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RazoRock all the way—and green tobacco again
All from ItalianBarber.com. I noticed yesterday that I had been spelling “tabacco verde” incorrectly, spelling as though it were an English word. Fortunately Zi’ Peppino, despite the Italian title,...
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Honeysuckle and Starcraft, with Mamba and Tabac
I think of my Phoenix Artisan synthetics I like the Green Ray best. It’s knot is more relaxed, not so tightly sprung. The Starcraft brush in the photo did a perfectly fine job, but it was not quite so...
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Darkfall and Fresh Vetiver
I really like Declaration Grooming’s Icarus formulation: Stearic Acid, Water, Castor Oil, Avocado Oil, Vegetable Glycerin, Mango Seed Butter, Potassium Hydroxide, Sodium Hydroxide, Fragrance, Bison...
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Strop Shoppe’s Russian Tea, the Game Changer, and Gratiot League Square
Russia tea has a fine spice fragrance and the lather is excellent, but unfortunately Strop Shoppe is no more. She was a chemist who was an early entrant in the shaving renascence, and her shaving...
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The Drunken Goat gives a great shave—though the iKon Shavecraft 102 certainly...
My Vie-Long horsehair shaving brush once again did an excellent lathering job, and the Drunken Goat’s fragrance continues to please. Three passes with the 102 wiped off the two-day stubble, leaving a...
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Woody Almond and Red Cedar, with the Baili 171 along for the ride
I really like this RazoRock Keyhole synthetic: just the right size, the right resilience, the right feel… And it did a terrific job make a lather from Meißner Tremonia’s Woody Almond shaving paste,...
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Green Ray + Tallow + Steel Grog + Rockwell
A great start to a beautiful morning: bright sun, no clouds, light breezes, cool but short-sleeve temperature. Tallow + Steel makes very good and very interesting soaps and aftershaves, and Grog is a...
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Tallow + Steel Dark for a very bright day
We’re nearing the summer solstice, which here means 16 hours 7 minutes from sunrise to sunset (5:12am sunrise, 9:19pm sunset). So it was already quite light and sunny when I arose, and Tallow +...
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Shaving with the magic stick
Meißner Tremonia’s Pink Grapefruit has a wonderful fragrance and makes a wonderful lather, this morning with the able assistance of a Plisson synthetic brush. When I picked up the Dorco PL602, its...
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Lavender & Lilac greet the morning
Mama Bear’s wonderful shave sticks are always a pleasure, and this floral number seemed right for a mid-June morning. Chiseled Face offered this brush briefly some years back, and I enjoy it a lot,...
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What do you use in the Land of the Dragon? Stealth.
Dapper Dragon’s Terre du Dragon is quite nice, and the Grooming Co.’s synthetic easily work up a very good lather. The RazoRock Stealth remains one of my favorite slants, and it easily stripped off...
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Stubble Trubble and Spring-Heeled Jack
For some reason I had a memory slip yesterday and failed to post my SOTD. I very much like Stubble Trubble’s Up & Adam, but ST is no more, so I treasure this tub. The Solar Flare is a fine brush,...
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Eufros Violet and Penhaligon Blenheim Bouquet
The violet fragrance of this Eufros shaving soap (by JabonMan) was a delight given the late-spring morning, and the Bruce synthetic brush from Italian Barber did an excellent job of making a thick and...
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A hint of woad and a great shave
A commenter yesterday reminded me of the Wilkinson shave stick, which is excellent (unlike their shaving soap in a tub, which I found not very good). I used the Wee Scot because it still tickles me...
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A predictable shave today
Of course it is Solstice today, and I do love the fragrance—and the lather, for that matter, worked up this morning with the Wet Shaving Products Monarch. Three passes with the Edwin Jagger razor, and...
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Organism 46-B and a fine shave—plus I’m definitely on the mend
I definitely am feeling better though still not 100%. I’d say 100% will arrive on Monday or Tuesday. But I’m through the worst. This morning I suddenly remembered good old Organism 46-B and wondered...
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Honeysuckle morning with Above the Tie’s S1
Phoenix Artisan’s Starcraft is the brush, and their Honeysuckle the soap and aftershave. It all makes for a very pleasant start of the week. I got an especially good Mama-Bear-quality lather this...
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Coffee shave
A brilliant summer morning, starting with coffee: Mama Bear’s Turkish Mocha shave stick, making its usual wonderful lather with the Mühle gen 2 synthetic doing a fine job. The Merkur Progress with my...
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One thing seems obvious: I need a shaving brush with a blue handle
The little Omega silvertip badger is a good brush, though its tips are so soft as my (pre-Vulfix) Simpson Wee Scot. But once the lather emerged from the blue coating of soap on my beard, it felt fine,...
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Italian-oriented shave
The brush is from Whipped Dog, but the soap and aftershave are Italian, and the razor is the Game Changer .62-P from Italian Barber. The shave stick is Valobra, and Valobra also makes some nice...
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