Thread: Just wondering what everyone's post-shave ritual is

Rinse the blade, dry it with a towel and strop it 10 times on linen. Rinse the brush and use the brush to wipe the sink clean. Then use the wet brush to cleanse my face. Apply A/S balm.

Pre-shave:
1. Shower
2. Glycerin/baking Soda application to beard (2 minutes)
3. Stephan's Conditioning shave creme (2 minutes)
4. Strop razor (30 laps webbed fabric, 50 laps leather...SRD Bridle Premium IV)
5. Make lather (NancyBoy, GFT, TOBS, other) and keep brush and lather warm in electric water heater
6. Wash off Stephan's creme
7. Lather (nice and warm)
8. Shave

Post-shave:
1. Clean & dry razor...store open in dry, non-humid place and put in display box (with Silica gel packets).
2. Wash face with warm water..."dissolves" and washes the stuff out
3. Wash face with cold water
4. Apply Thayers Witch Hazel to whole face (not just shaved areas)
5. Apply NancyBoy replenishing aftershave

Optional:
6. Apply favorite AS balm (I don't use alcohol at any stage)
7. Apply GFT skin food
8. Sometimes I put NancyBoy replenishing face moisturizer (unbelievable stuff) to top things off.

Cheers,
-Robert

Cold water, Witch Hazel, Aftershave.
Rinse out brush and lather bowl
Dry razor on towel and put in case.
Done.

Cold water
Alum
Clean Brush and dry
Rinse Alum and Apply Splash
Strop razor 20 times and put away
Apply ASB

Warm water splash
Apply Alum
Rinse Brush with hot water
Empty Scuttle
Rinse and Dry Scuttle & put away
Rinse Blade in Hot Water
Dry Razor with Barber Towel
Wrap Barber Towel over the handle of a spoon and dry out scales
Strop 20 strokes
Wipe with Choji Oil and put away razor
Rinse Brush in cold water - shake out, dry and put away
Rinse face with cold water
Pat dry and apply Dominica Bay Rum (somtimes with Lime, sometimes without)
Dry hair
Apply Nivea Replenishing ASB (Man is this stuff good!)
Clean and dry sink and countertop
Put all towels away
Good to go!

Relinquish bathroom to my wife

Note the activities between each skin treatment. This is to allow the skin or product to dry before moving on to the next application. Works for me.

Thanks all

1. Warm splash
2. Cold splash
3. Pat dry
4. For after shave balm I'm using Art of Shaving (unscented)
5. Clean and dry razor
6. Strop razor
Seems to work for this newbie

Warm rinse
Wash up everything except razor
Thorough cold rinse
Dry face
Clean and dry razor meticulously
Splash of alcohol based after shave lotion (Musgo Real Classic today)
Strop razor: 2 dozen on tallow tanned.

I wipe my razor with my towel then tissue paper and put it away, rinse with cold water, sometimes I use alum sometimes not, then after shave usually Old Spice, then the brush gets clean and dry and finally my scuttle emptied,rinsed, and dried. Ready for the day.

1- rinse razor off
2- cold water splash
3- apply alum
4- dry razor and block off
5- rinse off alum
6- apply after shave