Face Wash : Musgo Real Lime Menthol Glycerine Soap
Pre-Shave : Razorock Peppermint Emulsion
Brush : Plisson
Soap : Cold River Soap Works - Fougere Moderne
Razor : Razorock Babysmooth
Blade : Polsolver SI [0]
After Shave : Alum, Witch Hazel, Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille
After shaving with beautifully machined hunks of stainless steel the last few days, it seemed a change was due. After looking through the ranks of DEs more than once, I decided on the Razorock Babysmooth. It's a light Aluminium razor with a safety bar design, and when mounted curves the blade very strongly, which must mean the blade is under significant tension all the time. It's machined rather than cast, then finished with a black anodised coating so the quality of finish is, as you'd expect, very good indeed.
I picked the CRSW soap because I haven't used it in a while and I like it. Likewise the Plisson synthetic. Between the pair of them, I managed to produce a spectacular face lather. It wasn't a full 5 minute lather
@alfredus, but I spent what seemed a long time over it, and definitely enjoyed the benefits you speak of. From there on in the Babysmooth did an unassuming but totally competent job of removing all whiskers. It's an interesting exercise in technique, using no pressure with such a light weight razor. Given its ability to tame Feather and Polsilver blades though, applying pressure to the razor could have very unwelcome results.
My conclusion on the razor is that it's an outstanding example of modern razor making - it shaves excellently, being both very efficient and very comfortable, and is so light it's a near no-brainer for a travel shaver. The only real drawback? Razorock's completely broken, illogical manufacturing and marketing model. If you see one of these for a reasonable price secondhand, you could do a lot worse than add it to your collection.
Finished up in pretty much the standard way, except for the sample of Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille. Wow, that scent is so wonderfully Old School.....
20160317_065616 by Osman Mehmed, on Flickr'
