SoS: February 22, 2016 - February 28, 2016

SOTD 2/24/2016. (Theme, post card from somewhere hot)

Razor - Gillette Goodwill
Brush - Muhle XL synthetic
Bowl - Turkish tinned copper
Soap - Arko
Post - W.H. & U.S.B.


Bowl, soap and blades via @Burak Kucukler

 

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February 24

Weber Polished Head DE
Feather (3)
Kent BK4 silvertip badger
Route 66 Lumberjack
Alum, Thayer's Lavender witch hazel, unrefined shea butter, and Fine Platinum
1961 Bulova "His Excellency" on a gator strap

I enjoyed a great two-pass shave this morning. The Kent brush whipped up an excellent Route 66 lather, as usual, for near BBS results. I hope you all are having a terrific week.

 

De rien mon cher ami - je le fais au grand plaisir!

 

Thursday's


TESC Pre-Shave Oil
Proraso Green Shaving Soap
Semogue Owners Club
Gillette Blue Tip
Astra SP
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva Ice Blue

The Proraso Green Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Semogue Owners Club boar brush. Two passes with my new Gillette Blue Tip razor and a Astra SP blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse and alum block, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva After Shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Thank you!!! I really appreciate it.

 

I'll be skimping on the menthol for Thursday morning:

Nivea Facial Wash
Large Horsehair Barbershop
Super Speed/Astra day 4
Mickey Lee Paradise Frost SS
Italian Barber Amici AS

I'm freaked out at how gorgeous this Paradise Frost soap smells and how wonderfully it lathers. Its menthol effect is very, very subdued but it can be felt slightly more on the second pass and a cold water rinse brings it out a bit more. This soap has excellent skincare which is also really important to me. I'm truly loving the Amici aftershave - its scent is fabulous, and it gives a more detectable cooling effect. The scent is also very long-lasting on me!

 

2/24/16 - Wool Fat Wednesday with the GEM G-Bar.



Another great Wednesday with this soap. It is just so good. I'm a Fat Groupie!!

The GEM G-Bar came out somewhere around the 1930's before the Micromatics I believe. A solid shaving razor that has the looks to boot! Mid/aggressive shave.



A quick 3 pass shave before I had to run out the door so this is a short video without much talking. Here it is if you'd like to watch.



I hope all you TSD members had a wonderful day!!!

 

I really like that Goodwill.

 

Great photos! I enjoy your embedded videos as well.

 

Thursday Planned SOTD



Razor: 2011 Rosegold Muhle R41
Blade: Super Iridium (D7)
Brush: Paladin PK-47 26mm Blonde Badger
Bowl: Symmetrical Sheet Metal
Pre Shave Scrub: MRGLO
Pre Shave Oil: Saponificio Varesino
Shave Soap: Saponificio Varesino 70th Anniversary
Post: Monster Alum Block
Aftershave: Saponificio Varesino 70th Anniversary

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Guy, how outstanding and such a beautiful photo.

 

Thank you.

 

+ 2 just got to get it into my regular rotation.

 

Breaking out the big face freezers for tomorrow... Here's what's on deck


Futur (setting 6) Yes I have 911 on standby don't worry/Lab Blue (2)

Stirling Synthetic 26mm brush

Stirling Glacial Lemon Chill

Stirling SDM (super mentholated)

This is what I will be using in the A.M.


Uh Ray....Sharp Dress Man isn't cold.... well your right except on one of my orders I asked Rod if he could make my SDM splash as strong cold wise as the Glacials and he sent me a bag of menthol crystals and a warning. The warning said "this amount of crystals is about one and a half to twice the amount that's in the Glacials...don't add them all or your face may hurt. So I very carefully added the whole bag into my SDM splash. I have the Glacials and I have tried Cryogen and I can without a doubt say that this is colder then both and I love it. I'll report back how the shave went tomorrow after I finish defrosting in the microwave.

 

Planned Thursday

Mongoose
Feather Pro Guard (3)
New Forest brush
Mikes Hungarian Lavender
Myrsol Agua Balsamica
L'Occitane Vetyver edt

 

Thanks Robert!!

 

Nice photo!!! I really want to buy a Mongoose. How do you like yours and do you think they are worth the money?

 

I'm in the same boat! Loving my Flair Tip!

 

February Focus - German blades DONE! Best of the Best to the Finish!

February 24

Razor - Nothing, nothing at all
Blade - Nada, nope, none.
Brush - Zip, zero, zilch
Soap - None whatsoever
Post - Nothing to follow up on.

No shave this morning. They were predicting several inches of snow so I slept in a bit, then got up figuring I was running about an hour behind with traffic issues, jumped in the shower, threw on my clothes, grabbed my stuff and opened the door ready to fight my way to work. I had seen enough on the news to know that one of the major interstates was shut down due to power lines down across it. Horror stories on the roads south of STL and downtown. Funny, just a dusting here. And, when I headed west to work the snow totally disappeared within a mile. Narrow band that buried things 15 miles to the East and didn't touch us. Had plenty of time to shave, just wasn't smart enough to look out a window before getting ready. Oh well.

Tomorrow I'll pick it back up and will be using the '59 Super Speed and the Treet Black Beauty carbon for two days. The plan called for the Super Max Super Platinum but when I went to my stash I discovered I don't have one. So, I'll use my favorite carbon blade instead.