SOTD : Saturday 12th May - Friday 18th May 2018.

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Prep ~ Shower, Valbora tallow soap
Razor ~ Cobra Classic
Blade ~ Schick Proline P-30
Soap ~ Vitos Original (Green)
Brush ~Anbbas Boar
Post ~ Vitos Tobacco Aftershave
Scent ~ Guerlain Santal Royal EDP

Just under a year ago I was kindly lent a Cobra Classic by @culcreuch to road test for a while, ever since I have been trying to secure one for myself because the shaves I had from it were fantastic.
That day came a short while ago and today it was delivered to me. I had not shaved for a couple of days knowing it was comming so I had a bit to shave off.
After a quick inspection of the razor with a jewellers loup I was satisfied that all was well and it was time for a shave!
I fitted a proline blade because I found this to be the most comfortable blade the last time I used one in a Cobra and the shave began, the first pass took just about all my stubble off and very smoothly too and a second pass plus a little clean up was all that was required to achieve a BBS finnish. Im Proper pleased with my purchase and look forward to many more shaves with it.

Thank you B. for introducing me to the Cobra, it left a lasting impression. :) P.
 
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3 passes with the Pipe Razor last night. Had to send it back to the CrOx before this shave as it was becoming dull. Much better now - did get my chin once though. Went for an aftershave lotion and a balm for its moisturing qualities, which i usually don't do.

Omega Pro49
OSP Barbershop soap
Geo. Wostenholm and Sons Pipe Razor
A little alum
Nivea Sensitive Post Shave Balm, and
Pinaud Clubman After shave lotion

Have a great day
 
Wed 16th May

Omega 11137
Tabac Stick
Mongoose B3
Schick Proline [ 10]
Tabac A/S lotion

Another good Shave with an AC/SE, this time with a shiny Mongoose B3. Mainly I use them with a Schick Proline, and that seem to deliver trouble free Shaves every time. The bonus of course is that finished Shave quality tends to be top notch too. Must give the Feather Pro more of a chance as I acquired a few before the Schick blade came on the scene.

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16.05.18

Glycerine Soap
Grapeseed Shaving Oil with additional EO's
Plissoft Brush
Feather Professional Artist Club DX
Kai Protouch MG
Gillette Mach3
Alum
Witch Hazel lotion
Speick AS
S3 Agua de Colonia Frescor Natural

Touched up and finished off with the Mach3.

There are pro's and con's with the Kai Protouch MG's. They were not as close as the Feather ProGuard's. However, they also didn't make my face feel as it had been dermaplaned and would need to rest my face for a few days :)...
 
Wednesday AM 2018-05-16

Georgetown Pottery G12 Scuttle
Rooney 3/2 Faux Horn Finest (24/54)
Martin de Candre shaving soap
Delta Echo Ink Edition Feather AS-D2/Triad Purple Aristocrat Titanium
Wilkinson Light Brigade (7)
Mennen Skin Bracer
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...I did wonder about Panda brushes!

Nice idea - High Mountain Panda, Two band Panda, Best Panda - I'd pay top dollar for that - although I can hear the PETA jihad being prepared as I type. Next thing you know David Attenborough is throwing red gloss paint over your front door. You don't want to mess with your iconic species. What about Polar bear? - I.
 
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Schick J 1 injector razor
Chinese Schick blade (#1)
Haslinger Sandalwood soap (old tallow version)
Brisk generic AS
RazoRock 24mm black fiber brush

I had loaned this injector to a buddy loaded with a new "Chick" blade, but he never used it. Fantastic shave, but I think I have to give the nod to the modern Personna blade in the later model injector razors with the "Chick" working better in earlier more aggressive ones. YMMV.
 
What you said mate - does anybody know why this is the case? Is it that tallow has been appropriated by another industrial process that can pay higher prices than soap makers for it - or are the compliance rules for using fat of an animal origin becoming uneconomic? Have the companies done their market research and decided that people want vegetarian soaps? If the latter was the case - why would Salters have reintroduced a tallow soap into the market recently? In American artisan soaps - there seems to be no end of tallow used - be that cow, sheep, pig, bison, duck, otter and marmoset - okay I just made the last two up. You take my point though. Like you I enjoy a choice in my soaps - I have some very good vegetarian soaps but I would miss the tallow ones dearly. Perhaps a couple of experts here could shed some light on it? Yours - I.

@OSP @Fox

Funny you guys should mention this as I, not Wickhams is working on a tallow soap for a stockist. It should be available towards the end of the Summer. There will be announcements made once available. All I can say at this time is it will come in 3 flavors. :)
 
Pre Shave: Hot Shower + Bulldog face wash and Proraso red
Razor: Supply V2 3 dot plate
Blade: Personna (#4)
Brush: Maseto 24mm 2 band finest
Soap: Proraso red cream
Bowl: Korium
Post: Alum Block, Cold water and Humphreys Witch Hazel
AS: Nivea 2 Phase

I think I preferred the 2 dot plate with Personna blade, switching to a Schick Prolline or a Chinese Schick blade next to see how the 3 dot works with them.
 
Sotd - 16/5/18 -

Razor - Yaqi DLC Double open comb red & black mini.
blade - Kai (1)
brush - Semogue 2000 boar
soap - Kent tallow hard soap
post - witch hazel
a/s - Vitos Tobacco
balm - Aloe Vera gel.

Result - face strokingly good.

After the last crap shave - the bloody shave gods owed me - and lo - they listened to my entreaties and blessed me handsomely. For they are good. I got my two new Yaqi razors yesterday - I had originally gone on to get one of the DLC double open comb heads in black - which I did - I'd been impressed enough with the free open comb I got with my brushes - to give them a try. At the price - why not? On their AliExpress page I noticed the black and red versions of the head with handle available in three different sizes. Delta Echo lite - if you will. They looked pretty cool I thought - and on a whim - I ordered a mini one - it would do for travel use if nothing else. It turns out - for me - to be a superb and serious razor. This is going into the normal rotation never mind travel use. No blemishes in the coating at all. It has real heft due to the brass handle - which balances well against the very light alloy head. The engineering tolerances for a razor costing this much (£19.67 - shipped to UK) were superb. The blade mounted evenly first time - no problem. It looks a bit scary - as you can see a lot of the blade through the open comb top cap. It's also not that mini - it is only a few millimeters shorter than my Merkur 37 Slant for reference. It fits comfortably in my big hands. The head is narrow - the blade tabs protrude prominently on either side - but - for me - this makes it very deft in use. It is superb under the nose and on the upper lip. It is not fussy about the angle and does the proper double open comb thing of leaving 'stripes' of lather on the face for when you go back over the same area. I'm impressed - as you may have gathered. The black head alone is £7.53 shipped to the UK. I'd been working all day in the sun so I needed to give something back to my skin - step forward the Kent hard soap - aka stealth MWF. It lathers ridiculously easily with the big boar Semogue - soap everywhere - you can clean up later - it's no problem. I love this brush - it puts a smile on my face every time I use it. The tips have split much quicker than my 1305 did and it is easily as soft as a good badger now. Try one if you haven't already. They don't cost much. So - job done - back on track - enjoy your shaves one and all - yours - I.

Founder - and so far only member - of the T.L.O - the Tallow Liberation Organisation - read the charter - 'The Tallowist Manifesto.' Siblings - time to stand up for our rights! We have only our beards to lose.
 
Sotd - 16/5/18 -

Razor - Yaqi DLC Double open comb red & black mini.
blade - Kai (1)
brush - Semogue 2000 boar
soap - Kent tallow hard soap
post - witch hazel
a/s - Vitos Tobacco
balm - Aloe Vera gel.

Result - face strokingly good.

After the last crap shave - the bloody shave gods owed me - and lo - they listened to my entreaties and blessed me handsomely. For they are good. I got my two new Yaqi razors yesterday - I had originally gone on to get one of the DLC double open comb heads in black - which I did - I'd been impressed enough with the free open comb I got with my brushes - to give them a try. At the price - why not? On their AliExpress page I noticed the black and red versions of the head with handle available in three different sizes. Delta Echo lite - if you will. They looked pretty cool I thought - and on a whim - I ordered a mini one - it would do for travel use if nothing else. It turns out - for me - to be a superb and serious razor. This is going into the normal rotation never mind travel use. No blemishes in the coating at all. It has real heft due to the brass handle - which balances well against the very light alloy head. The engineering tolerances for a razor costing this much (£19.67 - shipped to UK) were superb. The blade mounted evenly first time - no problem. It looks a bit scary - as you can see a lot of the blade through the open comb top cap. It's also not that mini - it is only a few millimeters shorter than my Merkur 37 Slant for reference. It fits comfortably in my big hands. The head is narrow - the blade tabs protrude prominently on either side - but - for me - this makes it very deft in use. It is superb under the nose and on the upper lip. It is not fussy about the angle and does the proper double open comb thing of leaving 'stripes' of lather on the face for when you go back over the same area. I'm impressed - as you may have gathered. The black head alone is £7.53 shipped to the UK. I'd been working all day in the sun so I needed to give something back to my skin - step forward the Kent hard soap - aka stealth MWF. It lathers ridiculously easily with the big boar Semogue - soap everywhere - you can clean up later - it's no problem. I love this brush - it puts a smile on my face every time I use it. The tips have split much quicker than my 1305 did and it is easily as soft as a good badger now. Try one if you haven't already. They don't cost much. So - job done - back on track - enjoy your shaves one and all - yours - I.

Founder - and so far only member - of the T.L.O - the Tallow Liberation Organisation - read the charter - 'The Tallowist Manifesto.' Siblings - time to stand up for our rights! We have only our beards to lose.
I wish to join you in your fight as part of the T.L.O :) P.
 
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