Had my best straight shave so far today. I received a nice box from France, the Martin De Candre shaving soap and a hand soap I had ordered. In the package there also was a bonus shampoo and a small block of Fern scented soap. Wonderful stuff, strong natural scents.

Had a nice shower using the shampoo and palm oil milk soap, which both were excellent. Very little of the shampoo was needed, I will use it for a few days to see how it is, usually I have to use Head and Shoulders to keep my scalp from becoming dry and flaky.

The shaving soap is killer, a rich natural scent, and wips up loads of thick lather fast, and you can make it pretty wet and hydrated without getting thin. Very very nice.
My straight was a 9/16 Josiah Alleen & Sons, which is kind of a mystery, as I'm not able to get any of my other straights to match it for smoothness yet, it shaves close and sharp and just eats whiskers like nothing else.
The weird thing is that I honed it myself, the very first honing I did on my own. I just followed the "Unicot" method pr the instructions using my coticule. Must be some crazy beginners luck, not even the two Birnardo did for me feels anywhere as nice, and certainly not the other few razors I have honed after it.

But today was my first straight shave I didn't need to touch up with a DE, so it's a milestone!