Sunday 28th February
That's a month of vegan soaps, in contemplation of Veganuary (contemplation
) even if I am lathering up exclusively for the month with my new Semogue SOC Butterscotch boar. I'm also restricting to Indian sub-continent blades and a small number of razors: Muhle Rocca, RazoRock Slant, Yaqi Katana & Gillette 1950s Tech.
... and so in the style of
@Satanfriendly I present "Run Dracula, Run!!!"
"Thus are we ministers of God’s own wish: that the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him. He has allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel toward sunrise; and like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause." Dracula, Bram Stoker
French Pink Clay & Charcoal Face Soap
Wickham 1912 Gothic Revival Shaving Soap
Semogue SOC Butterscotch (Boar)
RazoRock German Slant
SuperMax Sunrise Super Stainless (3)
Wickham Gothic Revival Aftershave
Three shaves with the SuperMax Sunrise Super Stainles and my conclusion is, it's the self-same blade as the regular SuperMax Super Stainless (in the green/yellow packaging). It shaves the same and the blade itself bears the same markings. Much thanks to
@isaiah53 for the tuck! Cheers, pal! I'll enjoy the rest whenever I fancy dipping back into SuperMax.
I've enjoyed this month of restriction ...
I intended only veg/an soaps and actually just stuck with Wickham's which worked out very well for me. I own 11 of them (and bought in a sample of Union Sq mid-month) so had plenty of choice and did not find that when each week came around that I wanted to use anything different. Truth be told, I don't have a lot of soaps. I like MWF and I like HWF. Beyond that, I have some classics/vintage - Tabac, Old Spice, Erasmic, Rolls Razor, etc; I have a good stock of (again, "classic") shaving sticks - Palmolive, Wilkinson Sword, Arko, Derby, etc, all grated. So, those and Wickhams.
"Find something you like and use it often" Mike Phillips, Automotive Detailer (of Meguiars when I knew of him)
I've also enjoyed breaking in my new Semogue SOC Butterscotch boar (which I humorously named Rutger ... as in Rutger Hauer, you know: bright blonde hair, orange face) and he has indeed broken in nice and soft now. I wasn't quite sure, but I have a barely used Semogue SOC Taj boar which I test lathered tomorrow's soap and that one is in need of some use. I think I'll run the Taj (named Klaus ... as in Kinski, again, bright blonde hair but pallid complexion) this month.
My month of sub-continent blades fast became a month of SuperMax and I'm still running through the stash that I have, so I'm going to just carry on from here with the same sort of format but with a bit of a tweak: new soap samples (Savonniere du Moulin, MdC Rose & MdC Vetiver) and shave sticks with the Semogue SOC Taj, carry on with the Muhle Rocca R95/R96 & RazoRock German Slant trio, finish off my SuperMax stash ... and then pick up with the gaps in my Treet collection.
Bela Lugosi's dead ...
Undead! Undead! Undead!
... and every time I see these blades, I don't think King C Gillette, I think Bela Lugosi!
Wolf Whiskers - Kaylee
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