Razor: Merkur (?) NOS Bakelite Slant
Blade: Wilkinson Sword
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Lather: Wet Shaving Products Pre-production Sample
Aftershave: Body Shop Macau Root Energetic Face Protection
Additional Care: Alum Block, BullDog Original Beard Oil & Pereira towel
Razor: Merkur 45C Bakelite
Blade: Wilkinson Sword
Brush: Gustavo Rimano Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Additional Care: Alum Block, Big Red Beard Balm and Pereira towel
Razor: Merkur 45C Bakelite
Blade: Wilkinson Sword
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Lather: Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum Soap
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum
Additional Care: Alum Block, BullDog Original Beard Oil & Pereira towel
Razor: Merkur 45C Bakelite
Blade: Wilkinson Sword
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Lather: Pereira Shavery Shaving Cream w/ Activated Charcoal
Aftershave: Nivea Cooling After Shave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block, Scotch Porter Beard Balm & Pereira towel
’cause bad allergies, that’s why :/
Recently I found – and I’ve forgotten how I ended up there – a piece on restoring an old straight. Not just any old straight either; a straight lost at the Somme front during the Great War.
It is well worth a read by the way.
The restorer have some good points about the relative longevity of plastic razor cartridges versus old fashioned straights (and by extension safety razors); to paraphrase a cart lasts for a few shaves and lingers in nature forever, while an old fashion razor will shave forever yet will rust and decompose if lost or thrown away…
…and even a rusty, dinged up, buried for a century razor can still sometimes shave again!
Razor: Gillette Old Type “Khaki”
Blade: Astra Green
Brush: Omega #50014 Travel
Lather: BEA Shavestick
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum
Additional Care: Alum Travel Stick & WSP Matterhorn Beard Oil
Five cents in 1924?
Twenty-five cents in 1967?
Or just under five cents per blade (bottom left corner) in 1948?
For the record, for my preferred all-round blade I’ll happily pay about 13 cents each when buying in bulk… which is dirt cheap compared to what blades used to cost when adjusted for inflation.