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25 March
Mühle Aloe Vera shaving creamGenuine travel shave miles from home this morning. Poor lighting and a small sink, typical of cheap hotels, marred what could otherwise have been a good shave. No worries, at my own sink again tomorrow.
Edwin Jagger travel
Edwin Jagger DE89
Feather Hi-Stainless
Men’s Grooming Vetiver and Sandalwood balm
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Monday 25th March
Penhaligon's Bayolea Shaving Bowl & Omega 11137 Pure Bristle
Razorock Hawk A w/Razorock HD Handle & Feather Professional (8)
Hai Karate Aftershave
Cracking the seal on my recently purchased box-fresh Pen's Bayolea shaving soap which was released in 2013 or 2014 and was probably one of the last of the good Pen's soaps. It lathered up a beauty and gave me my kind of lather. Super shave!
A blinder of a soap. I have a fair chunk of a bowl still left and really enjoy those shaves when it comes out of the drawer. As you say a most wonderful lather and the scent? Quite sublime. Shame they chose to go other directions. I will have to check with a local shop I know as they might still have one or two 'new' soaps remaining.
The accompanying splash was also superb, but that has long gone. Extro Arzachena is not far off though.
Well done for bringing a great soap back in to the light.
While researching the British Triple-Milled post, something really puzzled me about Pen's ... they seemed to enjoy the same Broadoak formulation as GFT, TOBS and Floris but then seemed to gain a really crap formulation somewhat before TOBS or Floris but then have two new releases (Sartorial 2013 and Bayolea 2014 < I looked it up) and the soaps that were released were superb.
... and then they stopped doing shaving soaps altogether.
But yes, it's an absolutely blinding good soap ... blinding indeed, as it's proper white WHITE lather! Almost glowing. I immediately took to this soap whereas the tallow Blenheim Boutique I was using last week was a bit of a take it or leave it.
For the ingredients geeks:
Potassium Palmate, Sodium Palmate, Potassium Stearate, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Aqua (Water), Sodium Stearate, Glycerine, Parfum (Fragrance), Palm Kernel Acid, Limonene, Paraffinum Liquidum, Linalool, Isoproyl Myristate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Chloride, Hexyl Cinnamal, Geraniol, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Pentasodium Pentetate, Hydroxycitronellal, BHT, Citronellol, Sodium Hydroxide, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), CI 77492 & CI77499 (Iron Oxides)