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Plisson, Le Père Lucien, and l’Occitane Cade, with the iKon H2O
A fine shave today. The Plisson HMW 12 has a horn handle, a French specialty after having Vietnam as an exploited colony for decades, horn apparently a Vietnamese commodity. The lather from Le Père...
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Can’t wait for the Fine slant: The white bakelite slant with Yardley and Aventus
A truly superb shave this morning. Yardley is a classic vintage soap with a traditional (and still quite present) lavender fragrance. The lather, worked up with the excellent Omega S-Brush shown, was...
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Vintage Blades shaving soap with Simpson PJ and the Stealth
An extremely pleasant and smooth shave, and the pleasure began with the Simpson Persian Jar brush and the excellent shaving soap I bought some years back from Vintage Blades LLC when the company was...
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Paring down the collection: An Edwin Jagger Chatsworth goes to auction
I’m continuing to trim the collection. This one is quite nice and would work well as a first razor. In excellent shape; EJ uses heavy-duty gold plating. It’s now on eBay. Update: Link corrected....
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The Dorco PL-602 plastic razor, along with the Organic Asses’ Milk shaving soap
A very smooth and very nice shave today. The prep doubtless contributed—as it always does. I used my Rooney Super Silvertip Style 2, which I picked up when Vintage Blades was liquidating their Rooney...
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The Holy Black offers its own slant razor
The razor is the SR-71 and is available as a conventional bar-guard razor or as a slant. Take a look. I’ve ordered the slant and will post a review once I receive it. This is the second recent razor...
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Sweet Gale, the Razorock Baby Smooth, and some musings on “worth”
I do like the fragrance of Sweet Gale (“Enriched and fragranced with Bog Myrtle, Natural honey, Mixed spices, Cedarwood, Beeswax and Aberfeldy Single Malt Scotch Whisky.”) It’s a milder, gentler...
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Omega, Dr. Jon’s Propaganda, and the Black Mamba
I do like that Omega boar brush shown in the photo. It’s very soft, and if you accept its softness and learn to use it, it’s a wonderful brush, but I can understand those accustomed to a stiffer brush...
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The Holy Black: Brush, Slant, and Aftershave, with WSP Formula T Tobacco
Got my shipment from The Holy Black yesterday. The brush is quite nice: a somewhat rustic feeling handle with a sculptured bas-relief and an angel-hair synthetic knot of a size that works well for me....
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Well said at WE
Good post. Concrete description and exactly what those who are still pondering the switch want to know. Perfect.Filed under: Shaving
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A perfect shave with an Omega boar brush, Eufros shaving soap, and the Merkur...
This is what shaving should be like every day. My Omega 20102 boar brush is now well broken in and had no trouble working an extremely good lather from JabonMan’s Eufros Rosa Bourbon, which has a...
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Selling my Elite Razor with white quartz handle laced with gold
Another razor up for auction.Filed under: Shaving
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Chocolate Bourbon and the Standard
HTGAM’s Chocolate Bourbon has a lovely fragrance, and with the Sabini brush shown it made a very fien lather, though it took a little work this time: I had to add more water than I expected, but the...
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Beta test of iKon’s new slant, the X3
Greg Kahn of iKon asked whether I’d like to be one of the beta testers of their new slant, still under development (and, he says, there is “one last slight adjustment we may make prior to putting...
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Wolf Whiskers, Meißner Tremonia, and iKon X3
Another wonderful shave. My Wolf Whiskers brush with synthetic knot immediately worked up a fine lather from Meißner Tremonia’s Exotic Elemi, a soap and fragrance that I turn out to like a lot. Three...
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The Dorco razor, a fine $5 razor, plus Brushguy and I Coloniali
A very nice shave indeed Brushguy.com makes a very nice brush, and I do love I Coloniali shaving cream. I got a fine lather easily, and the fragrance appeals to me. The Dorco PL-602, $5 including...
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The Phoenix Double-Open-Comb razor, with Martin de Candre
I continue to like the Omega “synthetic boar” brushes, particularly the brush shown: the brushes (in the regular size, not the pro size) perform extremely well, feel good on my face, and cost very...
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iKon X3 and stainless slant compared, with Wickham’s English Lavender
A very smooth and easy shave today. The RazoRock synthetic brush shown worked up a fine lather from Wickham’s English Lavender. One oddity: the soap stuck to the cap on about half the puck, so I...
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A Gerson-branded Mühle Sophist with horn handle goes to auction
Another razor, listed here, from the shrinking collection: Filed under: Shaving
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Comparison: iKon X3 and iKon #102, with Klar Seifen and the Kent Infinity
Klar Seifen is quite a nice soap and, as you see, they fill the tub to the brim. With a little practice, it’s quite easy to load the bush neatly from such soaps—requiring that the soap container be...
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