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Hello all.
I'm coming up 60 and retire from the British Army very soon.
When I first started shaving it was with an electric razor - twice a week was plenty in the beginning.
By the time I was 20, although I had an average anglo-saxon beard, I was fed up with my Philishave and took to wet shaving.
I bought a pretty standard butterfly Gillette from Boots and the latest aerosol. Of course it was an improvement, but I soon graduated to a brush and Old Spice Soap in a mug.
Later i took to twin bladed disposables and a gel. Next the three bladed monsters, but I never abandoned the brush.
Many years later I picked up a comment on some men's health forum and did a few Google Searches. I watched the Mantic Videos, joined a few forums and started experimenting.
I almost always use a Merkur Slant these days with the Palmolive cream in the green tube or my own mix. I take a Palmolive stick and a Wilkinson soap (in the blue tub), grate them together with a cheese grater and press them into a shaving mug. Very cheap and very creamy.
I regret I have used the last of my "Swedish" Gillette blades and can find no more. Feathers are the next best - as sharp but not as smooth. I am hunting for alternatives.
I might have had an average Anglo-Saxon beard when I was 20, but at 60 it is full of touch white hairs.
Very soon I will move with my wife and daughter to Southampton where our son lives and works. Having established a UK base in that Southampton flat we will retire to Cyprus.
I can get Palmolive cream there - and the Nivea in the blue tube, which is quite nice.
(Mods please note I got no confirmation by email that my membership was activated, or I would have posted earlier.)
I'm coming up 60 and retire from the British Army very soon.
When I first started shaving it was with an electric razor - twice a week was plenty in the beginning.
By the time I was 20, although I had an average anglo-saxon beard, I was fed up with my Philishave and took to wet shaving.
I bought a pretty standard butterfly Gillette from Boots and the latest aerosol. Of course it was an improvement, but I soon graduated to a brush and Old Spice Soap in a mug.
Later i took to twin bladed disposables and a gel. Next the three bladed monsters, but I never abandoned the brush.
Many years later I picked up a comment on some men's health forum and did a few Google Searches. I watched the Mantic Videos, joined a few forums and started experimenting.
I almost always use a Merkur Slant these days with the Palmolive cream in the green tube or my own mix. I take a Palmolive stick and a Wilkinson soap (in the blue tub), grate them together with a cheese grater and press them into a shaving mug. Very cheap and very creamy.
I regret I have used the last of my "Swedish" Gillette blades and can find no more. Feathers are the next best - as sharp but not as smooth. I am hunting for alternatives.
I might have had an average Anglo-Saxon beard when I was 20, but at 60 it is full of touch white hairs.
Very soon I will move with my wife and daughter to Southampton where our son lives and works. Having established a UK base in that Southampton flat we will retire to Cyprus.
I can get Palmolive cream there - and the Nivea in the blue tube, which is quite nice.
(Mods please note I got no confirmation by email that my membership was activated, or I would have posted earlier.)
