Monday 17th July
Wilkinson Sword (Vintage) Shaving Bowl & Wilkinson Sword Synthetic Shaving Brush
Lord L5 & Racer Platinum (3)
Drakkar Noir Aftershave
Beginning a Wilkinson Sword week ... with Lord, being the spirital successor.
When I did my not so recent run-through the Lord blades, I used a number of razors to evaluate the blades but it was not until the end (or perhaps even afterwards) when I used this apparently cheap Lord razor. I regretted not using it sooner, if not through the whole range, because it really is a good razor! On the face of it, it does look like a Sterling but weighing the head and plate against the Sterling it is considerably more solid. The shave experience is better, too; where the Sterling can be a bit rough and ready or with a kind of rawness, the Lord is not ... it's far more like somewhere between the late Gillette Tech and the Star/Personna/PAL three piece razor.
Finishing off a string of part-used blades from that run-through it's the Racer Platinum today and Stainless tomorrow with the ASCO Platinum and Stainless the days after. I'll see what I fancy Friday, Saturday & Sunday. If you were interested in reading my thoughts on the Lord blades, here's a refresher:
https://www.theshavingroom.co.uk/community/threads/house-of-lords.58333/
Fun to use the (new) Wilkinson Sword brush whose fibre is much akin to Omega S-Brush, but it is a bit thin/sparse. I do wish it was a bit girthier. The soap is indeed a vintage shaving bowl, and while it is black it's not the current black bowl - it was the one with the green strip around that predated the blue bowl. It's a damn sight better than the blue bowl and also the current black bowl.
For folks that enjoy reading lines of ingredients, here's the details:
Black Bowl (Vintage) w/Green Strip:
Aqua, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Cocoate, Glycerin, Parfum, PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, Stearic Acid, Diethylhexyl Sodium Sulfosuccinate, Sodium Benzoate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Dimethicone, Ethylparaben
Blue Bowl:
Aqua, Stearic Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Glycerin, Cocos Nucifera, Parfum, Coconut Acid, PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, Diethylhexyl Sodium Sulfosuccinate, Sodium Benzoate, Ethylparaben, Tetrasodium EDTA, Dimethicone, Amyl Cinnamal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citronellol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene & Linalool
Black Bowl (Current):
Aqua, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Glycerin, Cocos Nucifera Oil, Coconut Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Parfum, PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, Ethylparaben, Diethylhexyl Sodium Sulfosuccinate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Alcohol Denat., Dimethicone, Amyl Cinnamal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citronellol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool
Have a great week, folks!