SoS: October 10, 2016 - October 16, 2016

Friday

Prep: Warm Shower-Stirling Bath Soap-Gentleman
Soap: Stirling Ozark Mountain
Razor: Gillette NEW Short Comb
Blade: 70’s Wilkinson Sword Light Brigade NEW Chromium (12)
Brush: Whipped Dog Sivertip-24mmx52mm
Aftershave: Pino Silvestre Oud Absolute

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

Stirling Ozark Mountain today. 20 seconds to load the WD Silvertip. Easy, thick, slick, lather. Wilkinson Light Brigade still in the NEW SC. Excellent smooth, close, shave. I finished with Pino Silvestre Oud Absolute EdT.

Bob

 

SOTN OCtober 13th


Gillette New Standard
Super-Max Platinum (3)
Satin Tip The Purest
Crown King Scuttle
Stirling Executive Man
Tangerine AS and Nivea Sensitive ASB

Good morning friends! Last night I got to use my new Crown King scuttle for the fist time. I started by filling it and the bowl with hot water and let my brush sit in it while I got my setup ready. Once I was ready I loaded the brush for 10 seconds with the Stirling Executive Man and began to build my lather. The lather quick became foamy and it was thin with large bubbles. I though that I didn't have enough soap so I went back and loaded some more and begin to work the lather again. This didn't help at all. I put the lather on my face and the bubbles quickly dissipated leaving a very thick dry lather. I worked some more water into the lather on my face and it quickly became the thick yogurty lather that I love. I finished the first pass and then knowing that the foamy lather left in the scuttle was too dry I added some more water and began to work it some more. With the additional water the large bubbles quickly died down and the lather thickened up nicely. After about 30 seconds I had a great lather that was shiny, and yogurty, and smooth! I painted that lather on my face and ahhhh, warm lather. It felt so good! It was actually a better consistency then the lather I built on my face for the first pass. I finished my last two passes with the luxurious warm lather and ended with a DFS. 3rd day on the Super-Max and its done for, at $0.026 per shave I think they are a decent value. I finished off with my homemade tangerine AS and Nivea Sensitive ASB to make things silky smooth. Have a great day my friends!

 

14 October 2016

* Weber DLC + UFO U2V1 Graphite Black
* Iridium Super
* WSP Original 2-Band + Oscar11 Rootbeer Translucent C7
* Mystic Water Brown Windsor
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO


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TGIF SOTD..............
2-passes for an outstanding DFS!!
Have a great Weekend........

 

That is a beautiful brush, @clint64.

Beautiful picture, @Skinny Rogers.

Another beautiful photo, @celestino, and I love that brush!

 

SOTD for 10-14.

prep-Nivea 4 Men ENERGY bodywash(in hot shower)
shave-Rise Super Foam
razor-Gillette Sensor 2 Pivot + DisposeABLE
A.S.-Rise A.S. Cooling Balm***
***-little fragrance(it needs a lot more), but it's a good post-shave feel on my skin. Good to have it around, but I don't use it much anymore.

 

I think the American Blend would be my first Fine.

 

Thanks Rob, have a great day!

 

Thank you Eddie.

 

Hi gents, here's last monday's shave :



And yesterday's sotd, not too bad !



Bonne journée

 

Tu as des belles photos, mon vieux!

 

Merci beaucoup Jeff

 

Route 66 Casablanca Soap
Jayaruh #84 Brush
Success Safety Razor (Germany)
Gillette Silver Blue Blade (1)
Alum
Lucky Tiger
Ogallala Bay Rum
Happy Friday!

 

Shave 32. Tried out the Wade and Butcher again today. Nice shave, particularly the first pass reduction. Maybe not quite as close overall at the end as the John Clarke & Son but close. The alum was a little bit noisier though. Still coming together by degrees.

Hot water preparation
AOS Lavender PSO
Haslinger Aloe Vera Shave Soap
T&H Wellington Super Badger
Wade & Butcher 6/8 Full Hollow
Osma Bloc d'alun
AOS Lavender After Shave Balm



Happy shaving everyone - Karl

 

It's a keeper.

 

Thank you for your kind words.

 

Paul,
Though it wasn't pictured, I've been using Arko all month. I've not yet tried any soap products from Pinaud. The products I have tried are Clubman, Clubman Hair Tonic, Lilac Vegetal and Citrus Musk. They are all faves of mine. I've also never tried a Bay Rum AS, just never interested me.

 

That's a great picture, @Cha-wing!! Would you mind telling me more about that Tombstone?

 

Once again I'm going to be very busy for the rest of the afternoon so here's the deal for Saturday morning:

Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Razorock Plissoft 26mm Monster
Junjie/Astra day 6
Stirling Black Ice S/S
Lucky Tiger A/S Cream
Aqua Velva Ice Blue A/S Splash

Certainly a colder setup!