SOTD : Saturday 8st - Friday 14th August 2020.

Date:- 08 August 2020

Pre-shave:- Cold Water straight from the tap
Bowl/Scuttle:- Captain's Choice
Brush:- WCS Two-Tone Tall (Red & White) Extra Dense Synth. 26/56mm knot
Soap/Cream:- Declaration Grooming ~ Unconditional Surrender
Razor/Blade:- EJ 3one6 / Gillette Nacet #11
Post/After-shave:- T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel Astringent mixed into the 240ml bottle with Natural Glycerin (20 drops) & Tea Tree Antiseptic (5) / The Stray Whisker Aftershave Balm (Australian made)

I cannot believe the Nacet is still holding the edge smooth as butter with the EJ 3one6, still very comfortable smooth shave with NO!!! tugging, NO!!! irritation and NO!!! razor burn at all.
 
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Saturday 8th - New everything!

Fuar Ach Snog
Yaqi Brush
Goodfellas Smile Pino Alpestre Soap
Rex Envoy (purchased via the forum!)
Gillette Permasharp Yellow
Fine Snakebite
Myrsol Emulsion

Not a great shave, because I changed many variables at once and made some mistakes.

This was my first time shaving with a soap rather than a cream and the lather I produced was inadequate and thin. I should have tried again with a familiar cream, but I was in a rush lesson learned.

The Gillette's are slightly sharper blades that I decided to use in my R106 for extra efficiency. Given that the Envoy is a slightly more aggressive razor, I should have stuck to the personnas for a while. Also less pressure probably needed.

I got bit slightly a couple of times and had some irritation, but lessons learned for next time.
Stick with a familiar cream for now. Personna blades until I grow accustomed to the Envoy.

Always shave at night when I can take my time.
Certainly no disaster, but a reminder that I have much to learn!
 

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SOTD

Not much variation in the gear from day to day at the moment, but why change something that works?

Signature Soaps Eboracum
Alpha Outlaw Titanium v2 Synthetic G4
Carbon Shaving Co Cx SS/Titan
KAI DE Blade

Another wonderful shave with the very good warm weather soap Eboracom with Peppermint
that gave some much needed cooling effect in the around 30°C we have in Denmark today
 
A Wedding Anniversary shave; my good lady picked out an old bottle of Chanel Égoïste for me so I paired it with Alphy & Becs Sandalwood & Vanilla (soap and balm), Alpha Outlaw G4 synthetic brush, Leaf razor with three half blade Gillette Wilkinson Swords, we're off out for a meal, and the Leaf which arrived an hour before the shave worked very well on the face.

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A Wedding Anniversary shave; my good lady picked out an old bottle of Chanel Égoïste for me so I paired it with Alphy & Becs Sandalwood & Vanilla (soap and balm), Alpha Outlaw G4 synthetic brush, Leaf razor with three half blade Gillette Wilkinson Swords, we're off out for a meal, and the Leaf which arrived an hour before the shave worked very well on the face.

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toutes nos félicitations! joyeux anniversaire
 
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