7/5/14 SoTD Prep: warm wash with Stirling Barbershop bath bar Lather: Tiki Set Sail vegan Brush: Vie-Long 13061M Razor: Gillette New Blade: Cristal (2) Post: Cold water rinse and Captain's Choice Lime Went of a good face lather after several weeks of scuttle lathering. Temps already in the 90's by 8:00 a.m. and will only get warmer today. No warm lather! Easy 3 passes with a little more deliberate grain pattern following to get first pass WTG - jawline and neck grow crazy ways and the resulting shave seems to be much smoother. Have a wonderful weekend all.
Saturday hot shower Shavemac Custom 167,2 band,d01,fan Proraso PSC Stirling Glacial Spearmint Schick Revere/Pella Coated (10) I should have used this razor yesterday cold water rinse Monster Block Alum cold water rinse Stirling Glacial Wintergreen WH Myrsol Formula K ASL Acqua Di Parma Oud Very smooth shave,I was almost tempted to go for shave 11,but in the end I ditched the blade.Ten shaves, plus dome shaves is plenty good! Stay frosty,my friends!
SATURDAY Another straight razor where I reset the bevel using the same method (or process) as my previous successful honings. The edge on the Böker wasn't horrible, but I did notice under the loupe it was inconsistent (very weak in the the toe and heel). So last night, I ran it through my series of sharpening stones. Post-honing and testing on my arms, I had arm hairs 'popping off' all across the blade… Next was 50 linen/75 leather strokes on the strop & it was ready to go for this morning. Super smooth shave this morning with the 'new' Böker and the wonderful Cade soap (applied generously with the ridiculously small Simpson). Have a great weekend, everyone!
Saturday morning, July 5, 2014 Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (5) Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush, Arko shaving soap with hot water lather, finish with cold water rinse for a CCS!
Gem 1912 Pal Carbon Steel Simpson Duke 3 TOBS Eton College No.4711 First shave with a Pal carbon steel, little harsh but mellowed out by the end, might see how it goes tomorrow but so far the Gem SS are king for closeness and comfort.
Tamako YSK Omega synthetic brush Proraso pre shave Barrister & Mann Fougere Royale soap Alcolado Glacial AS Proraso sensitive balm
The fougére scent can be polarizing—some love it; others despise it. I happen to enjoy it, but I also enjoy the 'basic' MdC scent as well—which is milder, but similar. The Valobra fougére is more 'intense.'
Saturn's Day: Prep: Hot shower, Neutrogena Deep Cleaning Gentle Scrub Brush: Beeline Boar Cream: Speick Razor: Merkur 41c 1904 OC Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (3) Passes: WTG, XTG (5, 6) Post: Cold water splash, Bloc Osma Alum, Dickinson's WH, Speick AS Splash Well, I managed to break the One-X spell for the day, and reached for the Speick. This time it really was a deliberate choice on my part to skip the preshave balm, as I wanted to try face-lathering the Speick and didn't relish the idea of smearing the cream on top of the balm. The resulting lather was certainly nice, but not as good as what I typically get from bowl lathering the Speick. Two passes did provide a DFS, though.
I don't really like P.160. I have other soaps that perform better. This is too strong in the scent department. It's average in the slickness department and it's alright in the cushion department. This is my third use with the ER 1924. I think I'm sold on it. I can a DFS with one pass from this razor. I am getting used to the angle and I am starting to get a feel for how this razor works. After No Buy July, I'm going to make other forays into the SE world.
July 5th Razor: Gillette Old Type Blade: Red Israeli Personna Brush: Muhle SYN Large 23mm Cream: TOBS Grapefruit ASB: GFTrumpers Coral Skin Food
Shave of the day Pre- Hot shower + homemade PSO Soap/cream- Proraso red Brush- Plisson synthetic Razor- Mühle R89 Blade- Astra SP(2) Post- Cold water rinse, Old spice whitewater and Nivea ASB
