Overcast and raining, which in a sense is good albeit somewhat gloomy, but I am warm and dry in my apartment, enjoying hot tea and my morning treat of three piece of fruit.
I haven’t mentioned lately the ingredients in Tallow + Steel’s Dark shaving soap:
Stearic Acid + Tallow (from local, pasture-raised, 100% grass-fed cattle) + Water + Potassium Hydroxide + Sodium Hydroxide + Organic Castor Oil + Organic Glycerin + Organic Coconut Oil + Organic Avocado Oil + Lanolin + Silk + Essential Oils + Vitamin E
The vitamin E is a nice touch. It’s an antioxidant and presumably protects the soap from oxidationl. The lather was easily evoked with Phoenix Artisan’s Solar Flare shaving brush, and my RazoRock stainless-steel Baby Smooth did a perfect job: perfectly comfortable and producing a perfectly smooth result.
The handle’s smooth band just above the base, like the band in yesterday’s handle, is significantly recessed, providing an excellent grip for the against-the-grain pass. The chequering on this handle is aggressive, but I appreciated it since my hand is somewhat slick after the pre-shave routine of MR GLO and Grooming Dept pre-shave.
The acoustic feedback from this Baby Smooth is quite good — mowing through the stubble produced a crackling sound. The iKon slant from yesterday has even better acoustics, but today’s was notable because I don’t recall getting much sound from the aluminum Baby Smooth.
A splash of Dark aftershave on my very smooth face finished the job. This is a very nice witch-hazel-based aftershave with no alcohol content:
Water + Witch Hazel + Organic Aloe Vera + Organic Glycerin + Organic Licorice Root + Organic Willow Bark + Organic Cucumber + Organic Rosemary + Polyglyceryl Oleate + Radish Root Ferment + Lactobacillus + Coconut Fruit + Essential Oils