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iKon Standard
Super Max Platinum
Super Max Lemon Lime Shave Cream
Vulfix Super Badger
Aveeno Post Shave Balm
Herve Leger Cologne

17 March 2014

* Merkur Progress SH
* vintage Wilkinson Swords
* WSP Manchurian + Oscar11 All-Amber Barbeiro
* Mystic Water Sardinian Honey
* Unrefined Shea Butter

Monday, March 17, 2014

Prep: Warm Water Wash
Razor: Feather AS-D2
Blade: Astra SP
Brush: Simpsons Case
Soap: Speick Stick/Grated
Scuttle: N/A Face Lather
Post: Speick ASL

A photo taken yesterday evening, in the moment "T"

- Razor : Pradier, ivory scales with silver insert.
- Brush : Simpson Colonel best badger
- Soap : Trumper Officier & Gentleman
- AS : Crabtree & Evelyn Siena balm




Very good shave, extra-smooth for a great BBS <3 <3 <3

The razor was lended to me by a friend living in the same town as me. Sadly this razor is not mine, I'll have to give it back soon :'(

Sorry for the bad quality of the picture

17/03/2014 - "Weekend-stubble-b-gone"



Pre : Proraso pre-post cream
Soap : TOBS shaving shop cream
Brush : Turkish "No.6"
Razor : George Butler 6/8 wedge
Post : Homemade balm
A/S : Aqua Velva Ice blue a/s

Finish : BBS

17 march 2014

razor: ERN SOLINGEN FULL HOLLOW SQUARE POINT WITH MASTRO LIVI'S POPLAR HANDLE
brush: SIMPSON BERKELEY 46 BEST BADGER
soap: ACQUA DI PARMA CREMA SOFFICE
after shave: MARINELLA 28

Reynolds with a great combination lather.

Sitting and shaving with a broken leg. My newest piece of kit is a cane chair in front of the barstool shaving table, mirror stand and integrated towel/washcloth rack. Five more weeks. It works. Not bad.



Can't beat good friends. A pal from Michigan sent me his not-quite-yet fully restored W&B Barbers w/notch for a test drive. I wanted to know - and now I know. No picture conveys how big and heavy these razors are. Pardon the oil spots.

Soap, water and rinse face wash
Some Proraso prep
Arko, face lathered
The W&B For Barbers, 15-laps on CrOx polyester webbing and 40-more on leather
Three passes, smooth and fairly quiet
Warm washcloth wipe and cold waster rinse
Lint free pat dry
Witch hazel with aloe splash
Very, very nice!

Dovo Bergischer Lowe 1970's
Muhle V1 brush
Klar Kabinett soap
EJ pre shave
Alpa Fougere cologne/Thayers Lavender WH
Institut Karit balm

Blade: Geneva Cutlery Co. Antlers (Geneva, NY) 5/8
Brush: Rooney Style 1 Size 1 in Finest Badger 22mm
Suds: QED Wild Rose
Scent: Molyneux Gauloise



I received this tub of QED Wild Rose shaving soap on Wednesday, 9 March 2007, purchased in a custom, never-to-be-repeated, group buy on B&B. More than 2/3 of the soap remains, and if the aroma has lessened any, it's due solely to diminished olfactory abilities (and my sense of smell is as acute as ever). What a wonderful shaving soap! The lather is copious, aromatic, and lubricating; thirty swirls of my shaving brush leave me with leftover lather at the end of a three-pass shave. Jealous? You have every right to be.

The Gauloise? It was discontinued several years ago...