SoS: April 4, 2016 - April 10, 2016

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Billy..

 

BBS-1/Hempel // Shavemac // Saponificio Varesino Manna di Sicilia​

 

Thanks. I have a harder time getting my head around the scent..... The performance is fantastic but I usually dont use cologne with it as the scent doesn't match anything.

 

SOTD
TSD Bourbon Vanilla soap
Doug Korn synthetic brush
Sensation straight
Alum
Thayers Witch Hazel
TSD Iced Egyptian Spice AS
Happy Sunday!

 

Beautiful pic!

 

What do you think of Proraso shaving "cream".(that is...in a can).?

 

Never tried it my friend! (And don't intend to either!)

 

It's Sunday and we all know what that means. We start a new SOTD thread tomorrow HERE later tonight or early tomorrow morning I will close this thread.
Happy shaving!
Kerry

 

Sunday Shower/Shave

Shower- Noxzema facial cleaner, Dr. Bronner's All-One Hemp Peppermint bar soap
Pso- Homemade grapefruit PSO
Brush- RazoRock Plissoft
Razor-Gillette Slim on 9
Blade- Gillette Silver Blue (1)
Soap- Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements Gondolier
Thayers Witch Hazel
ASB- Nivea Sensitive scented with grapefruit EO

Ice cold shave tonight thanks to @Joef and @Robyflexx. I used ice water for everything tonight; soaking the brush, making the lather, rinsing my face, everything. It was wonderful! First, it felt great, very refreshing, second there was zero irritation. Three passes again tonight and I'm BBS. Have a great day folks!


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Arko April in Russia!

April 10

Razor - 1959 Gillette Super Speed
Blade - (1)
Brush - BoS Omega 10066
Soap - Arko
Post - Cold water rinse, Alum, The Veg

Sunday, Sunday. Late and short day for me so I slept in. A bit later than expected but that's ok. Had time to have some coffee and get my shave on before heading off to sales land. Moving on to the next in our Russian blade parade. The Rapira Swedish Supersteel. This is a popular blade with many and I have always had good luck with it. It's never made the top of my list but hey, not all can. It's still far better than most other choices, at least from past use.

This is one of the four blades listed on the Mostochlegmash website, and the description is Лезвия изготавливаются из высококачественной суперстали фирмы «САНДВИК», Швеция и имеют покрытую хромом и тефлоном режущую кромку. Это делает бритьё приятным и лёгким. Got it? Good. Oh, ok, here's the English -

The blades are made of high-quality superstali company " Sandvik " , Sweden, and have a coated chromium and Teflon cutting edge . This makes shaving easy and pleasant .

That is the direct translation from Google, bad grammar and all. So, the steel is from Sweden, and chromium and Teflon, which was news to me when I started this month. I love Teflon, so let's give it a go.

BoS and Arko for the monster lather, and the first pass was good. Notice I didn't say great. Better than average, but not a smooth as the other blades I've used this month. Second pass, XTG, still not as smooth and the end result was a barely DFS, not the BBS I've had from the others at least once with two passes. Third pass, ATG and slides and I finished with a high level DFS. But not the baby. If it wasn't a trial month I'd call it a fantastic finish. But, the competition with its litter mates is high! Two more days to see if it will smooth out and produce the baby. But I'm not going to complain. The Alum was equally quiet with the others so no worries there.

I keep having difficulty staying in touch with my crew, such as they are, and finally got in touch with Anatoly today. He's in charge of IT and communications for the cartel. He sent me a picture of the repairs he made in the equipment in Russia. Looks like he's improved his skillset! Maybe now I can get them home on time. Hope you all had a great Sunday!

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Another great shave. This time it was with my Schick Adjustable with a twin blade. No fuss, no muss, just easy whisker whacking goodness leaving me smooth as can be. Sometime the shaving gods are with you and I seem to be on at least speaking terms with them at the moment.

AOS Lavender PSO
Geo Trumper Lime Shaving Soap
T&H Wellington Super Badger
Schick Adjustable M2
NOS Personna II (3)
T&H Classic After Shave Balm



Happy shaving everyone - Karl

 

So happy it worked so well for you Ben! Beautiful bowl!

 

SHAVE OF THE DAY SUNDAY


Prep: Musgo Real orange amber
Razor: Maggard MR 18c
Blade: Rockwell (5th shave)
Brush: omega s synthetic
Soap: TTFFC Ignite (sample)
Post: Thayers Peach witch hazel
Aftershave: Country Club Southern Oud

2 pass shave this morning. Got a slight burning sensation, which hopefully was a one time thing. TTFFC makes some great products and the lather was very nice. The blade will be retired after today, they are not terrible, but not great either. The Thayer's Witch Hazel is something I found at a local health food store yesterday. It has much better ingredients than regular store brand WH, so I figured I would give it a try. It feels nice on the skin, and so far so good. Hope everyone had a great shave!

 

Thank you.

 

Nice meme, thanks!

 

New SOTD is HERE