SoS: July 20-26 2009

Wednesday

1962 Gillette Adjustable
Derby Extra (3)
Williams Mug Soap
Thayer's WH with Aloe
Aqua Velva A/S

 

Wednesday:

Gorey's Chairman
Ming Shi TTO/new Sharp
Noxzema lather-SC (I love ya baby!)
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Booster Mosswood-AS
Yves Saint-Laurent Pour Homme-EDT

A shave with Noxzema makes me feel so good!

 

Wednesday: Gillette New Razor / 7 OCY blade / Cella SS / Omega 10065 brush / Barbasol Brisk Aftershave

Been getting great shaves with the New razor. Must be getting better at this cuz before now, open comb razors just tore me up.

 

Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil Soap
TABAC
Omega 48 Professional
Merkur HD
Gillette Swede (1)
Stetson A/S
Nivea Sensitive ASB

 

Genco 5/8ths spike
Omega "Professional" brush
J M Frasers' lime scented s/c
Proraso Dopobarba a/s
4711 e de c


A razor from the USA, a brush and aftershave from Italy, shave cream from Canada and cologne from, well, Cologne.

Isn't it a great world?

goshawk

 

Trumpers razor
B&B brush
SMN shave cream
Acca Kappa Cedro Colonia

 

Wednesday

Vision / Astra Superior
Savile Row 3126 Silvertip
La Toja Classico SC
La Toja AS Locion
La Toja Sensitivo Balsamo

ALWAYS a great shave using La Toja :happy093

 

Wednesday - July 22

Golden Nib Silvertip in C&E handle
TOBS Jermyn St. for Sensitive Skin SC
Schick Injector Type E
Pella Gem Injector Blade (D2)
Thayers Rose WH / Brummel AS

Results: Running late but still had a great shave.

 

Wednesday 7/22 . . .

• [*]Prep: Rite Aid Skin Cleansing Cream & Hot Towel
  [*]Brush: The "Ever Roddy 300" an Ever Ready 300 refurbished with silvertip badger knot by "The Knotty Badger"
  [*]Cream: SCS Avocado Oil
  [*]Razor: '22 Gillette NEW Standard - Silver
  [*]Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock SharpEdge (shave 10)
  [*]Oil Pass: Leisureguy's Last-Pass Shave Oil
  [*]EDT: Thayer's Lavender Witch Hazel Toner & SCS Avocado Oil EDT
  
  [*]Result: Wonderful, BBS shave. Even on the 10th shave the SharpEdge performed superbly. The NEW Standard did not hurt the shave either. I seem to get the best DE shaves with my several Gillette NEW razor models.

 

Wednesday:

Rooney Emillion
Trumper Sandalwood shaving cream
Merkur Futur w/ Gillette Sharpedge blade
Thayer's Witch Hazel; Gentlemen's Refinery AS Balm
Knize 10 EdT

A nice setup today...the green box Gillettes worked well for me in the Futur.

 

Now, this was an odd one. A straight shaver forced by circumstance to use a DE. A damn fine shave, to be sure, but... what's the fun in that? I haven't used one of these things in months. Where's the risk to life and limb? Where's the excitement? Where's the loud scraping noises? And where did all these tiny little abrasions come from?!

Poor, sad me... need to get one of my other Wapis back from the shop before I start feeling withdrawl.

Penworks Jade brush
MWF stick
Superspeed from the 70's
7 O'Clock Yellow blade
Osage Rub aftershave
Curzon EDT, Geo. F. Trumper (in the tiny spray vial)

 

Miercoles/Wednesday
Speick shaving cream
Semogue 1305 boar brush
Merkur HD with Personna USA(2nd shave)
Kinesia Artic AS

Speick is wonderful stuff!

 

C-MON razor
B&B Essential
Mama Bear's Rosemary Mint soap
Osage Rub
Proraso Pre-Post

 

7/22

1905 zinn gem automatic
gem blade, modified
williams soap
ever ready horsehair brush, black and brown handle

dickinsons witch hazel
murray & lanman florida water

polo double black

 

Wednesday July 22,2009

Hardware:
Brush: Knotty Badger Battle scarred brush
Blade: Red IP (1)
Razor: Knotty Badger Bat-razor

Software:
Soap: Mama Bear Iced Lime
Splash: TSD Double Iced Raspberry
Milk: TSD Raspberry
Cologne: Acqua Di Gio

No fault of Rodd, the Bat-razor is way way too mild. After WTG and ATG still had five o'clock shadow. Will have to see if my open comb head fits on the Bat handle.

 

maybe youre really robin.

 

Wednesday 7/22

• Semogue 1305
• Veleiro SC
• Gillette 'Slim' Adjustable
• Iridium Super Extra Stainless
• Thayer's Medicated Superhazel
• Veleiro AS

Result: Fantastic shave! Of course I had to use the Veleiro after talking it up so much...and I'm glad I did! BBS

 

J.M. Fraser's as pre-shave
Gillette President w/ Shark
Semogue 1305
TSD Lavender Tea Tree soap
Homemade AS splash
QED Lavender ASSC

The Shark blade is pretty good, but I find they don't last very long and aren't quite as sharp as I'd like.

 

23 July, Thursday

Merkur Futur w/ Gillette SharpEdge (Yellow)
Penchetta
DR Harris Marlborough SS
Acqua di Parma EDC