SoS: May 11, 2015 - May 17, 2015

Happy anniversary. Enjoy!

 

Stirling Coniferous
Parker best badger
Muhle R41 ('11) Personna blue
Cold water/alum
Captain's Choice Lime

The Stirling soaps that I have are truly top performers. Every shave is a pleasant experience from beginning to end. The scents (Bay Rum, MITA, and Coniferous) are really nice, and they whip up a dense, slick lather with minimal effort. It's a great way to begin any day.

 

Cool Blooms!

 

Planned SOTD 14 May 2015

30 Day Rule with a Schick!



If you have never tried TSD Iced SubZero AS Splash, you probably should! I felt the need today for some extra skincare and will be using it later!

Have a great Thursday evening!
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Friday's


Dove Men Face Wash
Williams Mug Shaving Soap
Jayaruh #6 High Mountain Badger (first shave)
Dad's Schick E3
Personna Stainless
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Barbasol Brisk

The Williams Mug Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #6 High Mountain Badger brush. Two passes with my Dad's Schick E3 razor and a Personna Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Barbasol Brisk after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Happy Anniversary to @HolyRollah and your wife. Hope you have many more.

Brush Focus: Day 14/30
Brush: WDC-1 Black Badger, (Whipped Dog knot).
Gillette Super Speed, A3 Flare Tip (1955)
Gillette Platinum Blade (7)
Bowl: KO Shave
Soap: Jack's Soap
AS: RE9 Post Shave Balm
Old Spice Coffee Mug.

Back to the beginning for my brushes. This is an amazing brush that loads well and applies an outstanding lather to my face. Have nothing negative to say about this brush. Seventh day for the Gillette Platinum Blade. I have been very happy with the performance of this blade. The Gillette SS Flair Tip(1955) is a joy to use. I will change Gillette's tomorrow and load a new Platinum blade.

 

Nice set up.

 

Interested to know how you like the High Mountain Badger knot. Also do you have a specific depth you set your knots, or does it vary with each individual knot?

 

Thank you very much!

 

I have a HMB in my #4 brush, and I really like it. That is why I got this one. I will be having my first shave with it tomorrow. I set the knot so it has a loft of 50 mm. I just used my Dremel to tweak the hole size until I got the 50 mm loft. I think more than 50 mm and the knot will start getting more floppy.

 

Roger that on the Pal Adjustable!

 

•Senator/Tech Frankenhead on some old nameless steel handle
•Big Ben blade
•Aramis soap

Slow and easy 2 pass BBS. Followed up with Lucky Tiger lotion and some splashed-on Aubrey North Woods deo. Wish I'd thought of that sooner, I now have a new a/s and smell quite wonderful, if I say so myself.

 

Happy anniversary!

 

Here are my shaving plans for Friday morning:

Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Large Horsehair Barbershop
Super Speed/Dorco day 5
Stirling Glacial Wintergreen SS
Stirling Glacial Wintergreen AS Balm
Stirling Glacial Wintergreen WH
JHL Cologne

It's just no use - my addiction to these Stirling Glacial soaps won't end any time soon. Every time I try to choose even a mentholated soap from another artisan, I end up putting it back and taking out a Glacial one. I'm going with the Wintergreen which is a certified face-freezing menthol atom bomb with such an awesome scent and great lather. The matching aftershave balm and witch hazel are both enough to just about give you frostbite. I'm beginning to think I might have to throw away the Dorco blade after this shave unless it does a really good job.

A nice weekend to everyone in advance.

Here's a You Tube video of an old song that my grandmother used to sing to me when I was a young kid!

 

May 14 SOTD:

Homemade PS Oil
WD High Mountain Badger 30 mm
TSD Lanolin Egyptian Spice
EJ Chatsworth Barley
Bluebird blade
Stirling Unscented PSB
TOBS Sandalwood AS

This was my first use of the 30 mm WD. I like the brush, but will have to spend a little time figuring it out. Shave was good, and I seem to have had good success with the Bluebird.

 

SOTD - Thursday, May 14, 2015

Shower
Prep: Homemade Citrus & Cedar PSO
Brush: Plisson/L'Occitane synthetic
Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat
Razor: Weber Wave
Blade: Derby (2)
Aftershave: Stirling Gin & Tonic splash

 

No picture today.

SOTD 14 May 2014

Gillette Slim
Personna Super
Mentholated Vintage Williams
Ever Ready C40 with TGN 3 Band Synthetic 24/53 mm Brush

 

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Razor.. gillette fat handle tech
Blade.. astra sp
Brush.. seafoam b&b essential boar
Soap.. Mickey lee drunken goat

Love this soap.

 

Congratulations on the new job!