SOTD : Saturday 28st August to Friday 03th September 2021
- Thread starter THONY
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Todays Cold Water Shave Kit - Sunday 29th August 2021
Shave Score 9.5
PreShave: Hot Shower \ PAA The Cube 2.0 "Menthol" \ Signature Soaps - Patchouli\Orange Foaming Shower Wash
PreShave: PAA The Cube 2.0 "Non-Menthol"
Soap: EXTRO Isola
Brush: Yaqi 26mm - Timber Wolf
Razor: Karve Aluminium (C)
Blade: Derby Extra (1)
Post Shave ASL: Pinaud Classic Vanilla
Post Shave Balm: Barts Balms - Ben More-Bergamot and Vanilla
Post Shave Cologne: Aramis
A great shave with an often underrated blade, and super quick luxurious face lather by the EXTRO
Have a great day all.
Joe
Shave Score 9.5
PreShave: Hot Shower \ PAA The Cube 2.0 "Menthol" \ Signature Soaps - Patchouli\Orange Foaming Shower Wash
PreShave: PAA The Cube 2.0 "Non-Menthol"
Soap: EXTRO Isola
Brush: Yaqi 26mm - Timber Wolf
Razor: Karve Aluminium (C)
Blade: Derby Extra (1)
Post Shave ASL: Pinaud Classic Vanilla
Post Shave Balm: Barts Balms - Ben More-Bergamot and Vanilla
Post Shave Cologne: Aramis
A great shave with an often underrated blade, and super quick luxurious face lather by the EXTRO
Have a great day all.
Joe
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SOTD 29-Aug
Prep: Warm shower PAA ICE Cube
Brush: PAA Phantom
Soap: B&M Terror
Razor: PAA Phantom Blue Slant
Blade: Voshkod (1)
Post: Cold Water, Terror Splash and Balm
Cooling shave this morning, not massively cold but enough to wake me up. A little irritation on the neck, my own doing as I did rush it at the end. Tingly but still smooth and ready for the day!
Hope everyone has a grand Sunday!
Cheers
Marc
Prep: Warm shower PAA ICE Cube
Brush: PAA Phantom
Soap: B&M Terror
Razor: PAA Phantom Blue Slant
Blade: Voshkod (1)
Post: Cold Water, Terror Splash and Balm
Cooling shave this morning, not massively cold but enough to wake me up. A little irritation on the neck, my own doing as I did rush it at the end. Tingly but still smooth and ready for the day!
Hope everyone has a grand Sunday!
Cheers
Marc
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29/8/21
Soap - Stirling Sheep
Brush - Yaqi Sagrada Tuxedo 24mm
Razor - Gillette Rocket
Blade - Gillette Platinum (3)
Post - Benjamins Bay Rum w/Pimento
I took a tiny amount of Stirling Sheep, pressed it against the back of a lid, loaded it to my brush and built the lather on my face and even with the tiniest amount of soap I had enough glossy, slick, dense and voluminous lather for maybe about 4 passes! I'm really impressed with the quality of the lather, but it seems everytime I have used Stirling I seemed to have picked up a few weepers in the shave, maybe I am using too much soap and not enough water? For my next Stirling shave, I will try to keep in mind to use even less soap than I did for today's shave.
The combination of Gillette Platinum and Gillette Rocket produced a delightfully smooth and efficient shave. I finished the shave with Bens Bay Rum splash, there was more than enough post shave residual slickness to not need to use a balm.
Anyway gents, I hope you have a good Sunday.
Soap - Stirling Sheep
Brush - Yaqi Sagrada Tuxedo 24mm
Razor - Gillette Rocket
Blade - Gillette Platinum (3)
Post - Benjamins Bay Rum w/Pimento
I took a tiny amount of Stirling Sheep, pressed it against the back of a lid, loaded it to my brush and built the lather on my face and even with the tiniest amount of soap I had enough glossy, slick, dense and voluminous lather for maybe about 4 passes! I'm really impressed with the quality of the lather, but it seems everytime I have used Stirling I seemed to have picked up a few weepers in the shave, maybe I am using too much soap and not enough water? For my next Stirling shave, I will try to keep in mind to use even less soap than I did for today's shave.
The combination of Gillette Platinum and Gillette Rocket produced a delightfully smooth and efficient shave. I finished the shave with Bens Bay Rum splash, there was more than enough post shave residual slickness to not need to use a balm.
Anyway gents, I hope you have a good Sunday.
I enjoyed my previous shave with the Gold Tech but after a day and a half, I felt the need for another shave, even if that meant a late night tidy up, last night.
Out came the 1953 Gillette Super Speed, and as I've had excellent results with a Kai blade, that's what I used with it. As before, this combination shaved so close! Possibly too close!
The soap worked a treat, I'd forgotten how well Goodfella's soaps perform and the PAA Peregrino brush whipped up a supreme topping! The Sea Citrus' ozone freshness was once again matched with the delightful Phoenix & Beau Trafalgar. I really will have to go carefully with that splash, as it's no longer being made. Such a shame.
Razor: Gillette Super Speed 1953 -Y3
Blade: Kai (1)
Soap: Goodfella's Smile Sea Citrus
Brush: PAA Peregrino
Pre-shave: PAA Cube
Post-shave: P&B Trafalgar
Bowl: Captain's Choice Cobalt Blue
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Ha ha cheers, to be fair that was precisely why I got the slant (and I wanted a slant type razor for the collection) after I had unintentionally gathered a collection of blue things lol
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29 August
Castle Forbes Lime
PAA The Green Ray
Feather AS-D1
Feather Hi-stainless
Lucky Tiger face tonic
A very pleasant Sunday shave, close and comfortable. The Green Ray brush is my least resilient synthetic brush, almost floppy, but it produces a fabulous lather every time. Great stuff.
Castle Forbes Lime
PAA The Green Ray
Feather AS-D1
Feather Hi-stainless
Lucky Tiger face tonic
A very pleasant Sunday shave, close and comfortable. The Green Ray brush is my least resilient synthetic brush, almost floppy, but it produces a fabulous lather every time. Great stuff.
SOTD Sunday 29th
Pre shave: cube
Soap & splash: Hubcity WTX
Alum bloc
Balm: arko unscented
Brush: alpha outlaw
Razor: Karve stainless D plate
Blade: Gillette platinum 2nd use
Went for a 3 pass shave this morning about 7 days growth first time using a soap from Hubcity and wasn't disappointed the the soap performed really well slickness and post shave feel were really good the soap also lathered well and the scent of the soap was nice its a masculine scent but it has a sweetness to it I really like it and iam also really liking the Gillette platinum blade nacets are still my favourite but think these will be a close 2nd
Pre shave: cube
Soap & splash: Hubcity WTX
Alum bloc
Balm: arko unscented
Brush: alpha outlaw
Razor: Karve stainless D plate
Blade: Gillette platinum 2nd use
Went for a 3 pass shave this morning about 7 days growth first time using a soap from Hubcity and wasn't disappointed the the soap performed really well slickness and post shave feel were really good the soap also lathered well and the scent of the soap was nice its a masculine scent but it has a sweetness to it I really like it and iam also really liking the Gillette platinum blade nacets are still my favourite but think these will be a close 2nd
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Sunday AM 2021-08-29
National Toroid Day
Rooney 1/3 Ivory Finest (26/55)
Penhaligon's Lords shaving soap (tallow)
Wolfman WR2-SB 0.95/WRH3
Jewel Sheffield Super Stainless Steel (2)
Penhaligon's Lords aftershave (vintage)
The blade was somewhat less rough today, but not really smooth. It reminds me of a Dorco.
National Toroid Day
Rooney 1/3 Ivory Finest (26/55)
Penhaligon's Lords shaving soap (tallow)
Wolfman WR2-SB 0.95/WRH3
Jewel Sheffield Super Stainless Steel (2)
Penhaligon's Lords aftershave (vintage)
The blade was somewhat less rough today, but not really smooth. It reminds me of a Dorco.
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Friday last and today -
razor - Twig
blade - Nacet (1+2)
brush - Simpson Special - best
soap - Vitos Eucalyptus - tallow and lanolin
post - witch hazel
a/s - 4711
balm - La Toja Neutro
scent - Essence Vault 481.
Without really thinking about it on Friday I picked products that worked superbly together - so much so, I just used the same today. The path of least resistance. Happy shaving one and all - yours - I.
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Sunday 29th August
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Boots Albany 'Mentholated' Shaving Soap (Vintage)
Yaqi Dandelion w/Cashmere Synthetic 24mm
Yaqi AC (AKA Raster) w/Red Horseman Swing Handle
Feather Professional (6)
4711 Aftershave
Chuffing lovely, that vintage Boots soap. It's most certainly got that unobtainium that can only be found in vintage. Lovely lather. super slip! The fragrance is lightly floral with lilac coming to the fore, to my nose. Gently mentholated, certainly by today's standards and more like a gentle waft of cooling than a face-freezer.
First, for me, with the 4711 Aftershave. I've used their Original Cologne a good deal and really like it. I really hoped that the aftershave was not neutered, and was not disappointed ... super blast of 4711 with a good sting in the tail. Very happy with this purchase.
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Boots Albany 'Mentholated' Shaving Soap (Vintage)
Yaqi Dandelion w/Cashmere Synthetic 24mm
Yaqi AC (AKA Raster) w/Red Horseman Swing Handle
Feather Professional (6)
4711 Aftershave
Chuffing lovely, that vintage Boots soap. It's most certainly got that unobtainium that can only be found in vintage. Lovely lather. super slip! The fragrance is lightly floral with lilac coming to the fore, to my nose. Gently mentholated, certainly by today's standards and more like a gentle waft of cooling than a face-freezer.
First, for me, with the 4711 Aftershave. I've used their Original Cologne a good deal and really like it. I really hoped that the aftershave was not neutered, and was not disappointed ... super blast of 4711 with a good sting in the tail. Very happy with this purchase.
Aug. 29, 2021 - MMOC day 29... and birthday!
Another day, another good shave. Water up here definitely makes a difference - the soap seems to lather even easier than usual and explodes with more lather than usual - by the looks of it that is, since I don't really measure it properly.
3 passes and bit of tidying up on the neck for BBS. Birthday BBS - First birthday shave since I started wetshaving... shame it wasn't too exciting - same setup as since beginning of August. Blade performed well enough - slight tugging here and there when going ATG but it's more than bearable - definitely still better than GEM side. I'm guessing I could potentially get about 10 more shaves without having to strop it... but you never know! 29 shaves in but still dealing well enough with my hair.
Aftershave brought slight bit of stinging probably due to having to buff out some places. But all is good.
Been around department stores today and had a good sniff at some perfumes. Creed, Parfum the marly, Initio.... all are great though! Love the Creed original Vetiver as well as Erolfa. PDM I actually like their Layton, Herod, Pegasus and Carlisle. Initio oud for greatness is another awesome one... Same as absolute aphrodisiac and blessed baraka. Ugh the fragrance world opened the door and it's another rabbit hole! Hate it but love it at the same time! Really need to get some samples in seeing as near where I live there's no department stores where I could try some of this stuff...
Now time for some birthday drinks I guess!
Enjoy your shaves Ladies and Gentlemen!
- Prep: Hot Shower
- Brush: Zenith 507U XSE unbleached boar
- Razor: GEM Micromatic Open Comb
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (29)
- Lather: RazoRock - XXX - Soap
- Post Shave: RazoRock - XXX - Aftershave
Another day, another good shave. Water up here definitely makes a difference - the soap seems to lather even easier than usual and explodes with more lather than usual - by the looks of it that is, since I don't really measure it properly.
3 passes and bit of tidying up on the neck for BBS. Birthday BBS - First birthday shave since I started wetshaving... shame it wasn't too exciting - same setup as since beginning of August. Blade performed well enough - slight tugging here and there when going ATG but it's more than bearable - definitely still better than GEM side. I'm guessing I could potentially get about 10 more shaves without having to strop it... but you never know! 29 shaves in but still dealing well enough with my hair.
Aftershave brought slight bit of stinging probably due to having to buff out some places. But all is good.
Been around department stores today and had a good sniff at some perfumes. Creed, Parfum the marly, Initio.... all are great though! Love the Creed original Vetiver as well as Erolfa. PDM I actually like their Layton, Herod, Pegasus and Carlisle. Initio oud for greatness is another awesome one... Same as absolute aphrodisiac and blessed baraka. Ugh the fragrance world opened the door and it's another rabbit hole! Hate it but love it at the same time! Really need to get some samples in seeing as near where I live there's no department stores where I could try some of this stuff...
Now time for some birthday drinks I guess!
Enjoy your shaves Ladies and Gentlemen!
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Happy Birthday Simon,
You are allowed to get a little tipsy, order some shaving soaps online and fall asleep, only to forget what you ordered until your postie delivers them to you.
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Yeah happy birthday Scorps. Now get those bevvies down ya, see you in the "what are you drinking" thread...