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- Wednesday May 19, 2021
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- Stoke-on-Trent
Mike, Safe travels. Forgive my ignorance but what company makes the Cream and Balm ?Razor = Occam’s Oren
Blade = Titan Pro Mild ( 1 )
Brush =Shavemac 24mm Synthetic
Cream = ES Bay Rum
Splash = Pinaud Virgin Islands Bay Rum
Balm = ES Bay Rum
View attachment 94658Brilliant shave tonight before i jet off to the Greek Isles.
Iv been wet shaving virtually my whole adult life but this bay rum was my first soap i used when i stared my DE journey.
I only have two Bay Rums but this one is definitely the best of the two.
Jury’s out on the splash although it always seems a bit smokey to me but not in a bad way just completely different from the cream.
Nonetheless a wonderful 8/10 shave
Onwards & Upwards
Enjoy the rest of your week
Stay Safe
+ 1 on the Brut Attraction Totale. It's a firm favourite of mine too, along with the Brut sport style of which I highly recommend, that's if you haven't already tried it.View attachment 94679
Prep: Shower, Palmolive Olive Oil Soap
Soap: Ach Brito Mogno
Brush: Yaqi Aqua Beaux Silvertip Premium synthetic
Razor: Merkur 34C HD
Blade: Supermax Blue Diamond Platinum (1)
Post: Brut Attraction Totale ASL, Baxter Balm
Work once again getting in the way of regular visits to the forum. However home for a couple of days before heading up to Scotland tomorrow. Relaxing setup - the Supermax is a brilliant blade in my opinion an the Brut's a favourite of both me and my wife.
ES is Executive Shaving DaveMike, Safe travels. Forgive my ignorance but what company makes the Cream and Balm ?
+ 1 on the Brut Attraction Totale. It's a firm favourite of mine too, along with the Brut sport style of which I highly recommend, that's if you haven't already tried it.
I’d h love to have a gorgeous razor like that as a family heirloom from my Dad. I didn’t even get the old bugger’s David Bellamy beard growing ability. All I got was his grumpy temper.Nice collection of picks there. What is your guitar of choice Russ?
I think I will buy a bottle of it if I see it on sale, I like the Brut splashes I own.
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Brush - Yaqi Plissoft 24mm
Soap - Czech & Speake 88 (the old one made by Valobra)
Razor - Wilkinson Flip Top
Blade - Astra SP (4)
Post - Alum
Aftershave - Brut Original
First time using the travel puck of Czech & Speake that David @Pontormo sent me a while back, I think I packed it away during one of the spells I had a beard and I just dug it out again. It'd been a while since I used a Valobra shaving soap, and since they have gone out of production their reputation seems to have grown, and I was intrigued to find out whether the lather was actually that good.
The travel puck itself isn't the largest, I think it's around 20g or something but it's the hardest soap I have ever come across, it's literally as hard as a piece of plastic, and dry it doesn't really have much scent. Once I loaded the brush from the puck and started building the lather, I was a little underwhelmed with the lather that I initially had, then I kept on adding as much air to the lather as I could and it went from being a fairly thin lather to a really thick and dense one, and it's performance was faultless as I had initially expected, a really lovely old school tallow lather.
The scent is quite a nice one, a nice old-fashioned Rose scent, which reminded me a little of the Signature Soaps Coria. Sadly for both, they irritate my skin, it seems anything even vaguely floral doesn't agree with my skin
I'm really enjoying my dad's old Wilkinson Flip Top, it's a really nice mild razor design. I've been having a few problems with Astra SP's though, near enough every time I use them now they seem to bite me, I used to be able to get great results with them before.
Anyway chaps, have a good day.
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That’s quite an impressive shave combo Dave, when I mentioned to my wife the name of the shaving soap I got the “rolled upwards eyes and really? expression that only a woman can give” . She said she wonders what we fellas get up to on TSR but I think I convinced her it’s nothing sinister just boys being boys cheers AlanTuesday October 11, 2022
Razor: Lupo .95/Micromatic Handle
Blade: Euromax
Brush: Stuart/Timberwolf
Soap: Fuzzy Face Soaps Monkey Farts
AS 1: Alcoholado Eucaliptino 70
AS 2: Proraso Green Splash
Fragrance:
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 1,435
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