An extremely nice shave today. Mr Pomp has no problems at all in getting a really fine lather from the Maggard shaving soap, which as you see is a coconut-oil soap. If you’re going to use a single oil, coconut oil strikes me as an excellent choice: thick, creamy, protective lather easily generated. This particular fragrance is light to my nose—but fragrances are enormously YMMV. I don’t really know the Fougère fragrance—I apparently have soaps that carry that fragrance, but it has yet to achieve a clear identity for me. I know this is my own olfactory failing, but other fragrances are much more clearly defined—rose, for example, is unmistakeable. But I could not pick Fougère out of a line-up if it mugged me in broad daylight.
I tried the Utopia Care handle with the #102 head, and indeed it does work great. The Utopia Care razor is $11, and typically a stainless handle will cost more than that. So with this handle and the #102 head, you have a very fine slant for $59—which is more than the $45 that the 37C costs, but not a lot more, and (for me) the #102 is more comfortable.
Again I can detect no difference in the cutting action or performance of this non-torqued slant and a torqued slant, but I shall continue. It might be that a guy with a thick, tough, coarse, wiry beard would detect a difference, but so far I don’t.
A good splash of the (extremely pleasant) D.R. Harris Pink After Shave—and despite the color, it is totally not a rose fragrance. I don’t know how to describe it, but I like it. It’s the sort of fragrance that would pair well with tweed jacket and regimental striped tie.
On a minor political note, I am surprised to see that Kansans want more of the same. Perhaps the appeal of what has happened in Brownback’s first term as governor is not visible to nonresidents.
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