Saturday, 29 June 2019
PreShave: Warm to hot water, most from the boiled kettle some from the tap
Cream: Santa Maria Novella
Brush: Kent BK8
Bowl: My recycled cream bowl
Razor: The Sledgehammer (Merkur 39C)
Blade Astra Platinum (1)
Post Shave: Alum
Fragrance: Floris Jermyn Street
I don't know what it was, whether it was dud blade, or my technique was off this morning, but I managed to make my face look a bit like raw hamburger. So to prevent blood donation tomorrow, I put a new blade in the razor (a new Nacet) for tomorrow. A bit of a frustrating week: I tried a Rapira Swedish Steel last weekend, but only got four shaves out of it. It became uncomfortably rough on the fifth shave (and unpleasantly so on the sixth—causing me to switch to my Mekur 23C with an Astra which I keep on hand). So now I know: "four and out" with a Rapira.
Have a nice weekend, and keep cool.