A really superb shave today. As you see in the photo, I used the Omega Pro 48 (which after the last use apparently dried with part of the knot pushed out of place: the cowlick vanished when the brush was wet, and will probably not return) with the Honeybee Soaps Lilac that disappointed me previously with a boar brush, but did a fine job with a badger brush and the boar brush subsequently did a fine job with D.R. Harris shaving soap.
So today I took another boar brush—the Pro 48—to the Lilac soap—and got an extremely good lather, which lasted through the shave with plenty more to go. Of course, the Pro 48 has substantially more capacity than the boar used before, but still.. I now have to try that previous boar again with this soap. Maybe I just didn’t load the brush enough.
But a great lather, and then I set to work with my new $11 Utopia Care razor, a very good price (possibly introductory) for a razor. Mantic59 spotted this one and pointed it out to me, and today’s the first shave, using a Personna Lab Blue blade and having a BBS result. There may be just a tad of razor burn—not sure—but certainly no nicks and the razor itself feels good and substantial. I think a beginner might well find this razor an inexpensive way to begin—and, let’s face it, a beginner is going to have to do some learning of how to use a razor regardless of which one he picks.
I do enjoy this BBS result, to which I applied a good splash of Pinaud Lilac Vegetal. This time I’m showing the backside label, as a service to readers (and because I didn’t notice the bottle was backwards until now).
Another fine shave.
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