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Lovely lavender morning
Stimulated by yesterday’s flower-rich walk, I decided to go a lavender direction for today’s shave. Meißner Tremonia Lavender de Luxe is a fine shaving soap, and the WSP Monarch quickly made a lather...
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Great shave with the Gillette Heritage model of the Edwin Jagger razor
I experimented with my pre-shave routine this morning by first washing my stubble at the sink with MR GLO, rinsing well to remove soap, then applying the small amount of Grooming Dept Moisturizing...
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“Like trimming your toenails with an X-Acto knife”
I posted a comment to Wirecutter’s review of safety razors — a review that listed only multiblade cartridge razors. (Wirecutter is funded in part by kickbacks from affiliate links, and thus favors...
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Monday shaves are the best
The combination of good products, good prep, a good slant, and a two-day stubble results in a shave that’s hard to beat for pleasure and result. Today was not an exception. I decided to go this full...
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A dark day calls for Dark shaving soap and aftershave
Overcast and raining, which in a sense is good albeit somewhat gloomy, but I am warm and dry in my apartment, enjoying hot tea and my morning treat of three piece of fruit. I haven’t mentioned lately...
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Blue shave
Tallow + Steel’s take on bay rum works out very well, and once again the lather was spectacular. I noticed that the aluminum Baby Smooth shown above does not have the acoustic chops of the stainless...
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Leviathan rules
Leviathan shaving soap from Barrister and Mann is perfectly satisfying in fragrance and lather, the latter this morning brought to me by the Aerolite Amber from Phoenix Artisan. I chose of the razors...
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Dr. Jon’s Eucalyptus & Spearmint for a sunny late Spring morning
A brilliantly sunny morning seemed to call for something light and minty, and Dr. Jon’s Eucalyptus & Spearmint seemed just the ticket. This is his Vol. 3 formula and makes quite a fine lather,...
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Project Leather from Wholly Kaw
Wholly Kaw makes good soaps, and Project Leather is no exception. I have the tallow version: Potassium Stearate, Sodium Stearate, Aqua, Donkey Milk, Glycerin, Potassium Tallowate, Sodium Tallowate,...
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After the Rain with the 37G
This week I’m going to use Grooming Dept Moisturizing Pre-Shave without first washing my face with MR GLO, and this morning I did not notice any difference between with MR GLO and without MR GLO. The...
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Experiment with two-pass shave
This old soap is a rebranded pre-reformulation (and pre-outsourcing) Truefitt & Hill shaving soap. It makes a wonderful lather, and the little RazoRock Keyhole brush performs admirably though its...
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Two vintage shaving products I like a lot
Yardley was a big name back in the name — still somewhat big, but lessened in my view because of not having a shaving soap (or shaving cream) or an aftershave. So it goes. But this tub of vintage...
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James Bond’s shaving soap
Today I used James Bond’s shaving soap — not his own bowl of soap, but the same make (Floris of London) and fragrance (No. 89, their street address being 89 Jermyn St, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6JH,...
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Sandalwood morning
This is the good (i.e., old) Geo. F. Trumper and that RazoRock Italian-flag synthetic easily created a fine lather. The Baby Smooth (here in stainless steel) was unexpectedly unruly this morning,...
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Yeah, it was the blade
Yesterday’s shave produced a few nicks on my upper lip — extremely out of character for the Baby Smooth and also rare nowadays with any of my razors. I speculated that it was due to the blade — some...
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New ultra-premium soap: Tertius, by Ariana & Evans
I purchased a tub of Tertius after reading Mantic59’s comments on it in Sharpologist, and I’m glad I did. This is an ultra-premium soap, in the same league as Declaration Grooming’s Milksteak soaps...
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RazoRock’s ADJUST is a terrific razor
This is the softest boar brush I’ve experienced, and it easily aroused an excellent lather from Declaration Grooming’s Cuir et Épices shaving soap in their Milksteak formulation. This morning I was...
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First Night and a Gillette razor
I continue to be fond of my Omega 20102 boar brush, and this morning it made a luscious lather from First Night on Planet Earth, a CK-6 soap from Phoenix Artisan. The razor is a King C. Gillette...
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Good news from Grooming Dept
Last night I got an email sent by Grooming Dept to its mailing list, with some very good news: I’m pleased to announce a restock of the following products. They’ll be on the site on June 10,...
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Pine, cedar, and cinnawood
Mike’s Natural soaps seem to go for a light touch on fragrance — pleasant but modest and unassuming. Still, the lather is very good, usually requiring a dab or two of additional water during loading,...
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