SoS: January 17-23 2011

Simpson Chubby 2 Best
Muhle R89 / Israeli Personna
La Toja SS in a bowl
La Toja Sensitivo ASB
La Toja AS Locion

 

Wednesday:

Razor: Merkur 38C Barber Pole
Blade: Personna (US)
Brush: Omega Boar 10005
Soap: P.160 Duro
A/S: Aqua Velve Ice Blue
EdT: Rive Gauche Pour Homme

 

Schick Adjustable Injector
Ted Pella Injector Blade
Valobra Stick
C&E BBB
Razorock alum
Osage Rub
Ahave AS Balm

 

Wednesday

Prep: Hot shower, soak brush
Coffee: Blue Mountain Gold, BLACK
Soap/Cream: Woods of Windsor + 1 small drop of KMF unscented
Brush: Semogue 2000
Razor: '55 Gillette Red Tip
Blade: Dorco ST-301, day 3, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Dickenson's WH, Curve, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Shave Rating: 5 Blades

Another fine shave all the way 'round.

 

Wade & Butcher, Frame Back Wedge
Omega Pro 49
Benton Clay, Lavender
Kenneth Cole

I'm left as smooth as a
Hard Boiled Egg !!
Love this ole Sheffield Shaver:love029

 

SOTD Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Silver Plated, Gillette Old Style, Open Comb
Dorco Platinum ST300
Speick Shave Cream
Medium Badger
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea Replenishing
No. 4711 EDC

 

Had the day off so I lounged around till lunch and finally got running.

HOT shower W/ CO bigelow green shower gel

Gillette SS
7 AM platnium
AOS pure badger
VDH deluxe W/ 2 drops of M bomb
3 pass shave with touch up
Little alum rub
Splashed on some TSD burmese woods with M bomb :freezing

I feel like I could take on the world.

 

Happy Hump Day!

Hot Shower
Green Marvy Mug
Omega Pro Boar
Tet-A-Tet SC :love029
Lady Gillette Stars - Blue
Gillette Super Thin (4)
Cool Water Rinse
Tet-A-Tet ASB :love029
Lolita Lempicka perfume

Fantastic shave today, the Tet-A-Tet provides much protection while shaving, I had zero irritation today.

Have a great rest of the week!

 

-Progress w/ derby extra
-Penworks 22mm Finest @ 45mm loft
-MB Hydrogen Soap
-AV Musk

God, do I smell incredible

One of the gals at school intercepted a bottle of AV musk that I left at a friends house (Can't just forget about it, right?! Especially them glass bottles!) and she thought it was simply the worst!

 

Wednesday Evening:

Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil Soap
L'occitane Shave Soap
Savile Row 3122
Merkur HD
Astra Superior Platinum (2)
Shavex Alum Block
Pinaud Musk
Nivea Sensitive ASB

 

40's style SS
Iridium (5)
TGN Silvertip
TSD Sandalwood soap
Neutrogena Post shave balm

Did the cold water prep again, with cold water rinses in between lathers. Not irritation free yet, but getting better. 5th shave with the Iridium, think I'll retire it. It still felt fairly smooth but it's time to put it out to pasture.

 

A change.....

So a very good friend of mine here in the US sent me a puck of Williams mug shaving soap, And as I had just finished one of my soaps and now have a spare bowl to put it in I thought I would give it a try.

So morning prep: shower While brush soaks in hot water, shake excess water off brush then start lather process, Only today two things different, first of the soap, and now the lather process, So I start by working the brush around the bowl for a minute or so.

Then instead of working up a lovely whipped cream lather in my mug I put the brush straight to my face and worked a cracking lather there, Done my first pass with my razor of choice (1937 Senator again a gift from my friend oh and he made me my lovely brush) and my last treat blade (friend as well:ashamed001) will be on the look for more of these, and went back to my brush that was sitting on the corner of the basin and touched up the areas that always seem to need a second pass (like the edge of the jaw).

I normally use Penhaligons and The gentleman's groom rooms "Sweat Gale" and get great results from both. but this Williams is "darn fine stuff"and I understand its a $1 a puck in the US.

I found some in the UK on Amazon for £1.40 but the P&P was £5.45 per puck

I also have a very similar result the day before with Mitchells Wool Fat and this will be another soap I will buy again.

I found both soaps leave your face nice and soft and irritation free which is a big thumbs up from me, And I am not sure I will be buying Penhaligons quite as quick again

 

Thursday, January 20th

Hot shower
Nivea for Men Extreme Comfort gel
Gillette Fusion Phenom razor
Nivea for Men ASB
Canali Men EdT

 

Kaloderma Shaving Cream
TheCopperHat olive wood handle silvertip brush
Merkur 34C / Voskhod blade
Iveria after shave cream

 

Thursday, January 20

Ever Ready 1912
Ted Pella Stainless Coated (5)
Preshave Oil (Home Blend)
Arko/TSD Bourbon Vanilla
Vulfix 2235 S
Witch Hazel
Proraso A/S
Stephans Bay Rum

BBS today. Took plenty of time, cut no corners. It payed off.

 

Thursday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/7 O'Clock day 5
Everest SC :love008 :love008 :freezing :freezing
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Alt Innsbruck AS :love008 :love008 :freezing :freezing
Santos de Cartier EDT

It's hard not to love the Everest cream, because it's so good. The lather is a delight to work with, and it has such a nice cooling effect. I believe that we all know the beauty of Alt Innsbruck.

 

Thursday's Shave:

Arko SS
Omega 10029 Baby-Pro Boar
1965 Slim @3/Horizontal Derby (day1)-First 2 passes
Arko Moist SC
Schick-Eversharp I2 Hydro Magic Injector/CVS Personna (Day2)-3rd Pass
Arko Nem Mango Mandalina moisturiser
Arko Aqua AS Splash

First 2 passes left me with a Great DFS, no probs...But being a bit excessive, I decided to lather up again adding Arko SC to the mix and do One WTG pass with the Schick...BOOM-Super-better than BBS-Bang the Gong Inter-Galactic-type shave..:happy108

There's something very Hip going on with this Schick...

 

Happy Thursday From Florida!

Good to hear you are digging the Schick Lloyd!

Hot Shower
RAB Scuttle
Omega Boar #10051
QCS Lavender Croap
EJDE89L
Voskhod Blade (2)
Cold Water Rag
Arko Cool ASC
Lustray Draggon Noir

3 Passes = 4 Blade DFS!

Have a great day Ya'll!

 

Razor: 5/8 Fox Cutlery
Soap: Van der Hagen Deluxe
Brush: "Clint" Super Badger
Aftershave: Thayers / Trumpers Coral Skin Food
Cologne: Polo Modern Reserve

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Thursday

Gillette Red Tip
generic Personna
Shea moisture Badger
VDH
Clubman Lime Sec

4 passes and a touch up = DFS