SoS: April 14, 2014 - April 20, 2014

4/14/2014 I got it in a PIF week/Menthol Monday!

Prep: Hot shower with L'Oreal Men Expert Facial Wash, home made PSO
Razor: Muhle R41 2011, Wade & Butcher Bow straight razor
Blade: Personna Platinum Chrome Red pack (5)
Brush: Vie Long Horse Hair 23mm knot
Soap: Yeti Snot shaving soap
After: Home made ASB
After Shave: Barbon after shave
Cologne: Tabac Rouge sample

A 2 pass Darn Fine Shave + this rainy morning. The Yeti Snot I got in a PIF. It definitely wakes you up and the Barbon keeps the freezy feeling going.

Have a blessed day!

 

Razor: Bakelite Slant
Blade: Wilkinson Sword UK (D1)
Brush: Rubberset 49-4 W 28mm HMB
Bowl: Dirty Bird 1.5 Scuttle
Pre Shave Soap: MRGLO Lime
Pre Shave Balm: TSD Iced SubZero
Shave Soap: Yeti Snot
Post: Monster Alum Block
Aftershave: TSD Subzero w M-Bomb



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Monday

Prep: CeraVe cleanser
Soap: HTGAM Synergy unscented
Brush: Plisson synthetic
Razor: iKon ShaveCraft
Blade: Astra SP
After: Cold rinse, CeraVe

Excellent shave. The HTGAM soap lathers up so easily, it is a very good soap. After my BBS result yesterday, I didn't have much to clean up this morning, so I skipped my final against the grain pass. My face feels great, but I know I will have a 5 o'clock shadow by the end if the day.

 

Monday morning, April 14, 2014

Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (8)
Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush,
Arko shaving soap with hot water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a CCS!

 

SOTD Monday 4-14-2014

6/8 C.F. ERN, Full Hollow, Spike Point
Proraso PSC
Tabac SC
GT G4 Scuttle
Omega 31064 Boar
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Gold Bond Moisturizing Lotion
Pinaud Clubman Special Reserve ASL

A great start for the week.

 

I like Erns, what's the handle made of?

 

It's a really nice cream, but I wouldn't pay that much for it.

If you would like to try it, PM me your address and I will send the rest of the sample your way.

 

The scales are Ox Horn. I made the spacer out of a salvaged Buffalo Horn scale. I agree, the Erns are excellent razors!

 

4/14/14. Menthol Monday

Prep: Hot shower. Nivea menthol face wash
Razor: Ever-Ready 1914
Blade: Gem Stainless Steel
Soap: TSD Iced Subzero
Brush: Omega boar 80097
Post: Alum. Dickinson WH
Aftershave: TSD Iced Subzero Milk

Go out and get it!

 

SoS - Monday, April 14, 2014

Shower
Prep: Lime & Tea Tree PSO
Brush: Omega Pro 49
Soap: Stirling Frozen Tundra
Razor: EJ DE89L
Blade: Rapira (1) (PIF'd by Lutebro)
Post: Nivea Sensitive
Aftershave: Aqua Velva Ice Blue

The chill from the Frozen Tundra started to appear at the end of the 1st pass and by the 3rd pass, my face was just past pleasantly cold. This will be a great soap for the blistering Phoenix summer heat that's waiting just over the horizon.

My first shave with the Rapira (thanks Lutebro!), and it fell well short of the GSBs, Astras, and Personna Lab Blues that I've been shaving with recently. I plan to give it another shot tomorrow before I throw in the towel and move on.

Overall a 3+ pass, SAS with some minor irritation on my neck and under the chin. As it always foes. The Nivea Sensitive calmed things right down.

 

Monday morning -


Prep - Noxzema & hot towel
Lather - Mitchell's Wool Fat & suribachi
Brush - Omega 40033
Razor - Gillette Single Ring
Blade - Feather (1)

2 pass
Warm water rinse & cold water splash
Alum block & Witch-hazel AS

 

15 April 2014 Plan

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SOTD 4/14/14
Pre - Somerset Shave Oil after shower and face scrub
Razor - R89 Bulldog
Blade - Feather (.5 used to finish Sundays SE shave)
Cream - RazoRock KotC Hard Shaving Soap Lanender
Brush - Omega 71276 Finest banded badger
Post - Shea Moisture Tea Tree AS

DFS after 2 passes and BBS after 3rd. I think I'm falling in love with the Feather blades.

 

Menthol Monday.
Hot shower.
Cold shave.
Stirling Black Ice SS
Stirling Black Ice WHAS

Very cold shave.

 

SOTD 15 April

Prep-Wash face with Irish Spring
Hot towels over lather
Strop-Musicians Friend
Razor-Boker American Line SS St. Louis
Brush-Van Der Hagen Boar
Soap-Van Der Hagen Select
Post- cold towels
Old Spice AS



Ahhh, the midnight hour shave. Very relaxing and enjoyable. One razor today; the straight. Three passes. WTG, XTG, ATG. I don't know whether to call it CCS or Darned Fine Shave, but I got a very close, quite comfortable shave over all. The only bit of discomfort, and I'm not sure I could call it that, was under the jawline and along the neck. Still working on the angle there, so not as comfy as the rest of the shave.
But, I got a shave so close(even my chin) that there was zero point in a clean up with the DE.
I have been using too shallow of an angle(20 degrees or less), and the blade has been cutting some, and skipping over other areas. Opened that angle up just a bit, and now getting a great shave!
Still ill, but feeling a lot better. I think it's pretty much done for, thank God.
Have a great shave, everyone!

 

Tuesday Morning Shave
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE8911
Blade: Rapira (3)
Brush: Isana Men Pure Badger
Soap: Arko
Cologne: Tariş Lavender

 

Razor Ryujin Tamahagane Dragon God
Strop Kanayama Cordovan #8000
Brush Custom Le Tuft Chubby 1.5 in Lignum Vitae
Soap Cella Crema Da Barba
Witch Hazel
L'Occitane aftershave Balm
Guerlain Vetiver Edt.

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Gillette LC New Bulldog
Gillette Silver Blue
Oscar11 Purple Omega
Palmolive Classic SC

First use of the Palmolive shave cream was very nice. I am not sure why I avoided this product for so long.

 

4/15/14
Prep: Warm wash with Stirling bath soap
Lather: Stirling Barbershop
Brush: Stirling boar
Razor: Merkur 34HD
Blade: Bluebird
Post: Cat O'Nine Tails

 

37C
Polsilver (d3)
DRH Arlington- Face Lather
Vulfix 2235
La Milagrosa Bay Rum