Thursday, December 13 Saponificio Varesino Colonia 4.3~~Morris & Forndran Finest Beehive~~Gillette New SC~~Polsilver SI Have a great day!
Schick E3 razor Schick blade NOS Certified boar brush Stirling Margaritas in the Artic SS Osage Rub/Witch Hazel w/aloe Clubman Reserve Whiskey Woods A/S Been trying to get this brush broken in for a lllooonnnggg time by soaking/hand lathering/etc. Nothing has worked, it's like lathering with a candle stick. Reckon it's a good candidate for a reknot. But everything else was just fine. Now go enjoy your day folks.
SOTD DEcember 13th Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap Cooper MonoBilt Pol Silver SI(6) Yaqi Moka Express (26mm, Frigate Class) Van Yulay Smokin Hot Pineapple soap and AS Good morning friends. Today's Decadent shave feature a soap company that you don't hear much about and the king of the vintage DE razors. The Van Yulay soap (this one is a tallow base, she has several different bases containing various oils and fats) is very soft and the big Yaqi brush picked up a lot of soap in a short time. The scent of Smokin Hot Pineapple is meant to be that of grilling fresh pineapple rings, and actually contains some pineapple that the soapmaker grilled themselves, it also contains base notes of smoke and vetiver. Performance of the soap was amazing, it made a creamy, shiny, dense lather that was super slick and had very good residual slickness. Scent strength was a solid 7 and just having the tub open in the bathroom filled the room with smokey pineapple goodness. Post shave feel was very good and was only enhanced by the AS. The AS is alcohol free and contains lots of skin food and left my face feeling supple and well hydrated. The only downside is that the packaging seems somewhat amateurish, the label for the AS looks like it was printed in house. The bottle for the AS is plastic and I'm not a fan of this style of soap container. Those flaws are easily overlooked however as the quality of the product more then makes up for it. Six shaves on a Pol Silver and its showing no signs of stopping. It is still cutting smoothly and is still sharp enough to pull off a BBS shave. The MonoBilt once again proved itself and just reiterated why it is my favorite vintage DE. Have a great day my friends!
THRIFTY THURSDAY! WCS Beacon Synthetic Late 40's Gillette Superspeed Wilkinson Sword (1) Arko Equate Witch Hazel Aqua Velva Classic Music provided by: Rush ~ 1984, Live in Toronto September 1984
DEcember 13th SOTD British Aristocrat Jr. w Astra SP (2) WD HM Badger/Maple D.R. Harris Arlington Thayers CL Bon Vivant AS Have a great day all!
RR GameChanger .84 Polsilver SI Stirling barbershop soap Witch Hazel followed by Clubman AS Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
Pre: Warm water splash Brush: S_jagger 24mm Zebrano ST Soap: The Sudsey Soapery UpLift Razor: Pal Golden Blade: Schick Proline B Post: Warm then cold water rinse, Vitamin E oil, Pinaud Clubman ASL I find the injecto-matic to be a very effective razor but not as much fun as the E2. Happy Shaving one and all.
The Friday Way Of (Shave)Life: prep-Dove 4 Men Bodywash(Hydration Balance)in shower shave-Rise Super Foam regular razor-Gillette Sensor Deuce Pivot + DisposeABLE A.S.-TSD Splash(Bay Rum)* *-this will be the first of 4 straight days of shaves with Bay Rum(aftershaves), thus extending my Barbershop Jamboree for said 4 days. (Course Bay Rum A.S. is synonymous with barbershops).
Friday Planned SOTD Razor: 1946/1947 Gillette Aristocrat Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux (D5) Brush: Shavemac H4414024 Horn 24mm Silvertip Bowl: ShaveWorks 4.25" Pre-Shave Scrub: MRGO Lime Pre-Shave Balm: Grooming Dept Unscented V35 Shave Soap: Grooming Dept Before The Fire Post: MdC Huile Végétale Camomille Aftershave: Nobel Otter BarrBarr
Dr. Jon's is a sleeper indeed. I think many people tried Vol. 1 while the current Vol. 2 formula is much better IMO. The scent of Cold Fall Morning is much stronger than i anticipated. The guy i got this from (trade) had a utube video giving it a 1-2/10 on scent strength, so was plesently surprised.
12.13.18 Wholly Kaw Leather Paladin "keyhive" 28mm ATT S1 Permasharp ⚂ 3 pass BBS Floid Genuine AFS Floris 1927 Great soap - performance so good: scent so bad, really wholly kaw bad. Wife had to leave the bathroom. Gotta get unscented? Does it exist? Shave on brothers Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
Friday December 14, 2018 Blackland Sabre L2 GEM PTFE Paladin Shaving Round Table LE Barrister and Mann Patches-Strawberry, Basil and Black Pepper Soap & AS ADP Ginepro di Sardegna
