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Asses’ Milk shaving soap and a snakewood brush, plus the Fine Marvel
That soap makes a wonderful lather, and the snakewood brush’s knot has a light and fluffy touch, very pleasant to feel when the knot is puffed full of warm and fragrant lather. The Fine Marvel is...
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A very good match: Omega Pro 48 and J.M. Fraser shaving cream
Wonderful lather and wonderful brush feel. The Holy Black slant has the head of the Merkur 37 but the handle gives it quite a different feel. Very comfortable and efficient. And a good splash of that...
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The Monday shave, always a great pleasure, enhanced with Dapper Doc CK-6 and...
CK-6 really is remarkable, and I do like the lilac and fig fragrance of Dapper Doc. The Green Ray brush easily worked up a thick, creamy lather and the 37G stripped away lather and whiskers with...
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The Solar Flare and Planet Java Hive, with the Baby Smooth
I had a discussion in comments to yesterday’s shaving post on (among other things) the various types of synthetic brushes. For example, the Omega S-brushes, the Omega Hi-Brush, the Kent Infinity, a...
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Declaration Grooming’s After the Rain with Above the Tie’s R1: Terrific shave.
I heard from another reader, Todd R, on his initial experience with a Milksteak shaving soap — this one. So far the initial response from all who have tried one of these soaps is “Wow!” They are,...
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Phoenix Artisan CK-6 formula: A grreat premium shaving soap
Like Declaration Grooming’s Milksteak formula, Phoenix Artisan’s CK-6 is a premium shaving soap with impressive perforance. Unlike Milksteak (which, as the name strongly implies, is not vegan), CK-6...
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Art of Shaving Sandalwood and the wonderful (and low-cost) Baili 171
Continuing the synthetic series, this extremely nice Plissoft brush is Maggard Razors’ own 22mm brush. With a Plissoft 22mm knot, which crops up in various brushes, the focus shifts somewhat to the...
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A big shave
Big brush, big tub of soap, big bottle of aftershave — but a regular razor. I can’t stay away from the Omega Pro 48, it seems, and it goes so well with the deep tub of J.M. Fraser, whose lather I...
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La Toja has the mojo — and I love my iKon DLC slant
La Toja, as I’ve blogged previously, pretends to a host of benefits from the springs. Note: “To pretend” has a common meaning (“to make believe”), but I’m using its other meaning (“to lay claim to, to...
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That D.R. Harris lather! And that Marlborough fragrance!
D.R. Harris makes a fine lather, and the Marlborough fragrance is one of my favorites: “cedar, sandalwood, and notes of spice” is their description. The brush is the RazoRock Bruce, which has the same...
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Mama Bear soaps make superb lather — and the German 37 is a bargain
This brush is by Plisson and it has a Plissort knot, again 22mm, and with it I got a wonderful lather from that Mama Bear Vanilla Cream shave stick. I’m a sucker for vanilla fragrances, so I enjoyed...
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A lathery shave of brush comparisons
A reader pointed out in a comment to yesterday’s shave that in fact the RazoRock Keyhole has a 22mm knot and the RazoRock Bruce has a 24mm knot. I had the incorrect impression (based on using them)...
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Vetiver morning
The Fine Classic is a wonderful brush with a 20mm knot that feels soft, perhaps from the relatively long loft. It created a wonderful lather from this QED soap — the same type of high-glycerin soap...
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Mama Bear Spellbound Woods and the Rockwell 6S R3
This limited run Plissoft brush from Chiseled Face seems to have a 22mm knot, but I can’t be sure. I do like the handle, shaped from treated and stained wood. And I do like Mama Bear’s Spellbound...
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Mystic Water Wild Lavender and Wild Coast Eau de Lavande, with Stealth and...
I want more Mystic Waters shaving soap (scroll down at the link: long page) — that was my reaction after using this shave stick this morning. Great lather and fine fragrance, but not currently among...
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Fragrant shave
An extremely smooth and comfortable shave today — the Yaqi DOC really is an excellent razor, and this little Yaqi brush is quite pleasant: a comfortable handle of nice heft. It comes with two knots,...
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Additional fragrance thoughts
After yesterday’s musings on the blandness of fragrances from mass-market lather sources (canned foams and gels), I decided to go with one of the strongest fragrances in my collection of shaving...
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Strong ‘n Scottish — and strong it is
I like this shaving soap a lot, and its fragrance is the polar opposite of anodyne. My Simpson Emperor 2 generated a lovely lather, the Yaqi DOC did its usual superb job, and a splash of Irisch Moos...
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Modest but distinctive fragrance
D.R. Harris Arlington is much more maintstream than (say) Chiseled Face’s Summer Storm or Stirling Soap Company’s Texas on Fire or the two previous shaving soaps from Meißner Tremonia, but it is also...
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Van Yulay’s Achilles and the RazoRock Old Type
Th fragrance of Van Yulay’s Achilles is quite pleasant (to my nose) and distinctive, but almost certainly would not pass muster at Procter & Gamble: it’s too distinctive. “Tobacco with the perfect...
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