Razor: iKon Long Handle Open Comb Blade: Personna Lab Blue (Shave #3) Brush: none Cream/Soap: Barbasol A/S: Nivea for Men Sensitive Extra Soothing A/S Balm
Dovo Best str8
Merkur HD
Gillette 7 O'Clock SharpEdge yellow (1)
New Forest 2201 (new handle)
The Art of Shaving Unscented shave cream
Colose le Commandant Aftershave
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Becker scuttle
Homemade Frankincense & Myrrh preshave oil
Somerset Simpson Chubby 2 Super brush
Taylor of Old Bond Street Sandalwood shaving cream
iKon Modern Bulldog razor
Schick Plus Platinum blade (2)
Armani Acqua di Gio aftershave
Blazingly hot towel 4x
Semogue 1438 Boar
KMF cool mint w/added menthol kick, face lathered
Gillette Black Handle SS
Polsilver Super Iridium (7 and canned)
Menthol AS
Some blades are pure pleasure to test, others are like driving wood splints under the nail. This was the former. A very nice blade for me. First I tested it in the mild razors with a good showing, then in the Slim set to 9 where it worked OK, but I got too many weepers with it. So I put it back into this razor to use the blade to 7 shaves or it got dull. It reached my limit of 7 shaves long before it got dull. I have no doubt I could have kept going to rack up more shaves from the blade.
Todays shave was an easy 2 pass + touchups BBS, and it was just as comfortable a shave as the first. This blade is on the very short list of DE blades I will buy. The others are Gillette 7O'Clock Yellows and Med Preps. All of my best blades have a few traits I insist on (in no particular order since they all must exist in the same blade) sharpness, smoothness, longevity. Obviously YMMV.
I enjoyed another excellent shave with the Futur/Polsilver combination. By the end of the shave the blade was showing subtle signs that it was nearing the end of its useful life. I'll change the blade tomorrow. If I could only have one soap from here on out, I would be content to use DR Harris Arlington. It is excellent! The Floid aftershave felt great for what is turning out to be a very warm fall day (80 degrees).
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