SoS: October 22nd, 2012 - October 28th, 2012

10-23-12

Shower: Mountain Organix (Dark Ale)

Razor: Parker 22R
Blade: Astra
Soap: Daisy Mountain Naturals (Sedona)
Brush: The Body Shop

I am trying Mountain Organix soap. It is local, but sold online on in a few stores. Here is my review. The cleansing and skin care are pretty good. The scents are a bit too subtle for me. I like a bit more boldness in the scent area. But overall a nice soap and a heafty bar at 5.5 ounces.

Had a nice DFS near BBS shave today! Happy shaves!

 

Personally, I don't buy into a brush specifically for bowl lathering or face lathering. I can understand folks having a preferance, but no brush I have seen or heard of has been labeled, "Desinged for ____ lathering."

 

Merkur 38c
Derby
Simpson's Chubby 2
Mama Bear's North Woods Soap
TSD 2x Iced Cracklin' Firewood Splash
Ahava AS Balm (all the talk about Israel in the debate put Ahava on my brain-even though I watched more Monday Night Football than the Debate)
tunes-Brian Setzer

-great shave! I hope to meet TSD members at the Great Shave Event in Chicago tomorrow. This year we get name badges with your site of choice
and screen name. I'll proudly wear my TSD badge.

 

Wednesday’s shave:

Musgo Real pre-shave oil
Calani Dubai shave soap
Mühle Basic Nr.02 shave brush, Silver Tip Fibre
1955 Gillette Red Tip
Feather blade (2.)
Bloc Osma alum
Logona Mann after shave

Nice and smooth!

 

EJ Pre Shaving Cream
Merkur Progress Setup @ 2
Perma Sharp
SWK XL Scuttle
Simpson commodore X3 BB
Palmolive cream
Old spice Splash Orginal

 

• Floids PSG
• LaToja Shave Stick
• Frank Synthetic Brush
• Cadet Razor (safety bar)
• Perma Sharp Blade (2)
• Osage Rub
• GFT Skin Food - Sandalwood
• Alt Innsbruck ASL

I am at the hotel, getting ready to head out for my flight. I got a couple of goodies delivered to the hotel. This is the first shave with the Cadet razor. I like it. I also tried the Alt Innsbruck for the first time and it is very nice as well. Very gentle third pass because I shaved just 18 hours ago. The LaToja shave stick is good too. There is little scent and it lathers very well. Good DFS+ shave today.

Cheers, Lyndon

 

Wednesday:

Turkish Horsehair
Super Speed/7 AM day 3
Tet-a-tet SC
Tet-a-tet AS Balsam
Osage Rub AS
Oscar de la Renta Pour Lui EDT

I don't call this stuff the great Tet-a-tet shaving cream and aftershave balsam for nothing - they both work so fantastically. The cream smells so nice, it lathers so well, and it has such terrific skincare with that refreshing, cool tingle. The balsam adds more cooling and prevents dryness and irritation, and the Rub completes the freeze after a super shave like this!

 

6/8 Prior
C&S Oxford
Homemade brush

I tried out a sample of C&S Oxford, very good soap, great scent, big price for a full puck. Excellent shave this morning. I have a few more samples of soap to try out this week that I received from a friend of mine plus a couple of brushes. A Kent BK4 and a large knotted Shavemac, it's always interesting to try out something new. Have a good one.

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Wednesday:

soak brush/Semogue SOC,2 band/DB Brush Scuttle
hot shower
Feather Preshave Balm
La Toja Shave Stick
Gillette Slim Adj. set @ 9/Polsilver SI (3)
warm water rinse
Monster Block Alum
warm water rinse
Thayer's Lemon WH
Master Bay Rum mixed with a small amount of 444

Very comfy shave,2 pass face,1 pass head with a lil touch-up work on the dome for BBS all around.

 

Shave of the Day (SOTD) Wednesday October 24, 2012​

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• Prep: Brush soaking in cold water, One with Nature Dead Sea Salt Olive Oil Soap, tepid warm shower
• Razor: Cadet Open Comb mounted to Edwin Jagger Handle
• Blade: Shark Super Stainless
• Brush: Semogue SOC Cherrywood Boar
• Cream: Lea Sensitive Cream
• AS: English Leather
• Post: Cold Water Rinse, Double Splash Of Aftershave

It has been thirteen long days since the last time I have used an open comb, that is far too long! I have been testing razors so what is a guy to do?

I decided to use the Cadet today (same as the RazoRock Jaws) as it has become my favorite open comb. For my face it out performs the FaTip, NEW SC, NEW LC, Old Type and 1904 OC hands down. Every shave when paired with the right blade is enjoyable and close, shaves similar to the R41 but without the "raw" feeling afterwards.

For those that have not tried the wonderful Lea creams from Spain I would highly recommend them. Great scent and performance and an outstanding price. I whipped up a nice bowl lather with the SOC Boar that was creamy, slick and wonderful.

 

Oct 23
Face Wash: Nivea Moisturizing Face Wash
Pre-Shave Lather: Nuka SC
Pre-Shave Prep: Grape Seed Oil/Castor Oil/EOs
Shave Lather: Calana Classic Havana SS
Razor: Merkur 38M
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux (1)
Brush: Semogue 1305
Post: Witch Hazel/Vodka/Aloe/Glycerin mixture followed by Avon Mesmerize ASB

My first time with the Rapira Platinum Lux and the Calani Havana. Calani was great, Rapira was sharp. Shave was great.

 

SOTD

Preshave: Hot shower

Shave: Vulfix super badger brush; La' Occitane Cade shaving soap; 1930s Gillette Aristocrat Razor; Personna med prep blade [1]

Postshave: La' Occitane Cade aftershave balm

Good shave. 3 passes with a touchup spot pass. BBS.

I started off trying to bowl lather with La' Occitane (a go to soap for me) and it seemed to go well at first. The first pass was fine, but it did not have the marvelous lather to which I have become accustomed. I started the second pass from the bowl and, seeing it was not acceptable, I put my brush back into the soap and continued with face lathering. It was much better.

I admit that I have been face lathering now since early summer and have come to prefer that by far, but I am guessing that I have stumbled onto one of the reasons so many people have difficulty with La' Occitane soap. Nevertheless, for myself, I'm putting my shave bowl away now and sticking to face lathering.

 

Good Day!

R41 ('11)
Rapira Swedish Steel x 2
Shavemac 173 Finest
Fitjar Sandalwood Intense SC
Humphreys Lilac Witch Hazel
Trumpers Sandalwood Skinfood

Slumberhouse - Grev

The Cure - Disintegration

Best!!

 

Wednesday

Prep: Hot shower, AoS pre-shave oil
CD: Best of the Blues, disc 3
Coffee: the last of my home roasted, fresh ground Malawi Mapanga AA, BLACK
Soap: the last of my TSD SOTQ A4, Burmese Wood
Brush: Vulfix 406, The Burlington
Razor: '73 Black Handle SS
Blade: Gillette Super Thin, day 3, 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, L'Oreal Comfort Max ASB + 2 drops M Bomb, B&BW Noir, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Just another great shave.

 

Prep - Hot Towel, Palmolive S/S
Razor - Muhle '11 R41
Blade - Astra S/P
Brush - New Forest Tubby 1 Finest
Soap – Kent (MWF)
Cold Rinse/ Witch Hazel/ Musgo Real

Having not shaved since Sunday, I was feeling a little scruffy... Now I'm BBS...that was a definite feel good shave

 

Hump day!

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Music: Roger Lover & Friends, The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper's Feast
• Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
• Stick: DVH
• Razor: Ugly Duckling
• Blade Treet
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, TSD Witch Hazel Cedarwood

The Ugly Duckling tamed the Treet blade. It felt like a massive razor and at last the blade behaved itself! Great shave!
Have a nice day!

 

Good choice!

 

SOTD Wednesday 10-24-2012

5/8 Perognat Badaud French Faux Frameback
Proraso PSC
Tabac SC
Omega 31064 Boar
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea Replenishing ASB
Pinaud Lilac Vegetal ASL

 

Prep - warm shower and face scrub
Razor - Gillette super speed 68
Blade - Personna red box
Brush - shave factory boar hair
Soap – Col Conk bay rum
Cold Rinse/Alum Block/ Witch Hazel w/aloe/ Gillette cool wave

Didnt care much for the personna baldes. Left my face kind of raw. I used a lot of the soap and Im finding that I enjoy creams much more than the shaving soaps. I may have a bunch of soaps to PIF..

 

Great picture today as always. Thanks for the kind words.