Razor: Merkur 39C Slant
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A smooth and relaxing midweek shave. Slants are sometimes seen as aggressive – and therefore scary – but with the right blade and the right touch I find my slants to be a joy to use.
No, not that G-man. Not those G-men either. The other one you never heard about before today.
Razor: Merkur 39C Slant
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Taylor of Old Bond Street Peppermint
Aftershave: Myrsol Formula K
Additional Care: Alum Block
Razor: Phillips Philite
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another fine Friday shave. Williams Mug Soap is another of those soaps people love to hate, if random people on the internet is anything to go by, but I find it a solid performer.
Some toiletry kits are small. Some are so big they can double as a pillow. But the combination traveling case and toilet table patented by Roberta R Thornhill is the first I can recall that came with its own table.
Continue readingRazor: Merkur (?) NOS Bakelite Slant
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Prairie creations Walter
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Where did the first two months of the year go? I swear it hasn’t been that long since New Years…
As I mentioned last week, the self-feeding shaving brush is an idea that won’t die. But while most of them, from 1849 onwards, have used a piston to force soap into the knot, Richard Burton Waterman’s soap-feeding shaving brush was different.
I mean, the idea of pushing soap straight into the knot is the same. But he did it differently. Possible even better.
Continue readingRazor: Phillips Philite
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
Brush: Omega #10048
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Jabonman Mediterráno L.E. BullGoose
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A new day, a new week, and a not so new razor. The Philite is a very nice, lightweight shaver that works wonders on the weekend stubble.
Razor: Merkur (?) NOS Bakelite Slant
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Dr Selby Lavender
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A fine Friday shave, even if I couldn’t quite find my Moment of Zen this morning. It is hard to find the inner peace, when it is the one year “anniversary” for the illegal and amoral full scale russian attack on Ukraine. It is hard to not think about how, while I am in a nice, warm bathroom, countless Ukrainian civilians are the target of cowardly russian attacks on population centers and civilian infrastructure. It is hard to concentrate on the sound of a sharp blade slicing through the stubble, when I know others are straining their ears to listen for an incoming missile or a suicide drone.
It was hard to find the Zen today.
Sláva Ukrayíni!
The fountain brush – or self feeding brush – is one of those ideas that just won’t go away.
Previously we have looked at a 1849 self feeding shaving brush, another self-feeding shaving-brush, a shaving brush suitable for travel and home, a soap-dispensing shaving brush, a fountain shaving brush, the Warner self-soaping brush, and more.
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