Razor: “Normal”
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Body Shop Synthetic
Lather: Derby Shave Stick
Bit of rough and ready shave. But lovely nonetheless.
Shave of the day 2nd October 2023
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No shave of the day 29th September 2023
For same reason as Wednesday.
Easy clamp safety razor
One benefit of a safety razor is that you can more or less easily change the blade. John H Woods patented a safety razor in 1910 that aimed at making this even easier than most by using a clamp operated by the handle.
Continue readingNo Shave of the day 17th September
For reasons.
Gets you coming and going
In 1907 Mr Joseph J Steinharter got improved what he claimed to be certain new and useful improvements in safety razors. As you may have guessed, I’m not convinced of how useful or how improved his idea was, but his safety razor would at least got you both coming and going. So there is that at least.
Continue readingShave of the day 25th September 2023
Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Wilkinson Sword
Badger Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: B&M Latha Oceana
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A nice Monday shave means a nice start on the week.
Shave of the day 22nd September 2023
Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Omega #10048
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another fine Friday shave, featuring the Holy Grail razor, my first ‘real’ shaving brush, and the same cream I got when I started traditional wetshaving thirteen odd years ago.
It is a newer tube though…
Ah! La Barbe
Who knew shaving was such a tricky operation in the days before the safety razors?
Made in 1905 and directed by Segundo de Chomón – whom the internet tells me was a pioneering Spanish film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
Shave of the day 20 September 2023
Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: Prep Original
Lather: GzD Shavestick
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A wonderful Wednesday shave, with a magazine repeating razor, the first LE brush from The ‘Nook, and the remains of a Turkish shavestick pressed into a puck.
Five Thousand Formulas for Druggists
Before I start, and I shouldn’t even have to say this, a druggist isn’t a fellow (ab)using drugs. A druggists a US term for what the rest of the world would commonly call a pharmacists. So the title of this book – and this post – really ought to have been Five Thousand Formulas for Pharmacists. Except that the Era Formulary was indeed printed in the US back in 1893, so druggists it is.
And the reason I bring it up – in addition to, y’know, cool old book – is that among the five thousand formulas are some shave related ones.
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