Merkurologist
LeJog 2022 Finisher
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Thursday 20th May
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
LEA Shaving Stick (Grated)
RazoRock 400 (Orange) w/Omega Professional Boar
Yaqi AC w/KCG Handle
Feather ProGuard (2)
Pinaud Clubman Classic Vanilla Aftershave
The Feather ProGuard has really smoothed out now on its second shave, delivering a smoothness that I'd normally associate with a Platinum Chrome blade. Very much enjoyed!
First run out with 'Big Orange' which is a RazoRock 400 handle with an Omega Professional boar knot retro-fitted. Yes, I've used Omega knots before so nothing came as a great surprise, but it was certainly very nice to run that knot around in a bright orange handle. Again, very much enjoyed!
Another first, with my first use of Ganders Goat soap. I've been looking for a really simple ingredient soap as a face soap and happened upon this maker - the soap puts me very much in mind of proper Marseille soap. It's just four ingredients at its core: rapeseed oil, goat milk, coconut oil and lye. They make a number of soap types, including one with honey, one with birch tar, another with raspberry seeds (as an exfolient), a floral one, a gardeners one and one with hessian layered into it (again, as an exfolient). I bought a few bars and started to use the one with birch tar first. I'm also using the one with hessian as bath soap.
Lovely stuff! Creamy lather, clean feeling once washed off and a balanced, soft moisturising long-term feel presumably due to the high amounts of oleic acid in the rapeseed, an oil which penetrates deeply into the skin rather than sitting on the top surface like many adjuncts in shaving soap. Curious to do the post-shave moisture care in the pre-shave stage.
Yeah! Very much enjoyed!!!
I like what you have done with the brush there. I have the aluminum RR 400 handle with a Seamogue 2000 knot.. I'm planning to swap knots though, I wasn't sure an Omega Pro would fit.... aren't they 27 or 28mm knots?