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Rapid Shave: Soaks whiskers soft, but not sandpaper
Commercials can be odd to begin with. And when you’re trying to stand out from the crowd, or try to drive a point home, they can get weirder still. Like this one, for Palmolive’s Rapid Shave shaving cream:
Continue readingAdvent 2021 – first surprise
Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the first bag!
Continue readingShave of the day 1st December 2021
Razor: Schick E2
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Nivea Cooling After Shave Balm
Additional Care: Alum block
Adapter for a handle and a cartridge of different razor systems
Don’t you just hate how your preferred handle don’t fit your favourite razor blade?
No, me neither. After all, all double edge blades based on the Probak / Gillette patents fits virtually all double edge razors.1 In the same way, virtually all injector blades will work with virtually all injector razors. And all GEM blades work with all GEM and EverReady razors.
If, however, you’re not engaging in what I consider “traditional wetshaving”2 but are using cartridges instead… yeah, then you may be familiar with the problem this patent is trying to fix.
Continue readingShave of the day 29th November 2021
Razor: Schick E2
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 26th November 2021
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Angelo’s other lathering device
The stationary – as in bolted down – shaving cup was not Angelo Piccione’s1 first foray into making an overly complex self cleaning lathering cup. Six years before the stationary cup he filed a patent for a, well, lathering device. The objective is more or less the same as his later lather cup. In the words of the patent text:
Continue readingThis invention relates to lathering devices for use by barbers to produce lather for shaving purposes, and has for its object the provision of a device of this character which permits of easily and conveniently cleaning the cup and brush after each shaving operation and thus render the same more sanitary as well as facilitating the work of the barber.
From US Patent 1,448,674
Shave of the day 24th November 2021
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Lather: Cold River Soap Works Olfactory Hue
Aftershave: Myrsol Formula K
Additional Care: Alum Block
Stationary shaving cup
Angelo Piccione filed a patent for a stationary shaving cup in 1928. Which brought up some odd mental imagery, since in my line of work the opposite to stationary is self-propelled or towed…
A number of inventions straddle the line between insanity and brilliance. And while it’s clear that Piccione took a large step towards one of the two sides, I’m not sure what way he went with this.
Not only does Piccione’s invention sounds like it was a piece of heavy machinery, but the patent drawing1 also looks the part too. We got multiple valves, springs, and linkages. We got pipes, sprayers, and tie-rods. I can easily imagine this device in shiny brass, chrome, and glass – and part of me really wants one.
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