Thursday Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Scots Pine Bath Soap Soap: Maggard Fougere Sauvage Razor: Gillette Super Speed Red Tip Blade: Gillette Platinum (5) Brush: oscar11 TGN 2-Band Finest 24mmx50mm Aftershave: Fine American Blend WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard) My “lost” Maggard Fougere Sauvage showed up along with my Fine American Blend AS sample. As expected, the Maggard soap generated a great lather. Combined with the Fougere Sauvage, my 5th shave with the Gillette Platinum in the Red tip was excellent. I finished up with Fine American Blend. Unfortunately, this is also a great scent! Make room for another AS. Bob
6/8 Wacker Inox Prep Shaving Soap homemade boar Get ready to be bored, I'm going spartan for a while. Prep might be the best shaving soap I've ever used. I really like this stuff. It has a medicinal smell, I think noxema, my wife says clove, either way it doesn't hang around for long. Incidently, Prep was supposedly formulated in the U.S. in the 1860's. Have a good one.
SOTD July 3 Prep: hot shower Razor: WW2 Gillette Tech Blade: BIC platinum (day 2) Brush: Vie-Long Soap: Proraso green Passes: 2 (WTG, XTG) + touch ups Post: Arko Ice Mint The BIC seems to give its best shave on its first use. Day 2 with this blade was still a great shave. Finished the shave off with Arko Ice Mint instead of witch hazel for a mildly cooling effect. I forgot my wacky tacky at work last night, so I went with the petal pusher wax this morning. The blend of the two waxes were doing their best to encourage the "English" styled handlebar...
Thursday, July 3, 2014 Prep: Warm shower, Cetaphil Lotion Razor: EJ DE89 Head w/ Weber Classic Handle Blade: Voskhod (2) Lather: Cella Brush: VDH Boar Post: Witch Hazel, Cetaphil Lotion Aftershave: Old Spice I think I was still asleep while shaving this morning. I was going to use a sample of L.A. Shaving soap that was PIF'd to me, but I used too much water and it was really thin. I didn't have time to experiment, so I pulled out the Cella and it lathered right up. I normally make 3 passes -- WTG, XTG, ATG. Today, for some unknown reason, I went WTG, ATG, XTG. I realized halfway into my second pass that I was had skipped the XTG pass, so I added it to the end. The result was good, but not great. Oh well, looking forward to tomorrow when I have my first straight razor shave! Have a great day!
quick shave today final push to get ready for the fourth festivities brushless, fast but really miss the process. y'all have a happy forth of July
Tabacstag! Another amazing Tabac shave! The soap performed as always, this time I used my Plisson Synthetic to get into the milk glass jar because I'm running out. No worries, I've already got a refill puck waiting to fill that glorious jar. I'm tempted to just push the new puck in on top of the remains of the old now, but it will feel good to use it to the end. The Synergy Bay Rum Tonic works great with Tabac, the scents compliment each other, the soap and cologne. This is my first use of Tabac cologne, obtained from a generous PIF on TSD. I love it as I love all my Tabac products. Thanks JR! Prep: RR/HTGAM lime menthol Soap: Tabac! Brush: Plisson Synthetic Razor: iKon ShaveCraft 101 Blade: Personna lab blue (1) AS: Synergy Bay Rum Tonic EdC: Tabac!
Thursday morning - Prep - Noxzema & hot towel Cream - Cold River Soap Works American Barber Shop Brush - Omega 11047 Razor - Gillette Single Ring Blade - Feather (4) 2 pass Warm water rinse & cold water splash Alum block & Witch-hazel AS
Bartmann 504 Simpson Wee Scot Proraso pre shave Proraso green shave cream Proraso green AS Proraso blue balm
Pre: Maggard Razors PSO – Lime Brush: Shea Moisture Shave Synthetic Soap: Maggard Razors Lime & Bergamot Razor: PAL Adjustable Injector Blade: Kmart Injector – Platinum Chrome Splash: Wal-Mart Witch Hazel 86% Post: Dove Men+Care ASB After: Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue Another first! Finally got around to breaking out the PAL! Well actually, a Facebook friend sent me a Schick injector to try, with a single blade. it was a tough choice but after some deliberation I elected to use that blade in the PAL instead... Check out the rest at That Shave Life!
7/3/2014 Horse Hair Brush Week Prep: Hot shower with L'Oreal Men Expert Facial Wash, home made PSO Razor: Muhle R41 2010, Imperial Razor Warranted Germany Barbers Favorite straight razor Blade: Viking Sword (5) Brush: Vie Long Horse Hair 23mm knot Soap: L'Occitane Cade with 3 drops of TSD MBomb After: Home made ASB, Aqua Velva classic Ice Blue Cologne: Aqua H2O A cool 1 pass with touch ups Darn Fine Shave. Have a Blessed Day!!
7/3/2014 Prep: warm wash Lather: Tiki Set Sail (vegan) Brush: Omega B&B Razor: Gillette New Blade: Astra SP (5) Post: cold rinse and Captain's Choice Lime 2 passes on the face, 2 passes on the scalp. Breaking in new B&B branded Omega boar bristle brush. No nicks or weepers, even with 4 days stubble on scalp. NEW mowed it down!
Thor's Day: Prep: Hot shower, Healthy Accents Daily Renewal cleanser, TSD Jasmine Sambac Preshave balm Brush: Simpson 56 Best Badger Soap: RazoRock One-X Tallow Croap Razor: Merkur 41c 1904 OC Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (1) Passes: WTG, XTG (1, 2) Post: Cold water splash, Bloc Osma Alum, Dickinson's WH, RazoRock One-X AS Splash Can you tell I like this croap, yet? I skipped yesterday's shave due to sheer laziness, and - as I indicated - decided to reset my baseline of expectations by going back to using the Bic for a turn. As ever, it produced DFS results in 2 effortless passes, with nary a hint of irritation or bloodshed. I even nearly skipped the alum, because it seemed unnecessary. The temperature today is warm enough that the very mild menthol in the One-X did provide some cooling, by the way.
Remember,never sniff The Veg from the bottle!If possible decant into a glass bottle,hot sauce bottles work really well.Last tip,it may take several applications before The Veg choses you.My first time SWMBO and the local villagers threatened to burn me at the stake.After the third application all was well with the world,SWMBO now loves The Veg.That is all!
SOTD July 3, 2014 Prep: Hot shower. Axe Boost Energizing Face Wash Razor: Merkur Progress Blade: Ladas Super Stainless Lather: RR XXX Brush: Semogue 1305 Post: Alum. Dickinson WH Aftershave: RR XXX. RR XXX Milk The planets were lined up for this shave! Perfection! Go out and get it!
Thursday warm shower Semogue SOC,Boar Proraso PSC Mama Bear's Rosemary Mint Gold Plated Tech/Gillette Silver Blue cold water rinse and ice cube rub Monster Block Alum cold water rinse and ice cube rub Thayer's Lemon WH and to compliment the ice cube rubs.......The Rub!!!! Diptyque Tam Dao edp Nice 2 pass face,1 pass dome,for BBS all around!!! Stay frosty,my friends!!!
Thursday Prep: Clear Essentials glycerin soap Soap: HTGAM synergy, unscented Brush: Plisson synthetic Razor: Schick injector, type I Blade: Schick After: Cold rinse, CeraVe Another great shave with my 1950's Schick injector.
Razor: Osgar 862 5/8 Full Hollow Brush: Vie-long White 24mm Horse hair Bowl: Georgetown G12 Pre Shave Soap: MRGLO Lime & Basil Pre Shave oil: Eucalyptus Peppermint Vanilla Shave Soap: Penhaligon`s English Fern Post: Monster Alum Block Aftershave: Penhaligon`s English Fern
Birthday Shave! Razor: vintage birth year and quarter B3 Blue Tip Blade: vintage Personna 74 Soap: MWF Brush: M&F L7 Cobalt Blue and Blonde Badger ( my school colors, Blue & Gold) 22mm smooth, close and oh so enjoyable. AS: never liked it when I was young but nostalgia has taken over... Essence of Man, Brut.
