SOTD: Saturday 29 October - Friday 4 November 2022.

I just love hearing about people that have family heirloom pieces, congrats Tony and hope you both can have an enjoyable and relaxing vaca.
 


Merkur 34C | Gillette Super Blue | Hand-carved Ash with 26mm Cashmere | Seaside Soap & Skincare Pine, Vetiver & Patchouli | Quorum AS | RSC Balm​


Last week, the tired old boar knot fell out of my ash handle as I was shaking excess water out. It had almost ten years sterling service behind it and although I could have just tidied things up and glued the old piggy back in, I felt like a change. Cue a 26mm Cashmere knot set fairly deep. Absolutely perfick!
 
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Lovely photos!
 
Monday 31st October



Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Trumpers Eucrasmic Shaving Bowl & Muhle Silvertipe Fibre 23mm
Gillette Fusion (Limited Edition) & Gillette Fusion ProGlide (11)
Brut Attraction Totale Aftershave

Those fiends (yes, fiends ... no, better capitalised Fiends) over at Trumpers tricked us. Those fiends tricked us into thinking they sold a hard shaving soap, not least one in the Eucris scent. What, in fact, they are selling is a soap which is utterly incapable of sustaining a lather and one which leaves a smeary glycerine mush on the face within less than a minute ... not even suitable for bath soap. Fiends!

But, they do treat us with a lovely wooden bowl ... especially so with Eucris.

I tried ... I really tried. I've cut it with equal parts Palmolive (some years ago) and recently went all the way to two parts LEA to one part Eucris shaving soap in the hope of generating anything suitable for shaving. Nope! So, I'm going the other way about it.

I cleaned the bowl out, gave it a bit of a sanding on the inside so as to remove the black paint generally which does leech into the soap and gave a generous splash of Eucris EDT and left it overnight to permeate into the wood. I fine grated my Erasmic shaving soap (which has an equally deathly scent) and pressed it into the bowl.

Eurcrasmic! It is cosmically (comically?) Eucrasmic!

The Eucris scent is absolutely there ... and the Erasmic takes on an interesting behaviour. The Erasmic scent is still there, but somehow the Eucris has tamed whatever the heck the scent is and revealed something much more floral which overall gives a much lighter experience for a shaving soap, where Eucris alone could be just a tad too cloying.

It is halloween, so I had to give some horror ... which comes in the ghastly form of the Gillette Fusion. Five blades slashing!

Feeling suave now, with a splash of Brut Attraction Totale which is certainly a good match for my Dracula meets The Wolfman soapal monster!

 
Prep: Hot towel
Razor: Weber ARC
Blade: Vokshod
Brush: Brad Sears Archduke 26/50 2-Band Manchurian
Soap: Declaration Grooming: Gratiot League Square (Milksteak)
Post: CeraVe moisturising lotion..


oh my days! that was a rough shave, I think a dull buck knife would have been better. The only saving grace of that shave was the fact that the milksteak base saved my face. Yep, the Declaration Grooming Milksteak soap really stepped up to save that shave.
 

SOTD: 31/10/2022

Razor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Rapira Swedish Supersteel, 1st use
Brush: Knothead Brush Works 26mm AP Shave Co. Synbad
Bowl: 3D Printed Bowl
Preshave: Bart’s Balms Lochnagar Oil
Soap: A&E Vida Puck
Aftershave: A&E Vida Aftershave
Additional Care: Osma Laboratoires Alum Block

A superb shave from the razor and soap! To think I was contemplating moving this on! I love the scent and it’s going nowhere!
Have a great evening guys!
 


Simpson Chubby 1 Super
Rockwell 6C (3)
Polsiver Łódź (2)
P&B Night Witch
Thayer’s Cucumber witch hazel
OSP Sandalwood a/s

I’m going to give a good go at getting through this soap in the next few months. Time to get through my over large collection, and this has been in the rotation for a few years.

Enjoy yours gents.
 

Absolutely love the photo with the effects.
 
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