SoS: April 6, 2015 - April 12, 2015

04/06/15
Prep – MR GLO
Razor – GEM Feather Weight
Blade – GEM SS PTFE (3)
Brush – Rubberset 400-3 with WSP HMW
Lather – Soap Commander Passion
Post - Witch Hazel and CC Bay Rum AS



Very good 3 pass shave this morning. Still learning the angles around my trouble spots. If not for those areas the shave would have been a borderline BBS shave.

 

04/06/15
Prep: hot shower with face wash

Pre Shave: Maggards sweet orange pre shave oil

Razor: Van Der Hagen safety razor

Blade: Personna platinum

Brush: Omega 10049 synthetic boar

Lather: Maggards Mango Sage tea soap

Post: cold water and Pacific Shaving Co. Caffeinated after shave balm

Just finished the shave and feeling so smooth

 

Monday

Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Scots Pine Bath Soap
Soap: Catie’s Bubbles-La Terre Verte
Razor: Gillette NEW Short Comb
Blade: Personna Med Prep (3)
Brush: Whipped Dog High Mountain Badger-24mmx50mm
Aftershave: Country Club Frozen Vetiver

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

Catie’s Bubbles LTV today. 20 seconds to load the WD High Mountain. Great, easy, thick, lather. Personna Med Prep in the NEW Short Comb. Excellent smooth, close, shave! I finished with CC Frozen Vetiver.

Bob

 

Today was a nice 3 pass LPL shave.
LPL
Rapira Swedish
Slim Adjustable

 

Monday

Soap: Catie's Bubbles "Le Nude"
Brush: HIS synthetic
Razor: Ikon ShaveCraft 101
Blade: Super Iridium
After: Cold rinse, CeraVe lotion

 

Menthol Monday
hot shower/cold water shave
Plisson L'Occitane synth
TSD ISZ PSB
TSD 2X Iced Vanilla Wheat Cream
Schick Revere/Pella coated injector (1)
cold water rinse
Monster Block Alum
cold water rinse
Tend Skin
Can You Handlebar Beard Dry Oil
TSD 2X Iced Vanilla ASL
Tom Ford Tobaaco Vanille

A nice and frosty start to the week!

Stay frosty,my friends!

 

Monday 6th April



Warm shower
Hot towel
B&M Ferox scuttle lathered
HMW Badger brush made by myself
Gillette Bulldog (1918)
Gillette Silver Blue (3)
Cold rinse
Thayers Superhazel
Myrsol Lemon aftershave

 

6 April 2015

* Weber DLC + WRH3c Aluminum
* Super Iridium
* WSP Manchurian + K-Translucent
* Cold River Fall
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO



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April 6, 2015

Pre- Warm shower, Mickey Lee Lime Pre Shave Butter
Brush Soak- Sriracha Mug of Doom™
Razor- Fatip Piccolo
Blade- Merkur
Soap- Mickey Lee "Cocoa Maya" sample
Brush- Omega boar
Post- Cold water rinse, Alum, Witch Hazel
Aftershave- The Cool Fix balm
Smell Good- Fine L'Orange Noir

First open comb shave, so I went with a known mild blade for me. Not bad, had a couple weepers and a bit of irritation
on my neck.

Really loving the smell of the Cocoa Maya. In the container it's really chocolatey, but once it's bloomed and lathered the
other notes come through. It becomes a pretty masculine scent even with the cocoa background. May be buying a full tub
of this and the Drunken Goat to throw in the rotation.

 

Menthol Monday:

Prep: Hot shower, Neutrogena Invigorating Face Wash, TSD Jasmine Sambac preshave balm
Brush: Simpson 56 Best Badger
Soap: Ginger's Garden Grass Stain Menthol Snow
Razor: RazoRock Bamboozled RAKE OC
Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (1)
Passes: WTG, XTG, ATG (1, 2, 3)
Post: Cold water splash, Bloc Osma alum, Dickinson's WH, Aqua Velva Ice Blue AS splash
Cologne: Xeryus by Givenchy

That's so much better. The lather today was just as good as yesterday's, though colder and possibly slicker. The brush and the razor were obviously the same. The blade made all the difference. The Bic Chrome Platinum felt so smooth and comfortable compared to the Baili Super Blue, the difference was astounding. Even without the advantage of an extra day's stubble, the shave is comparably close, so BBS, but there was no tugging, no pain, no bloodshed, and no irritation. Finish off with the AV Ice Blue and Xeryus, and my face feels chilled and I smell good.

 

Fantastic picture! I like the bicyclist on the right.

 

Good for you! The Fatip can be a biter, I really like the way the 10066 is looking! One of my favorite brushes! Looks like Mickey Lee will be my next soap purchase.

 

SOTD: Monday, April 6
New Soap 7/13
Soap: Cyril R. Salter Vetiver (Danke Phillip)
Brush: Simpson 2 "Chubby" Synthetic
Razor: Merkur 37C
Blade: Personna Med Prep (1)
Post-Shave: Alum Block, Thayer's Unscented Witch Hazel w/Aloe Vera
Aftershave: Vetiver de Guerlain (Vintage)

Have a great day!



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Kicked up the menthol with a bit of a splash of TSD M-Bomb (the last of it!) into the Valobra soap. THAT plus the TSD menthol balm pre shave = Chilly!
Have a great Monday, all!

 

Thank you for your kind words and I was waiting for someone to cycle by before I snapped the pic!

 

Menthol Monday, April 6, 2015

RazoRock SSS with UFO Titanium XL
Bic Chrome Platinum #3
Duly Mitchell Porcelain Lather Bowl
Oscar11 Blue & White Omega Boar - 28X55mm
Proraso Green Soap
Proraso Green Aftershave Balm​

 

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First day of my week with the Tradere.
Those curious about more details about today's shave can find it here

Executive summary: "wow"

Razor: Tradere, OC, 2nd gen
Blade: Personna (I thought that was an apt blade to choose as it was the favorite blade of the creator of the Tradere)
Soap: Klar Kabinett
Brush: L'Occitane Plisson
Body splash: The Veg
A/S: Myrsol Blue - followed by some Anherb

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6April15

Second try with the Slim and 100x better than the last.

VDH soap
TGN black badger
Slim set on 3
Gillette SB(3)
C&E Indian Sandalwood post

Skipped yesterday's shave so 2 days growth. Slim on 3 and a DFS with two passes. WTG/XTG and had a hard time finding spots for touch up.

 

Razor: Gillette 195 Fat Boy (f1) 1960
Brush: Erskine Badger 1947 Birth Year
Mug: Old Spice (late glass Mug 04) 1970s -1992 The last OS Mugs
Cream: The Gentlemen Cedar
Blade: Feather (2)
Pre shave: Tree Hut Shea body wash Mango
Post shave: Thayers Cucumber WH, Jack Black balm, Tommy Bahamas St. Barts cologne
Whipped up The Gentlemen Cedar with no problem with the Erskine. Good cushion from The Gentlemen and it has a nice scent. I really like the FB. I get tempted to just use this razor every day with the Feather. The Shea Mango for the pre-shave helped give me a nice no burn shave. The usual cleanup, and then some of that St. Barts cologne. Monday Monday........