S.O.T.D. Saturday 31st August - Friday 6th September 2013


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Wednesday

Hot shower, shampoo beard
Body Shop Macca Root shave cream face lather
MenU bristle brush
Edwin Jagger DE89
Astra SP (3)
3 passes WTG, XTGx2
Lush Dirty shave cream for touch up

Nice shave but painful, 4 shaves may be the limit for an Astra SP, guess we'll find out tomorrow huh? Plenty of weepers, dissapointing.
 
Wednesday 4th September

Brush: Omega 31020
Cream: Body Shop Maca Root- face lathered
Razor: Schick L Type
Blade: Personna (5)
Post: Witch Hazel, Steve's Barbershop Bay Rum

Nice shave indeed. Only one ATG pass needed for a very close shave, happy days. Really enjoying the Injector, and these blades work great for me too.
 
Tuesday evening

Prep : Clinique face soap and scruff
Razor : Ikon Deluxe OC
Blade : Gillette Silver Blue
Brush : Simpson Chubby 2
Soap : Tabac
Post shave : Freezing cold flannel followed by Old spice Whitewater

First shave using Tabac. Bit strange as with the Chubby I still had to swirl for a good minute and a half but actually managed to get a comfortable 3 pass shave out of the Chubby with enough for a touch up if I needed. Not bad for the Tabac and didn't notice any horrible scent either.

That Chubby still needs a lot of work though but I'm not giving up on it.
 
Wednesday:

Afternoon, gents.

Prep: Claus Porto's Lime-oil face soap
Razor: iKon OC
Blade: Sputnik (5)
Brush: The Soap Shed Super Badger
Shave soap: Arko stick
A/S: Superdrug Clear Water
Cologne: Mama Bear's GIT clone

Smooth and problem-free.
 
Wednesday 09-04-13. MUSIC: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977).

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Soap from Aleppo - Rooney 1/2 silvertip - Gillette Rocket flare tip - Gillette Platinum #2 - Prepost Proraso - Shaving cream vintage Proraso lanolin - Alum block - Thayers Original Aloe - ASB Prepost Proraso - ASL Myrsol Fórmula K.
 
Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Pensoftheforest Rod Neep custom - x-tra stuffed silvertip in Masur Birch handle
Razor: C V Heljestrand, M K 42, from Eskilstuna Sweden
Soap: Provence Sante
AS: Floid, special edition
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean indeed
New blade in the stable and what a great blade it is, + 6/8 half to 1/4 hollow grind Swedish steel that took a very nice edge
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Musgo Real glyce classic soap
ATT M1/ JEC copper handle / feather
Morris & Forndran stubby 2XL
L'Occitane Cade shaving soap
Proraso Green A/S


Good effort



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parker 91r handle/ fatip
polsilver stainless
muhle silvertip fibre
mikes lily of the valley shaving soap
rose of bulgaria AS
penhaligons opus 1870 edt

lovely shave, totally impressed with mikes natural shaving soap. i know the shipping knocks the price up on this, but considering you can pay £15-20 delivered for a good quality established soap, i dont think its such a biggie to pay the extra for a soap of this quality, wonderful stuff.
 
Wednesday 4th September



Warm shower
Hot flannel
TOBS Rose cream bowl lathered
Simpson 56 best badger brush
Gillette 1940's thin handle tech
Gillette 7 o'clock sharp edge (1)
Cold rinse
Thayers lavender witch hazel
Myrsol F/extra aftershave

Very nice shave first outing for this Tech worked well with the Sharp edge blade

Brian
 
Tech / Weber Bulldog
Personna Lab Blue (2)
Semogue SOC boar
Martin de Candre scented
Nivea Sensitive balm
Serge Lutens Serge Noire

I fancied something different and so swapped the handle from a Fat Handle Tech with a Weber Bulldog. Nice, gentle shave yet a good result - a 'DFS', I suppose. Not worth maintaining reguarly as the Weber heads are mild yet smoother and more effective for me. I don't rate the Nivea balm as highly as the Proraso balm (my only point of reference as yet). It doesn't seem to 'do' a lot.
 
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