S.O.T.D. Sat.14th Dec. 2013 to Frid. 20th Dec. 2013

I had a lovely shave this morning, I have been DE shaving for three weeks now and feel I have had a better shave each time. Today I did not have any cuts or irritation just a nice smooth face.

Holding the handle at the very bottom feels comfortable and I now feel the benefit of letting the razor do the work. I have been used to quite firm pressure with a Mach 3 in the past.

1. Shower
2. Face wash with warm water and un scented soap (Johnson's baby soap)
3. Lather with Bluebeards revenge cream and brush
4. Shave with Tech and Wilknson Sword High street blade fourth shave with this blade
5. Rinse with warm water then cold
6. Clinique post shave balm.

Cheers.
 
Greetings

Friday 20th December 2013
Prep: Shower
Razor: GEM Contour
Blade: GEM Stainless Coated
Brush: Vulfix 404 mixed
Soap: Klar Kabinett
Aftershave: Astral Cream (light)

A really nice shave from GEM's penultimate razor.

Regards
Dick.

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Song for deep winter

Lush Aqua Marina
Trumpers Limes Skin Food
Trumpers Spanish Leather SC
Omega 'Barberpole' Silvertip
Merkur HD Gold
Polisilver
Floid Suave
Kiehl's Soothing Nourishing Face Cream for Men
Lush Vanishing Cream
Trumpers Eucris
 
Friday's Fettling

Gillette #58, Personna Lab Blue
Hand-carved Beech 24mm 2-band Finest
Ingram
Barbershop Bay Rum
Arran Aromatics Bay Citrus Balm
Arran Aromatics Bay Citrus EdT

All good here. :D
 
Afternoon, everyonr.

Prep: Claus Porto's Lime-oil face soap
Razor: EJDE89 with Bulldog handle
Blade: Gillette 7 o'clock blue (6)
Brush: Ecotools Kabuki
Shave soap: Tabac
Aftershave: Tabac
Cologne: Tabac

An excellent, fragrant end to the week's shaves.
 
olive oil soap
AoS pre
NSS vetyver
EJ best
Progress 3#2#1
Viking sword #1

No 10 cologne balm

first go with nannys soaps and got to say I like it and will be ordering a few of her other soaps to try.
Irritation free shave again and face felt nice and smooth.
 
Friday 20th December

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Hot shower
Hot flannel
TOBS Lavender cream scuttle lathered
Simpson Rover best badger brush
Gillette Rocket HD
Gillette Rubie platinum plus (1)
Cold rinse
Thayers Lavender witch hazel
Speick aftershave

A lovely comfortable shave. I've had a pack of the Rubie blades for almost a year and just got around to trying them. The blades are very smooth and sharp, one of the most expensive of the Russian made blades. I can't see me buying more just now as I already have a lifetime stock of blades.
 
Thursday afternoon

(Day late posting)

Prep: Hot shower
Razor: AT&T R1 on UFO handle
Blade: Lab Blue (1)
Brush: Rudy Vey custom 2 Band
Soap: DR Harris Windsor Shave Stick
A/S DR Harris Windsor
Balm: DR Harris Windsor Milk
EDT: DR Harris Windsor

Superb shave from a superb razor. Felt really smooth initially, then I realised putting the blade in may help.

I like this razor head a lot, quite a lot of blade exposure, but not R41 style. The M1 may be a bit too mild, we will see. The R plate is definitely more aggressive than Merkur in my opinion.

Looking forward to tonight's shave already....
 
Hot flannel
Proraso pre, menthol
Muhle Silvertip, Nanny's soft soap, Tea Tree and Aloe Vera
Digress HD (2), Rapira (1)
Cold splash
Proraso AS cream

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday's rogue blade felt like it was ripping the hairs out of my lower neck. Very nice shave today, back to normal, I hope.
 
Friday afternoon

Prep: Hot shower
Razor: ATT M1 first two passes then swapped to R1 for ATG
Blade: Lab Blue (2)
Brush: Rudy Vey custom 2 Band
Soap: AdP
A/S 4711
EDT: AdP

The M1 was just not close enough, nice and comfortable, but not close enough for me for a night before work shave.

Swapped it for the R1 and went cold water for the ATG pass. Close and comfortable.

I think I may have to splash out on one of these razor heads......

Oh well, RAD nealy over!
 
Merkur 34G HD
Gillette Silver Blue (1)
Cella
Coates Fitzwilliam
Superdrug forest fresh
Nivea sensitive ASB

My first time with cella and the Gillette silver blue blades. Near BBS but with a couple of small weepers which is the first time for a while. The cella smells lovely in the pot but once lathered I couldn't really smell it at all, which is a shame.
 
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