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Declaration Grooming and Chatillon Lux, with Edwin Jagger
Same ingredients as in yesterday’s shave, but a different fragrance. Declaration Grooming notes on their website: Unconditional Surrender is a fragrance inspired by Ulysses S. Grant. After a heroic...
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Declaration Grooming’s Milksteak Formula: One for the bucket list
Your “bucket list” is the list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. My Uncle Earl had such a list. I know of only one entry: to eat a fresh pineapple in the field where he cut it from...
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Gillette 1940s Aristocrat, with Dapper Dragon and TOBS 74
For some reason, this morning my vintage Gillette Aristocrat seemed particularly efficient and comfortable. Perhaps it was the prep. I found Dapper Dragon’s Terre du Dragon particularly mesmerizing...
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Brush-size comparison — plus a great shave
This Omega brush, the 21762, is very soft, and the secret of using it is to accept that and enjoy it. It actually does quite a good job. I let it soak while I showered, then rewet it under the...
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J.M. Fraser and the Rockwell Model T
My Omega 10048 is well broken in now — soft and resilient without being scrubby. It’s a wonderful brush, and the cost is low. Worth trying. If you get one, I suggest that for a week you just load it...
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Dark Chocolate and a benefit of the three-piece razor design
In the comments on yesterday’s shave, we discussed some trade-offs between a complex razor design (TTO adjustable) and a simple razor design (the classic three-piece design: cap, baseplate, and...
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Catie’s Bubbles Waterlyptus and a Wolfman handle
The brush is Omega’s Mighty Midget (or Mixed Midget), a boar-badger blend, which I soak for the boar. Waterlyptus is a very pleasing fragrance and Catie’s Bubbles soaps give good lather. The head of...
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Savannah Sunrise, summer shave
A summer shave for sure: “Orange Blossom, Peach, Gardenia, Jasmine, and Honeysuckle.” I have version 1 of the soap, which has now evolved to version 3: . . . The addition of slippery elm bark, aloe,...
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The Omega Pro 48 again, with a comment on why it’s so good
I enjoyed the Pro 48 so much earlier this week that I decided to bring it out again. (The Omega model number is 10048, thus “Pro 48.”) I loaded it easily with Strop Shoppe’s excellent Vivace shaving...
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I can’t get enough of the Omega Pro 48 — and Declaration Grooming’s Milksteak...
Now that I’ve awakened to the quality of feel and performance offered by the Omega Pro 48, I can’t stop using it. None of my other brushes have the same feel, and the performance is excellent. I think...
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Omega 20102 boar brush with Colonia and the Maggard V2OC
Until I finally grasped the excellence of the Omega Pro 48 (10048), I generally recommend this Omega 20102, another very nice brush with a handle that strikes me as better (in terms of aesthetics)....
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Sharpologist has a long and well-researched article on shaving brushes.
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Summer Storm and a badger brush — with the Lupo
This soap has (in spades) the petrichor fragrance I (wrongly) anticipated to find in Declaration Grooming’s After the Rain. After the Rain seems to be the aftermath of a gentle late-spring shower in...
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Oh, that Drunken Goat! And I still love the Above the Tie S1.
I treasure my tub of The Drunken Goat, now a remnant of the past (though I hope that when retirement rolls around for the proprietor, Mickey Lee Soapworks will swing back into action). Wet Shaving...
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Brush comparison: Omega Pro 48 and Mr Pomp. Supporting actors: Organism B-46...
I decided on the spur of the moment (after I took the photo) to use my Pro 48 along with Mr Pomp. I mostly was motivated to compare the brushes, but the alluring fragrance of Organism 46-B was also a...
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Antica Barbiera Colla with the RiMei and the Pro 48
I hadn’t used the Pro 48 for a while, and since today’s products are Italian, I thought that was a good excuse to bring it out. Antica Barbiera Colla is a very nice soap and provided an excellent...
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Eufros Violet and Gold Red Cedar, with the excellent iKon 102
Eufros is a good soap and the violet fragrance is pleasant for a late-summer morning. My Rooney Victorian did a fine job, and the iKon Shavecraft 102 is a masterful razor that easily cleared my face...
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Fine shave with the Gillette Heritage version of the Edwin Jagger razor — and...
Otoko Organics makes a superb lather: somewhat stiffish, with a wonderful fragrance (presumably from the pear essence) that’s light and refreshing. I’m surprised Otoko Organics is not more popular,...
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The splendid Cavendish CK-6 and the redoubtable Dorco PL602
Phoenix Artisan’s CK-6 formula is wonderful, and I do like their Cavendish fragrance — definitely a pipe tobacco and not (like Van Yulay’s Puros la Habana) a cigar tobacco. With my Copper Hat...
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Return to MR GLO, and another great Milksteak shave
I’ve been using Pears Transparent Soap, a high-glycerin soap, after finishing off the previous puck of MR GLO (though in fact I use the same soap under the Ach Brito brand — both are made by Musgo...
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