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A final shave with the stringbag slant
Today is my final shave with the stringbag slant, and I send it back. It’s a remarkably good razor, and I’m hoping that one day it might be available, but that day is far in the future, so no wait...
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Blackbird and the 102
A wonderful shave this morning. Blackbird shaving soap is extremely good (I think it’s made by LA Shaving Soap Company, but I’m not sure of that), and I would use it more if the tub had a greater...
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A bay rum morning with Meißner Tremonia and Krampert’s Finest
A very fine shave this morning, all bay rum. The tub of Meißner Tremonia’s Natural Bay Rum is new, and you can clearly see the logo printed/embossed directly on the soap. After a few uses it’s gone,...
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Slime molds and slant razors
I periodically get into a discussion about whether slant razors work—well, obviously they work, but whether the slant of the blade has anything to do with the ease of cutting and the high efficiency of...
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An all-citrus shave, including Meißner Tremonia’s Pink Grapefruit shaving paste
As promised, I shaved today using Meißner Tremonia’s Pink Grapefruit (which includes eucalyptus) shaving paste, which is of a pretty firm consistency—”paste” is definitely a better word for this than...
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Van Yulay shaving soap, along with the ATT S1
The brush is RazoRock’s synthetic badger, a very nice brush indeed, and the soap is a sample of one of the (many) Van Yulay shaving soaps. This brand is new to me, but the range of fragrances is...
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Meißner Tremonia Himalayan Heights, with the Wee Scot and iKon DLC Slant
The Wee Scot is a fine little brush. I loaded it well with Meißner Tremonia’s Himalayan Heights shaving soap—though now I think I might get the shaving paste instead of the soap. Still, nothing wrong...
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Meißner Tremonia Woody Almond shaving paste and The Holy Black slant
Meißner Tremonia’s Woody Almond shaving paste made a really great lather, and the bitter-almond fragrance came through clearly to me, though I did not get so much of the Texas cedar fragrance....
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Smooth as can be, thanks to X3
Stop Shoppe soaps are now vintage soaps, I suppose: no longer being made, so I treasure the ones I have. I got a fine lather using my Fine Classic, and the iKon X3 prototype with a Gillette Silver...
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Van Yulay sample with Semogue 1305, plus the PL-602
I find that I am simply not a fan of Semogue brushes, and I don’t understand the appeal. Perhaps the long break-in period the brushes require produce cognitive dissonance if you have negative...
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Mr Pomp and Shaving Soap of the Gods Jared, with the Black Mamba
I photographed from well above the tub of Jared so you could see how it looks in the tub. The rosettes quickly wear to a plain surface, but they are a nice embellishment for a new puck of soap. Mr...
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Cucumber freshness meets Baby Smooth
Van Yulay makes very nice samples, with good labels in good containers that offer a reasonably large lathering surface. And they certainly have a plethora of samples from which to choose: page 1 and...
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Some thoughts on acceptance
I’m unsure whether the thoughts are related, but they seem to center on “acceptance.” First was a thought about Jesus. Regular readers will know that, although I’m quite interested in religion and...
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Culling the brush collection: Morris & Forndran goes on the block
Cutting back on brushes. This is a fine brush, but I notice I seldom use it. So it goes to eBay in this listing.Filed under: Shaving
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A soft brush and a fine shave with the Merkur white bakelite slant
I promised I’d use my Brent’s Brush, and there it is. It’s quite soft, but once I accepted that and learned to use it, I find I like it a lot. It has no trouble working up an excellent lather, today...
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Death by Chocolate shave
Once I saw the dark brown/black color of Van Yulay’s Death by Chocolate shaving soap, which indeed has a fairly intense dark-chocolate fragrance, I stayed with the color scheme. My HJM shaving brush...
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Meißner Tremonia Woody Almond and observations on pre-shave soap
I haven’t used my Plisson HMW 12 brush with the horn handle for a while, and it was nice to give it a little workout with Meißner Tremonia’s Woody Almond shaving paste. As is my practice, just before...
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The Emperor and Progress, with Meißner Tremonia Lavender de Luxe
The lather from Meißner Tremonia’s Lavender de Luxe was quite wonderful, and there was a lot of it since I used my Simpson Emperor 3 Super, a very fine brush with quite a nice handle design. After...
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Experimenting with the pre-shave
I wrote a post about using a high-glycerin soap to wash one’s stubble just prior to lathering, and one of the comments asked how well I rinsed off the soap. I hadn’t really thought about it—I usually...
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Achilles and the Wee Scot, with the Above the Tie S1
The Wee Scot made a wonderful lather from Van Yulay’s Achilles: Tobacco with the perfect amount of Kentucky bourbon, hints of cherry, notes of vanilla, of rosewood, cedar, smoke, and sweet birch. The...
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