Wednesday: hot shower w/Grandpa's Sandalwood bar soap Homemade PSO StickSchick 2 passes Personna Platinum Chrome (6) BurmaShave boar Gold Dachs Sandalwood soap in a warm mug Thayers unscented w/aloe Wm Neumann & Co Heartwood AS Been stupid-busy lately so I haven't posted in about 10 days and there's no let up in sight. I've used the StickSchick five shaves in a row now which tells you I haven't even had the time to swap razors. Great shave this morning.
Razor... Gillette fat boy Blade... rapira platinum lux Brush... seafoam b&b essential boar Soap... stroppe Shoppe Russian tea
Wednesday's Dove Men Face Wash Proraso Shaving Cream Frank Shaving Finest Badger Ever-Ready 1924 w/ short Brass Center Punch Handle GEM Super Stainless CWR, Asma Alum Block Thayers Lemon WH Pinaud Clubman The Proraso Shaving Cream face-lathered well with my Frank Shaving Finest Badger Brush. Two passes with my Ever-Ready 1924 SE razor and a GEM Super Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Lemon WH and then Pinaud Clubman after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...
Tuesday evening, March 19, 2015 Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (1), Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush, lather-up with Tabac – shave 1 pass, finish with cold water, Witch Hazel and Pinaud Clubman for a CCS! Tabac and Clubman go so good together. Aces!
How do you like the SOC brush? Ive struggled with mine. It seems to soak up all the lather and refuse to share...
I like it because it really works my hard soaps, all my other brushes are horse or silvertip. But it is not breaking in fast. I bought three boars, omega 11137, Italian barbershop which is a semogue 1305 with badger coloring and the soc. The omega is the best from the beginning softer works great. The others lather well but not as soft but I read they take longer to break in. So I went back to bowl lathering with them to break them in better. I also Palm lather at night and give 24 to 48 hrs dry time. So I like it a lot but it's not my favorite yet. If I could only keep one boar at this moment I would go with the omega 11137. But I want to give the others a fair breaking time they. Are only 2 weeks old. Also I'm overloading them with soap so I'm not having a problem lathering but at first I was that's why I really overload them while breaking them in
Wednesday's action: Neutrogena Men Facial Wash Large Horsehair Barbershop Super Speed/Sharp day 3 Stirling Glacial Lavender SS Gold Bond Moisturizer Alcolado Glacial Menthol Splash Fahrenheit EdT I hope I don't have any shaving accidents tomorrow morning because this morning I had one, although I will admit it was my fault. I guess I was too cocky or confident and I was shaving really fast, so I nicked my chin - damn, did it hurt and I couldn't find my styptic pencil. Anyway, I'll be using my number one favourite soap which is the Glacial Lavender and I can't wait to smell that great scent which is so beautiful. The lather is such a pleasure to work up, and the freezing sensation hits like ten tons of icy bricks. Once again I'll be finishing off with the Gold Bond/Penguin combination which is so frigidly nice.
I have 50 soaps and Russian tea is at the very top. Its amazing!!! The scent is top notch. Its a mix of orange and spices. Its my first stroppe Shoppe soap and I've been very impressed. Super easy to load and lather. I could go on and on about it. I will never be without it.
Tight-wad Tuesday: Razor: Baili Victory three-piece ($7) Blade: Astra (2nd use)Brush: Semogue 1438 ($13) Soap: Arko (4$) AS: Florida Water ($4) Hot Shower, wet face and face lathered some Arko. This is the 2nd week (30 day rule) on this little brush. I think of this as "the little brush that could". Easily three full psses with plenty left over. I have heard complaints of the smell of Arko, but never the performance! The cheapo razor does perform very nice. Not BBS, but close. No nicks, and finished with a healthy dose of Florida Water. Wifey doesn't like either Arko or Florida Water but it'll take more than an act of congress before I give them up! Just some proof that you can get an enjoyable DFS simply and inexpensive
SOTD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 PREP: Nice hot shower...ahhhhhhh RAZOR: 1957 Ball End Tech - Woo Hoo! Another birth year razor! BLADE: Rapira Flux Capacitor...oops...Platinum Lux BRUSH: Strong Set (restored w/ WD Black Pure Badger knot ) SOAP: RazoRock XXX (Still think this stuff smells weird ) AS: Barbasol Pacific Rush Shaving 7 days a week is fun...I can't believe it!
