Thread: SOTD Monday Feb. 11th - Sunday Feb. 17th

Puma 91 6/8ths
Merkur HD feather blade
TM latigo linen strop
Tryphon lime
Simpson PJ2
moss scuttle

Hot shower and conditoner
Lather
strop 20/40
hot towel
lather
shave 2 passes with straight and then an atg pass with the HD. I find this easier sometimes as an atg pass on my neck is w-e and e-w. Worked well.

Long, hard mental day yesterday, so last night...

• Nice tub soak after relaxing exfoliation with horsehair strap on my back and Origins' "Paradise Found" scrub on the rest.
• Washed face with Taylor's Eton College soap
• Dried off with new L.L.Bean multistripe bath sheet
• Nice, hot lather from Mama Bear's America shave soap (Mmm, I like it!)
• Hot towel over it
• Relather
• Re-hot towel
• Preshave oil with Truett & Hill, my favorite
• Relather
• Shave with trusty Dovo Prima Klang extra hollow 5/8, red oak handles
• Relather sideburns, jaw and upper neck
• XTG
• Wipe clean with hot towel
• Castle Forbes Sandalwood/Cedar aftershave
• Oil of Olay on rest of face
• Duluth Trading Lavendar "No Crack" thick hand cream
• Off to dreamland, zzzzzzzzzzz

Tuesday

Tony Miller 3" Latigo: 25 canvas, 30 leather
Mama Bear's cedar/lemon in Fred Meyer Pharmacy mug
C&E BBB
Friodur 5/8

Late morning start, sun streaming in through the window.

Hot shower
Trumpers Lime Skin Food as pre-shave
Trumpers Lime Shave Cream
Moss Scuttle (large)
Kent BK4
Lather
Hot towel
Lather
Wapi, honed by Lynn
Tony Miller Heirloom Latigo 3" Strop 30x linen, 50x Leather
WTG
XTG
Chin touch up with Merkur HD (Feather blade)
NO styptic
WWR
Alum
CWR
Trumpers Lime Skin Food
Nivea Q10 face cream
Issy Miyake cologne.

Slightly better angle control today. Took longer but better results, not really smooth but at least more even.

2nd Str8t shave...

Hot shower with face scrub
TM red latigo starter strop x 50 laps
Henckel's 5/8 round point
CE BBB
Pre de Provence soap
WTG, XTG, ATG
Still had to clean up with my 38c but considerably less than last night--- XTG, ATG
AV Ice Blue
MB Rose/Lavender B&B A/S milk

Badger & Blade, Limited Edition 2006 Finest Silvertip Badger in Horn
QED Rose Geranium SS
6/8 dubl duck, Special #1
WWR
QED Da Vinci Water
CWR
QED Rose Geranium EO After Shave Skin Conditioner Balm

Weird weather here these last couple of days, we have had snow almost every day since Dec 1st now for the last few days we have ??? RAIN in February???? Weird!!!!
So on a rainy February morning here's my choice

Steaming hot towel prep x 4
Hot water rinse
Build the Uberlather using a 28mm Silvertip Ebony Shavemac
Feb Fresh Uberlather
Poraso shave crème
Classic Bay Rum shave soap
Pure Glycerin

Hot water rinse
Lather up
Razor: JA Henckels 5/8 Friodur
Strop Illinois #827 Russian
20 laps linen
30 laps leather
Steaming hot towel over the lather
Re-lather
WTG pass
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
20 laps leather
XTG on the cheeks
ATG on the neck
Touch up on beard lines
Hot water rinse
Cold water rinse
Coffee Time!!!! Write in the SOTD, Relax
Hot Shower
Cold water rinse
Aftershave: Lucky Tiger Bay Rum



Have a Great Day!!!!!!

Kent BK4 shaving brush
TOBS Sandalwood shaving soap
3" TM Red Latigo strop
6/8 Dovo Bone Handle "Bismarck" razor
Trumper's Coral Skin Food

Viktor

Third almost complete shave.

Getting the hang of it a bit more, done almost 90%, still trouble with some neck areas but getting there…no cuts.

Outside; Extreme winds, Extreme snow coming down.

Louis Armstrong…What a Wonderful World (on repeat)
Calgon Hawaïn body lotion
Creed Irish Soap
LeDong SilverTip Brush
Boker King Cutter 5/8", 40 Strops
Hot towels, hot water, ready, ready...GO
Cold towel, cold water splash
Gillette Cool Wave after shave

Ahhhhhhh fells realy nice.

The usual 25/30 on the Tony Miller 3" strop
6/8 Thiers-Issard
Proraso whipped up in a large Moss scuttle
Sweet shave
Old Spice AS
Nivea AS balm