SOTD : Saturday 18th August - Friday 24th August 2018.

Digimonkey said:

Sotd - today - Saturday - 18th of August

Razor - ATT Maria
blade - Schick Proline (5)
brush - Semogue 1305 boar
soap - Kent tallow hard soap
post - witch hazel
a/s - Floid Special Edition Mentally Vigorous
balm - Floid
scent - Creed Tabarome parfum.

Result - perfecto.

Great - taking off a four day beard - very enjoyable. I think I have a lathering problem with the Kent soap - aka stealth MWF - not in the commonly reported sense - it produces too much lather for me. You only have to point the Semogue at it and it starts spewing lather everywhere - I keep my cake of it (that description is for you K. - @Boru62 - not a puck in sight mate! ha ha,) in a stainless steel tin - the lather erupts out the tin like the experiment of a mad professor - all down your arm - the brush disappears into it. Initially too foamy and aerated to be useful - but this sorts its self out fairly quickly - problem is that by that time - the den closely resembles an Ibiza nightclub - just add some banging techno - foam party ahoy! I think I may try a drier brush - to help with this - great fun - but messy as it is. So talking of lather - I'd thought to try the technique I had seen reported here - of - when you are finished your initial shave - but before the post - of squeezing out the remaining lather from the knot and applying it to your face - while you do the initial den clean up - wash your brush out, dry the razor - wipe down the sink basin. Then wash it off before you go for the witch hazel. Does it work? - I don't know. I tried doing this for the last two shaves - they were great shaves - but they may have been great anyway - I'm experienced enough - to know what products are likely to work for me - and how to shave my face. That being said - every day is a school day for wet shavers - what I do know - is that it doesn't do any harm. Some sort of objective test might be the answer. I like the aspect of not wasting products - like - I'm going to run out? I'm going to be approaching Methuselah age to finish what I already own - my skin has been feeling fantastic after the last couple of shaves - but that might have been the case anyway? Try this yourself - see what you think. I need to go - I have just inadvertently rubbed wasabi into my eye - I had sushi for dinner - and hadn't washed my hands - I feel like a liberal demonstrator at an anti-Trump demo - very much the definition of a first world problem? Ha ha - yours all - enjoy your shaves - I.

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Electrif said:

If someone came up with a modern razor in stainless steel, based on either of the Micromatic designs. And it shaved as well

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