As I mentioned a little while back, Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma.
Despite attempts by the Norwegian Postal Service to delay the box, the calendar arrived today.
Continue readingRazor: Schick E2
Blade: Schick Injecto
Lather: Oway softening shaving cream
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
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 second bag!
Continue readingCommercials 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 readingGifts&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 readingRazor: 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
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 readingRazor: Schick E2
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
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