Although some find the Omega Pro 48 (10048) boar brush too large for face lathering, it has never seemed a problem for me. This brush is now well broken in and does a really fine job.
Tcheon Fung Sing, an artisanal shaving soap from Italy, is quite good: a very slick and dense lather with a light and pleasant fragrance, in this case Tobacco Verde. There seems to have been a change and the soaps now are identified as Linea Intenso and the fragrance is given as Tobacco Verde Forte, so presumably now the fragrance is stronger, which would not be bad. The soap is $22 from West Coast Shaving and $10 from Italian Barber, FWIW.
The ingredients are simple: Stearic Acid, Aqua, Cocos Nucifera, Potassium Hydroxide, Sodium Hydroxide ,Parfum—purely a coconut oil shaving soap (and thus vegan), but it does a good job. You can get 1kg (2.2 lbs) for €9.92 (US$10.60) in the traditional almond fragrance Italians seem to favor. The price shown is excluding tax, which you would not have to pay if ordering from the US.
And speaking of fantastic bargains, the Dorco PL602 is in the first rank of my razors in terms of comfort and efficiency, and it’s less than $5 including shipping. (Shop on eBay for best price.) I easily got a quite comfortable and trouble-free BBS result.
A splash of Stirling Soap Company’s Lemon Chill, and the shave is done and the day begun. The aftershave ingredients: Denatured Alcohol, Witch Hazel, Lemon Essential Oil, Aloe, Menthol, Glycerin, and Hydrovance (a moisturizing agent).
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