Last shave of the year, and I’m not even in my own den… still a great shave, though with a razor that is one hundred and six years old by now.
A fine Friday shave as we approach the end of this year.
Old advertisements can be head scratchers at times.
I mean… who in their right mind wipes their razor off on the good towels in the first place?
A fine Christmas Morning shave.
Norwegians, being a sensible people, have the big Yuletime celebration on Christmas Eve. So before I eat myself into a food coma and opens presents with my family, allow me to wish you all the very best for the midwinter holiday – or midsummer, for those south of the equator!
May your holiday be peaceful and restful, and I do hope you all get what you wish for under the tree – if you have a tree, that is. May you stay safe with your family, be it the family you’re born into or the one you choose.
Stay safe, stay sane, and stay shaving.
Razor: Phillips Philite
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Pereira Shavery Shaving Cream w/ Activated Charcoal
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care:
Alum Block
A lovely little Monday shave.
Or rather, the end of a tub of soap.
Sharp eyed readers might have caught on to the fact that I’ve been using only one soap for the last few shaves. And by last few, I mean every shave from 28th August and until 20th December.
A couple of shaves into it, I asked myself if I could actually finish the tub… it wasn’t a lot left, but as we all know it is fairly easy to pick another soap – thus almost empty tubs tends to stay almost empty forever.
But I managed – if only because I forced myself to only use a single soap for close to four months…
Was it worth it? Well, yor mileage may vary – but it means I only have four soaps that don’t fit in my lather-drawer instead of five. So I guess that is progress?
And that… was that. The last bit of CRSW’ Morning Ghost is used up. That took longer than expected, but now I can start my holiday break with different soaps 🙂
Or at least a razor invented by Burton Christmas,1 that is. I’ve touched upon it lightly before, but let us have a more in depth look at it.
As I have repeated time and time again, inventions tends to be aimed at solving a problem. And the problem Mr Christmas tried to solve, was the one of razors being too expensive to make good advertisers – even if Mr Unsinger might disagree. To quote the patent:
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