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Van Yulay’s After Dark with Fine’s Marvel
The brush is one of the Maggard synthetics, this one with a 22mm knot, the size I like. It’s $12, and I was thinking of how rapidly cultural items can evolve. Just over the past couple of decades...
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I discover again that the Eros slant is a superb razor
My Rooney Finest Style 2 easily made a wonderful lather from Declaration Grooming’s Yuzu/Rose/Patchouli shaving soap, and when I set to work with the Eros slant, it was a delight. I had forgotten how...
View ArticleGood post and video at Fine blog: “Traditional razors provide great shaves...
The blog post begins: Most people assume traditional safety razors are obsolete, difficult to use, and provide inferior shaves relative to modern, multi-blade cartridge razors. This is not surprising...
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Unconditional Surrender with Feather AS-D1 plus a dark flower
Another of the Declaration Groming bison-tallow shaving soaps, today using the Rooney Style 3, Size 1 Super Silvertip for the lather. Both soaps, yesterday’s and today’s, use Bentonite clay (see...
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My Giillette 1940s Aristocrat and a burst of blue
My vintage (pre-Vulfix) Simpson Emperor is a wonderful brush, and it created a fine lather from my vintage (pre-reformulation) Floris No. 89 shaving soap. Continuing the vintage them, my 1940s...
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Strong ‘n Scottish with the Baili BR171
Strong ‘n Scottish does indeed have a strong (and Scottish) fragrance: windswept, smoky, and manly. And it makes a very nice lather, today thanks to the Rooney Style 1 Size 1 Super Silvertip. Like...
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Minor brush discovery and a nice crowd of flowers
Black Beer No. 1 shaving soap is another Meißner Tremonia shaving soap, and like the others it uses clay in its formulation: Stearic Acid, Cocos nucifera oil*, Beer, Potassium Hydroxide, Orbignya...
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Creed Green Irish Tweed and a razor experiment for a reader
A reader asked about using the Fatip Testina Gentile head on the Rockwell 6S handle. The issue is that Rockwell uses SAE 10-32 threading rather than metric M5x.8 threading that other modern razors...
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Woody Almond Shaving Paste with the RazoRock Stealth
Meißner Tremonia’s Woody Almond has the strong bitter almond fragrance that Italians seem to like, along with a cedar note. The Rooney Victorian made a very nice lather indeed, and with the Stealth I...
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Meißner Tremonia Pink Grapefruit shaving paste with the iKon Short Comb
A badly framed photo this morning. So it goes. The RazoRock 400 brush is very nice and the lather was truly excellent in fragrance and consistency. I like MT’s shaving pastes a lot: a very nice...
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Green Ray, Dark Limes, and Maggard V2 open-comb
Yesterday’s lime aftershave reminded me of my Meißner Tremonia Dark Limes shaving soap, so I thought I’d go again with lime today. The Green Ray is a highly satisfactory brush, and the lather it made...
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Coffee shave
Mama Bear’s Turkish Mocha made that splendid Mama Bear lather with the Mühle 2nd-generation synthetic. I really like this Wolfman Razors handle, so I moved it to the Charcoal head (an EJ clone) so I...
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Barrister & Mann Cologne Russe with the Rockwell 6S
The fragrance of Cologne Russe is exceptionally nice: Based on one of the oldest forms of perfume, Cologne Russe is a throwback to a scent created by the House of Guerlain for the Russian royal family...
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A horse-themed shave with a great razor
I used my horsehair Vie-Long for the obvious reason, and I enjoyed the Lavanille fragrance: Some time ago, Barrister and Mann® had the extraordinary fortune to obtain a sample of the discontinued,...
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Czech & Speake with the iKon 102
I haven’t used this tiny travel tub of my Czech & Speake No. 88 for quite a while, but came across it and decided to deploy it this morning. The Simpson Wee Scot seems a natural match. The tub is...
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Lenthéric and the Baby Smooth
This Lenthéric shaving soap is from decades ago, but it has a great and very present lavender fragrance, and it makes a terrific lather, worked up this morning with Phoenix Artisan’s Starcraft shaving...
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Sweet-tooth shave
Mama Bear’s Vanilla Cream has, to my nose, a wonderful fragrance and the lather is absolutely first rate, than the RazoRock Bruce synthetic gets credit for an assist. The Mama Bear soaps give stunning...
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Violet is the fragrance of the day
Eufros is made by JabonMan in Spain (email him at magafe_es@yahoo.es to get a list of what’s available and prices), and it is an excellent shaving soap. This morning the Maggard 22mm synthetic made a...
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Leviathan for a big day
Leviathan is a resonant name for me. In my sophomore year it was the subject of my annual essay (the book by Hobbes, that is), and I also love the shave soap. My EJ synthetic did its usual fine job on...
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The Solar Flare and Energy
Phoenix Artisan’s The Solar Flare is a striking brush. Now that the quality of synthetic knots can be taken for granted—they’re all quite good these days—attention shifts to aesthetics and perhaps...
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