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Chiseled Face makes excellent shaving soap
I’ve not used one of my Chiseled Face shaving soaps for a while, and I was struck this morning by the excellence of the lather i got from his Sherlock shaving soap. With the WSP Prince shaving brush,...
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Summer Storm and Hairy Crab
Summer Storm, like yesterday’s Sherlock, produces a superb lather easily — and the fragrance is wonderful: “Moist earth, oak moss, cut grass, pine needles, orange, lemon, ozone, white jasmine, lily of...
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Strop Shoppe and Chiseled Face
Strop Shoppe has been gone quite a while now, and this morning the fragrance of this soap seemed off, so I don’t think I’ll be using it again. I also had trouble with the Vie-Long horsehair brush, but...
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Exceptionally good shave from a good combination
Fairly often I will be pleasantly surprised by the excellence of a shave. Partly, I imagine, it’s due to subjective factors — my mood, how well I slept, and so on — but I’m sure that also the...
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Up & Adam and Dark Chocolate
Espresso and vanilla (the soap), followed by dark chocolate (the aftershave): a pleasant way to end the week. WSP’s Monarch is a first-rate brush, and Stubble Trubble’s lather is always good, so my...
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Yaqi, Otoko, and Southern Witchcrafts
My Yaqui Cashmere was perfect for Otoko Organics, and I immediately had a wonderful crisp lather. “Crisp” is not a common word to use with lather, but if you’ve used Otoko Organics (which I...
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A rosy morning, with the superb Fine aluminum slant
It’s always a pleasure to use the Omega Pro 48 (10048), and it easily created a great lather from Mystic Water Yellow Rose. Now that I know to keep the angle shallow — i.e., to keep the handle well...
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Stout-hearted shave
Mystic Water’s Oatmeal Stout is a good replacement for the no-longer-available Mickey Lee Soapworks The Drunken Goat — no goat milk, but a good tallow-based shaving soap that has the sturdy fragrance...
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Lavender morning
Mike’s Natural Hungarian Lavender has a great fragrance — and makes a great lather, this morning with the able assistance of my Whipped Dog 22mm silvertip, whose knot is set at the standard depth....
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L’Occitane Cade and RazoRock Old Type
Although I do like the fragrance a lot, I think l’Occitane’s shaving soap is merely okay. It certainly falls short of the quality of the shaving soaps from good small producers (Catie’s Bubbles,...
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An old-school shave
The traditional standby of a boar brush is hard to beat. You know already how much I like my Omega Pro 48. If you haven’t tried it, get one and for the first week don’t use it to shave — just wet the...
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Planet Java Hive to start the week
It’s always good to start the week with a fine shaving experience, which was provided this morning by the CK-6 formulation of Planet Java Hive, whose coffee + honey fragrance greatly appeals to me,...
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Dapper Doc and the Starcraft meet Lo Storto
The luxury of a fine and fragrant lather is one factor in changing shaving from a task to a pleasure, and Dapper Doc provides the pleasure today, along with my Starcraft brush. The entire lathering...
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Cavendish and the iKon stainless-steel open-comb
I like the pipe-tobacco fragrance of Cavendish, and certainly the lather from this CK-6 version was excellent. My iKon stainless-steel open-comb razor is a delight to use and produces a wonderful...
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Lenthéric and the Game Changer .68-P
Yesterday saw high winds on Vancouver Island, with trees falling across highways, onto cars, into yards — and, crucially, onto power lines. When I woke up this morning, no internet, though I was...
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Cedar shave
Phoenix Artisan’s Amber Aerolite made a exceptional lather from Grooming Dept’s Cedarwood, an exceptional shaving soap in his Nai formulation. This soap has a wonderful fragrance: Scent Ingredients:...
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Wholly Kaw’s Project Leather and Gillette’s 1940s Aristocrat
Wholly Kaw’s Project Leather lather is very nice: thick, slick, and smelling good — “refined notes of Leather Suede blended with Cardamom, sensuous Vanilla and Tobacco notes, with Oud and Bourbon...
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Honeysuckle and the 102
Phoenix Artisan’s Honeysuckle, recently made again available, is a pleasant fragrance in any season — in the winter it lifts the doldrums, the the summer it reinforces seasonal joy. And this...
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Another honeysuckle morning
A different honeysuckle soap: Mike’s Natural Wild Honeysuckle, which made a very nice lather indeed with my RazoRock 400 (which offer various options for the handle material and color). And the...
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Donkey-milk shaving soap and the Charcoal EJ
A very pleasant shave indeed. I’ve not used this soap for a while, but the lather was extremely nice. Three passes with the Charcoal company’s copy of the Edwin Jagger head, here on a Wolfman handle...
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