SoS: September 22, 2014 - September 28, 2014

Friday

Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Scots Pine Bath Soap
Soap: Cold Water Soap Works-Bergamot & Bay
Razor: Gillette Slim [6]
Blade: Viking’s Sword (1)
Brush: Plisson Lucite #12 Grey Badger-22mmx56mm
Aftershave: Fine Platinum

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

CRSW Bergamot & Bay today. 20 seconds to load the brush for a great lather. New Viking’s Sword in the Slim. A smooth, close, nick free shave. I finished with Fine Platinum.

Bob

 

Pre: Maggard Razors PSO – Lime
Brush: Custom Boar by Steve Neon Barber Handle (The Force)
Soap: Maggard Razors – Lime & Bergamot
Razor: ’88 Gillette Super Adjustable – Black Beauty
Blade: Astra SP(3)
Splash: Thayers Natural Remedies Lemon Witch Hazel w/ Aloe Vera Astringent
Post: Nivea Sensitive ASB & Master Well Bay Rum AS

Today was a shave of favorites! The Black Beauty has edged into the number one spot for favorite razor!,,,

That Shave Life!

 

Great shave this morning!

Pre shave: Hot shower with Queen Charlotte briar soap
Cream: Queen Charlotte Fougere
Brush: Brock best badger
Razor: Gillette Super Speed
Blade: Voskhod
Aftershave: Skin Bracer

 

9/26/2014

Prep: Hot shower with Nivea Face Wash with menthol, home made PSO
Razor: Stahly Live Blade chrome, Imperial Razor Warranted Barbers Favorite straight razor
Blade: Astra SP (6)
Brush: Vie Long Horse Hair 23mm knot
Soap: Spieck
After: Home made ASB, Spieck after shave
Cologne: Knize X

I decided to make this Stahly Live Blade week. Back to the Stahly in chrome today. The Spieck whipped up nicely this morning. The Knize X will keep me smelling great all day. All in all an almost BBS 2 pass shave.

Have a blessed day!

 

Wacker
MWF
homemade boar (Omega 10049)
Very nice shave this morning. Have a good one.

 

SOTD

September 26, 2014

Prep: Hot shower. Noxzema
Razor: Merkur Progress (3)
Blade: Personna Lab Blue
Lather: WSO Zaro
Brush: Simpsons Berkeley 46B
Post: Alum. Dickerson WH
Aftershave: Fine Clean Vetiver. Axe Shield Sensitive
I dusted off my tin of Zaro and was not disappointed! Lowered the Progress to 3, and went with a 2pass DFS!
Go out and get it!

 

FRIDAY
'Sage-Scented' Shave this morning using the French PdP soap and post-shave balm.
German-made Böker razor & Italian-made brush all made for a very smooth international shave.
Have a great Friday, everyone!

 

Having just received the Fine samples, I really do like the Vetiver scent. Good stuff!

 

Lovely brush! ..and that blade ain't too shabby either!

 

Friday morning -


Prep - Noxzema & hot towel
Lather - Mitchell's & suribachi
Brush - Omega 40033
Razor - Wade & Butcher

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





27°F on my deck at 6 this morning, so out came the Mitchell's. Haven't used this in a while and the shave this morning was a good 'un.

 

Friday
hot shower
DB Brush Scuttle filled with hot water/Semogue 620
3P PPB
Lea stick (clear tube)
Schick E3/Pella coated (8)
warm water rinse
Monster Block Alum
cold water rinse
Tend Skin
SCS Avocado Oil ASB
Imaginary Authors Yesterday Haze edp

Great BBS shave,face and dome!

Stay frosty,my friends and enjoy the weekend!

 

Thank you. It was. I'm off work this week and that makes me happy.

 

Schulze 450
H.I.S. brush
Calani Tulach Ard soap
Nivea shave cream
Musgo Real AS

 

SOTD September 26, 2014

Prep: Hot shower. Neutrogena Pink Grapefruit Foaming Scrub. Noxzema.

Brush: Van Der Hagen Badger.

Lather: Arko.

Razor: The newly-arrived Merkur #34C.

Blade: Shark.

Post: Cold water; Razorock Alum Block; C.O. Bigelow Dr. Galen Herbal Witch Hazel Skin Tonic No. 010.

After: TSD Blue Spruce.

My high expectations for the Merkur 34C were completely met, and then some. Great BBS head shave. Loved the heft of the Merkur, and the size seemed well-suited to shaving my head. Plus it is just a gorgeous razor. Something about its industrial design and chunky shape plus how well put together it felt really appeals to me. The Shark blade seemed great... Will have to use them again. The Blue Spruce just felt right this morning, on the beginning of what feels like an Indian summer day here in Michigan.

A couple of observations from today's shave:

1. The Arko lather seemed to dry up more quickly today. Not sure why. Had to re-lather more than usual and add some water to get the slip right.

2. I seem to be drawn to the non-adjustable 2-piece or 3-piece razors lately. Something about them makes me feel more confident in knowing where the edge of the blade is, and I can do both the "buffing" maneuver and the J-hook thing to tidy up the tricky spots. And I haven't felt like I could do that as easily with the adjustables and TTO's lately. I played around with the ball end tech and the Lord L6 too, and they both felt better to me than the TTO adjustables have, and more precise than the Flare Tip too. (The Kronas still seem to be fine for me... Maybe because they are so mild to begin with?) The Merkur, the L6 and even the ball end tech have all had this "solidity" feeling that I haven't felt as much lately with most of the TTO razors.

 

Friday 09/26/14

Prep: Gaia face scrub
Oil: Shave Secret
Brush: 20mm Whipped dog set deep
Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery
Razor: Gillette new open comb (long)
Blade: Ladas
soap: Le Pere Lucien
Post: alum sprayed on
Witch Hazel: Generic unscented

Today was the third time I have used LPL. I am liking it so much that I just bought some.

 

Razor: Every-Ready 1924
Blade: Gem PTFE SS (D9)
Brush: Cocobolo 22mm Silvertip
Bowl: Doug Smith 5" Shaving Mug
Pre Shave Soap: MRGLO Lime
Pre Shave Oil: Homemade Jasmine Orange Vanilla
Shave Soap: Tiki Seven Seas
Post: Monster Alum Block
Aftershave: Florida Waters​

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S.O.T.D. ~ Friday, SEptember 26, 2014

Cold Shower - Neutrogena Face Wash and Desert Soap
Schick Injector J-2
Schick Blade
Simpson Commodore X-3 Best
Cold River SW - Select Sandalwood Soap
Alum Block
Menthol Witch Hazel+
Jack Black - Cooling Gel
T.O.B.S. Sandalwood Aftershave Lotion

 

SOTD Friday 9-26-2014

5/8 Joseph Allen NON-XLL Wedge, Hollow Point
Noxema Classic Clean
Al's SC - Boheme
Georgetown Scuttle
Omega Pro Barbershop Boar
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Gold Bond Body Lotion
Aqua Velva Musk ASL/Cologne

Nice cool morning. I think fall has arrived!

 

I'll see what I have in my stockpile of menthol and see if I can get you some samples of different things to try.

 

Troy, to me the Stirling Glacials are the ultimate menthol experience. Never before have I used anything which can leave my face so comfortably frozen and with such smoothness and such a soothed feeling. My skin tends to be sensitive, not to mention also that I have a very tough and swarthy, fast-growing beard but when I shave with these Glacials, not only am I going to get a menthol wallop which I can feel practically all morning, my face's skin feels like it's been born again. I also love the scents of these soaps.