SoS: April 27, 2015 - May 3, 2015

FRIDAY
Early morning mentholated shave thanks to both the TSD balm and TSD menthol shave stick. Brilliantly-smooth shave with the Wostenholm.
A great start to May Day!
Have a blessed Friday, all!

 

05/1/2015
Razor – Mongoose B2 with Jürgen Hempel Ti
Blade –Feather Super Pro (6)
Brush –Rubberset 400-3 with WSP HMW
Lather – AOS Sandalwood Cream
Post - Witch Hazel and CC Sandalwood AS



Fantastic 3 pass shave this morning. Chased the baby and got it caught it. I'm not normally a cream guy but received the AOS Sandalwood cream as a gift from the family. It's super easy to lather and very slick. Finished up with witch hazel and a splash of Captain's Choice Sandalwood. The motorcycle is packed and I'm ready to pull out after lunch today. Looking forward to a weekend sanity break. Hope everyone has a great Friday and an even better weekend.

 

Friday
hot shower/cold water shave
Omega Proraso Boar
Proraso PPB (white)
Proraso SS (white tub)
Schick E3/Pella coated injector (4)
cold water rinse
Monster Block Alum
Tend Skin
Can You Handlebar Beard Dry Oil
Proraso ASB (white)
YSL Opium Pour Homme

Stay frosty,my friends and enjoy the weekend!

 

Today I used AOS Sandalwood. While I think the scent is the best Sandalwood available, the lather definitely lacks what I expect in cushioning. 3 passes, 2 nicks, and a DFS finish.

AOS Sandalwood
Feather Blade
Slim Adjustable

 

SOTD
May 1, 2015
Prep: Hot Shower. Axe Shield Face Wash
Razor: iKon Shavecraft 101
Blade: Rapira Swedish Supersteel
Brush: Ever-Ready 150 TGN 24/54mm Synthetic by @GDCarrington
Lather: Mickey Lee The Drunken Goat
Post: Alum. Thayers Cucumber WH.
Aftershave: Folsom & Co. Muir
Gents, Mickey Lee The Drunken Goat is fantastic! It's everything we want in a soap and some. The lather stays a beige color, most if not all times a soap turns white. Slick, cushion-y, very easy to lather, the best smelling soap I've smelled. My ER150 Burna Shave edition whipped up a pile of lather. iKon SC101 was great. Folsom & Co. Muir reminds me of the woods.
Go out and get it

 

SOTD: Friday, May 1
Soap: MdC Brain Bowl
Brush: Simpson 2 "Chubby" Synthetic
Razor: Feather AS-D2
Blade: Personna Med Prep (2)
Aftershave: Floïd Blue

Have a great day!​

 

Friday
Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Executive Man Bath Soap
Soap: Cella-Brick
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Rapira Swedish Supersteel (3)
Brush: Whipped Dog Silvertip-24mmx48mm
Aftershave: Fine American Blend

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

Cella today. 20 seconds to load the WD Silvertip. Great, easy, thick, lather. Rapira Swede in the Slim. Excellent smooth, close, shave. I finished with Fine American Blend.

Bob

 

1 May 2015

* Weber DLC + WRH3 Aluminum
* Super Iridium
* WSP Manchurian + Oscar11 All-Amber Barbeiro
* Mystic Water Marrakesh
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO



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SOTD
Friday, May 1, 2015


1950 Gillette Super Speed
Gillette Silver Blue #1
Doug Korn Florescent Amber 2 Band Finest 27X50mm
Mike's Natural Soaps - Hungarian Lavender
Stirling Aftershave Splash - Sharp Dressed Man

Excellent shave today. Have a good one!

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Friday 1st May



Warm shower
Hot towel
RazoRock Cumba Cheech bowl lathered
Finest Badger brush made by myself
Gillette NEW (Made in England)
Gillette Platinum (Vintage 1976) (1)
Cold rinse
Thayers Superhazel
Myrsol Antesol aftershave

 

Soap: Stirling Spice

Razor: Muhle R-89 with SI blade (6th shave on blade)

Post: Thayer's Lavender Witchazel, Cocoa and Shea butter lotion, Aqua Velva Musk (light coat), and Old Spice (liberally applied)

Cologne: Gravity

My face is BBS but with 2 weepers, one right near each corner of my mouth, but nowhere else - not even on my neck. I also only shaved WTG and XTG on my neck.

 

5/1/2015

Prep: Hot shower with Nivea Face Wash with menthol, home made PSO
Razor: Cobra Classic, French Fau Frame Back straight razor
Blade: Feather Professional Light (5)
Brush: Turkish #6
Soap: Stirling - Ben Franklin
After: Home made ASB
Cologne: Gravity

Happy Friday! The Ben Franklin smells like a strong root beer. The #6 brush did a fine job whipping the Ben Franklin into a nice lather. The Cobra and the Frenchy did a fine job mowing down the stubble. The Gravity was a nice finish to a 2 pass Darn Fine Shave.

Have a blessed day!

 

Ended up with just an average shave this morning. Couldn't get a decent lather and the soap ended thick and heavy, plugging the razor. I know why I don't use the Merkur 180 often as its just too mild and I can't get a close shave with it.

 

Roger, you may need to work the lather more while adding water. Paint-brush strokes, forcefully, applied will result in a much stable and creamier lather. Load for longer and work it for longer than usual. Once you get it right, this soap is one of the best there is. I have been using it for almost four years and love it for its scents, slickness, creamy lather, post-shave, inexpensive price and the fact that it is still available in pucks which I conform into my shave-sticks.
Good luck.

 

Frey's Day:

Prep: Hot shower, Neutrogena Invigorating Face Wash, TSD Jasmine Sambac preshave balm
Brush: Simpson 56 Best Badger
Soap: RazoRock One-X croap
Razor: RazoRock Bamboozled RAKE OC
Blade: Bic (4)
Passes: WTG, XTG, ATG (10, 11, 12)
Post: Cold water splash, Bloc Osma alum, Dickinson's WH, RazoRock One-X AS splash
Cologne: Forest Aoud by Montale

Went heavy on the RR in finishing out the Bamboozled April. Great lather, as always, but the Bic's age got me a weeper under the chin on the XTG pass. Still wound up with BBS result, but I'm going to change the blade and use the 41c for a few days, so I can recall the difference in how the two shave more clearly.

 

Glad you like it kerry

 

Finally had the shave I was hoping this razor could deliver. Read more ramblings here

Razor: Pils 101NE
Blade: Feather
Brush: L'Occitane Plisson
Soap: Soap Commander Endurance

Also tried two samples of products I've never used before;
Edwin Jagger Pre-Shave lotion for sensitive skin, and
Geo F Trumper's Sandalwood Skin Food.

Edwin Jagger
I never use any pre-shave products and even though I rather liked the feel of this product I don't see myself starting to use a dedicated pre-shave product regularly...unless......what if it was the pre-shave lotion that gave me this great shave today....oh......

Trumper
I really liked the scent and it gave a passable moisturizing and tightening effect. Not quite on par with other products like Myrsol so probably not a product I'll get in the future.

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SOTD 1 May 2015

30 Day Rule with a new (to me) Schick!



About to embark on a 30 Day rule for May!

The elements:

Schick Injector
Proraso Eucalyptus
Chinese Schick Blades
L'Occitane Plisson

!!NEW!! May 2015 30 Day Rule/Focus Pic-Discussion Thread

Happy Friday!

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Gillette Super Adjustable P-2 (1970)
with Astra S.P. blade (1),
Edwin Jagger STF XL brush ,
Lather-up with CRSW Vevitier Moderne,
finish with water, Witch Hazel
and Clubman Special Reserve for a DFS!

 

Saturday morning looks something like this:

Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Large Horsehair Barbershop
Super Speed/SuperMax Blue day 6
Stirling Glacial Lemon Chill SS
Gold Bond Moisturizer
Osage Rub AS
Chabrawichi 555 Cologne

Here's the best way to freeze your face off and to smell nice both during and after a shave, as well as to have a great time while you're doing it. The Glacial Lemon Chill soap is so loaded with menthol goodness that you feel it as soon as your brush makes contact with your face, and the longer it's on there the colder it seems to get. That zesty lemony scent drives me bonkers every time I smell it, and it leaves you feeling frozen and so comfortable. The Gold Bond combined with the Rubby Dubby Doo is such a nice way to finish off!