SoS: January 28, 2013 - February 3, 2013

Saturday! Rolls time!

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Music: Tangerine Dream, Poland
• Brush: Omega travel boar
• Soap: Daisy's Mountain Naturals, cold water
• Razor: Rolls Razor
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse

Bit of a rough shve today. Not the smoothest one. Some lapping and stropping to do!

Have a great weekend ya'll!

 

Saturday:
Facial wash with Gatsby Ice Cooling Gel
#6 Horsehair
Super Speed/Goal day 5
Godrej Menthol Mist SC
Anherb AS Conditioner
Alcolado Glacial Menthol Splash
YSL Pour Homme EDT

I received another Godrej Menthol Mist tube yesterday so now I'm happy to use this stuff a little more often. It's one of my top-favorite menthol creams. What lather, what a nice scent, and what a POTENT freezing sensation. The Anherb conditioner is just as cold, and that damn Penguin is even colder than the Rubby Dub Dub. This was a shave from paradise!

 

Saturday

soak brush/Shavemac 167,2 band,D01,fan/DB Brush Scuttle
hot shower
Proraso PrePost (white)
TSD English Fern SS
Schick E3/Pella Coated Injector (4)
warm water rinse
Monster Block Alum
warm water rinse
Thayer's Original WH
TSD English Fern Aftershave mixed with a pea sized amount of 444

Great 2 pass face,1 pass dome for BBS all around !!!

 

Proraso PS
Merkur 34c
Bolzano (2)
IB LE Semogue
TOBS Coconut
Dickinson's WH
Proraso ASB

I tried my TOBS Coconut cream sample today. Pretty fantastic stuff. Definitely worth buying a full size jar. It afforded me a four pass shave. My neck normally prefers a two pass. Great start to my weekend.

 

5/8 Geneva Cutlery Pyramid 7
Lea SC
23mm Muhle knot
TSD Vetiver and Lavender AS Milk

I had a pretty good collection of Geneva Cutlery straights at one time, I sold them all but my Pyramid 7's. I have regrets. IMO, the Lea shaving cream is lacking in the skin care department. I could get away with using it in the summer but it won't cut the mustard in the winter. I hope my son-in law will like it because it'll be gone one way or the other.
JoAnna's Vetiver and Lavender AS Milk will pull me through the poor skin care part of the shave, good stuff.


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Saturday morning, February 2, 2013

Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (2)
Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush,
TABAC shaving soap with hot water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

 

Saturday 02-02-2013

Razor: Slim '64 @ 9
Blade: Wilkinson Sword
Brush: Omega 10077
Cream: Top Ten Sensitive
ASB: Top Ten Sensitive

Nice 3-pass shave today,little irritation on the neck but nothing serious.

 

SOTD Saturday 2-2-2013

FaTip Piccolo w/Astra SP
Proraso PSC
Al's SC - Boheme
Semogue 1460 Boar
Thayer's Witch Hazel
Nivea Replenishing ASB
British Sterling Cologne

A wonderfully scented shave this morning with the Bohem from the Al's SC and the British Sterling is always a pleasure to use for a great finish!
Great week of shave Gents, thanks for sharing!

 

Veli my friend - of all the creams from Bulgaria which I have used, the Top Ten Sensitive is my favorite!

 

First shave in four days.
Prep: shower
Cream: Nivea mild
Razor: Razzorock OC
Blade: M-man (made by the sam factory as Perssona in Israel)
AS: Old Spice Whitewater

The Razzorock once again proves it's worth against a 4-day stuble, and glides through like a hot knife through butter. The M-man blade works great on the first day in the OC (unlike in the shavette). Nivea cream is great, almost forgot how great since I use I haven' t used in some time.
In the end a 3-pass BBS with a minor little weeper

 

Saturday - it's the weekend! Time for the SEs.

Unfortunately I had to go in to work this morning, so no time for my str8 shave. Maybe tomorrow.

Prep: Hot shower, TSD ISZ PSB
CD: The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Coffee: Maxwell House French Roast, BLACK
Soap: TSD Iced Sweet Tea
Brush: Ever Ready 250PB with original knot
SE: Schick Injector E model
Blade: ???, 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Dickenson's WH, Curve
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Darn near BBS.

 

I got me a new shave bowl today.

Proraso
Parker black badger brush
Gem Jr. 1912
Gem/Personna SS PTFE blade
Cold water rinse
T.N. Dickinson's Witch hazel
Aqua Velva Blue Ice
Great lather, two passes, sweet shave

 

SOTD 2.2.13

Preshave - Hot Shower, Nivea Face wash
Cream - KMF cool mint
Brush - WD 24mm Silvertip
Blade - Feather
Razor - Gillette SS
A/S - Nivea Replenish face balm



The KMF I got today. I love the smell and it whips up a great lather. I also decided to give Feather's a shot again today. I don't know if the feather just ate up my face or if its something in the KMF but my face is on fire. I put the KMF on my arm to see if there was a reaction there but there wasn't one so I think I'm gonna have to give up on the feathers for now

 

Pre : Hot shower , face wash MRGLO soap
Schwarzwessikarmik XL scuttle
Pearl OC (from Gift & Care ) made in India
Feather # 4
Semogue 2000
Tabac soap
Alum Osma
Tabac lotion
EDT: Tabac

 

Proraso PSC
Proraso Red
WSC large bowl
Semogue 830
Merkur 12C
Personna Blue (3)
Thayers Witch Hazel w. Cucumber

3 × passes (WTG / XTG / ATG). No touch ups

Sensational shave.



Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

 

I could probably use a more gentle OC every day. Some of the vintage Gillette OC razors would be well suited for daily use. I know that Arley and myself both really like the Gillette New OC. It is milder than some of the modern OC razors but still shaves very close. Well worth a try in my opinion.

Cheers, Lyndon

 

Thanks!

 

Wow! Excellent choice, my friend, is definitely in my top 3 if not first

 

Sunday 03-02-2013

Razor: Merkur 15c
Blade: Astor
Brush: Omega 10077
Cream: Karo Fresh
AS: Karo Classic

Fantastic shave,15c is little mild but very effective razor.

 

Sunday!

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Music: Roger Glover & friends: The Butterfly Balls & the Grasshopper's Feast
• Brush: Wilkinson Sword badger
• Cream: Ingram
• Razor: Rolls Razor
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse

Okay shave. The Ingram was nice and fresh!