You had a lot to do with my treatment of Christmas Eve. I used the heck out of that soap through November and December, then put it in my shower-soap stick to keep it special. Definitely buying another puck next season, though, and will probably bottom the thing out by the New Year 2020. Sorry to hear about your Spice shave
SOTD January 2, 2020 Prep: Cold water and PAA Cube pre-shave soap Blade: vintage Gillette Platinum Razor: Schick J1 Brush: Surrey badger Soap: Stirling Dirty South Shavers Post: Witch hazel, Stirling Dirty South Shavers aftershave
Was that Stoylin just a feature for Black Friday?(Dirty South).? I don't see it listed on the website menu.
It was a special edition meet-up soap for the Dirty South Shavers group, which is a Facebook shaving forum. They had a meet-up this past summer and Rod made the featured soap and aftershave. He had limited supply and it sold out.
OK thanks Perry.......at least I hope he saw my comment on here that it was the best design I've seen him make.
Ehhhh ..LADIES AND Uh Gentlemen: Now with the second Tony Awards in the books, I just placed the order for the Championship Set: A.S.-Gentleman Brush-24 x 51 Synthetic. This will be my 3rd Stoylin brush, and I think the Gentleman A.S. can combine well with a number of my soaps(and of course the Barbasol&Gillette Sophisticated Goo cans). Course I recall really liking the scent, from the sample.
Thanks Joe....and by the way, I appreciated your comments about a benefit of doing a 3-pass shave. I could put that to the test the next time I pull out my Stoylin Unscented A.S. It'd be nice to have the soap outdo the aftershave-these unscented aftershaves still have SOME kind of scent to them-it isn't like a Plain Water aftershave.
Thanks, Paul! I really try to keep my straight and safety shaves to 2 to 2.5 passes. Three passes are fine with me, but I find it is overkill for me. Everyone's beard is different so whatever it takes to get the best shave for you is paramount. The ultimate goal is to get great shaves with the minimum number of passes.
You're right, and sometimes I hesitate before the second pass, but then I think about all the soap still on the brush that would be wasted.
Boy, that Baker St. came on like a burning flame. Settled down after a while. I'll come back with it again tomorrow, but for some reason I didn't expect the burn. Nice scent.
LOVE the scent, but could do without the slow burn the AS tends to give me. Sorry to hear you react to my favorite scent the same way I do. It kills me to say it, but I might not repeat this purchase. The burn hasn't been bad enough to keep me from using it, but it is an a niggling little annoyance--and I get annoyed at so many things already
Actually, I was thinking same thing. I'll give it a few more "go's" but that burn..as I say...startled me today.
The Shavette Showdown Round 2 *Feather DX - Feather Professional Super *Focus R21 Evolution plastic doodad barbering tool - 1/2 Feather DE *Focus R28 Slim Al - 1/2 Gillette Silver Blue DE I had to look back in the archives to see when I started this throwdown. It has been a month. Well I think I'll try to finish up this month. Finished up my first tub of BoS 2019 (Tsuka). Glad I got backups of the #1 slot holder on The Max Headroom List of Most Glorious Stanks. Stirling still has Tsuka left. Max Headroom says don't whine to him if you miss out again. The Exalted Blue Ming was on hand to oversee the supreme lather controls for the competition. The only blood on steel showing up was the soap. 3 excellent shaves with a jostle in the works. I have not experienced any shave at the level of the Feather DX - ProSuper combo on shave 1. Shave #2 still has the DX on top. My next shave was the all aluminum Focus R28 Slim Al with my pre-AC shavette fave, the GSB. End result was as good as the DX even though it did not sever hair with the same ease. It would be hard to tell the difference between shaves 1 and 2. Third shave was using my first shavette, the Focus R21 Evolution loaded with a Feather. I'm curious about how Feather AC vs Feather DE would work out. The shave was better than #1 because it seemed to smooth out (not unlike this blade for me elsewhere). Most of the time, the R28 outshaves the R21 just a bit with the same blade. The Feather on (2) makes this one up over for a #2 finish. Well folks, happy shaves. Really great to hear from the folks not seen in a while. Happy New Year to you! And...... for the newcomers...... you are getting a good glimpse of our great friend, the sometimes incendiary..... 'danger' Charlie........who as a young slide-stick carrying chemical engineering prodigy, was able to "cherry bomb" the High School commode and successfully pin it on his buddies.
Ehh..LADIES and uh Gentlemen. Y'know, Feb 2 may be the day when Punksatawney comes out of the snow to check for his shadow to determine when Spring weather is coming around the bend but in the Wet Shave World it is the first day of the 2021 Stoylin Tony Awards Nominations. I'm going up to 6 dates this year, one every other month. But I'll announce each upcoming date one at a time, so as not to confuse the audience.
Sure am glad I got my Kong Synthetic when I did. It's an awesome brush. Clayton Sent from my SM-A705U using Tapatalk
SOTD January 6, 2020 Prep: Cold water and PAA Cube pre-shave soap Blade: Schick Proline Razor: RazoRock Black Hawk Brush: JR #377 badger Soap: Stirling Meghalaya Post: Witch hazel, Stirling Meghalaya aftershave
