SoS: July 7, 2014 - July 13, 2014

Thursday

Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Scots Pine Bath Soap
Soap: Coate’s Sandalwood Cream
Razor: Gillette 40’s Style Super Speed
Blade: Personna Med Prep (2)
Brush: oscar 11 TGN 2-Band Finest-24mmx50mm
Aftershave: Fine Platinum

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

Great cream today, Coate’s Sandalwood. I had a great shave with the 40’s Style SS and Med Prep cushioned by the Coate’s cream. I finished up with Fine Platinum.

Bob

 

I almost picked my coates lime, but decided to finish the sample of musgo instead.

 

6/8 Wacker Inox
Prep SS
Vie long horse
Excellent shave this morning. Featuring the "mighty" acorn soap bowl, lol. When time permits, I'll do a handle for the horse which has been performing very nicely. Have a good one. Things might start slowing down a bit for me, all the contractors are waiting on parts.

 

SOTD July 10

Prep: hot shower
Razor: WW2 Gillette Tech
Blade: Treet Black (day 3)
Brush: Vie-Long
Soap: Col Conk lime
Passes: 2 (WTG, XTG)
Post: Arko Ice Mint

Much better water to soap ratio today, the only downside being no surplus lather. I was inspired by the cool morning temperature and went with cold water for most of my shave today. Combined with the subtle hints of lime foment the Col Conk it was a nice refreshing shave. The Treet Black, although still very smooth is starting to feel dull, but two passes and touch ups still yielded a DFS with zero irritation, cut, nicks or any other unpleasantness. Keeping the cool/cold trend I finished with Arko Ice Mint.

 

Thor's Day:

Prep: Hot shower, Healthy Accent
Brush: Beeline Boar
Soap: Ogallala Bay Rum & Sandalwood Shave stick
Razor: FaTip Piccolo
Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (2)
Passes: WTG, XTG (2, 3)
Post: Cold water splash, Dickinson's WH, Captain's Choice Cat o' Nine Tails AS splash

This morning I set my jaw, steeled myself, and put down the One-X in order to give the Ogallala shave stick another try on what is my 'typical' talk like a pirate Bay Rum day. I like the scent of this stuff, but MAN do I have a devil of a time getting a good lather out of it. Even without the preshave balm (which I figured might have been making the lather harder to create with the stick rubbed directly over it) my lather was thin and quick to disappear for the first pass, despite a long time working it over. It was enough to get me to bowl lather the Ogallala for my XTG pass, which resulted in slightly better but still less-than-good lather. I managed it without any nicks or weepers, just one sensitive spot under my jaw where the alum stung, and a DFS, altogether, though.

 

7/10/2014 Let's try "Non Dominant Hand Shaving Week"

Prep: Hot shower with L'Oreal Men Expert Facial Wash, home made PSO
Razor: Gillette New LC, Hamburg Quick Cutter straight razor
Blade: Pol Silver Super Iridium (5)
Brush: Col Conk Pure Badger 20mm knot
Soap: The Real Shaving Co - Shave 2 Cream with 3-4 drops of TSD MBomb menthol additive
After: Home made ASB, Aqua Velva classic Ice Blue after shave
Cologne: Knize X EDT


It was a nice and cool 1 pass with touch ups Darn Fine Shave + this morning. I am trying out only shaving with my non dominant hand this week. Everything just worked perfectly this morning.

Have a blessed day!

 

Just where in central Florida Dave? It's where I live too.

 

Pre: Maggard Razors PSO – Lime
Brush: VDH Boar Brush
Soap: Maggard Razors Fougere Sauvage
Razor: PAL Adjustable Injector razor
Blade: Kmart Injector – Platinum Chrome (3)
Splash: Wal-Mart 86% Witch Hazel
Post: Aqua Velva Musk AS

I didn’t enjoy this mornings shave. I don’t exactly know what the deal was but it wasn’t pleasant...

Find out why at That Shave Life!

 

Thursday 7/10/14

Prep: Gaia face scrub
Oil: Shave Secret
Brush: 20mm Whipped dog set deep
Scuttle Georgetown Pottery
Razor: slim adjustable set to 5
Blade: Voskhod
soap:

Volabra Fougere

Post: Alum sprayed on
Witch Hazel: Generic unscented
AS: Sampsons all natural

The Valobra Fougere is another fine French soap. I was given a sample of this along with the MDC regular and the MDC Fougere. The scent of the Volabra is decidedly more potent than that of the MDC. The lather produced IMHO is almost as good as, if not in fact as good as, any of the other French soaps, including MDC. The lather is very protective and leaves my face feeling great. Be warned, though, that if you are not a fan of the fougere scent, this one may seem overpowering to you.

 

I see you

 

SOTD
July 10, 2014

Prep: Hot shower. Axe Boost Energizing Face Wash
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE89
Blade: Ladas Super Stainless
Lather: Mitchell's Wool Fat
Brush: Omega 10066
Post: Alum. Dickinson WH
Aftershave: Fine Platinum. Axe Shield Sensitive
Same setup as yesterday, I've been having phenomenal shaves of late.
Go out and get it!

 

Ain't that the truth! A very good soap, btw, that is also available unscented….

 

Uh, the Valobra soaps are from Italy?

 

I would definitely recommend it.

It is an honorary french soap.

 

LOL!

 

7/10/14 - SOTD

Prep: wash with Stirling Barbershop
Lather: Stirling Spice (pay no attention to label in picture, it is spice in an old tiki container)
Brush: Omega B&B boar
Razor: Gillette New LC
Blade: unknown super + platinum
Post: cold water rinse and Captain's Choice Lime

2 pass face and 2 pass scalp shave this morning. All good all around. I did notice, for the first time, the bay rum scent to the Lime aftershave. Might have been the combination of the Spice soap and the aftershave and the bay rum just came out in the air. No problems, I like it.

 

Palmera 14
H.I.S. brush
Barrister & Mann Adagio soap
EverythingNicki Sandalwood & Vetivert AS
Monotheme Vetiver Bourbon EdT

 

Thursday

Prep: CeraVe cleanser
Soap: Dapper Dragon unscented
Brush: Oscar11 custom with HIS knot
Razor: iKon ShaveCraft
Blade: Super Iridium
After: Cold rinse, CeraVe

Another great shave with the excellent Dapper Dragon soap and the ShaveCraft razor.

 

Thursday
warm shower
Semogue BC Cerda
Maggard Lime PSO
SOTQ Antique Oakwood Lanolin Soap
Cobra Classic/Kai Captain Mild (1)
cold water rinse
Monster Block Alum
cold water rinse
Thayer's Lemon WH
HBG Sandalwood ASL
Diptyque Tam Dao edp

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

Stay frosty,my friends!

 

From the Valobra web site:
The saponification is one of the most important stages of processing of a toilet soap . The choice of this method determines to a large extent the quality of the soap. Valobra has always adopted and maintained the saponification by “boiling to the strength”, the classic method called " Marseillaise ," which was started in the second half of the eighteenth century, precisely in the region of Marseille. It should be noted that the industry of soap- Marseille was founded a hundred years before with the assistance of experts soapmakers from Genoa who were called by Colbert , minister of industry of the Sun King Louis XIV , in Marseille and Toulon to start the industrial activities in that region .


See - I told you it was French.