SoS: June 10, 2013 - June 16, 2013

SotN
6/11/2013

Nivia Face Wash W/Menthol and Vitamin E
Gingers Garden Oak Moss and Lavender Soap
ER 200 w/TGN Finest 22mm
GEM OCMM
Cold Rinse
WH Spray
Barbon AS
Axe Shield

First time using the Oak Moss and Lavender from Irena. Oh may what a great scent!!! Anyone who likes Irisch Moos but wants a soap get this one. Wow!! I just love her shave stuff. need to oreder some other thing if they are all as good. She makes an AS Gel that looks great.

 

Thank ewe!

 

R41 Weber Bulldog
Gillette Silver Blue
Purple Semogue 1800 (Thanks Steve)
Institut Karite
Alum
Superior 70

A DFS to start the day.

 

6/8 Ern
Tabula Rasa Patchouli
22mm TGN synthetic
Krampert's Bay Rum
Nice. Have a good one.

 

Wednesday:

L'Oreal Men Expert Facial Wash
#6 Horsehair
Super Speed/7 AM day 3
Egyptian Palmolive Menthol SC
444 AS Balsam
Barbon AS
YSL Pour Homme EDT

As I said, I want to dedicate this week to soaps and creams which I haven't used in a long time and I went with this Egyptian version of Palmolive Menthol cream. The lather is wonderful like all Palmolive creams, it gives excellent skincare with a frigid menthol blast like its Italian counterpart, but the scent is not to my liking. The 444/Barbon team are brrrrrr cold and beautiful. BBS again with so little effort.

 

Wednesday

Prep: Hot shower, AoS PSO
Coffee: Maxwell House French Roast, BLACK
CD: B. B. King ~ The Ultimate Collection
Soap/Cream: Woods of Windsor + a squirt of KMF unscented
Brush: Vulfix 406, The Burlington
DE: '61 Fatboy @ 9
Blade: Astra SP, day 3, 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Dickenson's WH, B&BW Oak, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Firehouse Wacky Tacky

Back when I first started with adjustables, I followed the advice I give to folks new to adjustables - start at 3, complete your shave, evaluate. Next shave click it up one notch and repeat. Keep doing this until you hit that one notch that is just a tad too aggressive, back it off one and lock it down - there's your sweet spot.

For me, I leave it locked at 6; I've never taken it above 7.
Until today, that is. I opened it up to 9, took my time, paid attention to my pressure, and wound up with a BBS shave.

As for the Woods of Windsor, it's why I keep the KMF unscented around. Honestly it doesn't lather that great but I like the scent. A bit of KMF boosts the lather without robbing me of the nice smell of the WoW.

 

Wednesday
hot shower
Shavemac 167,2 band,d01,fan
Proraso PSC
Mama Bear's Rosemary Mint
Gillette New LC/Gillette Permasharp (2)
cool water rinse
Shavex Alum
cold water rinse
Thayer's Cucumber WH
Myrsol Formula K

Very nice BBS shave,I'm still not sure about the O'clock Greens in this razor,when it comes to the end of this blade I'm gonna switch to my olde standby.the Perma-Sharp Supers and see what happens

 

Wednesday morning, June 12, 2013

Schick E2 Injector with Personna blade,
Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush,
Arko shaving soap with hot water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

 

Great warm weather shave for hot and muggy O-H-I-O. Supposed to get some rain, and it's supposed to be in the 90's. Its going to be a mess!

 

TECH Tuesday Wednesday

a. Hot towel soak...2 minutes-ish
b. PRE: Homemade PSO (slick!)
c. SOAP: SuperLather Combo: Tabac soap & TOBS cream = luxurious!
d. BRUSH: WD Silvertip 30mm
e. RAZOR: My restored Fat Handle Tech
Before: yech! After: oh yeah!

f. SHAVE: Standard 3 passes, plus touch-up
g. POST: Pinaud Clubman aftershave splash; Per de Provence balm sooth...

I have to admit, there's something I find appealing about the simplicity of the Techs: simple design, simple assembly, and just a great, forgiving shave.
The fact the handle is also nicely textured and fat in the hand are added bonuses. Very effective razor. Very nice shave! And the superlather combo makes for a terrific morning experience!

 

Wednesday morning, June 12, 2013

Schick E2 Injector,
Warm C O Bigelow lather glides Schick blade (5)
and Omega 20102 boar bristle—
Finish with a splash of Gillette Cool Wave for a DFS!

Aces!

 

Wednesday



Razor: 59 Fat Boy
Blade : Blue Blue (2)
Brush: Stingray Custom
Soap: ARKO
Post: Cold Water, Alum, and Thayer's
AS: CLUBMAN

First time face lathering from the mug, it was very nice and easy.

Oh Robzilla...Betty Crocker lid fits the Old Spice mug well and seals in all the Arko goodness air tight. I don't want to lose any of that great scent. Plus...Cost of the lid is less than $1.75, truly is icing on the cake.

 

B.B. King on the radio....Fatboy on 9......I have new respect for you, bud.

 

Razor: Mergress XL
Blade: Super Iridium
Brush: Vie-long horse hair
Pre: Musgo Real Lime Oil Soap
Soap: MDC Scented
Post: Osma Alum Block
Aftershave: Eton College

 

SOTD Wednesday 6-12-2013

Gillette NEW LC w/Polsilver SI
TOBS SC - St. James
GT G4 Scuttle
Omega Boar
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea Replenishing ASB
British Sterling Cologne

Wow, those Polsilever SI are NICE! Put a fresh blade in the NEW this morning and ZIIIPPPP....smooth as silk! I need to quite being so cheap and stop using my blades until they are blunt. It's so nice when I put in a new blade. lol

 

Weber Bulldog
KAI blade
Vie Long Brush
Vintage Williams Soap
Alum Block
music-Buckwheat Zydeco
coffee-home roasted Ethiopian

 

I used the same set up as I have on the last two days, but with the addition of my new alum and I changed out my Parker SRW in favor of the Parker SR1. Three pass, wtg/atg/xtg shave resulting in BBS skin and my first ever nick using a Disposable Blade Straight Razor! I managed to catch a mole while going across the grain, on the final pass. It was a tiny nick, but as moles are vascular it bled a lot. This mole is almost flush with my skin and I hardly notice it, so I wasn't as cautious as I should have been, but other than that it was an excellent shave.

Pre: Hot shower, AoS Ocean Kelp Preshave Gel
Razor: Parker SR1
Blade: SuperMax Titanium
Brush: Vulfix 376S
Soap: Superlather of Klar Kabinett & KMF Green Key Lime
Post: Cold water rinse & SAL Alum

 

PRE: Hot Towel + MR GLO Soap + Am Crew PSO
BRUSH: Omega 636
SOAP: Tabac
RAZOR: Gillette "NEW" from "sportshaving"
BLADE: Astra SP
POST: Alt Innsbruck



Day 3 of face-lathering for "novelty week". What can I say, pure joy. The cheapo silvertip may help, but this may become a habit. The Tabac and Alt Innsbruck are also first timers for me. Great combination. Love the cooling effect of the Innsbruck. The scent seems to change subtly when applied (I seem to enjoy it even more on). And...Tabac. Of course, the lather just explodes even more than the MWF yesterday. Enjoying the new soaps!

Enjoy the rest of the day all!

 

12.6.2013

• Prep: shower w/ Taylor of Old Bond Street Jermyn Street shower gel, RazoRock glycerine pre-shave soap
• Razor: Gillette Super Adjustable [5, 5, 3]
• Blade: Schick Premium
• Brush: WSP Monarch HMW
• Scuttle: "Estremoz" V2 Green
• Cream: Taylor of Old Bond Street Jermyn Street
• Post: alum, T.N. Dickinson's Witch hazel
• Aftershave: Taylor of Old Bond Street Jermyn Street

This was a pretty rough shave due to the blades. I'm currently doing Russian blade month and these Schicks were the worst so far. My face feels like it's on fire.

 

Wednesday

TSD unscented soap
HIS synthetic brush
Schick type L injector
Personna blade
CeraVe lotion

Three passes, smooth results.