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Test of Vikings Blade Chieftain with different brand of blade
My Edwin Jagger synthetic is a very nice brush, and it easily worked up a good lather from this Phoenix Artisan Doppelgänger, a CK-6 formula soap. Yesterday I noticed that I was getting a surprising...
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Solstice shaving soap because I don’t have an Equinox
Happy Equinox and welcome to nights longer than days up here on the northern half of the planet — but only for a few months. Things will turn around before the end of the year, and in the meantime —...
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A Luxury shave
The Rooney Style 2 Finest is one of my favorite brushes: excellent resilience, long loft, somewhat fluffy, lots of volume available for lather — and such a good lather it was! Grooming Dept Luxury...
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Coconut and peach to start Saturday
Grooming Dept Chypre Peach — “Citruses, Maillette Lavender, Rose, Peach, Osmanthus, Spices, Amber, Oakmoss, Leather, Labdanum, Vetiver, and Patchouli” — uses the Kairos (tallow) formula. The soap...
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After the Rain and a blade change for the #102
The Omega Pro 48 (10048) is always a good way to start the week, and today Declaration Grooming’s After the Rain, in their Milksteak formulation, provided the grist for its mill. Well-loaded, the...
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The whole megillah Grooming Dept shave
All today’s shave software is from Grooming Dept, and for the occasion, I brought out Moisturizing Pre-Shave from back room — seldom on-stage, he’s a vital part of the entire ensemble and plays his...
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Tertius and Lo Storto
Tertius is the only Ariana & Evans soap I have, but it definitely makes me want to buy more of them. “Leather, Tobacco, & Oud, supported by a hint of Rose & Patchouli.” (And it’s on sale...
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Van Yulay and the iKon open comb
Van Yulay’s After Dark is a favorite. Van Yulay shaving soaps vary in their formula from soap to soap, and the catalogue entry for each soap explains the benefits of the various ingredients used in...
View ArticleGreat news! Dr. Selby’s 3X Concentrated Shaving Cream shall return!
Dr. Selby’s 3X Concentrated Shaving Cream is solid to the touch, like a soap, and it makes a wonderful lavender-scented lather — it’s one of my favorite lather sources — see this posts. It has sadly...
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Dr. Selby’s return, honored in today’s shave
As I blogged yesterday, Dr. Selby is returning to the US. This 3X concentrated shaving cream is made in Uruguay, and I like it a lot, and not just for the packaging, which is clever. The photo at the...
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Indian Flavor and T2
A very pleasant shave. My Simpson Emperor 3 Best easily — well, with one small driblet of water — evoked a very fine lather from Meißner Tremonia’s Indian Flavour shaving soap, and the Rockwell T2 was...
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Strong ‘n Scottish ‘n the wonderful iKon slant
My Omega Pro 48 is always a pleasure, and today it worked up a superb lather from Meißner Tremonia’s Strong ‘n Scottish shaving soap “with scotch whisky and sheep wool fat.” iKon’s wonderful...
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Achilles ‘n Ascension
Yesterday’s soap included Scotch whisky, and today’s includes Kentucky bourbon whiskey (with appropriate spellings). Van Yulay soaps are a favorite, and I’m getting to the end of my tub of Achilles...
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One day whiskey, the next day beer: such is the Spyce of life
Meißner Tremonia’s Black Beer No. 1 has a very present but hard to define fragrance — perhaps it’s the beer combined with rosemary and lemongrass. Beer is indeed an ingredient: Stearic Acid, Cocos...
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Oatmeal Stout today
Mystic Water’s Oatmeal Stout is a very nice shaving soap with a good, stout fragrance. My brush from the Copper Hat made a particularly thick and creamy lather, and this Edwin Jagger head on a...
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Another stout-hearted soap: The Drunken Goat
Unfortunately, Mickey Lee Soapworks is no more, and his wonderful The Drunken Goat is no longer available. But stout-hearted men can still avail themselves of Mystic Water Oatmeal Stout shaving soap,...
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Beer in shaving soap — why not wine?
Today’s shaving soap, Arianna & Evans Tertius, includes beer: Stearic Acid, Beef Tallow, Aqua, Goats Milk, Potassium Hydroxide, Kokum Butter, Shea Butter, Beer, Castor Oil, Sodium Hydroxide,...
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All Speick
Although Speick does not put the brand name on the foil around its shave stick (as Wilkinson does, for example), it does display the name in raised lettering on the bottom of the base. Because of...
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Lilac & Lavender & lovely lather
Mama Bear’s shaving soaps, high in glycerin content, make a luscious lather. This Lilac & Lavender shave stick really did a super job, and again I used it with Grooming Dept Moisturizing...
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Praise for Goodfellas’ smile Legione slant — and more on Hatley Castle Blend
The shave stick this morning is De Vergulde Hand from the Netherlands. I used my Wet Shaving Products Prince brush — a very nice little brush — but the lather was merely acceptable. That is, it did...
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