Years ago, before Vintage Blades LLC was sold and Jim Ayers was still running it, he came out with this soap. He strongly hinted that it was in fact Truefitt & Hill’s soap (and this was long before T&H outsourced their soap production and changed the formula — this is from when the soap still was good.
And indeed I got a wonderful lather with a fine traditional English lavender fragrance. My 102 delivered a perfect result but with a little effort required, so a new blade (Treet Platinum this time) went into the razor after the shave.
A tiny dab of Esbjerg aftershave gel provided a fine finish — it has a pleasant feel and a very interesting light fragrance. This is one example of where a sample with an order resulted in a sale (and, I suppose, some word-of-mouth publicity).
A great way to start the week. Christmas looms.
My morning shave as art:
