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Nancy Boy, meet Blenheim Bouquet
Nancy Boy is a great shaving cream, highly recommended, and this is a tub of their Signature shaving cream: lavender, rosemary, and peppermint, as I recall. The little Maggard travel brush did a...
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Mama Bear and Paul Sebastian host a fine shave
Vanilla Cream and Paul Sebastian’s vanilla note (from the tonka bean) go together quite well. The Bruce synthetic from Italian Barber made a lusciously lovely lather with a fine fragrance, and...
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Searching for a shave solution
I recently heard from a shaver who is frustrated with not being able to get a good shave with a DE razor even after 10 years of using one. He writes that some of his challenges are: hard water – He’s...
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Planet Java Hive CK-6 and the Dorco PL602
This morning I continue with the retrying of razors best for those who are prone to nicks and razor burn. But before the razor comes the prep. I like Phoenix Artisan’s CK-6 formula, and Planet Java...
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Baby Smooth hits the spot
A super shave today. I’m basically a shave-soap guy, but I Coloniali is a very nice shaving cream indeed—maybe because of the rhubarb—and my Rooney Emilion worked up a lovely lather. The Baby Smooth...
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Fine’s aluminum slant and a coffee-fragranced shave
The Fine aluminum slant is an excellent razor that requires a light touch. That it is made of aluminum is a definite help, since in this case the “weight of the razor” is not too much and in fact is...
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Lavender morning
Barrister & Mann’s Reserve shaving soaps make an unusual lather. The ingredients are: Potassium Stearate, Glycerin, Aqua, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Potassium Tallowate, Potassium Safflowerate,...
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The Omega Mixed Midget returns, with Phoenix Artisan Briar
My Omega Mixed (badger and boar) has had enough use now that it is thoroughly broken in and thoroughly wonderful. I wet the knot well before my shower and let it sit, sopping wet, until I’m ready to...
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Martin de Candre and the iKon 101—and Ryan Reynolds hasn’t a clue on how to...
Oddly, this little Omega silvertip is not so soft and nice now as my Omega Mixed Midget that I used yesterday. Still, it did work up a very nice lather from Martin de Candre’s shaving soap, and the...
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Grog early in the morning starts the day right.
Tallow + Steel soaps (and aftershaves, for that matter) are very nice indeed, and Grog is one I like a lot. They have a different line-up of fragrances, but their ingredients remain first-rate. This...
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Sandalwood morning
Art of Shaving shaving soaps are quite nice—at one time (and perhaps still) made by Valobra—and the lather this morning was excellent with a strong sandalwood fragrance. Maggard’s small synthetic...
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The Dead Sea and Esbjerg
I’ve learned The Dead Sea shaving soap pretty well: use a brush that is just barely damp when you load the brush. I did this with this very nice RazoRock Keyhole brush, and it worked fine. Once I had...
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A spice shave with the iKon X3
I haven’t used this Catie’s Bubbles shaving soap for a while, and I had forgotten how much I like both fragrance and lather. My Maggard 24mm synthetic did a good job, and my iKon X3 (here on a UFO...
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Buttercream and Savory Rose, with the iKon open comb
Again a wondrous lather from a Mama Bear soap, though I caution that hard water would present a challenge. Our water here is quite soft, and with the Phoenix Artisan Starcraft shaving brush, the...
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Shave theme today: Mountain ranges
I thought about going with a cedar theme: Himalayan Heights (with essential Himalayan cedar oil) and Anthony Gold’s Red Cedar aftershave, but decided to focus on the ranges. And a fine shave it was....
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Phoenix Solstice today because equinox yesterday
Solstice is one of my favorites, and the fragrance doesn’t even include vanilla: “Sage, Sweetgrass, Cedar, Rose Absolute and Benzoin Resin.” The link is to the regular formulation ($15 for a tub), but...
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2-band Prince vs. 3-band Prince with Dapper Doc
I mentioned in yesterday’s shave, when I used the WSP Prince at the left, a two-band brush, that the brush seemed rather too resilient—perhaps it’s the density of the knot and/or the stiffness of the...
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A great little shave
My pre-Vulfix-acquisition Simpson Wee Scot is a wonderful little brush, and I used it this morning with this little tub of Klar Seifen shaving soap. (The name is hidden by the razor’s handle, and the...
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King of Bourbon and the Progress, with a Red Cedar finish
Quite a nice shave today, and pleasant to return to my horsehair brush. Wholly Kaw’s King of Bourbon (thi is the tallow version) is excellent, and my Merkur Progress seemed exceptionally comfortable...
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Keyhole brush with Cavendish CK-6 and the ATT S1
Some how the Keyhole brush seems to go with the Cavendish illustration, which I somehow see as vaguely Sherlock Holmesian, despite the obvious beard. (Using a bearded guy as an illustration for a...
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