Thread: Sun July 15, 2007 - Sat July 21, 2007

LOVELY SHAVE today. Quite cheap as well.

shower,
proraso pre
cheap czech shaving soap that I picked up on holiday
selfmade brush
outram strop
6/8 cocobolo silversteel Worldmaster
hot/cold water
homemade cologne "love tonic" combined with aloë vera for an aftershave.

I was surprised how well the soap performed. It was cheap, smelled cheap (like soap with nothing added) but worked very well. I think it's of the double/triple milled variety and for $1 that''s not a bad deal. Maybe I can add some oils for scent somehow later. For now it'll do me just fine.

what also surprises me every time is how nice the cologne/aftershave I made feels. I might never buy aftershave again...just make it myself.

Tues

AOS Fine Badger
Floris JF soap
Eicker & Sohn 11/16 RP
Tabac a/s
Tabac EDT

Just 1 pass today. Quick and smooth.

Jordan

Tuesday:

Kent BK4
L'OCCITANE CADE shaving soap
Dovo strop
6/8 Thiers-Issard "Evide Sonnant Extra" razor
Proraso AS

Smooth shave.

Viktor

shower

20/20 TM #1 horsehide
TGQ sandalwood soap
shavemac vlb middle setting
6/8 TI "Leaves and Vines"
normal 3 passes
witch hazel
TOBS sandalwood EDT

nice and clean shave

Wednesday:

Kent BK4
TOBS Sandalwood shaving soap
TM Horsehide strop
6/8 Thiers-Issard "Evide Sonnant Extra" razor
TOBS ASG (it's gorgeous )

Nice and fresh shave.

Viktor

Today was a cheap and experimental day.
No preshave, just tried this pink "Carib Carbolic" soap I got for a dollar. Highly anti-bacterial and antiseptic, doesn't sound like something you'd shave with, but I got a darned nice shave with it, my face felt excellent after.
Proraso Omega Boar.
Used that Sanguine (Pakistani?) blade I got that, to my surprise, shaves well.
No after shave.
It was a depresion-era shave indeed.
Nice one, though.

hot shower

Few days stubble
Badger
TOBS sandal wood

DOVO 5/8" #41 olive wood
3 passes
cold water
l'Oréal -hydra energetic
Oh, that feels g o o d

hot shower


6/8 Dorko
silvertip badger brush
Colleens Cavendish Black






nice shave

Hot shower
Baxters scrub
Baxters lime body wash
Feather Preshave

SHAVE
Tosuke straight
Edwin Jagger best badger medium
Trumpers lime cream and coconut oil soap super lather
Moss scuttle
Alum block
Feather Aftershave
Baxters oil free moisturizer


Great shave tonight, I got bbs in 3 passes.

You put the lime in the coconut, drink them both up...

Wednesday

Sorry for the late post...been a long day...

C&E Best Badger brush
Col. Conk Bay Rum soap
W&B "Diamond Edge" 7/8 notch point
TM # 2 Heirloom strop
Pinaud Clubman Virgin Island Bay Rum a/s

I might need a little more pasted strop work on the W&B. Not bad for a 122 year old razor, though.