Shaving soap or cream of the day
Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
AOS creams will fill my dance card until the first of the year. Today it was Rose Absolute, and yesterday's was Peppermint.
Gary
SOTD 99%: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, soaps & creams, synthetic / badger brushes, Colonial General razor, Kai & Schick blades, straight razors any time, Superior 70 aftershave splash + menthol + 444
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
will have to try the rose one day...ughhhhhhh
clive
clive
de gustibus non est disputandum
Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
DRH Marlborough stick 2 days in a row now.
PS: It just seems to be getting better, as I move through a few of my best brushes.
PS: It just seems to be getting better, as I move through a few of my best brushes.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
Cedarwood homemade shaving soap. 7 years old, minimal ingredients none of which are tallow. The lather is quite frankly unbelievably thick and creamy. Must be getting better with age. I still have 5 left.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
Today's soap was the homemade Tobacco scented bowl.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
My homemade tobacco scented shaving soap is the soap of the day for the next 34 days unless it gets all used up first. If that happens before February 14th I'll be using a stick of homemade cedarwood scented shaving soap.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
The homemade tobacco scented soap ran out today after 58 great lathers. The absence will be short due to the switch to a stick of cedarwood scented homemade.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
Good morning! Massive snowfall and temperature of minus 2 F outside today. And it's Monday! Nothing like a great shave to guarantee smooth sailing. Today and 45 mornings ahead with a rotation consisting of 3 nice tallow based Fine shaving soaps to look forward to! First up will be Snake Bite, followed by Green and Fresh Vetiver. I'm a lucky guy!
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
Even though it's not my favorite vetiver scent, I've got to keep using the Fine Fresh Vetiver soap. Makes a great lather regardless of how it smells.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
For the next few days my soap will be Solsetio with tallow and lanolin, made by Strop Shoppe. Out of business now, but the soaps were brilliant.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
I'm within about 3 more weeks of bi-daily shaving with the Pen's English Fern soap. The Zenith boar brush duly lathers while the Schick/General makes the 2 day whiskers disappear and effortlessly leaves behind a smooth surface that will yield a new crop for harvesting on Monday next when the shaving soap of the day - guess what - English Fern - dependably devours the fresh whiskers in the wink of an eye.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
D.R. Harris Peppermint Shaving Cream. Worked quite well with the Zenith Boar brush and the General.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
TOBS Cedarwood cream.
Gary
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- fallingwickets
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
trumpers rose....remains the best soap ever made!!!!
clive
clive
de gustibus non est disputandum
Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
Clive, True that! Ten years ago I had a tallow puck of this one, and I still miss it.fallingwickets wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 5:02 am trumpers rose....remains the best soap ever made!!!!
clive
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
The rotation tells me I'll be alternating between Tabac stick soap and Joris/Plisson hard soap for the next 6 or 7 weeks.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
Joris/Plisson hard soap reacted extremely well with the Zenith boar brush this morning. Tight, no bubbles, rich and creamy lather.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
shavings best kept secretPlisson hard soap
de gustibus non est disputandum
Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
After this morning's enjoyable Joris shave, I've only got 2 more scheduled shaves with the newly-discovered (to me) Joris before the next soap comes up.
Gary
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Re: Shaving soap or cream of the day
This morning's excellent BBS shave was courtesy of the iconic AOS Rose Absolute shaving cream, lathered and applied by the Elite Manchurian White brush.
Gary
SOTD 99%: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, soaps & creams, synthetic / badger brushes, Colonial General razor, Kai & Schick blades, straight razors any time, Superior 70 aftershave splash + menthol + 444
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