25th April 2024.


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Shaving Recipe for today.

Prep: Warm shower:/Bulldog Original Shower Gel.

Pre:
Cold wet flannel to my face.
Cien PURE Fragrance Free Sensitive Bar Soap.
Brush: Semogue 1470.
Face Lather.
Lather: Arko Shave Stick.
Blade: Dorco Prime Platinum. (D4)
Razor: Yaqi DOC Mellon Razor Head./Schmidt R10 Handle.

Post:
Cold Water Face Rinse./Cold water face wash with brush squeezing's, /Alum Rub./Cold Water Rinse./Homemade (~Spring/Summer mix~) Lemon, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Essential Oils.5 Menthol Crystals Mixed Together With Care+Witch Hazel./Arko Comfort After Shave -Cologne./ Nivea Men Fresh Moisturising Gel.

Greetings,

Early morning shave,

Another close acceptable shave to finish my shaving week.

My shaving highlight of the week, and so far this year has been my reacquaintance with the Ming Shi 2000s Futur clone & Dorco Prime Platinum blade which is a fantastic duo.

A comfortable 2 pass + pick ups silky smooth shave with no errors to report.

Finishing the shave off with a few small dollops of Nivea Men Fresh Moisturising Gel.

My face is feeling cool smooth & smelling divine.

Keep safe, and enjoy your day ladies & gentlemen.

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DE Shave # 526 - Wednesday

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Merkur HD 39c “The Slegehammer”
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster 26mm
Lather: Proraso White
Aftershave: Declaration Grooming Massacre of the Innocents
Additional Care:
Maggards Alum
Thayer’s Witch Hazel - Original

Fantastic 39c shave this morning.

DE Shave # 527

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Yaqi Traveler
Blade: Suneko Amorphous Diamond SS
Brush: Ever Ready 200T
Lather: Stache Soap Works E Barber
Aftershave: Floïd Genuine Vigoroso

A very quick and efficient shave this morning. The 200T did a nice face lather of the E Barber soap. Eventually I will have to determine which soap in my collection will be loaded into the stick once I finish with this soap.

The usual three passes with great results. Now I am ready for a day in the Florida sun.

Hope you all have a great day.

You are contributing to inflation.

Excellent Arko shave Barry

Thank you Joe.

Great Throwback shave this morning. I misjudged the amount of Fine soap I have left-I guess it can last longer than I thought. I experimented with different ways to load the soap. Nice work in most areas, except for that dreaded right sideburn area just under the ear. I'm going to fix that right now. Good-that takes care of that. Maybe my May(birthday month)focus should be in trying to solve that problem for good. 2 passes. Zero cuts, Knicks, Polka-dots. I have the matching aftershave(Fine Latigo). It's real nice. Always fun to do a great shave on Throwback Thursday. As Outstanding As It Gets.

fabulous shave Paul.

fabulous thursday shaves and pics gents.

-Thursday-
rocket/parat
semogue 820
b & m waves



good morning gents
first shave of the year with a neglected shave set,waves.
this used to be tops for me ,but i have so much better..
or i can lather stuff better,either or.
finicky at first then i loaded it like "it owed me"to quote others,
maybe it needs daily use to come back..
finally a great lather but i had to get more from the puck each pass.
masybe it's too old..
smooth 2 passer with the parat,
matching splash to finish
will give this set a few shaves in succession to see if it comes back.
or should i try a 3017 with it
mwf is like that if i remember correctly
will try a 3017 with it
awesome.
have a fine day everyone


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Thank you Gary.

Thank you Gary-it's one of my favorite soaps(same with the aftershave).

Woke up this morning and took a nice hot shower and shave.

The Schick Krona got the call today as I've been working with that most of the month. I put a new Shark blade in and I got a very nice shave. I won't go into all the details, because I'm going on a trip for a few days.

Now, I'm not bringing much, just a can of Barbasol, a tiny tube of Preraso cut gel, some Clubman Vanilla AS and my Gillette Tech. It's my smallest razor and it gives a pretty non aggressive shave. I have a Treet blade with a Trig backup.

So I guess this minimalist shave without much prep except maybe a shower, will be a good indicator of where my wet shaving skills are now. I only plan to shave once, maybe twice if I dare, before my return trip.

Wish me luck gentlemen. I'll try and check-in and let you know how it came out.

PS - is Shave Den located in New Orleans? When I Google shave shops in NO, Shave Den comes up

Terrific Thursday shaves guys!

thank you Joe.today is thursday..

Yes it is. I did the same thing you did last week. Lol. I corrected my post. Thanks.

Here it is for Friday(26):

brush-Crown King (Duro Spindle Tali)synthetic

no other changes from today

April 25 SOTA

Good morning.

Van der Hagen TTO Razor
GE Wilkinson Sword DE Blade (4)
MrEE Tuxedo Brush
Soap Commander Vision SS
Pinaud-Clubman Classic AS
Stirling Alum Block
Personal Care Witch Hazel
Beard Growth: 32 hrs



I was going to wait until tomorrow, but decided to shave this evening. I went with the Van der Hagen Razor. I know that I used it last week, but I just wanted a simple, easy shave. Three passes with some buffing gave me a nice, very close, and comfortable shave without any bloodletting. I picked Soap Commander Vision because I haven't used it in awhile and my goal is to use up some of my samples this year. Joe C @JACarbone piffed this sample to me so I thank you my compare. It does produce a nice, slick lather and it does like water. Here's my lather:



I had very little alum feedback. Splashed on the witch hazel and that wonderful (to me) Pinaud-Clubman Classic aftershave. Take care.