Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Pre-shave soap: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: EJ Chatsworth Blade: Astra Superior Platinum Brush: Simpson Colonel X2L Best Soap or Cream: Mitchell's Wool Fat Soap A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel, Meehan Bay Rhum Splash
Tuesday, December 20 65’ Gillette Slim (setting 7) Derby Extra (d2) Preshave Oil Blend Renaissance Man Black Amber S/S Vulfix 404 Grosvenor Pinuad Clubman Virgin Island BR Great shave (4.7). Revisited a Derby this week. It has been a long time, perhaps 6 mo or a yr. Back then Derby's seemed to be at their best for me in the Slim and with some preshave oil in support, and even then it cut my neck consistently. Did this routine today, and got a near BBS without a scratch. Go figure. It pays to revisit past demons.
Tuesday morning, Schick G1 Injector Razor w/ Personna Blade (4) Omega 20107 Boar Bristle Brush, Arko shave soap w/ hot water lather, finish w/ cold water rinse for a DFS! Nice lather with the Omega 20107 and Arko.
Tuesday: Shumate 5/8 The Dridecker Palmolive Stick Alum Block Witch Hazel Afta Fresh Balm Old Spice A S Splash
Tuesday, December 20th Razor: Merkur Futur Blade: Personna Med Prep Brush: Shavemac D01 Horn Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Soap: Tabula Rasa Dark Lavender A/S: D.R. Harris Marlborough An excellent shave.
Many thanx Mang I am very psyched and I also think I have found a great dealer who I can get suggestions from. I will give him a plug. Gary at Shoe Box Shave. Thanx again Danny!
Tuesday: Hot shower followed with Proraso Pre then: The Feather blade treated me so much better today than the Derby yesterday.
Hot shower razorock classic gillette fatboy with derby blade cold water rinse followed by gillette aftershave gel dfs. but i think the derby is starting to burn back to the feather
Tuesday December 20th Prep: Hot Shower, RSC Scrub Razor: Merkur 23c Blade: Shark SC (2) Brush: Omega Boar Soap: Proraso Green Tea & Aloe Post: Thayers WH, Cold Rinse, Nivea ASB Overall a very nice 3.5 pass shave after a few days off. Not the smoothest, but that means there's more to shave tomorrow Have a great day people!
Tuesday's Shower and Shave Hot Shower LuJin Badger MWF Gillette Knack Voshkod Warm water rinse, polar water splash, Thayer's Witchhazel, Arko Balm Three passes I had a very jolly DFS. We were out of town for a couple days. It is great to be home.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - Today's the day! Prep: Hot shower; CB Super Sensitive facewash; hand strop blade Coffee: Locally roasted, fresh ground Nicaraguan w/ cream Lather: MWF - face lather Brush: Simpsons Commodore X2 Razor: Gem HFT Blade: Pella SS PTFE coated (1); 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse; Aqua Velva mixed w/ California Baby super sensitive face lotion And an audible sigh of relief was heard from my bathroom this morning. The MWF lathered brilliantly even in my hard water. I loaded a bit longer and I think the brush is breaking in as it's holding more lather. I easily had enough lather today for 5 passes. I'm very pleased with the Simpsons Best grade of hair. Tomorrow morning I'm going back to my Vulfix Super to see how it performs on MWF.
Tuesday Prep: Hot shower CD: Jimmy Bratcher ~ Something Better Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Kenya Safari Ridge, BLACK Soap: VDH Deluxe (WalMart - $1.50) + 2 drops Em's Place Woodstock EO Brush: Ever Ready 250PB with original knot, antique mall <$10 Razor: '55 Gillette Red Tip, flea market - $5 Blade: Gillette Super Thin, free sample from Phil Post: Cold water rinse, Cool Mist - free sample from JoAnna, hand strop blade 'Stache Wax: Steve's Own, <$1 per tin Shave Rating: 4 Blades Darn near 5 blades.
Went to my barber-Frank-for shave today: lost count at 10 hot towels-sweeeeet and smooooooth. He used Proraso and told me he was confused when he first saw Proraso soap/cream as it was first a pre-shave. Pro=pre, Raso=lather. Great tidbit.
Your barber was on the Andy Griffith show? Never knew that about the Porasso naming. Nice bit of trivia.
But if "pro = pre" why do they have "pre = pre" on their pre/post cream tub? I would also guess "Raso" would mean razor. But I don't speak Italian, and can only decipher some of the writing.
Great cheap shave today (in keeping with this weeks theme) DFS+ Gotta love the palmolive shave stick, for the price Hot shower palmolive shave stick Omega 10275 boar EJ89L Astra (d-3) Bond ASB + After shave (the balm was ok not at all for the price could feel the alcohol for a min or so very citrusy)
