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Pine and Cedarwood and MR GLO, with the iKon X3 slant
For the coming week (though next Monday), I’ll use MR GLO in place of Grooming Dept Moisturizing Pre-Shave so I can renew the baseline for a second comparison. I did note this morning that MR GLO is...
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Honeysuckle days are coming, and I’m ready for them
MR GLO again for prep, and then a very good lather from Mike’s Natural Wild Honeysuckle. His soaps really do require starting with a damp brush and brushing the soap briskly and firmly, generally...
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An ultra-smooth shave with Mystic Water Marrakesh and an Edwin Jagger razor
Sometimes it seems that a beautiful shave simply emerges because the stars align. After washing my stubble with MR GLO, I applied an excellent lather easily awakened from Mystic Water‘s Marrakesh...
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Mennen and Southern Witchcrafts, with that wonderful Fendrihan Mk II razor
A highly satisfactory shave is for me the best way to start the day, and today’s shave delivered, without a doubt. After washing my stubble with MR GLO, I rubbed the Mennen shave stick against the...
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Palmolive shave stick and Progress, with Barrister & Mann Fougère
I should also mention the very nice little Vie-Long brush, which always does a great job. Following MR GLO and a partial rinse, I rubbed the Palmolive shave stick (which I identified by the green...
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Ahhh, the Monday shave — even better with the new pre-shave
I was going to use MR GLO again before switching again to Grooming Dept Moisturizing Pre-Shave, so that I could have a side-by-side (day 1/day 2) comparison, but when the time came for the shave I...
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Groom Dept pre-shave with a tub soap: Great
Grooming Dept pre-shave works quite well with a tub soap, as I reconfirmed in this morning’s shave, with the tub of Sandalwood Rose shaving soap from Mystic Water: zero problems with lather, and a...
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Yellow Rose shaving soap and Pink rose aftershave
Again I liked the effect of Grooming Dept Moisturizing Pre-Shave, and since it is now part of my regular routine for shaving soaps in a tub, I’ll not specifically mention it in the future. (For...
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Tcheon Fung Sing Tabacco Verde, Fine Marvel, and Alt-Innsbruck
I’m now working my way through my shaving soaps that lack side labels and applying my own. This tub of Tcheon Fung Sing is an example. It’s a third-party container, since I bought the soap as a puck,...
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Remarkable shave — one of those beyond the ordinary — and my guess as to why
I fairly often experience this sort of result from a Monday shave, when I remove a two-day stubble (and almost always by means of a slant razor), but though it does happen during the week, as it did...
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Feather AS-D1/D2 test shave with the new way of using Grooming Dept pre-shave
In response to a reader request, this morning I am using my Feather AS-D1. My D1 is indistinguishable from the AS-D2, though certainly some AS-D1s were easily distinguished by their gross inefficiency...
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Grooming Dept pre-shave with a Milksteak soap and the iKon 102 followed by a...
My Rooney Style 2 Finest is my most expensive shaving brush. I bought it in 2008 for a price that in today’s dollars is north of $300. I will say that it is a wonderful brush, but not 30 times better...
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Wow! Unruly razor totally tamed by using Grooming Dept Moisturizing Pre-Shave...
Per reader suggestion (thanks, Owen), I brought out a couple of razors from the back row — razors in isolation because they so frequently savaged my face — to see whether Grooming Dept pre-shave would...
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Grooming Dept pre-shave tames another rough razor
This razor is the iKon Shavecraft OG1, and as you see from the photo, it is an asymmetric razor (like the OSS). Unlike the OSS, however, the OG1 was for me an unruly razor — efficient to be sure, but...
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I now have an article with that title on Sharpologist.
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I just learned of The Razor Company, which has a very nice site (and does carry Grooming Dept pre-shave when it’s available).
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Darkfall, Valley of Ashes, and another naughty razor made nice
I began, of course, by applying a small (pea-sized) lump of Grooming Dept Moisturizing Pre-Shave to my face. I noticed that now I can easily pull the right amount from the jar using the tip of my...
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June Clover is my favorite Booster aftershave fragrance
My Phoenix Artisan Bay Rum is their kokum butter formula, and a very nice soap it is. My Plisson HMW 12 easily brought forth a fine lather, and the comfortable and efficient Maggard V2OC head (same as...
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Current brush collection
I have three synthetic brushes en route from Yaqi, two with 22mm knots and one with a 19 mm knot. I’m unsure how I can rearrange things to fit them in. That will be a total of 55 brushes, enough to...
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The pleasures of a brush whose knot is coarse
Not coarse in the sense of bad manners or foul language, of course, but in the sense of thick bristles with blunt ends. One might expect that from a boar brush, but in my experience boar brushes feel...
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