Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Lavender Soap
Lather: Derby Lavender cream
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Razor: Merkur 25C long handled open comb with a Green Astra
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Thayers Original Witch Hazel
Beard care: Big Red Beard Oil and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Direct from BullGoose shaving supplies in California, a tub of Dr. Selby Lavender Luxury Shaving Cream – three times concentrated. Was intended to arrive by Christmas 2015, but with the delays in the Norwegian postal system…
The hard cream came with an operators manual in Spanish, but luckily a fellow shaver over at my favourite shave forum translated it into English in his review a couple of years back:
Always leave the tub open and use the cap as a base. The reason is because Dr. Selby shaving cream (in the tub 3 times concentrated) will always have a dry surface and it will render 400 shaves. Only in case of travel cover the cream.
Wet the brush, discharge the water over your face then swirl the brush in the tub as shown in the image. This way the cream will not get wet and it will not waste too fast.
To multiply the cream production on your face. Wet the brush a little more and keep swirling until it turns creamy, compact with no air bubbles.
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Lavender Soap
Lather: Dr Selby Lavender Luxury Shaving Cream
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M unbleached pure horse
Razor: Merkur 25C long handled open comb
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Thayers Original Witch Hazel
Beard care: Big Red Beard Oil and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Lavender Soap
Lather: Mike’s Natural Hungarian Lavender Soap
Brush: Turkish No7 ‘horse hair’
Razor: Merkur 39C slant with a Shark Super Chrome
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Myrsol Agua Balsamico
Beard care: Big Red Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Time passes fast when one is doing something one enjoy, and yet another year has passed.
I still enjoy traditional wetshaving, so I’ll keep on doing that… and I also enjoy blogging about it and talking about it on my favourite shave forum, so I’ll keep on doing those things too.
My den haven’t grown by much the last year, but my technique keeps getting sharper – if y’all excuse the pun – and in the end it’s the shave that counts, not how many razors, brushes or soaps one has in rotation.
So in short, I wish you all a nice, peaceful and well shaven new year!
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum Acadian Spice Shaving Soap
Brush: Omega #10048 Boar Bristle
Razor: Merkur 39C slant with a Shark Super Chrome
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum Aftershave
Beard care: Big Red Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
I don’t have a big bathroom with loads of counter space, so if I were to do the SOTD photos in the bathroom I would have to either balance everything on the sink or treat y’all to photos of the seat of my bog.
How about no?
I do however have a free shelf in the room next to the bathroom, so I set up a small area for photo shoots there. Nothing too fancy but then again I use my cell phone to take the pictures, so there is no reason to go overboard.
Two shelf brackets to give me a left and right limiter, a wooden board in the back, a bright lamp (originally halogen but switched to LED like almost every single lamp I own), and a recently added microfiber towel.
Crude, but functional.
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Proraso Eucalyptus & Menthol Soap
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B natural white pure horse
Razor: Merkur 39C slant with a fresh Shark Super Chrome
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Krampert’s Finest 80 Below
Beard care: Big Red Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Citrus Soap
Lather: Prairie Creations Walter
Brush: Turkish No6 ‘horse hair’
Razor: German Bakelite Slant with a Wilkinson Sword
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and BodyShop Maca Root Energetic Face Protection
Beard care: Big Red Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Just some pictures of an antique carved shaving brush I found on etsy
