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Black Beer No. 1 with Wild Coast’s lavender+bergamot+lemon—and a new blade
That’s my Rod Neep brush, and a fine brush it is. Meißner Tremonia’s Black Beer No. 1, like all the Meißner Tremonia shaving soaps and shaving pastes, made a very fine lather. The soaps all contain...
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Autumnal shaves commence
Autumn seems to have arrived 9 days early. Yesterday was cold and brought a heavy downpour. No more short-sleeved shirts, for sure. So I brought out the Icarus formula Darkfall from Declaration...
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Day 3 on the blade, the Cube becomes the Slab, and Dr. Selby’s delightful lather
At the left you see the Cube now halved, and much easier to handle. It strikes me that the Cube should be sold already sectioned into 2 Semi-Cubes for the user’s convenience, but perhaps that’s just...
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Day 4 of the blade: Tallow + Steel Dark and the iKon X3
It’s overcast this morning, so Tallow + Steel’s Dark seemed the appropriate choice. The Phoenix Artisan Green Ray made an excellent lather, and the X3 on the UFO handle removed all traces of stubble,...
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Wee Scot, Woody Almond, Red Cedar, and the Game Changer .84-P
The Wee Scot seems to love Meißner Tremonia, and it did a terrific job with the Woody Almond Shaving Paste. Thanks to Ryan for his suggestion of using my Game Changer .84-P for shave 5 of the mystery...
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Yaqi Target Shot and Razor, Eufros Rosa Bourbon, and D.R. Harris After...
Skipping a day of changing blades, I went with the blade already residing in this excellent razor, whose coloration makes it particularly useful for shaving concealed in a jungle. The brush matches,...
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Vetiver morning
I reprised my yesterday’s shave Yaqi’s fine double-open-comb razor, here in a dark finish with a shorter handle, today going for vetiver. The RazoRock 400 made a glorious lather from JabonMan’s...
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A RazoRock shave, starring the Keyhole brush, Zi’ Peppino, and the Baby Smooth
I really like this soap and aftershave, which is “dedicated to all the beauties.” The Keyhole brush is a wonderful little (22mm) brush and it made a wonderful lather whose fragrance lifts up the...
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Much the same shave: Tabacco Verde, RazoRock synthetic, Baby Smooth
The brush today is a 24mm RazoRock synthetic, and it aroused a fine lather from the old Italian Tcheon Fung Sing’s Tabacco Verde shaving soap. My other Baby Smooth—I did want a spare—did a fine job...
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The Parker Semi-Slant is excellent
Yardley made a very fine shaving soap, and it delivered once more, my Copper Hat silvertip having no problem ginning up a great lather. The Parker Semi-Slant is just a slant, but a very good one, and...
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Sharon Terlep reports in the Wall Street Journal on the problems associated with not reading the Leisureguy’s Guide to Gourmet Shaving the Double-Edge Way, though she doesn’t phrase it exactly in that...
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Mike’s Natural and the German 37
Mike’s Natural soaps have always presented me a bit of a challenge in coaxing a long-lasting lather, and this morning I didn’t quite have the right combination. I did pre-soak my Rooney Victorian...
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Continuing my daily slant use: Mama Bear shave stick and the Stealth
I continue to be greatly impressed by the high quality of Mama Bear shave soaps, and the fragrance of this Buttercream shave stick iis quite nice as well. My Yaqi Target Shot worked up the thick,...
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Another daily slant—the Above the Tie S1—and Mama Bear again, with a Wild...
I wanted that great Mama Bear lather again, so I chose her Lilac & Lavender shave stick and the Wee Scot easily made a fine, thick, creamy, fragrant, lovely lather. The Wee Scot is the Tardis of...
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The amazing vintage white bakelite Merkur slant
I forget just how great this razor is. First, though, the prep: Simpson Chubby 1 Best with Mama Bear Hydrogen Fragrance shave stick was a quite route to a superb lather. I really like the “Hydrogen”...
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Fine aluminum slant v. vintage white bakelite slant
Not so much “versus” as a comparison. First, of course, came the prep. I went with Mama Bear’s soap again because I wanted a thick lather, and Vanilla Cream is a very nice fragrance. Phoenix Artisan’s...
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The RazoRock Lupo and a comment on pre-shave soaps
I’ve been switching back and forth between my new shave soap, Phoenix Artisan’s Cube 2.0 (the original) at $5.95 for 8oz, and my old standby MR GLO (Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil soap), though I now use...
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Another superb glycerin-soap lather, another great shave
QED’s soapmaker long-since retired, and it was a great loss since s/he had no acolyte to carry on the soaps. This vetiver is one of the few remaining QED soaps I have, and the lather it produced was,...
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The excellent iKon 102 with an excellent Mama Bear lather
I am so pleased with the lathers I’m getting from glycerin-based shaving soap. You should give one a try. There’s Mama Bear and also Kell’s Original. QED no longer offers a glycerin-based shaving...
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Merkur 37G slant and Mama Bear Spellbound Woods
Spellbound Woods is one of my favorite fragrances, and this morning the RazoRock Bruce 22mm brush shown made the usual superb lather from a Mama Bear soap. The Merkur 37 remains a very good slant, and...
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