Sotd : Saturday 9th to friday 15 November 2019

Prep: bath and washed hair and beard with head and shoulders 2 in 1 shampoo
Pre shave: Proraso white
Shaving cream:squirt of Palmolive
Brush: Omega 49 boar for bowl lathering
Razor/blade: Feather AS-D2/ feather blade(3)
3 passes followed by cold rinse and alum block
Washed bowl and brush before final cold rinse and pat dry
Balm: 1912 classic
Aftershave: splash of Tabac
Comfortable and relatively quick shave (for me) with no cuts or nicks.
 
Monday 11.10.19 SOTD

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Pre' De Provence Artisanal French Soap lather and rinse
Schick Eversharp Type G1 Injector Razor (replated in 24k gold)
Schick Injector Razor Blade (2)
Semogue Owners Club Cherry Wood Boar
Barrister and Mann Cheshire Shaving Soap
Barrister And Mann Barrister's Cheshire Aftershave

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Date:- 11 November 2019

Pre-shave:- Cold Water straight from the tap
Bowl/Scuttle:- Captain's Choice
Brush:- WCS Two-Tone Tall (Blue & White) Extra Dense Synth. 26/56mm knot
Soap/Cream:- Stirling ~ Sunflower Fields
Razor/Blade:- Karve CB SS 'D' / Wizamet Polsilver Brown Stainless #5
Post/After-shave:- T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel Astringent mixed into the 240ml bottle with Natural Glycerin (20), Tea Tree Antiseptic (10) & Peppermint (10 drops)
Fragrance:- Tommy Hilfiger for Men
 
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Prep (sample).
OUMO Brush / OUMO Brush imitation finest 2-band synth.
Razor Master "Ari" shaving soap.
Merkur 39C.
Racer Super Stainless (4).
Homelikeshaving "DejaVu Cool" ASL.
 
Mon 11th Nov

Cyril Salter/ MS ED2band
Faena Sandalwood
ER “ Streamline “
Gem S/S ( 3 )
Puig Quorum A/S Lotion

Provided that you take your time and concentrate , the “Streamline” delivers an extremely close all round finish such as the one I had today. Most modern AC/SE seem rather tame after using this Classic Razor

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11/11/19
Pre: 1912 Classic 24
Brush: Alpha Titanium Outlaw G4
Soap: 1912 Classic 24
Razor: Ever Ready 1914
Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (8)
Post shave: Alum Block, cold water splash, Homemade Witch Hazel
Balm: Bart's Balm Lime Lotion and Balm
Aftershave: 1912 Citrus Musk

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A very nice close comfortable shave today with the 1914.
Big smiles all round.
Enjoy the rest of the Day all.
 
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Prep: Valobra Glycerlanolina soap,Antica Barbieria Colla Almond Oil Pre-Shave Cream
Brush: Tony Forsyth P&C LE 2017 Platypus High Mountain White Badger
Soap: Declaration Grooming Trismegistus
Razor: Feather AS-D2
Blade: Vintage NOS Gillette 'Swede' (4)
Post: Thayers Cucumber Witch Hazel, Antica Barbieria Colla Almond Oil Balm
Scent: Terre d'Hermès EdT

A beautiful shave. Muscle memory is kicking in with the relatively narrow sweet spot of the AS-D2 - three passes and only a couple of touch-ups for a BBS result.
 
11/11/19

Soap - Palmolive Stick
Brush - Omega 80265 (other one)
Razor - Fat Handle Tech
Blade - Astra SP (6)
Post - Witch Hazel
Balm - Nivea Replenishing
AS - Benjamin's Bay Rum Mentholated

Yesterday I made a fairly decent effort to revive one of my 80265's so I turned my efforts in attempting to revive my other 80265, which in comparison to the other 80265 this one has a denser knot & softer tips but it was a brush I could never really get to hold a lather and had issues with the brush shedding as well.
I soaked the brush in distilled water and gave it a shampoo and test lather and used the brush for today's shave and the brush was better than I expected but it still ate a bit of lather, and at the end of the shave I gave it a comb through and couldn't quite believe how tangled the brush was! It was a brush I used before discovering shaving forums, and I imagine the huge number of tangles might have been down to aggressively mashing the brush to poor lathering technique.
The shave itself was a pretty good one, the ASP worked a lot better in the FHT than the BET I used yesterday.

Anyway chaps, have a good start to the week.
 
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