Advent 2021 – eleventh surprise

Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the eleventh bag!

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Advent 2021 – tenth surprise

Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the tenth bag!

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Shave of the day 10th December 2021

Razor: Schick E2

Blade: Schick Injector

Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn

Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream

Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango

Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara

Additional Care: Alum Block

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Advent 2021 – ninth surprise

Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the ninth bag!

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I’m committing a second book

Remember that book I committed a while ago? I’m in the process of putting a sequel together. Expect it sometime early in 2022.

The biggest trouble will be to come up with a title…

Advent 2021 – eight surprise

Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the eight bag!

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Shave of the day 8th December and a microreview

Razor: Schick E2

Blade: Schick Injector

Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012

Lather: Taylor of Old Bond Street’s Peppermint Shaving Cream

Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara

Additional Care: Alum Block

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The Peppermint Shaving Cream – which I got as yesterday’s surprise in the Solidarity Advent Calendar from Gifts & Care – was a pleasant surprise. With the help of a brush if created thick, abundant, creamy, and very pepperminty lather. Left my face feeling a little greasy, but not overly so. Not a bad choice, I feel, if you want a seasonal lather.

Advent 2021 – seventh surprise

Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the seventh bag!

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For years of shaving pleasure…

…give him Gillette.

At least that held true seventy years ago. The plastic monstrosities they sell these days? They will likely break in twenty five years or less, and I can’t see Gillette continuing to make the carts much beyond the lifespan of their patents. The razors they sold in ’53 on the other hand?

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Advent 2021 – sixth surprise

Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the sixth bag!

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