Wonderful shave today. I decided to use all my soaps and shaving creams in shelf order. I’m now halfway across the top shelf (which holds 8 tubs).Today was the Grapefruit Shaving Cream that TOBS makes, and it is quite nice. I wet the Rooney Victorian well, then shook it well so that it was just damp. I twirled the tips on the shaving cream to coat them, then brushed my beard to coat it in turn. Then I added a little water to the brush and brushed briskly to build the lather. As it turned out, I didn’t need more water, but it would have been easy to add.
The iKon DLC Slant did a terrific job with a Personna Lab Blue blade, producing a flawless BBS result, but of course it had the advantage of shaving a two-day stubble. A couple of instances have been reported of the DLC coating chipping off, though original purchasers are protected by the warranty. I’ve been told, however, that the B1 coating is much tougher—indeed, one guy bought a B1 head from someone, who simply put the cap and baseplate in a padded envelope and mailed it. When he got it, he could hear the pieces clinking against each other and though, “Oh, noooo.” But when he opened the envelope, they were absolutely unharmed. He says that the B1 coating is more like an anodized finish than a coating that can chip.
A good splash of Floïd for the aftershave. It definitely has a cinnamon kick to my nose, and the level of menthol is quite tolerable: just barely enough to cause a little cooling rather than the Polar Bear Swim Club levels some like.
I left a link out of the previous post, but it’s been added now: about how the US is losing (and not replacing) teachers: a situation that augers poorly for its future.
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