Thread: December 31- January 6

Hot rinse
Coconut hair conditioner
TAGMSC soap
5/8 Lewis roundpoint (thanks Toxic, it's a great little shaver)

Quick warm rinse and a quite a few cold rinses
Witch hazel with citrus essential oil splash

A few minutes later waiting for skin to dry ..

TAGMSC a/s milk
Joseph Arboud Cologne

A mint shave, thanks in part to one of the new blades bought from Toxic recently (the other one being the Kessar 5/8 squarepoint with purpleheart scales which I really like).

No irritation or burn, no nicks, just a great shave needing a quick cross grain with the Quattro because I still haven't got the underchin cross grain pass nailed yet. Soon, soon ..

Thanks Toxic

Otto Hess 5/8 1/4 hollow
Rooney #1 large silvertip
Coates lavender
Alum
Musgo Real A/S splash
QED ASC

Wed.

TA Best Badger
Penhaligon's English Fern Soap
TM #1 RL Strop
6/8 Genco RP
GFT Coral Skinfood
Guerlain Vetiver EDT

In a hurry so only one pass. This soap had disappointed me the first 2 times I tried it. Nailed it this morning though. Nice quick shave.

Jordan

hot shower

15/16 Dorko
proraso preshave
mama bears rose shaving cream
silvertip badger brush

Pinaud Bay Rum


Great shave and great scent

After a round of friendly Skype banter with Nenad, Randy and Theo (we might have gone a bit hard on Randy ) I received some visitors for a short period of time and finally gave myself a Taylor-shave with Desert Ironwood. My face feels like it never grew hair

Hot shower...
Diamondine 5/8
Van Der Hagen boar brush

and......

Cavendish Black!!!!

What a great soap (both the bath and shaving).... great scent and lather, nice and slippery resulting in a very smooth shave. Not BBS yet but not having to finish up with the DE anymore either.

Can't wait to try the Leatherneck and Highlander I also got today (big thanks to Colleen for making such fine soaps).

Ant

Shower etc

Kent 50/50 Badger/boar brush
Kruidvat shave cream
TI 7/8 silversteel red stamina
Axel Schaab's homemade bayrum with added peppermint oil.

Beautifull. I was a bit careless with the spike point so I nicked myself on the neck a couple of times but it feels like a million buck anyway. It seems I got the TI as sharp as anything. I love that blade and really don't regret spending $$ on it.

hot shower

3/8 Dorko French point
proraso pre shave
Colleens Cavendish Black shaving cream
silvertip badger brush

Old Spice

Great shave.

Williams Soap and first shave-test of the Boker Edelweiss. Williams tended to dry relatively quickly even with extra water added but it still outperformed C&E soaps lol. Edelweiss gave me a reasonably close and comfortable shave, which is a FAIL. Boker steel can perform a lot better than that and I will be taking it back to the hones and re-testing it tomorrow before I put her up for sale.

Thur

Vulfix BB
Mitchell's Wool Fat soap
TM strop
5/8 Revisor
GFT Coral Skin Food
L'Occitain (sp?) Vetiver


I'd heard really good things about this soap so I picked some up while in Charleston after X-mas. The scent is clean and fresh, but nothing to write home about. The lather and lubrication is superb. Reminds me of Tabac without the scent.

Nice Shave

Jordan