S.O.T.D Saturday 21th October - Friday 27th October 2017

Saturday 21st October

Birch Tar Soap
Vitos Preshave Cream
Lea Shave Stick
Zenith Boar Bush
Kai Captain Excelia (Japanese Style) with a Proline-P blade
Alum Block and Rinse
Unrefined Shea Butter
Pinaud Lilac Vegetal

Three passes for a smooth BBS shave

On this dark, dreary and horrible day I am more or less 'confined to barracks'. Not a day for the motorcycle and I don't get my car back until Monday morning
 
Woof! Oh yes
 
been using my Kent soap for the last 2 months now, probably another 3 weeks left in it, same with my Sir Irisch Moos aftershave and aloe vera gel. have stuck with my 1973 tech head on my feather handle and a gillette green blade for the last 4 shaves and just rotated my brushes - today my omega 49 pro. lovely shave - i've settled into using one product at a time and am really enjoying the stability. it's a shame that i get better performance from the 5 quid razor head than the 180 quid one. nevermind
 
Saturday's shave

Slightly worse for wear this morning, so had a detox bath with Epsom salts, which certainly did the trick, and a warm shower before the shave.

Pre-shave - Warm shower, Wright's Cold Tar Soap face wash, followed by Elemis Pre-shave Oil.
Razor - Rocnel-SE GEM.
Blade - PTFE GEM (Day 1).
Soap - D.R. Harris Eucalyptus Shave Cream.
Bowl - Little Wren.
Brush - Simpsons The Duke Pure Badger Hair.
Post shave - Myrsol "Metilsol" Astringent After Shave, followed by Myrsol Pre/Pose Shave Emulsion.

Filed down the corners of the GEM blade, with a hone stone, very kindly provided by @Blademonkey Once the corners were filed off, loaded the Rocnel. Before shaving I filled the sink with hot water and dropped in the bottle of Elemis Pre Shave Oil to warm up.

I am still very respectful of the Rocnel GEM, after being scratched with this, before I started to file down the blade - made sure the lather was perfect, after a liberal coating of pre shave oil had soaked in I lathered up.

A brilliant 2 pass shave, no issues, stubble just wiped out by the Rocnel - a WTG and XTG shave on my face, with a WTG and ATG on the neck.

There is no way I would use the Rocnel-SE without first filing down the blade corners, no way. I appreciate that YMMV.

I was glad that I got the Rocnel out of its cage, felt very comfortable shaving with it. Some minor tingling from the Myrsol after the shave, which disappeared almost as quickly as it came on.

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A very enjoyable 2 pass shave, this morning. Not much stubble to shave off, after my Sunday afternoon shave, BBS.
 
Pre - Shower +homemade shaving oil

Soap - P&B Sanskrit

Brush - Semogue owners club Boar

Razor - Gillette Fatboy (Razor Emporium)

Blade - Feather (3)

Aftershave - Old Spice

Another fantastic performance from P&B!
I love how there is some depth in the container for lathering. You get far more control and far less wastage.
Last shave with the Feather.
Old Spice really compliments the P&B Sanskrit.
Happy days!
 
Great review.
Thank you for sharing.
 
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