SOTD August 25 - August 31

[brothers]

Tuesday

Proraso soap
Made Rite Finest brush
Nozxema/Kai Twin disposable razor
444 ASB
CO Bigelow Witch Hazel Skin Tonic splash

[Johnny]

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Prep: Warm Water Wash
Razor: Merkur 37C Slant
Blade: Kia
Brush: Edwin Jagger Chatsworth Synthetic
Soap: BAUME.BE
Scuttle: Aesop Stainless
Post: Alt Innsbruck

[churchilllafemme]

Tuesday AM 08-26-2014

Georgetown Pottery G20 scuttle
Rooney 3/2 Ebony Finest (24mm/54mm)
Penhaligon's Castile shaving cream (vintage)
Gillette Slim Adjustable
Gillette Silver Blue (1)
Floris Santal aftershave

The old Gillette razor and blade combination is quite nice.

[Pc4406]

Tuesday 8/26/2014

Soap: MdC Original
Brush: Plisson Horn size 12 EW (22/56)
Razor: Classic Cobra
Blade: Feather Pro
AS: Blenheim Bouquet splash

[pausted]

Tuesday evening:

Warm water wash
KMF Key Lime cream
Semogue 620 brush
Gem Featherweight razor
Gem stainless blade
Barbasol Pacific Rush A/S

Thought I would try my SE again on an evening shave. I very seldom shave at night. Not pleasant! No cuts or weepers but overall, not a pleasant shave. Rough and not very close. I either need to try some different blades or give up on the SE. I suppose my technique needs some work.

[Squire]

Tuesday evening:

Kent BK4 brush
Real Shaving Co. shave cream
Krona razor
Derby blade
Trumper lime aftershave

[smoothshaver]

Simpson Colonel best
Stirling Naked and Smooth shaving soap
Edwin Jagger DE89L
Feather blade (4)
Thayer's witch hazel
Lucky Tiger after shave and face tonic

[CMur12]

Tuesday night:

Razor: Gillette Injector
Blade: Chinese Schick

Brush: Semogue 730 (silvertip)
Soap: Valobra Shave Stick remnants pressed into a new cake of Mike's Natural, Lime.

Lather made in a bowl (well, not quite).
2 1/2 passes

Cold water rinse + AoS Ocean Kelp After Shave Lotion.


I tried something different tonight.
It has been taking me altogether too long to shave, primarily because I have been spending approx 25 minutes just making the lather!

I timed myself recently just loading the brush, and it took four minutes to get it super loaded with proto-lather. Now I may just be slow, but I recently discovered that if I periodically changed the direction I swirled the brush on the soap, I could cut the loading time almost in half!

Then I started wondering if the proto-lather itself might work, without further kneading, as adequate lather for the shave. So, tonight I decided to try a shave with proto-lather, entirely skipping further development in the lathering bowl. This means that all the work was done in the soap bowl, on top of the cake of soap.

I actually got a pretty good shave. Good enough that I am going to pursue this a little further. (Like adding a little water to the proto-lather next time.)

In the past, men often put a cake of soap in the bottom of a mug and made their lather in the mug on top of the cake of soap. They might even have worked it no more than I have to "load" my brush, and my "proto-lather" may be finished lather in the eyes of some wetshavers.

At any rate, the shave didn't suffer, I see ways I might be able to improve on this process further, and I saved a lot of time on the shave.

- Murray

[Nick Freeh]

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Pre-shave: Bath House Spanish Fig & Nutmeg Shave Oil
Razor: Merkur Long Handled Progress
Blade: Astra SP
Brush: Simpson Colonel X2L Best
Cream: Cyril Salter Citrus
A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel/Taylor's No. 74 Victorian Lime Splash

[slantman]

LASSC BBS-1
Gillette Silver Blue
WSP Prince Silvertip
Green Mountain Bay Rum Shave Soap
Stirling Bay Rum Witch Hazel Aloe Balm
Old Spice Classic Cologne
Sea Grapes Studio Shave Bowl

[jaguar]

Simpson Colonel X2L Best
Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet SC and AS Balm
Weber PH Bulldog
Polsilver SI

[Mike R]

Wednesday

Brush: Simpson Chubby 1 Best
Cream: Taylor - Shave Shop
Razor: '72 Black Handle Adjustable
Blade: Feather
A/S: Proraso Liquid A/S
Cologne: Tabac

Mike

[SharpSpine]

Arctic Shave for CP - 27/08/2014

• Razor • GEM Clog Pruf
• Blade • GEM SS Teflon (10)
• Brush • Cade Plisson Synth
• Soap • Dapper Dragon Ice Wyrm (2)
• AS1 • Osage Rub
• AS2 • Aqua Velva Ice Blue



The shave started off with a gentle chill from the peppermint oil in the Ice Wyrm. However, I finished it off as arctic as I could. It was a bracing finish to a great shave.

[Thalay Sagar]

Good morning. Wednesday:

Jaggerooney w/Dorco 301, #3
BK 4
Valobra stuck w/AG Violet water
Thayer's Lavender witch hazel
RazoRock KL Lavender A/S Wax
TOBS No. 74 Original EDC

[pausted]

Wednesday morning:

Pre shave: Noxzema cleansing cream
KMF Key Lime cream
Semogue 620 brush
Gillette New LC razor
Rapira Stainless blade
Pinaud Classic Vanilla A/S

[brothers]

Wednesday

Proraso soap
Rooney Finest brush
Barbasol floating head razor
Kai blade
444 ASB
CO Bigelow Witch Hazel Herbal Skin Tonic splash

[Squire]

Wednesday morning:

Jagger Georgian silvertip brush
Erasmic shaving soap
Krona razor
Derby blade
Trumper lime aftershave

[Pc4406]

Wednesday 8/27/2014

Soap: MdC Original
Brush: Plisson Antic size 12 EW (22/56)
Razor: Classic Cobra
Blade: Feather Pro
AS: Fine Fresh Vetiver

[churchilllafemme]

Wednesday AM 08-27-2014

Moss scuttle
Rooney Stubby 1 Porcelain Finest (22mm/45mm)
D.R. Harris Lavender shaving soap (vintage)
Gillette Slim Adjustable
Gillette Silver Blue (2)
Floris Elite aftershave balm

[Johnny]

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Prep: Warm Water Wash
Razor: Merkur 37C Slant
Blade: Kia
Brush: Plisson Synthetic
Soap: BAUME.BE
Scuttle: Aesop Stainless
Post: Speick After Shave Lotion