We are all familiar with the Khaki Kit – made in huge numbers, handed out to doughboys so they wouldn’t die horrible in the trenches, reproduced and recreated today… but what if I told you there were non-Gillette Khaki Kits supplied by the US Govn’t to the US Army and Navy?
Continue readingRazor: Shick G4
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Omega #10048
Lather: Cold River Soap Works’ Barbere Sapone
Aftershave: BullDog Sensitive Aftershave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block
of toil and sin
your head grows bald
but not your chin
Burma Shave, 1955 jingle.
Razor: Shick G4
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Lather: Cold River Soap Works Olfactory Hue
Aftershave: BullDog Original Aftershave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block
I’m not sure if the offer is still valid – but if it is, my *bleep* of choice is Green Astra blades.
Razor: Shick G4 Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Colonia
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
Lather: Goldex Nova Fórmula
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest 80 Below
Additional Care:Alum Block
Another commercial that wouldn’t fly today – canned goo for the ladies.
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest 80 Below
Additional Care: Alum Block
The fresh, clean, Gillette look – every time you shave. Yours for 25 shilling, after you invented and built a time machine off course.