Prep: Hot shower, hand strop blade Coffee: Starbucks French Roast, black (too busy to grind some of my home roast last night ) Soap: Muhle Sandalwood Brush: C&E Pure Badger Razor: Gillette Sheraton Blade: Astra, day 4, 3 passes Post: cold water rinse, Clinique Post-Shave Soother, Ogallala Bay Rum & Sandalwood Another great shave. I believe the Astra blade is the biggest reason. The Sheraton is a mild razor (to me), but paired with the Astra it worked out just fine.
Tuesday Shave Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Jaggerooney Frankenrazor Gillette Indian Wilkinson blade Simpson Emperor 2 Two Band brush Proraso Classic Soap A/S: Dickinson’s Witch Hazel, Proraso Balm Vance
SOTD for Tuesday Feb 16, 2010 Razor: 1951 Gillette Aristocrat Blade: Dorco Soap/Mug: Tabac Brush: Medium Badger ASB: Bijan Face Saver Aftershave: Polo Kind of a Retro feel in todays shave. The Polo reminds me of my Dad; his Favorite.
Tuesday Morning: Hot Shower/Hot Towel/Proraso Glycerin Cleansing Bar 1966 Gillette TECH (Ball End) Iridum Super (Shave #1) Kent/Altesse Pure Badger Nivea SC (German) Aqua Velva Original Sport A/S Vaseline IRML Lotion Took someone's advice and went back to basics today with the TECH, a nice, sharp Iridium Super blade and the Nivea cream. The results were fantastic. Definite DFS territory. I have been trying a new method in between my warm water rinse and the application of the A/S. Another member (paperpundit) has been raving about the dramatic effect that the addition of a witch hazel application followed by a cold compress for about 30 seconds, has had as far as reducing his chances of developing ingrowns or razor bumps. I have tried this on my last two shaves and it has been working quite well. My technique is as follows: after my third pass I do my usual warm water rinse, followed by some Thayers Medicated Super Hazel applied from an atomizer. Then I apply a cold compress for about 30 seconds. Cold water rinse, towel dry and then the normal application of my after shave of choice and my facial moisturizer. Lovely results.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Razor: Burl Razor with Merkur Head Blade: Gillette Yellow Brush: Shavemac D01 Horn Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Soap: Palmolive Shave Stick (Tallow) A/S: Pre de Provence ASB EDT: C & E Sandalwood A decent shave. The Gillette Yellow blade seemed to tug a bit although I ended up with a smooth shave and there was no residual burn. The PdP ASB was an appropriate finish and the C & E Sandalwood left me smelling nice
-Hot shower -PC Woodcraft Snakewood 24mm Siilvertip Brush -Taylor's Sandalwood -Merkur 38C -Feather Blade-day#2 -Thayer's Unscented Witch Hazel -TSD Iced Subzero Milk :anifrozen:anifrozenhttp://www.theshaveden.com/forum/images/smilies/Animatedfrozensmily.gif I'm just not loving these Feather blades. I really wanted to like it, but as smooth of a shave as I'm getting, there's a raw unpleasant feeling on my face after a shave. I've gotten just as close with greater comfort on the Dorco 301 and the Sharks-I have a ton left to try from my variety pak, but as YMMV knows, feathers just may not be for me. I'll try them with different razors and on different points of my learning curve so I'm not giving up on em.
Thanks, I just got it last week and I'm really liking it. It's from PC Woodcraft and Pens-a woodworker in California. This one was one of the standard snakewood brushes offered, but you can get it custom with a variety of choices of handles. It was $69. Check out his webstite: http://www.badgerbrush.net/
Shave Of The Day - February 16th Hot Shower Omega 31064 Ingram Shave Cream :freezing E.J. Chatsworth Zorrick Blade - Day 1 Homemade Skin Food Osage Rub :freezing The Ingram shave cream splits the menthol balance between Proraso on the low side and Iced Subzero on the high side. Follow it up with the icy Osage Rub and it was a very cool, refreshing shave.
Razor: Larkin Brush test: Penworks Horn Brush test: Bill Campbell Cream: Olivia Rose AS: AII Osage Rub AS: Master Bayrum
Superlather Wednesday After I have thought about it yesterday and Leon also wrote about superlather, today there was the following mixture. SWK Scuttle MWF + CS Saving Sweet Orange SC + 5 drops of glycerine happy088 Jaguar 1056 6/8 TI Le Gerlot (Parker 71R was the alternative if this morning is a lack of time) Royall mandarin APL
Wednesday, February 17th Hot shower De Vergulde Hand ss Omega 6038 Pure Badger Mühle R89 W/ Gillette 7 O' Clock De Vergulde Hand alum 444 ASB W/ La Toja splash Joop! Go EdT
Wednesday Feb 17, 2010 Slim Adjustable / Personna TOBS 377 Real Shave Company Cream Alum Block Witch Hazel / Lavender One Planet ASB GFT Curzon EdC
Hot Shower Glycerin Pre-Shave Diane Shavette Semogue 2000 TSD Patchouli WH/Skin So Soft Clubman AS CK Obsession Murray's Australian Beeswax
Wednesday: Omega Wooden Handle Super Speed/Derby day 2 Palmolive Classic-SC Lubriderm unscented moisturizer Max Disinfecting-AS Bulgari Blu Notte-EDT Another smooth, close, comfortable shave. A good DE with a blade like a Derby will always deliver the right results.
Wednesday: Gillette New razor Gillette 7 OCY blade Cella SS Omega boar brush M&L Florida Water Cologne Starting a short work week with a mighty fine shave.
WEDNESDAY Gillette Tech 1961 NOS Iridium (day 5) Berma Shave SS Omega Synthetic Brush Ogallala Bay Rum AS Limes & Peppercorns
