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Holiday shaving savings
ShoeboxShaveshop.com is having a holiday sale. The discount/coupon codes: xmas5 = 5% off orders > $50 & < $100 xmas10 = 10% off orders > $99.99Filed under: Shaving
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Fine shave with Petal Pushers
Very pleasant shave, though I did change the Kai blade at the end. My Omega 20102 did a very fine job, and Petal Pusher Ciderhouse is one of the Scent-Off lathers, so I’ll have more to say later....
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Fine shave
My second Petal Pusher Scent-off shave, this time with a horsehair brush, as shown. Lather comments later, but with an Astra Superior Platinum blade in the vintage Merkur slant, I easily achieved a...
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Great shave with the Sodial
A really fine shave today. Lather comments later, but as you see I brought out a Whipped Dog 22mm silvertip, this one with an octagonal resin handle. The Sodial really is quite a good razor for me:...
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Great shave with Schick Krona
I decided to use the Pumpkin Pie shaving soap from HowToGrowAMoustache.com, a favorite soap, and I had the inspiration to choose a pumpkin-colored brush, my Rooney Emilion. An immediate great lather...
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Perfectly smooth, with pleasure
A really superlative removal of two-day stubble. The Omega Pro 48 worked up a terrific lather from Strop Shoppe’s Special Edition (with tallow) Black Tie shaving soap, and the Eros slant, holding an...
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Petal Pusher Ciderhouse 5
I thought I’d summarize my impressions: The first use of the soap I did not glance at the name and tried to identify the fragrance with my somewhat doltish nose. It definitely had a fragrance, but I...
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Super-smooth and a note on shaving soap samples
Really fine shave today. The Simpsons Duke 3 Best is a very fine brush—but like the Simpsons Commodore, often overlooked. I got a very fine lather using the shaving soap sample shown, Dagger from...
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Very pleasant shave with Progress and Green Mountain
So I begin the last lap of this year’s Scent-Off, using the Green Mountain soap, with the initial lathering done with a boar brush, my Omega Baby Pro. As usual, lather comments are saved, but the...
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Thanksgiving shave
I broke with the Scent-Off today to celebrate Thanksgiving, and HTGAM’s Pumpkin Pi seemed like the idea shaving soap. I used one of the big, fluffy Omega Silvertips—truly wonderful brushes—and was...
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Morning shave pretty good
Today a horsehair brush got a chance at Nick’s Red Jacket. The Wilkinson Sticky with a Feather blade did a fine three-pass shave, and a good splash of Floris No. 89 (the favorite of James Bond)...
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Good result from a final Scent-Off shave
A very smooth result today. I used my Whipped Dog 24mm silvertip and will save my lather comments for the summary on Monday. But the final result was BBS: the Sodial really is a good little razor. A...
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What a shave! And a great lather.
A truly fine shave, but I tilted the playing field somewhat: a two-day stubble, for starters. Then the use of the Asses’ Milk shaving soap. And finally my bakelite slant holding a Kai blade. I decided...
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BBS on the cheap
WordPress is working again. Hallelujah! And hallelujah equally for the absolutely superb shave I got—experience and result—using inexpensive tools. I washed my beard as usual with my Jlocke98 mix (1/4...
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New razor + new brand of blade = perfect shave
It’s good that the shave came out so well—had it been a bad shave, I wouldn’t know whether it was razor, blade, or this particular razor-blade combination. But it ends well, so all’s well. First, the...
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Perfect shave with new Standard Razor
An absolutely perfect BBS result—and a very pleasant shave—with my new Standard Razor. I do think that’s an odd name for the product: I like to use “standard” to refer to… well, standards—this razor...
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BBS with pleasure
Absolutely terrific shave. I do love this shaving soap (and yes, I bought a spare—and I have given one to The Son and to my doctor). Yesterday I used my Plisson High Mountain White (size 12), and...
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So-so shave
First: the lather was superb, as always with these Special Edition soaps. The problem was the razor/blade. I think it may be that I’m simply out of practice using the Tradere Solid Bar, which at one...
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Blissful shave
A really terrifc shave this morning. The brush has a snakewood handle and a very nice knot: it’s soft, but it does a great job. A few seconds brushing the Martin de Candre and I had a lather to be...
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BBS with the Standard
Very barbershoppy this morning. I got a fine lather with my one of Brent’s Brushes—I do like the feel of the handle, and the knot is wonderfully soft but makes an excellent lather. Three passes with...
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