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Excellent shave for Presidents’ Day
A totally wonderful shave to start the week: my Plisson Chinese Grey worked up a superb lather with a spicy fragrance from Strop Shoppe’s Russian Tea shaving soap. The anonymous German slant, holding...
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A Special shave
Naturally QED’s Special 218 is the soap of the day, and it made quite a fine lather with a beguiling woodsy fragrance. Lately I have been trying working up the lather in a cupped palm, a technique...
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Splendid shave: Bring back Astra Keramik Platinums!
A wonderful shave. After reading the instructions and cautions for HTGAM’s preshave butter balm, I decided to skip it until I was using a larger brush. My concern is that in the Wee Scot’s small knot...
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A no-photo shave
I set up the stuff and forgot to take the photo. So it goes. I’ll use the same soap—HTGAM’s Gondolier—tomorrow. I did try HTGAM’s pre-shave butter stick. (I was going to link to it, but the site is not...
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BBS with HTGAM and the “Sticky”
Extremely good shave today. The soap at the left in a plastic wrap is a pre-shave soap that HowToGrowAMoustache.com is working on, and I gave it a try this morning. It’s quite nice. I do like the...
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Taconic plus Stetson
An excellent result today, though I changed blades at the end: just a little too much effort in cutting. First the prep: the Mühle silvertip is a wonderful brush and it ginned up an excellent lather...
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A great shave to start the week
Skipping the shave Sunday still seems worth it for the great Monday shaves. This morning I used QED’s Vetiver shave stick, and this is one of my favorite vetiver lather sources, the other being Cyril...
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Two Whipped Dogs and a very fine shave
Responding to a query, I used two of my Whipped Dog silvertip brushes today: a 22mm (on the left) and a 24mm. Both made a superb lather, helped no doubt by Martin de Candre’s excellent shaving soap....
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Extremely nice shave with excellent razor
Extremely smooth result today. My BestShave.net horsehair brush ($2.45) created an extremely good lather, thanks in no small part to Creed’s Green Irish Tweed shaving soap: a wonderful soap, but is a...
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Russian Tea and Oriental Spice
An extremely good shave today. The Simpson Chubby has the same cushiony feel as the 24mm Whipped Dog, slightly augmented. I got a very fine lather from Strop Shoppe’s limited edition Russian Tea...
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Comparing the Omega R&B brush with the Pro 48
Just to be clear, “R&B” in the title means Razor & Brush, not Rhythm & Blues. The R&B limited edition premium brush (the bristles are not cut at the ends: the brush ends with the...
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The vanishing-lather conundrum
I’ve decided to use my Barrister & Mann soaps this week, a different soap with a different sort of brush daily. Today’s brush is the superb R&B (Razor & Brush) limited edition...
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No lather problem today, and a superb shave
Today I used a horsehair shaving brush with Dickens shaving soap by Barrister & Mann. No problem in getting three good passes of lather from the fully loaded brush. The shave itself was extremely...
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BBS with pleasure—also with Barrister & Mann and Feather
A very fine and comfortable shave this morning. The HJM black synthetic brush quickly created a very fine lather—which easily lasted the duration of the shave with plenty left over. The Feather...
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Another good lather and fine shave
Another excellent shave, with no lather problems (though I do not get superabundant lather with Barrister & Mann soaps, the lather I do get is easily enough for a shave). Tomorrow I will return to...
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Good lather, smooth shave
As promised, I returned to Hallows and tried again, this time with one boar brush and one silvertip brush. Today I had no lather-longevity problems, and so tomorrow I will try the Omega R&B brush...
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Another great shave, but lather problem resurfaces
A return to the original situation, and once again I experienced lather collapse disorder. The brush had very good lather for the first two passes, but by pass three, no lather remained. Very strange....
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Some improvement with new boar
I using the Omega R&B brush exclusively this week, to see whether its break-in will make it more accommodating of lather. I got a very nice lather with my Institut Karité 25% shea butter shaving...
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Extremely good shave—with persistent lather
An excellent BBS result today, but first a comment on the lather, which today was made from HowToGrowAMoustache.com’s Cavendish shaving soap. HTGAM soaps, like those from the Strop Shoppe, provide an...
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Three passes of (thinning) lather, but first-rate result
I was going to use a Stirling soap, but I wanted to try Mystic Water shaving soap before the Omega R&B brush is fully broken in. I’ve had occasional dying lather problems with that soap, though...
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