SOTD: 11TH JUNE 2019.
Shaving recipe for today.
Prep: Warm shower:/ L'OREAL ~ Birch Sap Shower Gel.
Pre:
Cold wet flannel to my face.
Pears ~ Lemon Flower Extracts Transparent Soap.
Brush: Semogue 830
Bowl : Tesco's (UK) Ceramic 'Cosmo' Side Bowl.
Bowl Lather.
Uber/Superlather: : Blue's Goat milk Soap / Erasmic Lather Shave Cream.
Blade: Voskhod Teflon Coated.(2)
Razor: Parker 24C .
Post:
Cold Water Face Rinse./Homemade menthol crystals +Eucalyptus peppermint,+ Tea Tree Oil Witch Hazel Mixture./ Old Spice ~ Swagger ASL.
BullDog ~ Original Aftershave Balm.
Greetings,
Another early morning shave.
I've created a new uber/superlather mix, using blue's goat milk soap & erasmic lather shave cream which gave me a super slick protective lather for my shave, as always though when first experimenting i added far too much ingredients to the mix and ended up with enough lather for 8-10 passes..less quantity next time.
Blue's Goat milk soap is made in china which some people maybe be put off from buying because it doesn't show the ingredients on the tin,and purely because it's made by our chinese cousins.'fear & ignorance'.
To my knowledge it's a tallow based shaving soap with a few goat's eye balls toe nails & dead flies thrown in the mix for good measure! ..No seriously, if you shave with it your face doesn't flare up looking like a baboons arse, glow in the dark,and suddenly won't have a extra eye growing in the middle of your forehead. It's no worse than any other soap or cream we use and as for it's scent to my nose ,it's a ' mild clean mint/milky' scent' which won't get top marks in the scent table for those people who like a strong fragranced soap but, it gives excellent protection, cushion great slickness, and superb post shave feel,which is the most important factor in a shaving soap or cream 'IMHO.'Since my first purchase it's price, has doubled with some sellers.For it's price bracket it's up there with the artisan labeled soaps i've sampled,at a fraction of the price, mixed with the erasmic lather shave cream it created another excellent superlather..A superb combo.
The Parker 24C/ Voskhod was another excellent duo mowing through my stubble with smooth efficiency...As with all my Parker razors i find if you adjust to steeper shaving angle the performance & shaving results are superb.
A wonderfully smooth 3 pass + pick ups near bbs shave with no errors to report.
Finishing to the shave off with a generous dollop of BullDog ~Original Aftershave Balm.
My face is feeling super smooth & smelling devine.
Enjoy your day ladies & gentlemen.