An extremely good shave today. After discussing the Omega 11047 mixed boar/badger brush, I decided to use the little guy. The soap is new to me but the ingredients look good:
Made with Avocado Oil, and Pure Kokum, Cocoa, and Mango Seed Butters.
I prepped with Jlocke98 solution using emu oil, then took the puck and was astonished to find that it generated no lather whatsoever. None. It was as if… oh. The puck is wrapped in paper. I am not at my most alert on first rising.
Paper removed and I got a very fine lather indeed: the rolled-snow type, where the lather collects nicely on the razor. The fragrance is noticeable and though it’s coconut, to me it smelled exactly like an Almond Joy—which, come to think of it, smells only of the coconut. But that’s the hit I got.
The iKon Slant demonstrates one reason I like the three-piece design more than Merkur’s two-piece slants: I can swap out handles. Today’s handle is red jasper and comes from EliteRazor.com. The heft of the stone works well with the heft of the head.
The handle is, as you observe, smooth rather than rough, but I have never found that to be a problem with any of my smooth-handled razors (stone, horn, ceramic, or resin). If it gets soapy, it does get slippery, but soap is easily rinsed away. And if I brush my fingers over the alum block, I get a secure grip even on a soapy handle (or soapy skin).
Three passes, still with the Personna Lab Blue, and I get a BBS result. A few sprays of Annik Goutal Eau de Sud into my palm and rub that across my beard: the week begins!
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