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Coffee fragranced morning shave
Despite the size of the knot on the Omega 20102, I had no problem in loading it fully using the shave stick: plenty of soap was scraped off by my two-day stubble to make a generous amount of...
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Honeysuckle haze
The Honeysuckle comes from soap and aftershave, both quite pleasant with the Rooney Style 3 Size 1 making a fine lather. The Game Changer .84-P did a very nice job and I start the day with a very...
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The lovely Omega 21762 and an avocado morning
This boar brush by Omega, the 21762, has a wondrously soft knot — the whole knot, not just the tips. It’s a finer bristle and, I once read, the tips are uncut. For a while it seemed too soft, but then...
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Tradition and pleasure in a shave
My Simpson Persian Jar 2 Super is a fine brush, and this now-vintage shaving soap, made (I’m told) by Truefitt & Hill in a traditional lavender fragrance, made a superb lather. The Edwin Jagger is...
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LA Vanilla/Mint/Eucalyptus and the Fendrihan Mk II
Although I don’t really detect the Vanilla in LA Shaving Soap Company’s iconic fragrance, the Eucalyptus and Mint come through well — and it’s a very refreshing fragrance. My trusty Rooney Style 2...
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Gillette 1940’s Aristocrat and Dr. Selby’s fine concoction
I do like Dr. Selby’s 3x Concentrated Shave Cream, but I have no idea where you can now obtain it. Despite its name, it seems to me to be a shaving soap with a wonderful lavender fragrance and a...
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The wonderful Monday morning shave — thanks in part to the Fine slant
After taking the photo and just before starting the shave, I remembered that Barrister & Mann’s Reserve soaps do much better with synthetic knots (which is what he recommends), so instead of...
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Wholly Kaw and the Rockwell Model T
This shave I did use the Copper Hat silvertip brush shown, and it made quite a nice lather from Wholly Kaw’s Monaco Royale (tallow version): Top notes: Lavender, Bergamot, Neroli, Petitgrain Middle...
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The Ascenion with Wholly Kaw’s King of Bourbon
My Mühle silvertipped Cosmo brush made a good lather from WK’s King of Bourbon. The ingredients are shown on the label, but in more detail on the website: Potassium Stearate, Sodium Stearate, Aqua,...
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Colonia and the Progress on anther dark day
Thanks to Chris R for pointing out the delay function on my camera: by using it, I click shutter release, step away, and in two seconds the photo is taken — in this case with a pretty long exposure:...
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Green tobacco, always great: Phoenix Artisan’s version is Alt-Eleven
Alt-Eleven was Phoenix Artisan’s take on Alt-Innsbruck, a green-tobacco (flower) fragrance, which is found also in RazoRock’s Zi’ Peppino (on deck for tomorrow), Tcheon Fung Sing’s Tabaco Verde soap,...
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Another green tobacco shave, this one with Zi’ Peppino
The Starcraft really is a nice brush, even if I wish the know were 20mm or 22mm instead of 24mm. The knot this morning struck me as somewhat different in feel and character from my other synthetics,...
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Tabacco verde reprised: Tcheon Fung Sing and Alt-Innsbruck with Pro 48 and...
We begin with the Italians: the wonderful Omega Pro 48 (10048) and Tcheon Fung Sing’s Tabacca Verde shaving soap. The lather seemed especially good, as did the shave with the iKon slant. I went...
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Nancy Boy and Baby Smooth, with Wee Scot and Anthony Gold
Another great shave — that is, another good experience to start the day, a day that is sunny and haze-free. I’m running very low on Nancy Boy Signature Shave Cream, and it occurs to me with all the...
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Belatedly thought of Solstice — but Otoko Organics is quite good as well
I belatedly realize that I should have used Solstice yesterday because the equinox (like yesterday’s) is as far as we can get from the solstices. So it goes. I was happy with Otoko Organics, with its...
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CK-6 and the X3: a winning combo
The Green Ray made a wonderfully rich (and fragrant) lather from Phoenix Artisan’s Dapper Doc’s Old Time Lilac & Fig CK-6 formula shaving soap. It’s good to lay off the super-premium soaps for a...
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The mass-market filter, and a marketing misstep by Edwin Jagger
That little Chubby 1 Best is a fine little brush with a full and ample knot that has a very nice feel — and does a very good job. The lather it worked up from Phoenix Artisan’s Organism 46-B was lush,...
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Fine shave with cheap razor (but excellent shaving soap)
This little RiMei razor is probably no available, or not in this format. (I think they improved the handle fairly early). It cost $2 and delivers a perfectly fine shave. The description says that it’s...
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Software tsuris but a great shave with Sherlock and the 102
I’ve hit a stumbling block. I upgraded my Mac OS to Catalina (a mistake, as it turns out) and now the Photos app will not work — not only can it not read my photos library, I cannot even open the app....
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Another pipe-tobacco shave
Cavendish is a favorite — so much so that I bought it in the CK-6 formula, which was a treat this morning. That little Edwin Jagger synthetic is quite a nice little brush — closer to badger than are...
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