SOTD: Saturday 22th -Friday 28st June 2019.

Saturday 22nd June
Yaqi Aluminium Tux - OSP Neroli - PAL Injectomatic - Personna Stainless #3 - Alum - Superdrug Forest Fresh A/S - Dove Nourishing Cream
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Date:- 22 June 2019

Pre-shave:- Cold Water straight from the tap
Brush:- Brush:- Edwin Jagger Synth. v2.0 Silvertip Fibre Faux Horn 25/58mm knot
Soap/Cream:- Wickham 1912 ~ Apricus (Limited Edition)
Razor/Blade:- EJ 3ONE6 Knurled / Feather #1
Post-shave:- T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel Astringent mixed into the 240ml bottle with Natural Glycerin (20), Tea Tree Antiseptic (10), Lavender (15) & Peppermint (10 drops)
Fragrance:- Tabac
What do you think of the 3one6 now you've used it?

Sent from my LYA-L09 using Tapatalk
 
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Razor: Minora bakelite
Blade: Indian Wilkinson sword (3)
Brush: Vintage Gillette
Soap/Cream: Real shaving company moisturising shave cream
Aftershave: Real shaving company post shave soothing balm

Had an amazing shave, the cream is back in circulation had been discontinued, £1 from Poundland, i bought 4 of them, nice lather very protective even though it's not the most cushionist (is that a word lol), so slick can buff & go over the same spot, the feeling of it feels nice on the face when shaving & especially after, the smell is okay not too strong, my minora razor with the Wilkinson sword blade on it's 3rd shave did very well, it's my favourite razor to shave with, felt incredibly comfortable very smooth shave, 3 passes didn't even need any touch ups, , no hint of irritation no soreness, splashed my face with cold water felt nice, to finish the shave off i dried my face & put on some soothing balm also from Poundland, just went in there on a whim yesterday & saw all the new men's products.

Hope the weekend is going well for everyone ;)
 
Saturday, 22 June 2019

PreShave: From the boiled kettle but some from the tap to cool it a bit.
Cream: OSP Vintage
Brush: Kent BK8
Bowl: My recycled cream bowl
Razor: The Sledgehammer (Merkur 39C)
Blade Rapira Swedish Steel (1)
Post Shave: Alum

Fragrance: Floris 71/72

A nice shave, the first time I've used the Rapira blades. I'll use them a few more times before drawing a definite conclusion, but I like them so far.

Have a good Saturday.
 
Saturday 22 July

Soap - Vitos Green
Brush - Omega 11819
Razor - Lord L6
Blade - Rapira Platinum Lux (2)
Post - Witch Hazel
AS - Akcay Tobacco

A few weeks back I picked up a very nasty cut on the edge of my lower lip and since since then I'd been growing a soul patch to avoid shaving under my lower lip. Today was the day to part with the soul patch. It'd been an enjoyable experience so far but it had started to trap a few bits and pieces of food and with a little little trepidation I regained some skin from the hair.

The Omega 11819 lost a few more bristles today. It's been shedding with every shave, and I'm hoping it will stop eventually. It's not bad brush but doesn't have much for backbone. It's odd how the 3 different 24mm/55mm Omega knots I've owned have all performed completely differently, there's a pot luck element to whether it will be a good one or not, so far the one of the 11819 has been a bit of a let down.

Anyway chaps, have a good Saturday.
 
Sotd - Saturday the 22nd of June.

Razor - Ever Ready 'Streamline'
blade - ER Corrux (5)
brush - Simpsons Chubby 1 best
soap - MT 'Lavender de Luxe' paste
post - witch hazel
a/s - Quorum
balm - Barts 'Lavender'
scent - Caldey Island 'Lavender' edt.

Result - just lovely.

A nice relaxed and relaxing lavender shave. Must repeat - razors other than the Streamline are available. It is just so damn good. No picture today - as there appears to be no daylight in Glasgow - I suppose after its heroic effort yesterday the sun in knackered and fancied a day in bed. If you think I'm going to start arsing about with flashguns and triggers on a Saturday afternoon - you've got another thing coming. I've noticed an upturn in mentions of the Occam's razor around these parts recently - in part perhaps due to Classic Shaving discounting them heavily - as far as I'm concerned - this is the coolest name for a razor ever. No doubt - most of you will know the derivation of it - if not - feel free to read the following. Enjoy your shaves - yours - I.

‘Occam's razor' is so named from William of Ockham (b.1286? - d.1347) - Franciscan monk, theologian, scholastic philosopher, nominalist and father of modern epistemology. His name suggests that he was born in Ockham - then a small village in Surrey - his ‘razor' is a tool used when reasoning out a problem or testing a hypothesis - sometimes expressed as ‘the simplest solution is the best' - but - ironically - this is a gross oversimplification in itself - the classic definition is rendered as ‘entities must not be posited without necessity.' What this means in practise is that if you want to test competing hypotheses - that predict the same outcome - the one with the least amount of assumptions should be preferred - the ‘razor' shaves away the un-necessary. Nobody really knows why his name became attached to the principle - the phrase ‘novacula Occami' doesn't appear until a couple of centuries after his death. Exactly the same sort of methodology had been used by - running backwards in time - Duns Scotus, Maimonides, Ptolemy and Aristotle - to name but four - but there is no doubt that William used variations on the theme heavily in his work - it has stuck anyway. ‘Occam's razor' is still relevant - it is used in modern science - particularly physics - for predicting theoretical outcomes. William had a fairly eventful life - seemingly having a rare talent to annoy the authorities - he ended up on the wrong side of the two major theological controversies of his lifetime. He studied - and ended up teaching - at Oxford - where he got into trouble for the first time - in 1324 - or thereabouts - he published a commentary on Peter Lombard's ‘The Sentences,' - standard practise at the time - you were nobody in medieval philosophy if you didn't - which upset the local synod of bishops - who branded it ‘unorthodox' - I suspect strongly they were too stupid to follow his reasoning - there is nothing particularly challenging about it from a doctrinal point of view - and sent him to Avignon to answer to a Papal court. At this point the pontiff was based in France - not Rome - John XXII was not impressed with him. Unfortunately for William he wandered straight into one of the biggest fallouts in 14th century Christianity - as a Franciscan monk - he held to the idea of ‘Apostolic poverty' - the rule used by the monks held to the founding ideal - according to St Francis - that Jesus and his followers had no personal property - therefore monks shouldn't either. This pissed the Papacy off in no small way - who were very fond indeed of ‘earthly riches' and it set about the Franciscans. To their shame the order did eventually cave in on the issue. William decided it would be really helpful to - when in Avignon - write and publish a treatise ‘proving' that St Francis was right and the Papacy was wrong - an argument lavishly backed up by scriptural sources. This was the final straw for John XXII and William was obliged to do a runner in 1328 - the same year - he was formally excommunicated - interestingly though his philosophical works were never banned. He ended up in Bavaria under the protection of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV - himself locked in a battle with the Pope over who had the ultimate authority - temporal and spiritual - in his territories. For the first time William seems to have done something to help himself - he spend time turning out densely argued treatises on why his patron was indeed correct in telling the pope to bugger off. He died in 1347 - as the leader of a band of ‘dissident' Franciscans - which was good timing on his part as the whole of Europe was just about to be ravaged by the plague. I can't think of another razor named after a medieval philosopher - Gillette ‘Aquinas' anyone? ha ha.
 
Saturday AM 2019-06-22

Moss Anniversary Slate scuttle
Rooney 3/1 Faux Horn Finest (22/48)
Crabtree & Evelyn For Men shaving soap (vintage)
Wolfman WR1-SB Titanium/Stork Advoco Titanium
Gillette 'Swede' (8)
Armani Acqua di Giò aftershave

The soap makes wonderful lather, but its scent a love-it-or-hate-it one; I happen to like it. And the Wolfman-'Swede' combination is great, one of my favorites.
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Sotd - Saturday the 22nd of June.

Razor - Ever Ready 'Streamline'
blade - ER Corrux (5)
brush - Simpsons Chubby 1 best
soap - MT 'Lavender de Luxe' paste
post - witch hazel
a/s - Quorum
balm - Barts 'Lavender'
scent - Caldey Island 'Lavender' edt.

Result - just lovely.

A nice relaxed and relaxing lavender shave. Must repeat - razors other than the Streamline are available. It is just so damn good. No picture today - as there appears to be no daylight in Glasgow - I suppose after its heroic effort yesterday the sun in knackered and fancied a day in bed. If you think I'm going to start arsing about with flashguns and triggers on a Saturday afternoon - you've got another thing coming. I've noticed an upturn in mentions of the Occam's razor around these parts recently - in part perhaps due to Classic Shaving discounting them heavily - as far as I'm concerned - this is the coolest name for a razor ever. No doubt - most of you will know the derivation of it - if not - feel free to read the following. Enjoy your shaves - yours - I.

‘Occam's razor' is so named from William of Ockham (b.1286? - d.1347) - Franciscan monk, theologian, scholastic philosopher, nominalist and father of modern epistemology. His name suggests that he was born in Ockham - then a small village in Surrey - his ‘razor' is a tool used when reasoning out a problem or testing a hypothesis - sometimes expressed as ‘the simplest solution is the best' - but - ironically - this is a gross oversimplification in itself - the classic definition is rendered as ‘entities must not be posited without necessity.' What this means in practise is that if you want to test competing hypotheses - that predict the same outcome - the one with the least amount of assumptions should be preferred - the ‘razor' shaves away the un-necessary. Nobody really knows why his name became attached to the principle - the phrase ‘novacula Occami' doesn't appear until a couple of centuries after his death. Exactly the same sort of methodology had been used by - running backwards in time - Duns Scotus, Maimonides, Ptolemy and Aristotle - to name but four - but there is no doubt that William used variations on the theme heavily in his work - it has stuck anyway. ‘Occam's razor' is still relevant - it is used in modern science - particularly physics - for predicting theoretical outcomes. William had a fairly eventful life - seemingly having a rare talent to annoy the authorities - he ended up on the wrong side of the two major theological controversies of his lifetime. He studied - and ended up teaching - at Oxford - where he got into trouble for the first time - in 1324 - or thereabouts - he published a commentary on Peter Lombard's ‘The Sentences,' - standard practise at the time - you were nobody in medieval philosophy if you didn't - which upset the local synod of bishops - who branded it ‘unorthodox' - I suspect strongly they were too stupid to follow his reasoning - there is nothing particularly challenging about it from a doctrinal point of view - and sent him to Avignon to answer to a Papal court. At this point the pontiff was based in France - not Rome - John XXII was not impressed with him. Unfortunately for William he wandered straight into one of the biggest fallouts in 14th century Christianity - as a Franciscan monk - he held to the idea of ‘Apostolic poverty' - the rule used by the monks held to the founding ideal - according to St Francis - that Jesus and his followers had no personal property - therefore monks shouldn't either. This pissed the Papacy off in no small way - who were very fond indeed of ‘earthly riches' and it set about the Franciscans. To their shame the order did eventually cave in on the issue. William decided it would be really helpful to - when in Avignon - write and publish a treatise ‘proving' that St Francis was right and the Papacy was wrong - an argument lavishly backed up by scriptural sources. This was the final straw for John XXII and William was obliged to do a runner in 1328 - the same year - he was formally excommunicated - interestingly though his philosophical works were never banned. He ended up in Bavaria under the protection of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV - himself locked in a battle with the Pope over who had the ultimate authority - temporal and spiritual - in his territories. For the first time William seems to have done something to help himself - he spend time turning out densely argued treatises on why his patron was indeed correct in telling the pope to bugger off. He died in 1347 - as the leader of a band of ‘dissident' Franciscans - which was good timing on his part as the whole of Europe was just about to be ravaged by the plague. I can't think of another razor named after a medieval philosopher - Gillette ‘Aquinas' anyone? ha ha.
As always Iain, educational and entertaining. It's remarkable the knowledge you have picked up from ‘The Chase' over the years.
 
Sotd - Saturday the 22nd of June.

Razor - Ever Ready 'Streamline'
blade - ER Corrux (5)
brush - Simpsons Chubby 1 best
soap - MT 'Lavender de Luxe' paste
post - witch hazel
a/s - Quorum
balm - Barts 'Lavender'
scent - Caldey Island 'Lavender' edt.

Result - just lovely.

A nice relaxed and relaxing lavender shave. Must repeat - razors other than the Streamline are available. It is just so damn good. No picture today - as there appears to be no daylight in Glasgow - I suppose after its heroic effort yesterday the sun in knackered and fancied a day in bed. If you think I'm going to start arsing about with flashguns and triggers on a Saturday afternoon - you've got another thing coming. I've noticed an upturn in mentions of the Occam's razor around these parts recently - in part perhaps due to Classic Shaving discounting them heavily - as far as I'm concerned - this is the coolest name for a razor ever. No doubt - most of you will know the derivation of it - if not - feel free to read the following. Enjoy your shaves - yours - I.

‘Occam's razor' is so named from William of Ockham (b.1286? - d.1347) - Franciscan monk, theologian, scholastic philosopher, nominalist and father of modern epistemology. His name suggests that he was born in Ockham - then a small village in Surrey - his ‘razor' is a tool used when reasoning out a problem or testing a hypothesis - sometimes expressed as ‘the simplest solution is the best' - but - ironically - this is a gross oversimplification in itself - the classic definition is rendered as ‘entities must not be posited without necessity.' What this means in practise is that if you want to test competing hypotheses - that predict the same outcome - the one with the least amount of assumptions should be preferred - the ‘razor' shaves away the un-necessary. Nobody really knows why his name became attached to the principle - the phrase ‘novacula Occami' doesn't appear until a couple of centuries after his death. Exactly the same sort of methodology had been used by - running backwards in time - Duns Scotus, Maimonides, Ptolemy and Aristotle - to name but four - but there is no doubt that William used variations on the theme heavily in his work - it has stuck anyway. ‘Occam's razor' is still relevant - it is used in modern science - particularly physics - for predicting theoretical outcomes. William had a fairly eventful life - seemingly having a rare talent to annoy the authorities - he ended up on the wrong side of the two major theological controversies of his lifetime. He studied - and ended up teaching - at Oxford - where he got into trouble for the first time - in 1324 - or thereabouts - he published a commentary on Peter Lombard's ‘The Sentences,' - standard practise at the time - you were nobody in medieval philosophy if you didn't - which upset the local synod of bishops - who branded it ‘unorthodox' - I suspect strongly they were too stupid to follow his reasoning - there is nothing particularly challenging about it from a doctrinal point of view - and sent him to Avignon to answer to a Papal court. At this point the pontiff was based in France - not Rome - John XXII was not impressed with him. Unfortunately for William he wandered straight into one of the biggest fallouts in 14th century Christianity - as a Franciscan monk - he held to the idea of ‘Apostolic poverty' - the rule used by the monks held to the founding ideal - according to St Francis - that Jesus and his followers had no personal property - therefore monks shouldn't either. This pissed the Papacy off in no small way - who were very fond indeed of ‘earthly riches' and it set about the Franciscans. To their shame the order did eventually cave in on the issue. William decided it would be really helpful to - when in Avignon - write and publish a treatise ‘proving' that St Francis was right and the Papacy was wrong - an argument lavishly backed up by scriptural sources. This was the final straw for John XXII and William was obliged to do a runner in 1328 - the same year - he was formally excommunicated - interestingly though his philosophical works were never banned. He ended up in Bavaria under the protection of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV - himself locked in a battle with the Pope over who had the ultimate authority - temporal and spiritual - in his territories. For the first time William seems to have done something to help himself - he spend time turning out densely argued treatises on why his patron was indeed correct in telling the pope to bugger off. He died in 1347 - as the leader of a band of ‘dissident' Franciscans - which was good timing on his part as the whole of Europe was just about to be ravaged by the plague. I can't think of another razor named after a medieval philosopher - Gillette ‘Aquinas' anyone? ha ha.

Great stuff
 
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