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Nice one, Alfie. Congrats to you and your good lady.
Pre-Shave: Cypriotian Olive/Argan Oil Soap, cold water
Razor: ATT S-1 Colossus
Blade: Ladas (1)
Brush: MÜHLE XL Synthetic
Lather: Stirling Bergamot Lavender
Post-Shave: Alum, Stirling Bay Laurel Witch Hazel, South Australian Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
A couple days ago I was fortunate enough to have a fantastic shave before celebrating our 10th wedding and 20th overall anniversary.
I hope you all have a great start into the new week
If the soap is 70g it's tallow.
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Salter also make a 99g non tallow version
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Couldn't wait to try out some Wickham's after receiving some samples courtesy of @patw,...so first up was Irish Fern
Shower
BBA Face Wash
BBA Shave Oil
Wickham's Irish Fern
Simpson's Chubby 2 Badger
Fatboy/Polsilver Lodz
Thayer's Aloe unscented
AdP Colonia
Wickham's is everything that they say, lathers copiously, smells great, great cushion and glide,...skin felt great.
Post shave smell was lovely, so didn't spoil it with the Thayer's...
Light mist of Colonia, job done!
Thanks Pat
I have had word back from Dan at The Shaving Shack who said the 70g pucks they sell are tallow and have been since 2016 and Paul from Connought Shaving has a tallow puck in a mug but none in stock as just tallow pucks but will be restocking in due course. So no need to worry, these have not gone to the tallow graveyard......yet!Greetings
I think, and I deliberately chose the word think, that all the Cyril Salter Soaps now made are veggie ones and made in the EU I believe they no longer sell the tallow version.
This is what I wrote about the matter last June; http://www.theshavingroom.co.uk/com...cyril-salter-solid-shaving-soap-tallow.43572/
You will see that unless you have a trade account you can not actually get into the Cyril salter web site as they are not a retail supplier, you can get in via the back door, ie via links that have been posted on the net but once in you cannot navigate anywhere from where you land, you would need a computer boffin to explain why this is. The tallow soap is very good indeed but I fear (and I hope somebody proves me wrong) that it has joined other tallow soaps in the soap graveyard, something we have discussed more and more over the last year or so.
Regards
Dick
Anytime! The matte finish doesn't effect glide at all, you'd be very surprised by looking at it, lol. I personally like the colors from Delta Echo a bit better but the razor comes back in immaculate shape from both vendors with North Shore having a much faster turnaround. I plan on getting one of my Fat Boy razors rhodium plated at RE. Cheers!Thanks for that, very helpful, I had looked at NorthShore as well.
As you suspected, my concerns were whether the matte looking finish would affect the glide.
Still not sure, fortunately I am not in a rush, the other option would be Rhodium from Razor Emporium, so it appears reasonably "stock" IYKWIM.
Cheers again, John