No water, no shave
I overslept and the water’s off in the building now until 3:00 (an apartment — not mine — is being renovated and today apparently is new-plumbing day), so no shave this morning. That works out, in a...
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iKon OG1 for a two-day stubble — plus an inexpensive slant head
Happy Valentine’s Day to you, and the soap and after shave this morning were a limited edition release some years back from Phoenix Artisan: Dark Chocolate. It’s a novelty fragrance and quite nice for...
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Great way to start a Saturday: Chiseled Face Sherlock and the RazoRock Old Type
Simpson’s Duke 3 Best is a very nice little brush and the lather (and fragrance) it produced from Chiseled Face Sherlock was excellent: “a warm tobacco based scent blended with toasted caramel, black...
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A Chiseled-Face shave throughout
All from Chiseled face, though the brush was a limited edition and no longer available. These are all available from Groomatorium Inc. (in Ohio) or from Chiseled Face Groomatorium (in California)....
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Speick is great — and so is the iKon 102
And the Maggard 22mm synthetic is also very nice indeed. I was impressed by the quality of the lather from that Speick shave stick: really first rate. And the 102 once again madee me realize why I...
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A day late
Yesterday slipped by before I remembered. My Maggard 22mm synthetic made a marvelous lather from QED’s vintage Special 218, redolent of dark woodsy notes, and the Phoenix Ascension in aluminum...
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Strop Shoppe and the Game Changer
I had everything ready to post and then got distracted. This is the pre-Vulfix Simpson Emperor 3 Super, and a fine brush it is. The lather from my vintage Strop Shoppe Via Dell’Ambra was quite good,...
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Synthetic shaving brushes now out-perform badger brushes
This morning I used Phoenix Artisan’s Solar Flare With Strop Shoppe’s Russian Tea, a spice-fragranced shave soap that uses the same formulation a yesterday’s Strop Shoppe soap, when I used a...
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Woodturners Catalog Slant and a badger-brush test
After the previous two shaves — one with a badger brush and one with a synthetic brush, using soaps with the same formulation — the score stood Badger 0, Synthetic 1. Today I used again a Strop Shoppe...
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A comfortable but not terribly efficient slant
Following up on my previous SOTD post, from Saturday, I tried the Woodturners Catalog slant again, this time with a new Gillette 7 O’Clock SharpEdge blade. It was somewhat more efficient than with the...
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Shaving cream and starting a three-razor comparison
I exchanged emails yesterday with someone who brought up shaving cream, and I decided to indulge a while in shaving creams, beginning with this one that The Wife brought back from Paris. Using my...
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My favorite shaving cream—and the Edwin Jagger, next in the test series
My favorite shaving cream: Nancy Boy Signature (travel size in photo) Nancy Boy products are all first rate and advertising is strictly word-of-mouth (or, in this case, text-to-eye). Nancy Boy makes...
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Third time’s the charm: Rockwell 6S R3 baseplate meets I Coloniali shaving cream
That’s the RazoRock Bruce synthetic brush, and a very nice brush it is. I Coloniali’s shaving cream with rhubarb is pleasant in fragrance and strong in performance. I Coloniali shaving cream is, alas,...
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To protect against coronavirus, follow the instructions in “Leisureguy’s...
That is (more or less) the advice offered by the Center for Disease Control. Lateshia Beachum reports in the Washington Post: Mutton chops, chin curtains and the ever-popular beard have to be shaved...
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Reprising the MJ-90A and another great favorite: J.M. Fraser shaving cream
J.M. Fraser is a curiously effective shaving cream, easily producing ample lather with a light lemony fragrance. It’s my favorite after Nancy Boy, and the 1-lb tub shown is just $19, so it’s also a...
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D.R. Harris and rose, with the Dorco PL602
The brush is a 24mm synthetic — Starcraft, by Phoenix Artisan — and the shaving cream is D.R. Harris Rose, which made a really terrific lather quite easily. I can see why some favor shaving creams....
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Last in the shaving cream series: Dr. Selby’s 3X Concentrated Shaving Cream
Truthfully, Dr. Selby’s seems more like a very good soap than a shaving cream, but whatever you call it, the lather it produces is extremely nice. I used my Rooney Style 2 Finest, and I have to say I...
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A Mickey Lee soap with an unfortunate name
I bought this soap when Mickey Lee announced that they were closing their doors (because of a promotion and more responsibilities in his regular job). I had avoided because there was something about...
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Simpson Persian Jar 2 Super, Dapper Doc CK-6, and the Fendrihan Mk II
Another excellent badger brush, more or less on a part with the Rooney Super Silvertip from yesterday. CK-6 soaps provide really superb lather and I do like the fragrance of Dapper Doc’s Old Time...
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Bay Rum and a renewed appreciation of badger brushes
I do like the feel and performance of (modern) synthetic brushes, whose price/performance ratio is extremely low—much lower (i.e., better) than for high-quality badger brushes. Badger brushes, though,...
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