SoS: September 28, 2015 - October 4, 2015

Checked Barbasol's website and it still exists but I couldn't find them anywhere either..

 

H. Elshaw and sons, Sheffield
Restored Ever ready 100, 20mm TGN Finest
Tony Miller Plain Vanilla strop
Van Yulay Sandalwood
Stetson Cooling Moisture

 

Bonjour Messieurs, yesterday's shave :



- LPL "Tau Ceti" Coconut soap
- LE The Big Shave brush
- Leresche "Diabolo" straight
- Gibbs n°9 DE
- LPL "Bay Rum" AS

Great ! Have a nice day gents !

 

10/02/2015
Razor – Wolfman OC with Triad Helix SS
Blade – Feather (2)
Brush – Romera Olivewood
Lather – B&M Latha
Post - Witch Hazel & Myrsol F/Extra

 

Ferox Friday
Another superb shave with the Futur. I like Voskhod better than Astra SP in this razor. I will try Personna lab blues and Gillette Yellow next. The donut hole in the Ferox is getting quite large now, so I'm debating over whether to put it away or finish it off. It has been a favorite of mine for more than a year. I finished with PAA Lime Ginger Tea Tree for a real eye opener and pleasing scent.
Prep: WSP Matterhorn PSO
Soap: B&M Ferox
Brush: HIS
Razor: Merkur Futur on six
Blade: Astra SP (3)
AS: PAA Lime Ginger Tea Tree

 

October 2 SOTD:

Homemade PS Oil
Stirling Synthetic Brush
Stirling San Antonio SS
Gillette New LC
Stirling Unscented PSB
Stirling Glacial Lemon Chill AS

 

Thank God no nicks or cuts today - just a nice, cooling and comfortable BBS shave with my Edwin Jagger Menthol cream. It gave me great lather and the scent is beginning to grow on me. The Alt Innsbruck felt colder than cold!

 

6/8 Friodur
Dolomiti
homemade shavemac pure
Excellent shave this morning. Have a good one.

 

yo ho yo ho.......
a pirate's shave for me.
today a
hot water wash with nuetrogena men's invigorating face wash
semouge soc
Pyrate cove bay rum and ginger( bombed)
Gillette old/ ball end (individualized)
rapira(2)
ICED virgin island bay rum
second day for the old brown open comb. two nice shaves in a row, very smooth, not as comfy. but still a good shave. finished with iced bay rum.
hope y'all did as well, or better.

 

Yesterday I got two pucks of soap from the Soap Exchange Company. The Scents where Texas Leather and Barber Shoppe.

I picked out Texas Leather as the first soap to try as this was the one I was most interested in.

I have never been to Texas, and have never smelled their leathery products, but my first sniff was not what I expected. To be honest, I felt quite underwhelmed.

My first impression was that it smelled like a mentholated soap with a leather undertone. I think I detected something that reminded me of eucalyptus or maybe it was pine (not Chris) After smelling it a few times more over a few hours, I am no longer certain about that, and I think I understand what they are going for. It smells more like leather being prepared with something. Maybe an oiled saddle or something similar. It smells rather familiar, but also not. I really cannot put my finger on it, but I have to admit to being intrigued by it.

The smell is not my cup of tea, but that is a personal preference. But I still think it is quite an accomplishment to produce such a scent in a shaving soap.

This soap came with directions for lathering telling me to bloom the soap before use, so I put about a teaspoon of water on top of it, took a shower and started my shave.

I spent about ten seconds loading the brush and I noticed almost immediately that this soap would be easy to lather.

When I use a soap for the first time, I do not expect the greatest result and usually settle for good enough while I try to get to know this soap. With this soap this was not the case, although the lather looked on the thinner side of excellent, it was of very high quality. It was surprisingly slick and a joy to shave with.

Granted the razor and blade combination has proven to be my favourite performer, but the blade was used for the fourth time and behaved like it was brand new.

I seldom experience a soap that performed this good the first time I’ve tried it. Maybe I am getting better at lathering (it is not rocket science after all) maybe I was lucky, it was not Maybelline or maybe it was the soap.

Razor: Gillette Bell Tech
Blade: Iridium Super (4)
Brush: Merkur Futur
Soap: The Soap Exchange Company
Aftershave: Lucido

 

lol. Really? I'd like to check them out. I have a video or 2 (I think) where I shaved clean shaven. My upper lip is very sensitive, no matter what razor, what direction, it feels irritated (even though it doesn't look it). That's the main reason I don't shave the mustache area. I keep a goatee/van dyke most of the time due to ridicule of being called "pornstache" if I just have a mustache.

 

Edge with a brush. Hmm. I didn't think it would work with a brush. I failed an experiment with Barbasol with a brush before since it was too fluffy. I wouldn't think gel would lather with a brush......I feel the scientist coming out of me.

 

Actually, there's nothing you can check, as the ones I do aren't official. I'm, sure I can get help from my "new wave" nephew, on setting it up, but he's away in college. But I do like messing around with "describing" what I do

 

You found a place to get Stetson!! I bet the cooling moisture is great.

 

Nice Stetson Mike

 

Your posts always remind me of Mr. Freeze...Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin...

FREEZE IN HELL, BATMAN!!!!

 

Ahh. Gotcha. It's complicated for me as far as shooting the video. My bathroom has a small shelf I sit my cell phone or iPad on and it doesn't have the best angle. I have contemplated taping the camera to the mirror in front of me (I'm not the brightest bulb) so I can get a better angle.

 

Maybe someone at my local K-mart will sneak some in,...that's where I saw Suave Heritage for Men(1937)shampoo for the first time.

 

Love the restored brush.

 

2.10.15

ABB ▪ Plisson LMdB ▪ Merkur 34C ▪ Feather ▪ Old Spice Original