SoS: July 25-31 2011

One more time

Stahly Live Blade
Gillette 7 O'clock Yellow (4)
Valobra Stick (in a mug)
Turkish Horsehair brush

One last DFS with this blade, but I won't push it any further.

 

Friday's Shower&Shave
Long Hot Shower
Musgo Lime & Baby Oil
Parker Brush
Connaught Bay Rum (sample)
Ogalla Bay Rum

 

Friday, July 29

EJ DE86
Supermax SS (d1)
Preshave Oil Blend +M-Bomb
Arko Boosted Classic Brand Menthol SS
Vulfix 2235 Super Badger
Osage Rub, Stephans Island Lime
Result: BBS, through and through.

 

Friday

Bump Fighter (6)
Thater Stout 2
Provence Sante Verlaine stick
Bump Patrol
Nivea Sensitive balm
Canoe edt

 

Omega 31025
Cella
Edwin Jagger DE89L
Feather (1)
Alum
4711 After Shave

First time in over a month that I have used a Feather. Wow! BBS in 4 passes with no touch up work!

 

Friday, July 29th 2011

Razor: Wilkinson Sticky
Blade: Gillette Yellow
Brush: Simpson Douglas
Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Soap: Trumper Coconut Oil
A/S: Speick

I reached for the Sticky this morning and was reminded why I like it so much. I enjoyed a great shave and am ready for the gym.

 

Who makes pine bouquet cologne?
Sorry for being such a noob
Peanut

 

Friday

Prep: Hot shower, soak brush
Coffee: Starbucks French Roast, BLACK
Soap: Dulouz's Marakesh
Brush: Omega 10098
Razor: '56 Red Tip
Blade: Wilkinson, day 5, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Osage Rub, Curve
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Shave Rating: 4 Blades

I've had better, but not by much.

 

Frist SOTD in the new home!

ERN 6/8
TOBS Avocado SC
Rudy Vey Finest Badger Brush
TSD Twice Iced Peppermint Splash
Baxter of California Mentholated AS Balm

-smooth and cold. My son finally gave up the electric for a real shave. He's 17 and has been at it for 2 weeks-first real smooth one today. He kept
insisting on more aggressive equipment and finally settled on my Gillette New with a Feather. Kids.

 

Friday:

VDH luxury and VDH luxury brush
Goodfella with Voskhod day 1
alum, witch hazel, osage rub, TSD ISZ

 

July,29
First post in 'new' forum! Glad it was kinda 'TSD shave'

TSD preshave balm
4/8 Rebell (thank you very much, herzi!!!)
Paddle strop
Vie-Long horsehair brush
Painted ceramic bowl
TSD B2 soap (what a funny scent, indeed, but it is is dangerous to laugh with a straight, touching your face )
TSD English Fern AS Milk

DFS+!

 

French Stella Vintage Razor
with Derby (2)
Hans Baier 21er Silvertip
Palmolive SC
4711 Portugal AS

Have a nice weekend!

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Saturday's shave consisted of:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/7 AM day 6
Derbylux SC
Keri unscented moisturizer
Barbon AS

What a lovely cream this Derbylux cream is. It smells very manly with a beautiful cologne/minty scent, and the menthol effect is very strong. It's made in Hungary by the same company as the Barbon cream and aftershave, which are also wonderful.

 

Saturday:
Vitos Green soap
Omega Lucretia Borgia
Goodfella
Voskhod day 2
alum, witch hazel, osage rub, Speik

 

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Pre-shave soap: Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Merkur Progress XL
Blade: Lord Platinum Class
Brush: Vulfix 2234 Super
Cream: Ingram
A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel, Proraso Splash

In my opinion, Ingram cream is less mentholated than Proraso, although it still produces a noticeable (and welcome, to me) cooling effect. It is a decent cream, but I've been trying to use it up to reduce the herd a bit. I prefer Proraso, and I've heard good things about the Italian mentholated Palmolive. But today's shave was an excellent one, so the task of using up the Ingram will not be unpleasant. It's a nice state of affairs! There's one thing about Ingram, though--it doesn't seem as "thirsty" as most other creams and, if I'm not careful, I can end up with lather that is wetter and thinner than I prefer.

 

Saturday's Shower & Shave
Long hot shower
Musgo Lime/Johnson Baby Oil
HJM Boar/Sample Soap
Gem Junior/Gem
AquaVela Blue/Prairie Creations Sandalwood

 

Saturday - it's the weekend! {kickin' back under palm tree, shades on, sun shinin' bright} Time for the SEs!!

Prep: 30 minute marinade with TSD ISZ PSB, strop str8, hot shower, soak brush
Coffee: Starbucks French Roast, BLACK
Strop: VB 2" black latigo/linen
Soap: TSD Leather
Brush: Omega 49, the RED one
Str8: Boker SS St. Louis, 3 passes
Razor: Schick E model, touch up
Post: Cold water rinse, RazoRock rub down, ice water splash, Pinaud Clubman AS
'Stache Wax: Firehouse Wacky Tacky

Shave Rating: 3 Blades

A couple o' things wrong this morning - thin lather, blade tugging, no home roasted coffee.

Oh well, if based on final results this would have been an easy 4, maybe even 5 blades. Nice and close, no blood, the ISZ PSB is always nice, the soap smelled great despite me not getting the lather quite right, and the Pinaud is kinda growin' on me.

 

Saturday:

Schick Quattro (1)
Thater Stout 2
DRH Marlborough stick
Bump Patrol
Nivea Sensitive balm
Polo Original edt

Feeling expierimental lately and am trying some things out that I've been reading about with the carts. First time ever with a Quattro that I'm aware of and it was a nice 2 pass DFS.

 

Saturday, July 30

EJ DE86
Supermax SS (d2)
Arko Boosted Classic Brand Menthol SS
Vulfix 2235 Super Badger
Barbasol Brisk

Great shave. The lather was a little weak initially, but got better by the later passes. Must have used too much water. Took a 5th pass to do the job. Fortunately the Supermax is very forgiving, as there was no irritation.

 

Gillette Old Type Bull Mastiff
Voskhod (4)

Omega 49 - Big Red
Arko Shave Stick in an OS mug

Alum
Boosted Superior 70 Bay Rum

A very nice irritation free 2 pass DFS.