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Two Eufroses but only one is mine
I had already set up this morning’s shaving choices (shown above) when I heard from Eddie in Australia to learn that he also is a JabonMan fan. He comments on the soap: “Love the scent! Highly...
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Dapper Dragon returns: Terre du Dragon
My Vie-Long horsehair brush made a very nice lather indeed from Dapper Dragon’s Terre du Dragon shaving, and the Fatip Testina Gentile easily removed all traces of stubble. A good splash of...
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Garden Mint in anticipation of spring
Spring is not far away… well, really it is: 58 days. But I’m looking forward to it. Garden Mint is perhaps more a summer fragrance, but it’s very pleasant this time of year and my RazoRock 400...
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A lemon-fragranced shave
Another great shave with J.F. Fraser’s shaving cream, with the Kent Infinity making an extremely good lather—I think I loaded a bit more shaving cream than in my last shave, since the Kent is more...
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An international shave
An extremely nice shave today, with an international flair. Let’s start the shave in Portugal, with MR GLO (Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil soap) from Portugal serving for the brief stubble-wash at the...
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A CK-6 shave with the Edwin Jagger
Man, I do love the CK-6 soap formulation from Phoenix Artisan, and this tub of Cavendish is a CK-6 soap. The lather, created today with the help of my RazoRock Keyhole synthetic brush—a wonderful...
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Colonia and the Mamba
The little Maggard travel brush worked up a good lather. This particular soap is quite nice, even though it is a beta version (4.1, so well along in beta testing). The Mamba is fine razor—well, it’s...
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As good as ABC – with the ATT S1
Antica Barbieria Colla is quite a nice shaving soap, and with my pre-Vulfix Wee Scot, the lather I made was quite satisfying. Three passes with the Above the Tie S1 (here mounted on a UFO handle) left...
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Great lather from a bygone soap
I got the most amazingly good lather this morning from QED’s glycerin-based shaving soap, whose maker, alas, retired some years ago. (Mama Bear still offers glycerin-based soaps that are quite good—I...
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Another luxuriant lather
Yesterday’s lather from my QED Vetiver shave stick was so thick and creamy and wonderful that I had to reprise the experience, so today I used my QED Vanilla shave stick: different fragrance but same...
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Glycerin-based shaving soaps make wonderful lather
Moving on from unavailable glycerin-based shaving soaps, this morning I used one of Mama Bear’s shave sticks and got the same wonderful and amazing lather that the two (now unavailable) QED...
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Mama Bear Hydrogen Fragrance and another fine lather
Another Mama Bear shave stick, another great lather. The character of the lather from glycerin-based soaps really does seem to be different. Pretty soon I’ll do some alternating among glycerin-based...
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Annual reminder of timed shave, plus more lather exploration
Skill and efficiency come through experience, but the growth is sometimes imperceptible day to day (though in the early stages, when one is still struggling, day to day progress can be much more...
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Timed shave and more glycerin-based soap goodness
I did time my shave this morning, though I did not include rinsing out the brush. Total time from wetting MR GLO before washing my stubble at the sink (following my shower) until I splashed on...
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Kell’s Original Energy shave stick and the German 37
Continuing my foray into glycerin-based soaps, this morning I used Kell’s Original Energy shave stick. “Energy” is name for a pleasing fragrance described as “A stimulating blend of Citrus, including...
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Col. Conk and the Feather AS-D1
Col. Conk makes a glycerine-based shaving soap, and it makes a fine lather in terms of consistency though the fragrance is lacking. But this is a mass-market product and boutique fragrances just don’t...
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Barrister & Mann Spice Reserve and the Maggard V3A
My Rooney butterscotch Emilion made quite a nice lather from Barrister & Mann’s Reserve spice. I did have to add a little water as I loaded the brush. Three passes with my Maggard V3A on a UFO...
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The rise of highly comfortable, highly efficient DE razors across the price...
In comments to yesterday’s SOTD post, I found myself explaining why modern razors are, on the whole, better than razors of yesteryear and why I sold almost my entire vintage collection to focus on...
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I love the Baby Smooth
This tub of Geo. F. Trumper Sandalwood shaving soap was made before they outsourced their shaving soap production and changed the formula. Not to put too fine a point on it, this is from the time when...
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Rockwell Model T, brushed chrome, with Stubble Trubble Up & Adam
My long-awaited Rockwell Model T arrived in yesterday’s mail. I had tried a prototype in April 2016. The product development cycle for Rockwell Razors tends to run long, with a fair amount of learning...
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