The brush this morning is my Yaqi Cashmere, whose 19mm knot of very fine synthetic bristles does feel on my face a bit like cashmere. The soap is Grooming Dept Ousia: “Fennel, Crystallized Mandarin, Ginger, Immortelle, Tobacco, Vanilla, and Vetiver.” As the name suggests, it is a divine fragrance — and the lather is the wonderful lather of Kairos SE (the tallow formula with lamb tallow and emu oil).
The razor is the Dorco PL602. I order a supply of them from Sam’s Beauty. Although the listing does not identify them as the PL602, I clearly recognize the razor.
Warning: Once you place an order, Sam’s Beauty will send you spam endlessly, so use a one-time email address for this order. I have Spam Sieve as a spam filter, and it has now been trained to recognize the email from Sam’s Beauty as junk and divert it directly to the Junk folder. Their “unsubscribe” does not work, nor do they respond to an email request to be removed from the list.
Despite the problems with the noxious advertising, IMO this razor is very much worth getting. It is adjustable in the sense that you can loosen it up to a quarter turn to increase efficiency, although for me it works fine fully tightened. It’s a two-piece design.
Three passes did a perfect job, and a splash of Pashana aftershave with a couple of squirts of Grooming Dept’s Aion Hydrating Gel finished the shave. Great start to a somewhat gloomy day.
The tea this morning really hits the spot: Murchie’s London Afternoon: “Fragrant rose petals are interwoven with smoky Lapsang Souchong, sweetened with creamy vanilla and a touch of bright bergamot.” I especially got the lapsang souchong and the rose, and I’m sure the vanilla helped.