SOTD : Saturday 15th September - Friday 21st September 2018.

I'm pleased that you like it Brian, and that it's found a home where it will be truly appreciated.
 
Morning shave.

Olive Oil Soap
Stirling Piacenza
Chubby 2 Best Badger
Schick Krona TTO
Gillette Super Silver (1)
Thayers Witch Hazel (unscented)
RazoRock XXX Aftershave
Acqua Di Parma Colonia EDC

The Krona is a very efficient razor with the right blade and the Gillette Super Silver is certainly the right blade. It was another of the vintage blades sent to me from Australia by @TomG. This is how Tom described the razor to me:
Gillette Super Silver
These Gillette blades were made in England, and are fantastic blades. This came out at the height of the blade wars in the late '60s and early '70s, when Schick, Wilkinson Sword, Personna and Gillette were fiercely competing for market share. The English Gillette blades of the time are amongst the best ever made. The pack you have has German packaging, as it was exported and sold to many European Countries, but most prominently France and Germany. This Super Silver (improved) is very similar to the US-made Gillette Platinum Plus blade. All the manufacturers of the time were releasing premium blades, costing twice as much as regular stainless steel blades, with metal sputtering technology, such that the cutting edge was hardened and protected via electro-coating with metals such as platinum, titanium, and chrome. The Super Silver is very sharp indeed, but still smooth.
Tom is a metallurgical engineer and certainly knows his blades.
Have a great Sunday gents.
 


Prep: Valobra Glycerlanolina soap, Myrsol Emulsion
Brush: M&F / Brad Forbes Finest Badger
Cream: L'Occitane Cade
Razor: Pils
Blade: Vintage NOS Wilkinson Sword Light Brigade (6)
Post: CRSW Alcohol-Free Moisturizing Aftershave Lotion (American Barbershop)
Scent: APR Skyefall EdP

A L'Occitane branch recently opened up in my suburb, so like a moth to a flame, I was down to purchase the well known Cade shaving cream. I was expecting it to smell nice and perform quite well.
It exceeded my expectations, smelling very nice and performing very well. Easy to lather, good performance, and a beautiful scent. Kind of hard to describe; the best I can do is a classy and complex "soapy" scent.
I continue to be impressed with the CRSW alcohol-free aftershave lotion. Absorbs easily into the skin, and makes my face feel great, whilst terminating any irritation instantly.
Three very comfortable passes for a DFS+ result.
 
Sunday AM 2018-09-16

Moss Anniversary Slate scuttle
Rooney Emillion 2 Tiger Stripe Finest (26/54)
Acqua di Parma Colonia soft shaving soap (original)
Paradigm II Titanium/UFO Titan Fine
Personna 74 Tungsten (15)
Acqua di Genova 1853 aftershave
Acqua di Parma Colonia EdC

This Emillion brush is much softer and less dense than the one yesterday. It is amazing to me how different the two brushes of the same model are from each other. The soap, almost gone, once again made wonderful lather; it is my favorite of the non-tallow shaving soaps. And the blade still was cutting easily at the 15th shave, but I have plenty to last my final years, so it was tossed out. The aftershave is a favorite too, quite soothing and very sunny and bright.
 

Wonderful cream. I will also add a big big plus for Cade aftershave balm.
 
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