Favorite February
February 9 - A week with Williams. Day 1
Razor - Gem MMOC
Blade -
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ASR Carbon - CVS (1)
Soap - Williams
Brush - Omega 10066 The BoS
Post - Alum
Well, I promised Fuzzy I'd give Williams a week of shaves since he helped me out with the blade issue. I'm a Czar of my word. I stowed the Stirling away for the next 7 days and pulled the Williams out of the back corner of the cabinet. I actually summoned it with the Accio spell since I had tried my best to hide it. I took it out of its secure metal container, breaking the security seal following the required notification to the St. Charles County haz-mat team. With that done and the Williams in place in my VDH bowl, I chose the Omega boar, 10066 brush (known as the Brush of Shame since it's why I broke a NB July a couple years ago) and got set to shave.
New blade in the OCMM and I took a deep breath, looked longingly at my cabinet of Stirling, Route 66, Oleo, Jeeves, MWF and Tabac (did I mention the enablers around here were brutal last year?) and a few others odds and ends and wet the Williams puck, left the brush fairly wet and went to work loading. It didn't take long for the bowl to fill with a lather like substance. Actually looked pretty good, just those bigger bubbles I get with Williams, and I loaded the brush hard. Lathered my face and grabbed the razor.
My usual experience with Williams is a very fast dissipating lather, though it does remain slick enough to shave with if you hurry. Tonight I was a bit pleased to see the lather, thin though it was, hanging around for the full pass. And, the pass was super smooth and seemed slick enough. Definitely not bad. Lathered up for the second pass and while the soap thinned out a bit more than the first pass I still made it through the pass without losing it all. No nicks, cuts, weepers. Near-BBS result with the new blade and the alum remained mostly quiet.
I squeezed the brush out and got a partial handful of bubbles. But hey, I got the shave in and it was comfortable and effective. Definition of what a soap is supposed to do, right? We'll see if I can improve over the next week and come up with something I never expected. A rave about the high quality of Williams. Odds anyone?
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