SoS: March 31, 2014 - April 6, 2014

Or......you could expand your own shaving 'horizons.'
Manscaping, anyone?

 

Wednesday - 4/2/14

Prep: Shower followed by homemade PSO.
Soap: Stirling Grapefruit.
Brush: Vulfix 374.
Razor: Gillette Slim set on 4.
Blade: Astra SP (6).
Post Trmt: Nivea Sensitive ASB.
Aftershave: Aqua Velva Ice Blue.

Excellent shave. The Stirling soap smells EXACTLY like the grapefruit that I pull off the backyard tree every morning. I don't know how he does it, but I hope he keeps it up.

 

Face, neck, and between the eyebrows . . . that's as far as I go.

 

Wednesday morning -


Prep - Noxzema & hot towel
Lather - Mitchell's Wool Fat & suribachi
Brush - Omega 40033
Razor - Gillette Single Ring
Blade - Personna Red (6)

2 pass
Warm water rinse & cold water splash
Alum block & Witch-hazel AS

 

A midday shave
Prep: Shower & Axe Oily facewash
Blade: Voskhod
Razor: Fat Handle Tech
Soap: Razorock Fresco
Post: Maggard's Alum & Dove Men's Revitalize

It was quite frankly a bad shave with irritation on my neck. (It's been a LONG time since I've had a bad shave.) It was a day of revelation as well. I figured out a better way to get my neck closer shaven. It was what I shall call a Tao shave.

 

Frankenrazor (Senator open comb bottom plate, Tech cap, Clix fat plastic handle)
45 year old Hai Karate can goo
vintage Walgreens Super Platinum blade

BBS

 

NO picture I am a little upset at the shave today!

I don't understand what happened, my lather was crap. I lathered my Speick stick like I have a 100 times before but this time the lather was gooey. It stuck to my razor blade made the blade tug like crazy! I haven't had any problems with any soap or cream lathering in a year. It made for a bad day all around!

 

Did you use the same brush, razor, and soap combo the last shave or was this different than the last shave?

 

Gondola Frankfurt Wednesday
H.I.S. XL synthetic brush
Prep pre shave
Razorock XXX soap
Weleda Lavender cream
Paco Rabanne pour Homme EdT
Razorock King Louis skin wax

 

Do you have a pic of the razor? I would be interested in seeing how you got the TTO base plate to mate up with the 3 piece top cap.

 

SOTD April 2 -- Blade safari day 58

Synthetic week day 4

Vacation Shave!

Prep: hot towel
Razor: WW2 Gillette Khaki Tech
Blade: Astra SP(day 1)
Brush: Wilkinson Sword
Soap: Arko shave stick
Passes: 2 (WTG, XTG)
Post: alum
Just not feeling the love for the Wilkinson Sword brush any more, at least not with soap.

 

This what I am doing tomorrow
Thursday 3Apr14

SSS {if you were in the US Military you know this acronym }

I am going to shave in the shower. I will use my

1968 Gillette
Astra SP DE Blade
VDH Pure Badger Brush. {when I am not in a hurry I use my WD SilverTip 30/65, so I can really enjoy my shave}
Dr. Bronner Magic Eucalyptus Soap for my shower.
I am going to use for my shave Dr. Bronner's Magic Tea Tree Soap {it lather up great. }

Mennen Skin Bracer.

 

Pre : Valobra Balsamo for my oily face ( Awesome effect)
Simpson Chubby 3 Best Badger
Robert Becker Scuttle #1
DE87811 with BIC Blade #1
Valobra Menthol
Nivea Cool
Nivea Balsam

 

Thursday Morning Shave
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE8911
Blade: Shark (3)
Brush: Vie-Long White Horse Hair
Soap: Arko
Cologne: Tariş Lavender

 

Thursday

Cella from a brick face lathred with TGN boar knot in Ever-Ready handle
Ikon Slant with SuperMax blade (2)
3 passes, cold water splash and finish with Nivea Energy

 

R41 Bulldog
Perma-Sharp Super
Omega 80265
CO Bigelow SC

Finished with a cold water rinse for a simple but very nice shave today.

 

Thor's Day:

Prep: Hot shower, TSD Jasmine Sambac Preshave balm
Brush: Simpson 56 Best Badger
Soap: RazoRock Cumba Cheech
Razor: Merkur 41c 1904 OC
Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (1)
Passes: WTG, XTG, ATG (1, 2, 3)
Post: Cold water splash, Dickinson's WH, RazoRock Cumba Cheech balm
Cologne: Jasmin et Cigarette by ELdO

This was definitely a jasmine-centered shave, and I loved it. Armed with a brand new Bic, I got nearly BBS results on three comfortable passes with only one weeper in my moustache area, brought about by that treacherous ATG pass. The lather was easy to make and stable, needing only a bit more water after the first pass.

 

Wacker
Tiki Bar Soap
homemade brush
More snow overnight. Very nice shave this morning, smooth and close. Have a good one. Busy day today.

 

65’ K2 Gillette Slim (set on 9)
Ladas (d2)
Vulfix 404
DR Harris Arlington
Dickenson WH
Old Spice

Great shave today.