SoS: August 19, 2013 - August 25, 2013

Pre : Proraso cream
Semogue IB LE
Robert Becker Scuttle
RazoRock Slab razor
Personna lab #2
Proraso soap (old formula)
Proraso lotion

 

Wednesday - Menthol Week

Great shave today.

 

Gillette NEW LC on a Weber Bulldog handle
Rapira Swedish Super Steel (4)
Purple Omega (Thanks Steve)
Walter's Rose
Alum
Superior 70

Another fantastic shave from the NEW and Walters.

 

Wednesday:

L'Oreal Men Expert Facial Wash
#6 Horsehair
Super Speed/Rapira day 3
Palmolive Cool SC
Anherb AS Conditioner
Barbon AS
Polo Original EDT

Once again I really enjoyed freezing my face off while shaving and I still have enough cream in this Palmolive Cool tube to use perhaps once more, and then it'll be finished. It's going to be as hot as hell today so the Anherb conditioner and Barbon aftershave sure came in handy to keep me feeling cool and comfortable.

 

5/8 J. Rodgers & Sons
Windsor SS
Semogue SOC (Dale's)
V.I. Bay Rum
Very nice comfortable and close shave this morning. I have at least a couple more crazy days this week, maybe Friday things will calm down a bit. Have a good one.

 

Wednesday-For Menthol Week

Prep: Hot Shower
Soap: Proraso White
Razor: Maggard MR1
Blade: SuperMax Titanium
Brush: Omega 10066 Boar
Aftershave: Krampert’s Frostbite

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angle for my beard a bit)

This was the 3rd shave with the SuperMax Titaniums. They did another excellent job, nice and smooth so far. I was back with the Proraso White. It is a much milder menthol. Close, nick, and burn free. I finished with Krampert’s Frostbite. My face is cool and conditioned. My skin feels great!

Bob

 

Wednesday

Hot shower
Semogue 1305
Arko
39C
Perma Sharp (2)
Cold water rag
Master Jade A/S

Another 2-pass DFS+++!

 

Do you work in IT? I always think it's interesting to see what other IT guys/gals do for a living. Apparently today is the day for network problems, as I had a major issue with my Exchange server this morning.

 

Wednesday 21-08-2013

Razor: R41 ' 2011 + Weber Bulldog Handle
Blade: Polsilver SI (3)
Brush: Omega 10275
Cream: Aspis Ice Rain
AS: Barbon

 

Wednesday

Unscented glycerin soap
TSD unscented lanolin soap/AoS unscented soap
Oscar11 HIS brush
Gillette fat-handled Tech
Astra SP blade
CeraVe lotion

Good lather from the combination of TSD lanolin soap and AoS soap. I had just a small amount of each soap left in their own containers, so I combined them in a single small container. Three passes, very smooth results from the Astra in the Tech.

Sunshine in Seattle again today!

 

Wednesday morning, August 21, 2013

Schick E2 Injector & Exchange Select blade (4)
Omega 20102 boar bristle brush,
Arko soap, bowl lather & shave—
Captain's Choice Lime rinse, just right!


Wow, another DFS with the Schick E2 Injector and these wonderful re-branded Personna blades. Just one pass with touch up and I'm good to go. I can't get enough of that beautiful slick Arko lather, my face feels like a million bucks.

Aces!

 

SOTD Wednesday 8-21-2013

Gillette Single Ring w/Crystal
Musgo Real SC
GT G4 Scuttle
Semogue 820 Boar
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea Replenishing ASB
Florida Water cologne

Very Nice! The Florida water is very refreshing. Have a great day everyone!

 

WEdNEZday
Menthol Week...
a. Pre: Hot shower,Hot 2-minute towel, Proraso 'Crema Pre Barba'
b. Razor: Merkur 39c HD Slant 'Sledgehammer'
c. Blade: Feather Stainless (Day 5), hand-strop pre & post shave
d. Brush: Semogue 830 Boar
e. Soap: L'Occitane Cade Soap & Proraso Menthol Cream & liquid Glycerin— scuttle-warmed
f. Shave: 3 passes and touch-up
g. Post: Cold water rinse & dry; Osage Rub AS & Proraso balm (not pictured)

Day 5 with the Feather blade in the Slant bar yielded a smooth, true BBS shave!
Menthol throughout the shave was cool & refreshing! A really nice contrast to the warm lather!

 

Shave of the Day, Wednesday August 21, 2013
• Prep: Brush soaked in ice water, tepid shower
• Razor: Maggard MR10 mounted to iKon Bulldog Handle
• Blade: Gillette Super Thin
• Brush: Shavemac Limited Edition Shaving Brush 90 with High Density Finest Two-Band Badger Fan Knot designed by Geoff Anderson
• Soap: Martin de Candre
• AS: Pinaud Clubman Special Reserve
• Post: Cold Water Rinse, double splash of aftershave

I was hoping to be shaving with the iKon slant today, but I did not pay attention to the fine print on the vendors websites they are taking orders for sales before the razors are in stock. I guess I was deceived by the the first sentence: "The long awaited iKon Slant Bar Safety Razor is finally here."

So with no iKon Slant in hand I decided to give my favorite standard bar hard a spin this morning. Excellent shave from this head, the quality of the razor could be a little better, but for $16 what is there to complain about it. It shaves much better than the EJ head from which was modeled after.

Three full passes and minor touch-ups provided a great shave.

Everyone enjoy your Wednesday and have a great day.

 

Razor: Mergress XL
Blade: Voskhod
Brush: Amber 28mm TGN finest 2 band
Pre: Musgo Real Lime Basil Oil Soap
Soap: Stirling's Margaritas in the Arctic
Post: Monster Alum Block
Aftershave: Ogallala Bay Rum W lime & peppercorn

 

Pre: Proaso
Razor: Toggle @6
Blade: Gillette Blue Blade (2)
Brush: BF Greenie
Stick: Palmolive
Post: Thayer's & Alum
AS: Nivea Sensitive Balm
Cologne: Pure Havane

3pass with Touch up, super BBS as a result. No feedback from the Alum, I give the Blue Blade all the credit.

 

Wednesday:

Prep: Hot shower, AoS Unscented PSO
Brush: Beeline Boar
Soap: Ginger's Garden Coffee Jasmine Glycerin
Razor: Merkur 41c 1904 OC
Blade: Treet Platinum (1)
Passes: WTG, XTG, ATG
Post: Cold water rinse, Alum, cold water splash, Dickinson's WH, Aveeno Active Naturals ASB
Cologne: Jasmin et Cigarette by ELdO

The Treet Platinum performed as well as I'd expected, given how much I'd already enjoyed the other Treet/Trig blades I used. I git a superbly DFS, except. . . somehow, in lightly gliding over the scar on my neck, I caught the corner of the blade against scar tissue. It stung a good bit - particularly with the alum, which I needed to stop the bleeding. Sigh.

 

Wednesday

Prep: Hot shower, Dirigo Blue Cedarwood PSO
Coffee: Maxwell House Breakfast Blend, BLACK
CD: The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins
Soap: Vintage Old Spice + 3 drops TSD M Bomb
Brush: Vulfix Grosvenor
DE: Stahly Live Blade head, Fat Handle Tech handle
Blade: Astra SP, day 3, 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Osage Rub, Old Spice cologne, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Dirigo Blue

Almost seven hours since my shave and still feeling pretty darn smooth!

 

SOTD 08-21-13

*Shower
• Soap: Old Spice Original Bar Soap
• Shampoo: Head & Shoulders Shampoo with Old Spice scent

* Shave
• Prep: Hot shower, Nivea Face Wash, Every Man Jack Signature Mint Face scrub, Hot towel
• Brush: Van Der Hagen Boar
• Razor: Merkur 23C
• Blade: Super Max (1st use and final use)
• Lather: The Body Shop Maca Root Shave Cream sample
• Passes: WTG/XTG/ATG/RXTG
• Post: Warm water rinse, Cold water rinse, T.N. Dickinson's Witch Hazel pads, Gillette Intense Cooling Lotion, Pinaud Clubman Aftershave Lotion

Taking a bit of a break from menthol week to try out my Maca Root sample. The MR lathered like a champ and it felt amazing on the skin. Now, I'm not too partial to the scent but I'm sure it will grow on me. I may consider a bigger tub of this at some point. The Super Max blade, I'm sorry, I tried them several times they simply aren't for me. The pull on this blade was almost unbearable. After my shave I took the blade out and tossed it in the trash. I'll be using more of the Maca Root tomorrow with a better blade.

 

KI'm continuing with the Gem 1912, and I'm starting to get some good results. I'm still on my first Gem stainless steel blade, at shave number six it still isn't showing any real signs of degradation, so I'll continue on with it.

My reknotted Muhle/TGN synthetic and my EMJ synthetic are my goto brushes when face lathering and I am using a shave stick today so I plucked up the Muhle/TGN for the shave.

The soap that I am using today requires some explanation. I am not a fan of Provence Sante. I love green tea scented soaps, but I dislike PS Green Tea's scent. I love French veggie soaps, but I dislike PS' overall performance. The soap has some great skin care qualities, but that's about all I can say for it. So, it mostly just sits and gathers dust. If I had remembered it I would have tossed it into the box when the Nationwide Box Tour came my way. Today I decided to experiment a bit so I grated up the PS, mixed it with some grated up VDH Deluxe, and pressed the mix into a Kingsley dark wood bowl. I liked the results, but this left some extra scraps of roughly 50/50 PS and VDH Deluxe that wouldn't fit into the bowl. There was not enough to make a good puck out of, so I decided to experiment further. I pulled out some Shea butter glycerin soap base, a quarter of a puck of William's Mug Soap, and an almost used up bit of no name triple milled mint hand soap and grated it all into the mix. I took this unholy abomination and pressed it into a twist up shave soap stick container, used some hot water to smooth it out and let it dry up a bit. This frankensoap is what I am using today.

I did a three pass wtg/atg/xtg shave followed by a cold water rinse and some T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel. The results were surprisingly good. I managed my first BBS shave with a Gem razor. I came away with no nicks and only mild irritation along my jaw line, which the T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel took care of. The soap lathered up easily and created a nice slick surface. Afterward my skin felt soft and smooth, but, sadly, without the nice powdery talc feel that PS usually leaves on my skin. It was a good shave with my insane frankensoap soap.

Pre: Hot shower and warm water splash
Razor: Gem 1912
Blade: Gem stainless steel
Brush: Muhle/TGN Synthetic
Soap: Frankensoap
Post: Cold water rinse and T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel