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Sandalwood Rose with Rose aftershave
I was just thinking about the decades when I wore a beard, completely ignorant of the pleasures of a morning shave using good products and tools. The Copper Hat silvertip brush in the photo, for...
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Coffee in the morning
Mystic Water Cuppa Joe has a good coffee fragrance — not strong, but present — and the lather my Rooney Victorian produced was excellent. Merkur’s Progress is an excellent adjustable, and three passes...
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Russian Tea, Diplomat, and Baker Street Blend
Two kinds of tea today. Russian Tea has a slightly spicy fragrance, and the lather is quite good (Strop Shoppe, after all), with Mr Pomp delivering the goods in making the lather. Fine Accoutrements...
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Truefitt & Hill by another name, and Balmoral Blend
I do love a good boar brush, and the lather this Omega 20102 aroused from my tub of rebranded Truefitt & Hill (old formulation) was excellent. My Goodfellas’ Smile Legione Slant did an excellent...
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La Toja for the win
In a previous post, I blogged La Toja’s story, and I still find the shaving soap exceptional. So far as I can tell, it comes only as a shave stick, but that’s not really a problem. The lather the Duke...
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I Coloniali rhubarb-based shaving cream and the Lupo
Some soaps and creams have ingredients that capture one’s attention and imagination: duck fat, lamb tallow, bison tallow, emu oil, and the like. Rhubarb as a shaving cream ingredient appealed to me,...
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Tertius and Hâttric went to a shave
Lovely shave this morning after too little sleep. (Finishing a season of Unforgotten on BritBox — terrific series, and the music is wonderfully done.) My Maggard 22mm evoked that ultra-premium that...
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A cigar fragrance: Van Yulay’s Puros La Habana
I like Van Yulay soaps, which come in a wide variety of fragrances and formulations. Puros La Habana has the fragrance of a fine Cuba cigar, and its ingredients are: Stearic Acid, Coconut Fatty Acid,...
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Aphrodite and the Chubby
I liked yesterday’s shave so much I decided to use another Van Yulay soap today: Aphrodite, with the fragrance of roses and chocolate (really quite a nice combination). Van Yulay varies their soap...
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Zi’ Peppino, the Amici, and iKon’s great slant
I do like Zi’ Peppino — both lather and fragrance — and my RazoRock Amici brought forth a fine lather today. Because I use a different razor for each shave, I don’t become so accustomed to a razor...
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Lovely Mallard Corretto with a Vie-Long horsehair brush and the RazoRock Baby...
Grooming Dept Mallard Corretto has a wonderful fragrance — “Coffee, Brandy, Plum, Berries, Honey, Cacao Dust, Vanilla, Patchouli” — and lather, the latter today due in part to my Vie-Long horsehair...
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Rose/Yuzu/Patchouli and Queen Victoria
The lather from Declaration Grooming’s bison-tallow soap this morning was exceptional, perhaps because I took extra care in shaking water from the brush before starting and then adding tiny amounts of...
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Rainy day, late start — but great shave
An atmospheric river is flowing over us right now, so the tea this morning (of course) Murchie’s Storm Watcher: “With toasted malty notes and slight smokiness, this brew is strong enough to stand up...
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Grog for a sunny day
I do love Tallow + Steel Grog, their take on Bay Rum. They have moved on to other fragrances, however, and this fragrance is vintage. Their soap is excellent, as shown by the superb lather my Edwin...
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Sunny morning, Dark shave
Tallow + Steel’s Dark has a very nice fragrance indeed, and the lather, too, is not to be sneezed at. This morning my Rod Neep brush raised a fine lather, and the Feather AS-D1, with its new Astra...
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At last I shave again — and what a great shave!
I think that Yaqi brush’s loft is a little low, but still: a great lather (Phoenix Artisan’s CK-6 formula) with a fragrance I very much like. The iKon stainless slant, here with a DLC coating, more...
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Honeysuckle morning
A bright sunny day — with a very high pollen count, so window shut and fan with HEPA filter running continuously on low — made me want a floral shave. Honeysuckle seems just the ticket for summer and...
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I’m hyper-alert to my heart now that I have a new pacemaker — still finding my footing, as it were. So late last night I became concerned enough to go to the ER, but after a couple of blood tests (to...
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Laundry and the 37G — plus a note on pacemaker side-effects
And exceptionally good shave this morning — a three-day stubble and a slant makes for a great shave. The soap is Grooming Dept Laundry II, a Kairos (tallow) formula soap whose fragrance is “Laundry +...
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Not a total surprise: Solstice shaving soap — and the RazoRock MJ-90A
Solstice is one of my favorite shaving soap fragrances. This tub has Phoenix Artisan’s Kokum Butter formula, and I would definitely get it in the CK-6 formula if I were buying it today. PA’s Solar...
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