Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Pereira Shavery Shaving Cream w/ Activated Charcoal
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Taking a new-to-me razor for a spin is always exciting. The Type A should be fairly similar to the Type B, but the head geometry is subtly different. More on that tomorrow.
Razor: Merkur 39C Slant
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Arko Shavestick
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another fine Friday shave, showing that you don’t have to spend a fortune to turn your shave to a moment of Zen.
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.
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: 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…
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!
Razor: Merkur (?) NOS Bakelite Slant
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Pereira Shavery Orange Blossom w/ activated charcoal
Aftershave: Saponificio Varesino Cubebe
Additional Care: Alum Block
Razor: Pereira Shavery Shavette
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another fast Friday shave.
Last week I wrote about a water dispensing razor. In the actual patent I quoted, it referred to two other patents. One I have already covered, and one for a safety razor with fluid distributing manifold. Which is a fancy way of saying a safety razor with built in plumbing. Patented by Mr Joseph Waldman in 1963, it is certainly a novel idea. But being novel don’t mean that it was a good idea.
Continue readingRazor: Pereira Shavery Shavette
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Body Shop Maco Root & Aloe
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Using a shavette, which I haven’t tried for a long time. Remarkable lack of blood and ambulance, I must be doing it right…