S.O.T.D Saturday 10th May to Friday 16th May 2014

Greetings

Tuesday 13th May 2014
Prep: Shower
Razor: GEM 1912 Damaskeene OC
Blade: GEM Blue Star Carbon
Brush: Semogue OC Boar
Soap: Speick Stick grated
Aftershave: Floid Balm

Regards
Dick.

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Tuesday xiii May, 2014

Prep: Hot shower, Dove Men+Care Revitalising Face Wash
Pre: Cold water splash
Brush: Coate's FitzWilliam
Cream: Erasmic Old Formulation
Razor: iKon 2pb
Blade: Personna Med Prep #3
Post: Kiehl's Blue Herbal Astringent Lotion, Kiehl's Ultimate ASB
Fragrance: Acqua di Parma Collezione Barbiere Colonia

Result: Another nice shave, if a little rushed.

Have a nice day, gents.

Jon
 
Tuesday

Morning, everybody.

Prep: Claus Porto's Lime-oil face soap
Razor: EJ89 with iKon Bulldog handle
Blade: Sputnik (4)
Brush: Ecotools Kabuki
Shave cream: Gillette red tube
Aftershave: Ice Dive
Cologne: James Bronnley

Excellent and unexpected BBS
 
Tuesday

Palmolive soap
Semogue 2012 SE
#15 Aristocrat
Gillette 7 o'clock SharpEdge
Blue Stratos AS

Two and a bit passes, in and out of the bathroom in about ten minutes and a very nice shave. No messing, face lathered, one pass down, one pass up and a little tidy up of a couple of areas.
 
This mornings shave

Prep- Face washed with Bulldog facewash
Soap- Jabonman Sierra
Brush- Men-U
Razor- Merkur Futur [3]
Blade- Rapira ss [2]
Post- Cold water splash

A shave where it all comes together :heart: the soap is awesome, the Rapira was smooth on second shave in the Futur, a 2 pass dfs, the scent of the soap is tobacco to my nose so with no face irritation only a cold water splash I deemed necessary!
 
Prep: Hot shower, warm cloth
Hardware: Omega 49, Muhle R89
Software: Almond oil, Proraso White, Personna Platinum Chrome (3)
Post: Alum

In a bit of a rush today, turned to Proraso which has been neglected for a couple of weeks. 3 passes wtg, xtg, xtg +180= a DFS.
 
Tuesday 05-13-14. MUSIC: Muddy Waters - Best Of Muddy Waters / Delta Blues.

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Aleppo soap - Rodney Neep Extra Silvertip 26X50 - Feather all stainless - 7 O'clock yellow #1 - Pre JASÖN - Shaving soap Mystic Water Sandalwood & Rose - Alum block - Thayers Cucumber Toner - ASB Geo F. Trumper's Skin Food Sandalwood - ASL Honeybee Gardens Sandalwood.
 
Tuesday 13th May

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Hot shower
Hot flannel
Mystic Water Lily of the Valley scuttle lathered
Finest Badger brush made by myself
Gillette Hybrid Tech
Sputnik (3)
Cold rinse
Thayers Lemon witch hazel
Myrsol F/extra aftershave
 
Mid day shave, hot and bothered as child drives me potty a bit today.

Hot shower
Brush: Turkish no.6 (will this number ever stop shedding? ?!)
Going cheap today

Razor: Rimei tech
Soap: Citrus Zinger sample by nanny
Blade: Rapira SS (what a lovely blade!)
As: Aquatonic £1 special


Nice SLDFS

Kit cost:

Razor: £1.8
Blade: 5p
Brush:£2.3
Soap:£1.2
As:£1

Tot:£6.35
 
Cold water splash
Martin de Candre
Shavemac 177 Silvertip
ATT M1 Kronos
Personna Lab Blue (2)
Speick ASB
Speick EdT

Lovely, close shave. Good combination of top products.
 
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Hot shower
Soap: Wickham Super Smooth Bay Rum
Brush: Super Badger (TGN), handle by yours truly
Razor: Aluminium Tech on heavy brass handle
Blade: Feather Hi Stainless
AS: TOBS Sandalwood
 
73 tech
Polsilver SI (5)
Ecotools kabuki
Coates rose cream
Freshwood a/s and balm

Smeared the cream on my face and face lathered from there. Enough for 4 passes easily. The scent is still strong in this cream and it performed well. Glad i have 6 tubes!
 
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