A fine Friday shave as we approach the end of this year.
A fine Christmas Morning shave.
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:
Continue readingThere are times the title of a patents makes me stop and wonder if I actually read what I thought I read. The patent title of “automatically ignited and extinguished hot water shaving brush” by William G Frazier was definitely one of those times. I had to read it more than twice, if I’m to be honest.
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