Pre: hot towel to the face, sanctuary spa triple cleansing mousse, hot towel again, proraso refreshing preshave cream
Brush: yaqi 24mm purple haze
Soap: Dalit goods sandalwood shaving soap
Razor: blackland blackbird
Blade: rapira #1
Post: cold water, proraso red lotion, bluebeards revenge post shave balm
first part about the soap - as promised to
@pjgh
Must say the soap doesn’t smell as dark once out of the wrapper, it brightened up a bit. Very nice smell.
Decided to bowl lather today, to see how this soap behaves, and it was a good idea, since this soap is really really thirsty. Not sure whether it’s due to me living in hard water area, or because the soap is coconut oil based, but so far I haven’t come across such thirsty soap, even Brian’s signature soaps weren’t close to this level of thirst .
10 seconds load provided enough lather for 4-5 passes (didn’t go as far as that... stopped at 3rd pass - before anyone gets petrified by that number haha)
at first lather got really really foamy - took around couple minutes and lot of water to settle down to more of a creamy consistency .
Lather from it was okay - personally wouldn’t call it top notch. If I had to rate out of 10, I’d give it :
Slickness : 6
Cushioning : 4
Residual slickness : 3
Planning on using this soap for next shave too, however will try to add more water and see if that changes it. Mind you I’m still a novice to shaving and first time using coconut base soap, so it might be that my skill isn’t up to it yet -Please keep that in mind!
Now onto the razor and blade - been a while that I used the blackbird that moved onto me from
@Tony'schin . Recently I’ve been using Rockwell 6s R4... and must say blackbird got a new level of respect from me. Shave is much closer and much more aggressive . In My first uses of blackbird I probably didn’t feel it as much since I was completely new to DE shaving, but now after my technique definitely improved I can see it more. Amazing razor that does demand a bit of respect. 4 weepers acquired haha
blade wise - felt okay, will see how it is on its second outing - seemed sharp and smooth.
Finished with cold water splash, proraso red (just felt right to use it with sandalwood soap) and some balm.
Dfs to bbs achieved
