Friday April 20 - experiment without preshave glycerin
Supply Co V.2 SE injector on two - dot plate / Personna ( 7)
JR #267 birdseye maple and boar brush
Vitos Eucalyptus shaving cream
Alum and Osage Rub
I may have to think a little more about the preshave glycerin. Today's two pass shave felt less slick than yesterday's and my face doesn't feel as softly moisturized as it did the same length of time after the shave yesterday either. That may partly be due to differences in lather - I face lathered with a boar today which didn’t give the absolute control over lather moisture and density I had when bowl lathering with a synthetic yesterday. Too many variables between the shaves to be positive the difference was the glycerin. But I suspect it was.
I will face lather with a boar again tomorrow but will use the glycerin first again and see how that feels.
Is there an enormous difference anyway? No. Today's shave was two passes to a high grade finish with no squawk from the alum -- an excellent result in other words. But the one using the glycerin might possibly have been just that tiny bit better. And it was more noticeable to me today when removing the glycerin than yesterday when adding it to the routine.
Of course, if I do ultimately decide that a preshave does improve my shave, I will naturally finesse the whole issue of the NB'18 by getting the TSD Shop's own well-rated concoction...

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