice!

 

The plating choice is really cool! The choice of having the Captain work his magic was genius.

 

Evening Shave For Tomorrow
Third shave with the Valobra cream—weak on the menthol, but tops on performance. I'm liking this soap. I add a bit of TSD M-Bomb to it just to kick up the chill.
Excellent 3-pass shave, again, from the Wostenholm.

Have a great Saturday, everyone!

 

Makes a very cool looking variant to the standard Fat Boy. Well done!

 

Razor =DE89
Blade = Gillette Silver Blue
Lather = Proraso White
Brush = Red Omega 48
Post = Shea Moisture Tea Tree Aftershave

Well finally figured out I was using too much water. Anyways I was pleasantly surprised as last time I used the SBs I got terrible shave. I also might be a Menthol junky in the making as I need more than this soap provides.

 

Saturday's Planned Shave
Razor: Weber w Classic Handle
Blade:Rapira Swedish SuperSteel (3)
Brush: Black Pearl 24mm TGN Finest
Bowl: Suribachi 5” bowl
Pre Shave Scrub: SPAtopia Dead Sea Scrub
Pre Shave Balm: TSD Iced SubZero
Shave Soap: Strop Shoppe Baker Street
Post: Monster Alum Block
Aftershave: B&M Kyovu original


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I get the same thing from Derby blades. It's weird.

I haven't seen a shave cream in a pump before =P

 

I thought the mongoose used Gem blades

 

Beautiful brush and bowl!

 

Love the AS bottle!

 

Saturday! Day #9 of the 30 day BSG challenge

• Music: Philip Glass, The Hours
• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Brush: TGN a grade silvertip badger in Oscar11 handle
• Soap: Cella
• Razor: birth quarter Gillette Slim (@ 4, 5, 6 & 7)
• Blade: Derby #6
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: cold water rinse, Floyd AS balm

Today the lather was a bit thin. I had lots of it so I put on a thick layer. Between pass 2 & 3 I paused to help SWMBO leave. The street was so full the car in front was at 1/2 foot distance and the one behind at 1 foot. The shave was nice, but the blade is at its end.

Have a great weekend. ya'll! Make it count!

 

Very comfortable shave today. The grapefruit smells really nice and performed good for me.

I bloomed the soap prior to the shave, so the whole bathroom smelled really nice. I loaded the brush a bit much, but I rather load more than necessary than find myself needing more lather on my clean up pass.

Once again Stirling soap doesn't fail me =D

 

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