SoS: February 9, 2015 - February 15, 2015

Saturday afternoon SOTD

A day late
Gillette SS black handle
Personna blade
Plisson brush
HTGAM Choc Bourbon soap
Red Cedar AS

Photo is wife's grandparents. The red cedar burl was found camping last summer.

 

Thanks, I am starting to use it more often now. It is a Captains Choice Lather Bowl, should have washed it a little better before taking the the photograph. The camera does lie.

Dave

 

Sunday, February 15, 2015
Whipped Dog Synthetic
MWF + Nivea Sensitive Shave Cream
'60 Fat Boy (6,5,5) w/Gillette 7 O'clock SP (2)
Cold splash, alum, witch hazel, Nivea Sensitive Balm, TSD AS Milk
W/X/A, touch up (W)

Sixth day with this razor/blade combo. I finally found an acceptable balance between a very close shave but with too much irritation (yesterday), and an acceptable shave with limited irritation (today). The difference is going only with the grain on my touch up. I'm just happy to finally be using my Fat Boy.

I added the Nivea Cream to my lather after the first pass. I'm still experimenting with the MWF, and I had a rather anemic lather.

 

Sehr gut gehobelt, oder? Und wie immer ein fantastisches Bild, mein lieber!

 

Glad you like your FB! Mine is my go to razor using 5 on my face and 3 on my neck. I used mine for all of January and had to force myself to get back to my rotation. On 3 I have to be carefull not to over buff an area or I will get burned.

 

I used to work in an acute hospital and my wife in a bank. So both jobs can become, shall we say stressful, so as a get away we bought a second home on the coast. Somewhere to retreat to. But I do understand why you ask.
But we're close to Sandringham etc, so it's not to bad.. Lol...

 

SOTD - Sunday, February 15, 2015

Hot shower
Prep: Homemade PSO
Brush: Plisson/L'Occitane synthetic
Soap: MdC Fougere
Razor: Merkur 38C
Blade: Voskhod (1)
Aftershave: Speick ASL

 

Sweet photo!

 

This photo has a great 'mood' to it. I like it a lot.

 

SO funny...I swear it's like the L'Occitane Plisson is in 2/3 of all SOTD photos these days

 

And MdC

 

I can vouch for everything Thorsten said about the Anherb conditioner because I have it also. It's one of the finest aftershave balms I ever used. The scent is manly and pleasant and the cooling and soothing sensations are terrific. I have sensitive skin, but every time I use this stuff I feel like my skin has been born again.

 

I really like the Ogallala bay rum. So does SWMBO!

 

Sunday:
hot shower w/Pecksniff's Gingerflower & Patchouli body wash
Somerset's Tough Stubble PSO
'66 Gillette SuperSpeed 2+ passes
Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum Black (6)
Mystery boar
TOBS Almond and TOBS Sensitive Skin creams in a warm bowl (samples)
Thayers Rose Petal w/aloe
Murray & Lanman Rue cologne

Posting a bit late today. I don't normally go past 5 shaves on a blade but that's not a problem with a Black Ninja.

 

Gary, that is a beautiful brush!

 

Clint, how does the AOS sandalwood compare with the other sandalwood products you've used? I've only used AOS and TOBS sandalwood creams, so my experience is limited. Both were good, but the scents were different.

 

Today’s Shave: First time trying the Lea. For a tallow shave stick it is not in the same league as Arko. Its lather was not as thick but it was nearly the same slickness - just thinner. It also doesn’t explode the way Arko does - it took a little while to get it going. Everything worked out fine in the end and I got another DFS/BBS result from the Tech. Here’s a photo of the weeds in my backyard which I am not going to pull. I’ll take any green I can get out here in the desert.

• Growth: 1 day
• Prep: Shower; Corn Huskers Lotion
• Lather: Lea
• Brush: Semogue Owner’s Club
• Razor: Pre War Nickel Heavy Tech
• Blade: Astra SP (2)
• Post: Alum; Gillette Aftershave Gel

 

Sunday afternoon SOTD

59' Fatboy set on 8
Lada blade
Vie Long horse hair brush
HTGAM bay rum
CC bay rum AS

Great two pass shave with the fatboy. It doesnt seem to matter what blade I use.

 

Sundays shave
A nice relaxing shave today

Pre shave - Edwin Jagger Pre shave
Razor - Stealth Slant V.3
Blade - Ladas
Brush - L'occitane Plisson Synthetic
Lather - Taylor of old Bond Street - Jermyn St. scent
Aftershave - Williams Ice blue

 

Thanks! It was a spalted maple handle that Steve @oscar11 gave to me to finish up a few years ago. I did obviously finished it with the stain, knot and clock face base. It is a lather hog at 30 mm.