Thread: Sun August 11th - Sat August 17th

Enjoyed an experiment today. Picked up some basic witch hazel and used it in combo with the Clubman which came in the post today. Think my face feels "cleaner" than it has done in the past with some other post shave balms or creams!

Prep: Hot shower -- followed by Vitos pre-post-shave cream
SS/SC: Mitchell’s Wool Fat + Castle Forbes “Lavender”
Brush: Vulfix - Grosnevor “Boar/Badger”
Strop: SRD Premium IV Bridle Leather - 50 fabric; 60 leather
Razor: 5/8” Dovo “Fritz Bracht”
Toner: Thayers “Original” Witch Hazel w/ Aloe Vera
ASB: Anherb “Natural” Aftershave Conditioner
AS: Myrsol “Formula K”

Razor: Heljestrand MK9
Brush: Neep 26mm deepmount extra silvertip
Soap: La Toja
AS: Pinaud Clubman

Graceful shave.

15 August 2013

* Weber DLC + Black Bulldog handle
* Gillette Yellows
* WSP 2-band + Elite Razor Desert Ironwood
* Mystic Water Mysore Sandalwood
* Unrefined Shea Butter

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Prep: Speick Natural Soap
Razor: Feather AS-D2 with Personna Med Prep Blade
Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat
Brush: Omega 43
Scuttle: Schwarzweisskeramik
Post: Krampert's Finest Bay Rum

Originally Posted by ElTioDelUkelele

ElTioDelUkelele

i want to see shave video with the big bismarck

Ok my friend, this is done !!! :thumbup:

Thursday evening
Hot water prep
Gillette Toggle razor with Feather blade @ 9 setting - Custom silvertip badger brush - Bodyshop Maca Root cream - cold water splash - Thayer's witch hazel rose - hot towel - Truefitt & Hill 1805 balm - New York EdT sampler from Parfums de Nicolai

A no-hassle-guaranteed-smooth shave. Chose the Toggle-Feather combo again for a perfect result. After the second pass I still wanted to do a third, I had that much fun, but there was simply nothing left to shave anymore. I decided to save my skin and not mow down any virtual hairs just for the pleasure of shaving. While shaving I pondered over the paradoxal nature of this whole thing. The smoother your shave, the quicker it goes, but the longer you want it to last. The tuggier the shave, the longer it lasts, but the quicker you want it to be over... It must be nature's laugh at us. Tomorrow TGIF and I wish you fine gents already a very pleasant weekend!

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Oh yes but life IS life,...
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...All things are all things.

That is a fine read. It reminds me of one of my favourite passages from the great mister Huxley in his more morose moments writing about the impossibility of communication. Here goes:

"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another to Permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or "feeling into." Thus, remembering our own bereavements and humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their places. But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience."
— Aldous Huxley (The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell)

Originally Posted by ischiapp

]SOTD 2013.08.15

I like the toilet seat in that composition!