SoS: June 1, 2015 - June 7, 2015

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June 6 SOTD:

Homemade PS Oil
Vie-long Horsehair Brush
TSD Iced Sub-zero
'58 Gillette TV Special
Stirling Unscented PSB
Aqua Velva AS

 

Cream Week for Me-7 Creams in 7 Days

Saturday-Day 6
Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Bath Soap-Scots Pine Sheep
Soap: Speick Cream
Razor: Gillette Fatboy
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (3)
Brush: Canadian Fuller w/Pur-Tech Gen 4 Synthetic-24mmx52mm
Aftershave: Speick

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

Speick Cream today. 5 seconds to load the Fuller Synthetic. Great, easy, thick, lather. Gillette Silver Blue in the Fatboy. Very smooth, close, shave. I finished with Speick.

Bob

 

JH handle / S2

Astra sp

Shaverjoe chubby

B&M fougere imperiale

Gingers garden fougere

 

I used PDP Brushless Cream today with decent but not great results. You spread this cream on with your fingers and rub it into your face. There will be no real lather. While the PDP did provide decent slickness, it seemed to be no more slickness than you will get with a good pre-shave oil. There is virtually no cushioning provided by the cream. Does it work? Well, it sort of works. I guess it would be OK to take with you if you need to pack light, but I think you could accomplish the same with just pre-shave oil and a good amount of water. 3 passes and a mildly irritated close shave.

PDP brushless cream
Rapira Swedish
slim adjustable

 

5/0615 - A Month of Proraso!!!

Proraso Green Soap
Semogue Italian Barber LE
Gillette Bostonian
Pol-Silver Blade (3)
Osage Rub

A great shave. Got a BBS 3 pass shave and walked away feeling very refreshed a count the Menthol!!
Hope everyone has a Great Saturday!!

 

Shave of the day

Pre- Hot shower, Rituals Samurai Bamboo and Wakame foaming face wash

Soap/cream- DR Harris Arlington

Brush- Semogue 1470 boar

Razor- Merkur 37c

Blade- Astra SP(2)

Post- Cold water rinse, Proraso eucalyptus and menthol aftershave lotion and Nivea sensitive cooling aftershave balm

The test lather with the dr harris was great

And today i was gonna shave with it, first pass was good but the second the lather was thin so i added some shaving cream and relathered.

I blame it on the brush. Im not falling in love with it. The advice have been to keep using it and break it in more, i gotta break it in without using it because when I use it I get bad lather. Do i just lather it in my hand like 100 more Times' or what?

The arlington smells amazing Thank you very much @tuxxdk

I got a pretty nice shave, im very Happy I added shaving cream and relathered.

Proraso AS is liquid love

 

June 6/15

Prep: Hot facecloth followed by homemade pre-shave oil
Shave cream: Clinique for Men Cream Shave
Razor: Fendrihan long handle closed comb safety razor (DE
Blade: Feather
Brush: Omega Bristle Shaving Brush
Aftershave: Hot facecloth followed by Lavender Witch Hazel
Aftershave balm: Shea Butter

First time with Clinique for Men...can't say it was my best shave ever...but it was reasonable. Nicked myself again .

 

Sorry about that. It gets better.

 

SOTD
June 6, 2015
Prep: Hot Shower. Axe Shield Face Wash
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE89 w/wave handle
Blade: Gillette 7 o'clock Green
Brush: L'Occitane Plisson
Lather: Tiki 1920's Barber Shoppe
Post: Alum. Thayers Cucumber WH.
Aftershave: Fine American Blend
Great shave! First shave with Tiki 1920's Barber Shoppe, WOW! Excellent soap! Very slick, super easy to lather.
A better tomorrow. Takes your best today!

 

Do you leave the WH on or rinse like with the alum?

 

Saturday, May 6, 2015

iKon Shevecraft 102 w UFO Godzilla Red Bronze
Bolzano #2
Knockout Shave Lather Bowl
El Druida #7 Barberpole Manchurian
Fine - Fresh Vetiver
Tom Ford - Grey Vetiver

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06/06/2015
Razor – Gillette New LC with Triad SS Helix
Blade – Feather (2)
Brush – Shavemac Silvertip D01
Lather – Mystic Water Lime
Post - Witch Hazel & Myrsol Agua Limon Sample



Great 3 pass BBS shave this morning. The performance of Mystic Water is worth the increased effort to lather. The scent is fantastic and the soap is so slick. Finished off with Myrsol Limon.

 

I tend to agree....I find many of the brushless shave creams to be the consistency of hand lotion and while it provides a bit of "grease"...it lacks the pure satisfaction of a good lather.

 

I apply the WH, it stays on and I clean up my gear, sink. Apply aftershave.

 

I shave before I shower...so I tend to put the witch hazel on after I shave...then i shower and then moisturize with coconut oil or shea butter.

 

Sounds good =)does it give the same
Feeling like alum, the "drying" feeling?

 

No. Moisturizing. Healing. Soothing. Nice. A must in every shave IMO.

 

Sounds like a working routine =) I shave after the shower.

I'm just curious because I have never tried WH, we don't have it in Sweden haha

 

I'm doing good without it, but im sure it will raise the quality of my shaves. But I'm sticking to my no buy some while longer!