Thread: Tell Us Your Routines

strop 60 x on leather
hot towel for 5 min
lather up mamabears soap
apply lather
shave sides wtg
shave neck wtg
do xtg, atg
touch up
hot rinse
cold rinse
dry blade, strop apply oil
clean shave den

Here's my usual,

1) start hot water into the sink with later cup and hot water bowl and brush
2) take 10 min shower
3) fill shave bowl with hot water, swirl brush tip in soap a few times
4) make lather
5) splash face with hot water lather up
6) strop 30 linnen / 50 leather
7) WTG / XTG / ATG
8) rince face with cool water
9) after shave balm

woohoo

- Tam -

hot shower
razor, any number of about a dozen, but often my 7/8 half hollow W&B smiling spike w. desert ironwood scales
strop 12-20 laps on Illinois 361 linen (optional)
strop 60 laps frequently on the Illinois 361
lather TGQ Leatherneck & Edwin Jagger BBB
(sometimes) Trufitt and Hill 1805 & custom SST badger brush w. maple burl handle
1st pass directly ATG on my neck sideburns and cheeks, then WTG on goatee
I rinse, then wipe the blade when it is loaded
lather with the soap again (cream needs no second lathering, just a splash of hot water
2nd pass ATG on the goatee only
water only touch up (hunt & peck)
cold water splash, pat dry
Thayer's Witch Hazel Skin Astringent with Aloe as AS
Lush Celestial moisturising cream
usually Nigerian Green Musk EO as a scent
wipe the edge with rubbing alcohol
strop about 20 laps on the TM Red Latigo hanging from my wardrobe

... or variations along that theme.

Today I did an ATG pass with water only and my DD Special on my neck sideburns and cheeks after stropping 60 laps on the Proforma strop which just arrived.

Hope that helps.

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Thank you all for being so nice and helpful! I will take a look more closely at what's already available in this forum.