This old soap is a rebranded pre-reformulation (and pre-outsourcing) Truefitt & Hill shaving soap. It makes a wonderful lather, and the little RazoRock Keyhole brush performs admirably though its price is low ($10).
The iKon Shavecraft #101, which seems these days to be in short supply, is a wonderful razor. I absentmindedly started the the against-the-grain pass immediately following the with-the-grain pass. This was the way I shaved in high school (though this morning I did lather prior to the ATG pass, something I didn’t know to do in high school).
Overall it was a good enough shave, but on the whole the three-pass shave works better for me and takes only a minute longer. So toomorrow back to a three-pass shave (if I remember).
A small splash of T&H Trafalgar cologne to serve as aftershave, and we begin now a new month. Time to renew resolutions, something I routinely do on the first of each month as I think about what I’d like to accomplish in the coming month.