Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Rise Shave Gel
Brush: N/A
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp” Injector with a Schick blade
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Myrsol After Shave Formula K
Beard care: Big Red Beard Oil and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
One of the first soaps I bought was Colonel Conk’s Bay Rum. While I was initially enamoured by it, the initial crush wore off fairly quickly as I was exposed to better soaps.
The other day I used it again for the first time in quite some time, and decided that I didn’t need it taking up space among my shaving soaps no more… so the Colonel have been demoted to a bath soap.
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Wet Shaving Products pre-production soap
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M unbleached pure horse
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp” Injector with a Schick blade
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Myrsol Agua De Limón
Beard care: Big Red Beard Oil and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Col. Conk Bay Rum
Brush: Turkish No7 ‘horse hair’
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp” Injector with a Schick blade
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Proraso Liquid Cream After Shave
Beard care: Big Red Beard Oil and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
The human mind can be an overboiling pot of fantastical ideas, letting us come up with all sorts of brilliant and bizarre inventions. King Gillette’s double edged blade was arguable one of the former. Malcolm H Baker and Franklin S Frisbie’s hexagonal blade probably belongs in the later category…
The idea behind the invention was admirable;
It is the object of the present invention to roduce a razor of the safety type in which the blades by the use of a plurality of cutting edges shall have increased life-in other words, a’ razor in which the blades require resharpening or replacing at longer intervals than in devices at present in use.
Blades for the Gillette razors were not – comparatively speaking – nearly as cheap as they are today, and older style safety razors used wedge blades that required tools and skill to hone and sharpen. However… the leap of logic seems to have been that if two edges are good, then more edges must be better. Minor issues like practicality and useability seems to have taken a back seat to having many edges on the blade.
The result is less of a safety razor of the hoe-type and more of a shavette:
A further object is to provide a razor in which the cutting edge in use is in a parallel lane with the handle, and thus to provide or a drawing stroke in shaving, of the same the as is employed in the ordinary old style folding-blade razor.
And finally, they claimed that their new, improved razor also were:
…of few and simple parts, which may be easily taken apart or assembled and which is readily cleansed after use.
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Aubrey Organics North Wood, brushless
Brush: N/A
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp” Injector with a Schick blade
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum Aftershave
Beard care: Big Red Beard Oil and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
My invention consists partly in application to a razor of a roller acting as a guard to prevent the wounding of the skin in the use of the razor, and partly in certain details of construction pointed out in the claims.
Unsurprisingly the razor isn’t a safety razor as we know it:
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Proraso Eucalyptus & Menthol Cream
Brush: Omega #10048 boar
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp” Injector with a Schick blade
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum Aftershave
Beard care: Big Red Beard Oil and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Citrus Soap
Lather: Prairie Creations Walter
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B natural white pure horse
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp” Injector with a Schick blade
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Myrsol After Shave Formula K
Beard care: Big Red Beard Oil and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Phil, over at BullGoose Shaving Supples, have come up with a solution for those who wants a Darwin DE and have deep pockets: the stainless steel Asylum Evolution DE.
It looks really, really nice, and the reports from the ones who have used the prototypes are very encouraging. And while I haven’t rushed to place an order myself, the price isn’t bad for a new production stainless razor… and my birthday is coming up in a few months *ponder*