Shave of the day 8th September 2023

Razor: Schick Type B2

Blade: Personna Injector

Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger

Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream

Lather: Cold River Soap Works Olfactory Hue

Aftershave: Saponificio Varesino Tundra Artica

Additional Care: Alum Block

SOTD 2023 09 08

Another fine Friday shave with an Holy Grail razor.

A magical adventure for your face!

I find that playing around with AI – and large language models in particular – can be fun. And as long as you know to take everything they generate with a trainload or ten of salt, they can be useful too. Like when I asked ChatGPT to explain traditional wetshaving to me as if I was five years old… and was told that traditional wetshaving was a magical adventure for my face.

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Shave of the day 4th September 2023

Razor: Schick Type B2

Blade: Personna Injector

Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012

Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream

Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps Peppermint & Rosemary

Aftershave: Myrsol Aqua Balsamica

Additional Care: Alum Block

SOTD 2023 09 04

It is time for one of the Holy Grail razor again. Makes a Monday shave even better!

Shave of the day 1st September 2023

Razor: Schick E2

Blade: Personna Injector

Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn

Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream

Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps Pine & Cedarwood

Aftershave: Proraso Wood and Spice

Additional Care: Alum Block

SOTD 2023 09 01

A fine Friday shave, and the last shave with the 1941 E2 for now. Next week is the start of the pre-injector Schicks 🙂

Self-heating shaving preparation composition

If a terrific electric razor wasn’t enough to put you of shaving, I have another potential bathroom terror. Self-heating shaving preparation composition. Or self heating shaving cream to you and me.

This horror was invented by Ronald E Moses and Philip Lucas in the mid sixties. And the patent was assigned to Gillette Co LLC, because of course the evil empire of shaving would back this baffling idea.

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Shave of the day 30th August 2023

Razor: Schick E2

Blade: Personna Injector

Brush: Vie-Long #12705B

Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream

Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps Lemongrass & Eucalyptus

Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara

Additional Care: Alum Block

SOTD 2023-08-30

Another Mike-y shave in the middle of the week. One of the thing’s I like about Mike’s is how long the tubs lasts. This one I’ve had for… a decade? A little over a decade? Still retains the scent and still makes lovely lather.

Lather foam dispenser

Self lathering or fountain brushes is a dream as old as time. Or at least a dream as old as 1849, and as recent as.. well, at least the eighties. And it still don’t make much sense to me, so I wasn’t expecting anything earth shattering when I spotted Salmon C Harvey’s lather foam dispenser.

Let’s just say I wasn’t disappointed when I looked into it more.

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Shave of the day 28th August 2023

Razor: Schick E2

Blade: Personna Injector

Brush: Vie-Long #14033

Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream

Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps Hungarian Lavender

Aftershave: Myrsol Aqua Balsamica

Additional Care: Alum Block

SOTD 2023 08 28

A smooth start on a new week. Mike’s Natural is still the yardstick I measures other soaps against.