Greetings
Monday 2nd June 2014
Prep: Shower
Razor: Ever Ready 1912 Bathroom (Travel)
Blade: GEM Stainless Coated
Brush: Simon the Super Shedder
Soap: Unknown Malodorous Green 'Stuff'
Aftershave: Astral Cream (light)
A certainly different and very surprising shave. A shave with my car boot travel set that I purchased yesterday. No surprises with the razor it performed superbly as do (IMHO) 99.9% of 1912's irrespective of which sub-model they are.
The little British brush of unknown make continued to loose several more hairs but considering the tiny diameter of the knot (about 17mm) it performed really quite well.
The soap. Now this was a huge surprise, I should if I had any sense at all thrown this away as it does smell vile. I am unsure if the smell is because it is a little rancid, if it is a Tallow soap which I feel it is or because it had been confined in one of the Chrome travel tubes probably damp for many years. These tubes were coated inside with a layer of verdigris leading me to believe they are steel that has been copper plated before they are chromed to give a better surface for the chroming to adhere to. This is perhaps what the smell is.
Anyway not withstanding the smell, which was hard to ignore this soap was one of the best lathering slickest soaps I have ever used, I would be nice to know what it was, almost certainly something common and readily available at the time (probably early fifties)
Common sense tells me I've had a bit of fun and now would be the right time to bin this soap but it does perform so well!
Regards
Dick.
