Monday 07.09.2015
I have bad news, bad news for me at least.
Last time I used the cream from TSD my shave suffered from a bad razor and blade combination.
The shave was less than stellar and the result thereafter.
Today I wanted to give it another go and picked the same gear as yesterday's shave. The only exception was the cream and my own homemade "brush" the Sithspawn.
It did not take too long to discover that something was rotten north of Denmark. First, my brush has apparently started suffering from male pattern baldness. It lost a lot of hair during this shave and I am sure that I can see the hairline receding. But the biggest sign and the real bad news was that the cream does not thrive in the Norseland.
Maybe it's me, maybe it's my water or maybe it's Maybelline. I don't know what it is, but the cream proved to be difficult to lather. To counter this effect I had to use twice or thrice the amount of cream that I usually would and the lather looked thin and not that great.
Luckily, as the "wife" can attest to, looks can be deceiving. The lather proved to be more than capable to shave with. Not the slickest I've used, but slick enough to give me a satisfactory shave
The Shave Den Wheat Shaving Cream is a well lauded cream that receives nothing but praise every time I read about it. That it does not work that well for me is a classic case of YMMV or just lack of technique on my part.
But it still makes me sad.
Razor: Edwin Jagger de89
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
Brush: The Sithspawn
Cream: The Shave Den Wheat Shaving Cream
Aftershave: Fitjarsoap Kjakesmurning
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