SoS: June 2025

The Way It Must Be 4 Friday:

brush-Proraso Professional Boar(Silver Handle, Vanilla Knot)

no other changes from today(Throwback Thursday)

 

Nice service set, in really great condition. I have the US service set, but it is not in such great condition.

 

How do you like the Vie-Long? I have a similar one, but was never a fan. Too scratchy for my face.

 

thank you.

 

Brush: Semogue 620
Shaving Cream: De Vergulde Hand
Razor: Merkur Progress
Blade: Voskhod
After Shave: De Vergulde Hand

 

-Thursday-
brit tech
omega
vito's
adg

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FRIDAY SHAVE
RAZOR: Tatara Razors Muramasa Adjustable @3
BLADE: Personna Lab Blue
BRUSH: OpusBrush 25mm Oumo EHD 2-Band Badger
LATHER: Lodrino La Riviera Shaving Soap
POST: Muelhens 4711 Eau De Cologne Splash

 

Friday SOTD


Razor: Shield Titanium Avenger/TiBam Bamboo
Blade: Personna Injector (1)
Brush: WildWestBrushworks 24mm Cashmere bk/red
Bowl: Tatara 4"
Pre-Shave Scrub: PAA Iced Cube 2.0
Pre-Shave Balm: Proraso Single Blade Cypress and Vetyver
Shave Soap: Black Ship Grooming Madam Cheng
Balm: Proraso Single Blade Cypress and Vetyver
Aftershave: Black Ship Grooming Madam Cheng

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Pre-shave:- Cool Shower
Bowl/Scuttle:- Captain's Choice
Brush:- Omega 11047 "Mixed Midget" (Badger/Boar) 20/43mm knot
Soap/Cream:- Vintage Sir Irisch Moos (tallow shave stick)
Razor/Blade:- Blackbird Lite SS Polished / Gillette 365 Stainless #12 .... finished
Post/After-shave:- T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel Astringent mixed into the 240ml bottle with Plunkett's Vita E Pure with Rosehip Oil (10 drops), Natural Plant Glycerine (20) & Tea Tree Oil Antiseptic (5)
Moisturising Cream:- Aveeno Active Naturals Daily Fragrance-Free (for autumn & winter season)
Fragrance:- Tabac

 

June 06, 2025

Prep: Hot towel
Razor: Merkur 34C HD
Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum
Brush: Simpsons Chubby 1 Super
Soap: House of Mammoth: Beloved
Post: Cosrx Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence
Fragrance: Fars by Xerjoff
my last time out with the 34C turned out to be a rather subpar affair.. but the HoM soap brought out the best this time around, and delivered an impeccable shave


Shaving.. to be enjoyed, not endured.

 

Friday 6th June
GEM Damaskeene + GEM Stainless #10 + Yaqi Heavy Metal + Monsavon au lait + Cien Aqua AS + Aloe Vera Gel

 

Thanks. I like it fine. This one has the scratch also. It's from the horsetail hair. Mane hair is softer.
I don't know, but this one might be around 40-60 Mane-Tail. I have one that's 50-50 . Too much mane is floppy, and too much tail is too stiff and scratcy. Horse brushes are not my favorite, but I like them.

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Friday Shave.

 

Friday 06 Jun 2025

1 ½ Days growth

Hot Water Prep and Preshave = Palmolive Shave cream
Soap = TOBS Oud lathered over the top of the preshave
Brush = Semogue Pegasus C7 finest badger 2 band
Bowl = White plastic
Razor = Gillette 1939 No46 Popular
Blade = Kai (5)
Passes = 3 were needed
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayer’s rose petal
ASB = TOBS Royal Forest
ASL = Proraso Barbe Dure with Oud
Scent = Burberry Hero
Plus a few drops of Arabian Sunset Oud to the pulse points

The Kai still did well on day 5 but was starting to fade a bit, so this was duly binned
Not bad, normally I don’t go much beyond 3 days on one blade

Delightful damage free start to a chilly day, although the Alum made its presence felt
Hope you have/had a great Friday

 

Super nice shave my Lantsman!

Shabbat Shalom!


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Friday morning:

Cool shower
Yaqi 30mm Barber Pole
Super Speed/7 AM day 6
Bundubeard Klipspringer’s Kick SS
Bundubeard Boomslang 3 ASB
Floid Vigoroso AS Splash

My second time using this Klipspringer soap - it’s a South African treasure. It’s glycerine based with a really nice coffee/peppermint scent, it lathers like a champ, it gives lots of slickness, it’s supposedly the least mentholated of the Kick series but it’s still pretty damned cold especially during the second and third passes not to mention how good the skincare is. The Boomslang 3 balm is extremely moisturizing and well mentholated, it has a very nice scent, and the Floid Vigoroso aftershave went on icy cold along with its wonderful old school barbershop scent that I love so much. Another three pass BBS work of art - what a dynamite shave this was!

Enjoy your weekend and your shaves - be well and stay safe!


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Friday's Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
Cella Shave Soap
Jayaruh #220 2-band Badger
Supply SE MAX
Supply Black Label Injector
CWR
Humphrey's Witch Hazel
Cella After Shave Balm

The Cella Shave Soap lathered well with Jayaruh #220 2-band Badger Brush. Two passes and touch ups with the Supply SE MAX Razor and the Supply Black Label Injector Blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Cella After Shave Balm. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Preshave: Hot shower
Soap/Shave cream: Proraso Red
Brush: Simpson Trafalgar T2
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE89
Blade: Treet Carbon Steel (1)
Post shave: Pinaud Clubman

 

Thank you my Lantzman! I decided to load directly from the puck instead and it was a great shave! I'm not a fan of this particular scent but the performance and post shave feel are outstanding. Tabac AS was a nice way to finish the shave!

Your South African Shave looks super nice as well!

Shabbat Shalom!!

 

Todah rabah Habibi! (Thanks a lot my friend!)

I don’t think I ever bowl lathered in my life because I find that lathering straight off the puck works much better overall especially with Stirling and the vast majority of other soaps. Most of these Bundubeard soaps are glycerine based and although I much prefer tallow ones there are some excellent glycerine ones also and this particular soap is one of them. It’s so easy to lather and I love its scent, the menthol level is very pleasant but by no means overwhelming. It also gives such a comfortable postshave feeling. The Floid Vigoroso aftershave not only smells great it’s VERY cold!


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