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Great start to a new week
An expected BBS shave by virtue of a two-day stubble and a slant. I decided to risk a shave stick with a boar brush because my Pro 48 held tons of lather when I used it previously. It was...
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Favorite soaps and creams
The top 10 soaps and shaving creams as rated by Greg (Palpz on Wicked_Edge). Interesting list, and indeed I would agree that the products he picked are excellent. Filed under: Shaving
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Trumper Coconut — and Coral Skin Food to finish
The Wet Shaving Products fine Prince Premium Silvertip shaving brush. As with the Monarch, the 2-band version has a stiffer knot, and I like the softer feel of the 3-band versions (which in the...
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Musgo Real and Vie-Long
An extremely pleasant shave today. The Musgo Real shaving cream (Orange Amber today) is by request, and the Vie-Long horsehair brush results in an Iberian Peninsula prep today. The shaving cream works...
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An all-French shave (sort of)
“Sort of” because the Gerson razor shown (with a buffalo-horn handle) is actually a re-branded Mühle Sophist. But it was purchased in Paris by The Wife, and Gerson is (so far as I know) a French...
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Green Mountain and a great shave
I bought a few of the Green Mountain shaving soaps, and today I tried the first: Lavender Grapefruit. Green Mountain pucks are triple-milled and an interesting shape. It worked fine in my Marvy...
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TFS shaving cream
I liked the Tcheon Fung Sing shaving soap (BullgooseShaving.net carries that), so when I saw Tcheon Fung Sing shaving cream at RoyalShave.com, I was intrigued enough to buy a tub. As you see, it is...
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Beautiful hippo-ivory rescaling job by Maggard Razors
You can read the explanation and then view the series of photos. Maggard Razors also sells shaving products (on-line and also bricks-and-mortar store in Andrian, MI). Here’s the first: Filed under:...
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A wood-oriented shave
Today the theme is wood. My Vie-Long horsehair brush with an olive-wood handle worked up a very nice lather from the Celelestial Woods shaving cream sample from QueenCharlotteSoaps.com. It was not...
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TSF shaving cream, second try
It looks like the answer to the problem I had with TFS shaving cream—lather dying quickly—goes away if you use (say) the Omega Pro 48 (model 10048) boar brush: an Italian brush for an Italian shaving...
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Basil-Lime shaving cream and a 2-razor shave
Musgo Real seems to like unusual fragrances for their shaving cream, but so far they work very well. I tried the Orange Amber and liked it, and Basil Lime shown in the photo made a fine lather with an...
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My Merkur HD still does a good job
A very pleasant shave today. My Rod Need Dreadnought brush, a massive thing, made a fine lather from Dr. Selby’s 3x Concentrated shaving cream. When I resumed traditional wetshaving almost a decade...
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Vetiver for Spring
Vetiver seems to be about as polarizing as cilantro. I’m on the Vetiver-loving (and cilantro-loving, for that matter) side. It’s a terrific spring fragrance. I was overcome with longing for my QED tub...
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RazoRock TTO and RazoRock Razor Wrap-up
Vetiver is simply great (for me). I had a tub, apparently lost in the Great Purge, of Cyril R. Salter’s French Vetiver shaving cream—a white tub, before the package redesign—that seemed to have a bit...
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Tomorrow’s shave
I’ve been thinking off and on today about tomorrow morning’s shave. I have a new slant bar, a 1930s (I would guess) German (I believe) model that looks somewhat unusual. I’m using QED’s “Rosie” shave...
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A new slant, with rose
A wonderful shave this morning, living up totally to my anticipation. First was the lather. As I mentioned, QED seems to offer extremely vivid fragrances, using essential oils, and Rosie is wonderful...
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Wonderful shave today
Nothing special except the wonderful result. My Omega Pro 48 gets better and better—I’m really liking it just as a brush. Green Mountain Soap seems quite good, and I enjoy the puck shape. My Weber...
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Mayday shave: Perfectomundo
What can I say? A wonderfully smooth face following an enjoyable interlude, with fragrance. The brush is my first expensive brush and still one of my favorites: the Rooney Style 2 Finest. It made a...
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Another fine May shave
Extremely nice shave. I love that Mühle silvertip: wonderful brush with both handle and knot having a good feel. And it made a dynamite lather from Honeybee Soaps’ Sandalwood Musk. Three passes of the...
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Rapid shave
I was sitting in my pyjamas when the telephone guy called to say that he would be over to check our phone lines. (Turns out to most likely be a modem problem.) He said he would arrive in 20 minutes....
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