Monday 29th April
Captain Claptrap Luxurious Shaving Soap & Goodfellas Smile Wild Hog Pure Bristle
Clix Ez-Flow Safety Razor & Personna Platinum Chrome (Israeli) NOS (1)
Old Spice Musk for Men (Vintage) Aftershave
The month of May hits us mid-week and so I'll be running with Milky May proper from next Monday. I am going to be playing a little twist on the theme by also using kit that has been generously gifted to me by folks on this forum - you know, "the milk of human kindness".
... and so my very gracious thanks to @donnie_darko for giving me his stash of Israeli Personna blades which I happily dropped into my newly acquired Clix razor. What a joy that combination is! I reckon the razor will be a delight with any blade. I find it somewhere between the smoothness (to me) of the ASR double edge razors and the efficiency of the Gillette Tech; in many respects, it put me very much in mind of the bakelite Gillette Tech, what with the deeper safety bar which gives the razor a very intuitive angle without overtly stating is (as per the Personna Glydex).
Two passes and a near 10/10 shave which I reckon will be achieved tomorrow now I've had a go and the blade will be on that sweet-spot second shave.
I'll ping
@Satanfriendly here because he is one of the few that I know has used the Captain Flipflop shaving soap (no, I will not say something as proposterous as Captain Fawcett) which I picked their Luxurious variant. Their formulation is (well, certainly was last year) the same formulation as the very excellent DR Harris - this year, I'm seeing those 2024 formulation hallmarks but otherwise much the same formulation which I reckon we'll see new or forthcoming batches of DR Harris moving to.
Phenomenally good soap, both in performance and scent which is about as strong as I like to go without it spilling over into scented candle territory. On the scent, this could well be the new Old Spice ... but which I DO NOT mean it is a clone, but it has that effect. It's green, there's spice and there's amber - it's everything a damn good vintage Musk trotted out, which includes Old Spice proper, Old Spice Musk, Coty Musk, Jovan Musk, the list goes on. So, the splash of Old Spice Musk for Men was a perfect partner.
Perfect razor/blade combo, perfect soap/brush combo for lather and perfect scent partners between the soap and the splash. Is this my perfect shave? It could be ... well, one of them.