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Wonderful shave with a better aftershave
A really fine shave with a few experiments. I’m still using MR GLO for the pre-shave beard wash, but I will today mix 4 variants of the Jlocke98 aftershave (lanolin, jojoba, olive, and emu oils). The...
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New stuff, great shave
Really fine shave today. The brush with the Snoo is my new Wicked_Edge brush, with a badger+horsehair knot. It’s a very nice brush indeed, made by Vie-Long. The shaving soap is new to me, and I’ll be...
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Extremely smooth and enjoyable shave
What a fine shave. I started with Occams pre-shave soap, interrupting the jlocke98 series, because I just received it (from Australia) and want to give it a go. Quite good, in fact, with a strong lime...
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Late but flawless shave
A while back a guy got a bad tub of J.M. Fraser shaving cream—a long-time favorite of mine—and I emailed the company to see whether this was a formula change. I got a quick reply: it was simply a...
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Smooth result, lather struggles
I’m struggling to get a lather I like from the Stirling soap. It’s possibly my technique: I can get the lather now to last the shave, but I can’t get the tiny-bubbled, creamy lather that I like. The...
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A dying blade takes revenge
Back to Stirling, working on the lather. I used my Vie-Long “Bombito” boar brush from BullgooseShaving.net this morning, and I used extra loading time and extra water. The lather lasted well, though...
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BBS with some issues
I ended up with a good shave: BBS and no nicks. Along the way, I struggled some more with the Stirling. The later I get is perfectly usable, I just like more thickness. I tried a few drops of the...
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What a smooth face I have!
What a great shave. I wet the horsehair brush before I showered, and after the shower worked up a terrific lather from the Barrister & Mann soap, whose label ran in the water and finally got lost,...
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I’m going to take a break from Stirling soap
Today I did used a Jlocke98 pre-shave mix with jojoba oil, and that also does a good job. The lather I made using a shaken out brush with good loading of the soap, and then I even tried working the...
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BBS on the 4th
A WEdger traded me some Coates shaving cream—no longer made except for a “Limited Edition” tub—and I used some this morning. Note that the size of the tube (1.7 oz) TSA guidelines for carry-on...
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Success with Stirling Shaving Soap! (And a BBS result)
Thanks to Rod’s guidance (in a comment on this post), I have had a completely successful lather from Stirling soap. The trick is that this soap requires a mug or a high-walled tub: the early, sloppy...
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Shaving in the field (WW II)
“Run it up the hill again, Joe. It still ain’t hot enough.” Filed under: Shaving
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Terrific shave, new soap
I have used other Haslinger soaps, but not the Coconut. It lacks the strong coconut fragrance of (e.g.) Geo. F. Trumper Coconut shaving cream or shaving soap, but made an excellent lather easily,...
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Shaving with the Toggle
A really fine shave today, with a BBS finish. Whatever the reasons for not getting quite the lather I wanted with my first use of my shaving soap from Al’s Shaving, today’s was perfect. The difference...
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Semogue and Stirling
Another very fine lather and another very fine shave from three days ago. Sometimes when you click “Publish” in WordPress, it will grind its gears and move convincingly, but not actually publish the...
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Vitos and the aftershave balm from AlsShaving.com
That’s the Reddit Wicked_Edge brush, but it’s turned with the Snoo in back. Apologies. I wet the knot before I showered, and after worked up an excellent lather from Red-Label Vitos shaving soap—quite...
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I do like rose
I used D.R. Harris Rose shaving cream and my Whipped Dog silvertip with the optional ceramic handle: a very nice little brush. Loads of fragrant lather—rose is a great fragrance to start the day....
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This time I did use the two-piece iKon
The Ecotools Retractiable Kabuki turns out to be as good a shave brush as the regular Ecotools Kabuki—that is, quite good. It has its own distinct character, and to those who move from a boar brush to...
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Wonderful shave with Russian Tea
A very fine shave. My Omega silvertip looks to have a somewhat asymmetrical knot, but that’s an artifact of squeezing it into place on the brush shelf while the brush was still damp: it dried with the...
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Note to self: Always start week with perfect shave
This week is fine: BBS result, not a trace of a nick. My Wet Shaving Products Monarch worked up a really fine lather from Strop Shoppe’s Black Tie, and this time I got a good hit of the fragrance:...
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