An extremely fine shave today, and I must start using Nancy Boy Shave Cream more regularly—and a good New Year’s resolution for you, if you’ve not tried it, is to get at least a travel jar of Nancy Boy Shave Cream sometime this year. I highly recommend the Signature fragrance. The full size costs less per ounce, of course, but not a lot less: $3.17/oz instead of $3.50/oz.
The lather is excellent and the fragrance is compelling. It’s somewhat cooling, but from peppermint rather than menthol. Ingredients:
Distilled water, potassium stearate, sodium myristate, sodium stearate, glycerin, coconut oil, essential oil fragance, organic aloe leaf juice, avocado oil, allantoin, pistachio nut oil, extracts of yarrow, burdock, calendula, chamomile, bitter orange, sea kelp, elder flower, comfrey and cucumber, methyl gluceth-20, polyquaternium-7, sorbic acid, hydroxyethylcellulose, vitamin E.
I worked up a very nice lather using the Rod Neep brush shown, a one-off, and then set to work with the Maggard open-comb head on a Maggard stainless handle, which has displaced the Parker 24C in my affections: same excellent shave with a better handle at the same price. (The handle in the photo is their MR7, currently out of stock but on order.)
Three passes to a flawless and trouble-free BBS result, then a small squirt of Esbjerge aftershave gel—and this time I was careful not to do a full squirt, but only a tiny squirt, which was ample.
A great start to the weekend. And if you try the Nancy Boy Shave Cream, I’ll be interested to hear what you think of it.
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