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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:02 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts on this technique I saw on instagram...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 168
Re: Thoughts on this technique I saw on instagram...
If I'm in a hurry I will often use a cake of soap as if it were a shaving stick, but not all soaps will work for this. Even better is to squeeze 3/4" of Palmolive cream (red tube) onto my fingers and rub it in to my wet face. I can shave with and across the grain just with that, and it is slick...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: Colognes & Aftershaves
- Topic: Superior 70 Mentolado after shave
- Replies: 2
- Views: 514
Re: Superior 70 Mentolado after shave
Wow! You must really like that stuff. I haven't used 12 bottles of anything....
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:51 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: What do you want for Christmas?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15447
Re: What do you want for Christmas?
Yes, welcome, Sam. I hope your sig does not mean you are going to spam us with real estate! I do like that bit of coast between Malaga and Gibraltar: my in-laws had a house in Aldea Beach and a good friend lives in Sotogrande.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:09 am
- Forum: Shopping
- Topic: Electric Razor Rap
- Replies: 5
- Views: 250
Re: Electric Razor Rap
Good luck with that, Jim. We are wet shavers.
Chris
Chris
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Straight Razors
- Topic: Which straight razor did you use today?
- Replies: 662
- Views: 197563
Re: Which straight razor did you use today?
Are you getting out of practice? Just one solution for that!
Chris
Chris
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:38 am
- Forum: Shopping
- Topic: Private barber here, I still do hot lather face shaving
- Replies: 3
- Views: 340
Re: Private barber here, I still do hot lather face shaving
Moved. All advertisement should be in Shopping.
Chris
Chris
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Straight Razors
- Topic: Open razors - the chosen few
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10365
Re: Open razors - the chosen few
A straight razor won't harm anyone unless they are clumsy with it. And if there are small children in the house it can be kept on a high shelf. I sometimes wonder if there was a rumour started by Gillette that any house with small children in it ought not contain a straight razor. No one even though...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: A Cook's Diary
- Replies: 128
- Views: 61352
Re: A Cook's Diary
And hot cross buns, a practice run for Easter:
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Review of the "new" Mitchell's Woolfat
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1071
Re: Review of the "new" Mitchell's Woolfat
Correct, Murray.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:05 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: I'm Back
- Replies: 4
- Views: 203
Re: I'm Back
I used to joke that the corruption of youth is one of the few remaining pleasures of old age. And in that vein, don't you think it's time to learn how to use a straight razor?
C.
C.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:03 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Cats
- Replies: 8
- Views: 396
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:37 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Diet soft drinks
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6470
Re: Diet soft drinks
You make me blush. Now we have to do something about that beard of yours.....
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:08 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Face Masks - technical, non-political issues
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6338
Re: Face Masks - technical, non-political issues
You're welcome. I have never read so much medical misinformation online as I have about vaccines since 2019. And for those convinced that mRNA vaccines cause a multitude of ills, I give you the case of the German man who had 217 covid vaccines over a 27 month period (about one every four days): http...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Green tea
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7564
Re: Green tea
And frankly, if you think that drinking vinegar of any kind will improve your health.....well, the less said the better.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:30 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Green tea
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7564
Re: Green tea
Welcome, Jim, I think - an argumentative start to your life here! Tastes mature as people do, and there are many tastes that older tongues delight in yet seem repulsive to youngsters. Green tea and dark chocolate are good examples. There is also the issue of a genetic oversensitivity to sourness: th...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: A Cook's Diary
- Replies: 128
- Views: 61352
Re: A Cook's Diary
Made Chelsea Buns yesterday: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53549723098_801abaae70_b.jpg Recipe: For the dough • 260g strong white bread flour • 30g caster sugar • 4g instant dried yeast • ½ tsp mixed spice • ¼ tsp fine salt • 150ml whole milk • 1 small egg • ½ lemon, zested • 45g soft butter F...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:18 am
- Forum: Skin Care & Hair Care
- Topic: Trumper's Eucris vs. Green Floreka Hairdressing
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9173
Re: Trumper's Eucris vs. Green Floreka Hairdressing
Welcome to SMF, Beau!
Chris
Chris
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:05 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Simple Poem to make me smile
- Replies: 2
- Views: 552
Re: Simple Poem to make me smile
I think nursery rhymes are not part of modern culture at all. Kids probably never hear them and certainly aren't taught them. That one has several possible explanations, of which I choose to think the astronomical one is best. Constellations Leo (cat), Lyra (fiddle), Taurus (cow), Canis Minor (littl...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:35 am
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Review of the "new" Mitchell's Woolfat
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1071
Re: Review of the "new" Mitchell's Woolfat
Curious thought: rendered pork fat = lard rendered beef fat = tallow rendered mutton fat = ? Lanolin is obtained from sheep's wool, and cannot substitute for tallow or lard: it does not saponify to form a soap, but rather remains in the soap unaltered as a lubricant. Fat lambs certainly exist (see H...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:15 am
- Forum: Shaving Brushes
- Topic: inherited some Shaving Brushes. Looking for info
- Replies: 6
- Views: 961
Re: inherited some Shaving Brushes. Looking for info
There are obsessive collectors, but even more important is using them! The sheer delight of whipping up some warm gorgeously scented lather, applying it with a good brush, and enjoying a close shave is a treat that far too many men have either forgotten or never experienced. It leaves your face refr...