Sometimes it seems that a beautiful shave simply emerges because the stars align. After washing my stubble with MR GLO, I applied an excellent lather easily awakened from Mystic Water‘s Marrakesh shaving soap:
“Marrakesh” is my original blend – dark iron-distilled East Indian patchouli, Virginia cedarwood, cinnamon leaf, oak moss, lime and petigrain essential oils, it’s a dark smoky blend that I also use in a 20% shea butter soap of the same name. Mostly essential oils with one fragrance oil component. With lanolin.
The soap does indeed have a lovely fragrance, and I again admired the comfort and efficiency of the head that Edwin Jagger and Mühle jointly developed. I do like this handle, a comfortable size covered in fluted hard rubber, offering an excellent grip.
Three passes left my face ultra-smooth, and a splash of Pashana finished the job. This is the way to start the day.