Shave of the Day Thread - 2022

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Pre-shave: Hot Shower
Brush: @Tony Forsyth P&C Charity Auction LE Shaving Brush
Soap/Cream: APR General Ledger shaving soap
Razor: Vintage Gillette L1 Slim (6)
Blade: Vintage NOS Schick Plus Platinum (7)
Post-shave: APR General Ledger splash
Fragrance: APR General Ledger EDP

Same, same, another great shave!

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/ Troycraft Purple Cloud Custom
/ B&M Figarose
/ Muhle Rocca R95
/ Gillette Platinum (2)
/ The Ordinary Mandelic Acid 10% + HA
/ Nivea Skin & Stubble

I like the Figarose scent. Not the strongest but I keep getting different notes with every whiff. Performance is excellent.
 
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Holiday said:
How are you finding the Maseto Himalayan? I bought the 24mm and concur with @alfredus advice. IMHO Maseto are the best badger for price. If you want to sample quality for well under under $100.
Although the 24mm is almost too large for my liking.
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Mine’s the 26mm, and it’s a very good brush…especially at US$60. A bit lightweight for me as it only has a plastic (?) handle instead of resin. A very luxurious feeling knot for face lathering but still picks up hard soap easily. Reminds me of a Simpson Polo I had years ago. It’s performance susrprised me, and it’s firmly in my core rotation.
 
A comparison pic with the Maseto Himalayan 26mm at Left along with (clockwise and L-R):

Yaqi High Mountain

Zenith 26mm Silvertip

Oumo Lotus Tip

None is ‘better’ than the others. The differences are more to do with face feel. The Zenith and Yaqi have more scrub, and the Zenith even a little scritch too, but the Maseto and Oumo have a very soft face feel. All four of them pick up and release hard soap but the Maseto maybe releases lather a tad better than the others while the Oumo Lotus Tip tends to hog ever so slightly. All brushes need more breaking-in though.

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Pre-shave: Cold shower
Soap: Meissner Tremonia Dark Limes (loaded 60 secs; face lathered 2 minutes)
Brush: Yaqi High Mountain 2 Band
Razor: Alpha Outlaw Mild (copper)
Blade: Super Iridium (2)
Post-shave: Barrister & Mann Bay Rum

A much better shave with the Alpha Outlaw today. I tried to use a steeper blade angle than usual (i.e. handle more parallel to the face), and it shaves much better now.

My formative shaving years were in the military decades ago, and we needed to shave fast in those early weeks to avoid an embarrassing trot across the parade ground if we were late, and more hell later in the day.

I still like to shave quickly but tend to dither when face lathering as I can let my mind wander. The Meissner Tremonia soap needs a lot of lathering, I find, but at the end of my shave there’s still enough lather on the brush for a few more passes.

I need to slow down with the Outlaw though as it feels as if it might bite me. It hasn’t yet so it’s probably just a confidence thing. I enjoy it much more than my Tatara and Timeless razors but it’s not yet an auto-pilot razor like my Lupos, Gamechangers, Karve CB or Mergress.

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Last few shaves

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Brush: Simpson Trafalgar T3 Sovereign Fibre
Razor: Merkur 34C // Parker 24C OC + RazoRock bamboo handle
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (6)
Pre: Shower
Soap: Shaver Heaven Hubba Hubba
Post: Sukin Biomarine Facial Serum // @SpeedyPC A/S Splash
WTG, ATG, Touchups = DFS / DFS+

Always nice grabbing some neglected gear as the Parker 24C head rarely gets a look these days but smooth and a step up in efficiency over the 34C.
Finished yet another soap so hoping to continue the average of one soap per month as plenty of older soaps that need to be finished so I can make way for new supplies in 2023...

Stay Safe & Happy Shaves!
 
SOTD – Sun 20 Mar 2022
Sunday shave with Moon Soaps – SORRENTO, a Tallow based shave soap with in-house rendered Tallow from their own butcher shop cuts and comes in 170gm tubs, I estimate enough for 80-100 shaves. Sorrento scent described as: “Like a serene walk through a cliff-top citrus grove overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea far below, Sorrento radiates a fresh and energetic blend of the aromatic citrus found on the Amalfi Coast of Southern Italy. This is a light and youthful fragrance perfect for warmer spring and summer weather.”

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Shave Result: First time use of a Moon Soap, soap texture is firm but pliable. Sorrento soap lathered easily to produce a lovely shinny, rich, creamy lather with ample volume from just a level half teaspoon scoop of soap. Lather performance was excellent, first impression a Top Tier soap candidate in my collection. To my nose Sorrento scent was lovely fresh citrus, spicy, aquatic scent with some green background aroma, scent strength 4/10. The Henson gave a lovely mild, clean and smooth DFS, although the Derby Premium did not feel the best match.

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The Gear:
+ Pre Shave: Verde Glycerine Activated Charcoal bar soap (A)
+ Brush: ShaveXDave “Rock Pool” with 26mm Cashmere(A)
+ Soap: Moon Soaps - SORRENTO
+ Bowl: Fine Accoutrements
+ Razor: Henson Mild AL13
+ Blade: Derby Premium (1)
+ Splash: TN Dickinsons Witch Hazel with menthol
+ Balm: Lucky Tiger Vanishing Cream
+ After Shave: Imperial Barber Bergamot AS
+ Moisturiser: Sukin for Men Facial Moisturiser (A)
(A) = Australian Made
 
I have always been, shall we say, "hesitate" to shave with a "safety" razor. The last time I tried, was a bit over a year ago.

This morning I felt as if I had plucked up enough courage to try again. I pulled out my dusty and trusty Ming Shi 2000S, cleaned it up and inserted a new Astra SP blade. Washed face and face lathered with Palmolive Classic cream using a Mühle Classic medium badger hair brush.

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With the Ming Shi set on 1.5, I commenced with a WTG pass. I just couldn't finish that pass. With a weeper and a small nick, I gave up and pulled out one of my much safer traditional straight razor.

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Titan ACRM-2 T.H.60 Dutch point, 6/8, half hollow finished on diamond pasted balsa and dressed in Madagascan mahogany scales.​

I tried hard, I tried really hard, to get over my fear of shaving with a "safety" razor. I just can't do it. Not being able to see the edge on my skin blocks me.

That brush is still not to my liking so I'm switching back to my Chinese guaranteed genuine pure best badger hair synthetic brush.

I might give "safety" razor shaving another go later this year.
 
Pre-shave: Hot Shower
Brush: Vintage butterscotch Simpson Shaving Brush
Soap/Cream: Noble Otter Monarch shaving soap
Razor: Muhle Rocca
Blade: Polsilver 'Brown' (1)
Post-shave: Noble Otter Monarch splash
Fragrance: N/A

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Pre-shave: Hot water, Pears soap
Brush: New @TroyTools "Opalesque", 28mm AP Shave Co G5C fan
Soap: Czech & Speake - Oxford & Cambridge (Valobra)
Razor: Blackland Sabre
Blade: Personna GEM
Post-shave: Shower, homebrew moisturiser, La Roche-Posay Anthelios SPF50+, Oxford & Cambridge cologne
COTD: Mandheling Sumatra

The G5C knot works really nicely with these milled soaps...
 
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This is the 3rd T&H milled soap I’ve tried. It didn’t lather up greatly but I was a little rushed. The fragrance is mild but pleasing. All 3 (Luxury, Apsley, Sandalwood) are quite similar but I’d probably pick the Apsley out of them all as my favourite so far. Will give the Sandalwood a few more goes with different brushes. Whatever the case, these 3 soaps are likely to last forever.

Razor was the trusty Muhle R41 (2011) on a TiTan handle. My favourite for mowing down 2-3 day growths.
 
I gave up further restoration on this SR and honed it up for the first time last night. This morning was my first shave with the Puma 1⅝, Dutch point, ⅝ full-hollow grind, dressed in original scales. My research indicates that this SR was made about in the 1870's.

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Lather was courtesy of Palmolive Classic cream face lathered with a Chinese synthetic brush.

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Not a beautiful SR but beauty doesn't shave. This morning this Puma SR gave me one of my best ever shaves, easy, comfortable and oh so close. That shave will be hard to beat.
 
rbscebu said:
I have always been, shall we say, "hesitate" to shave with a "safety" razor. The last time I tried, was a bit over a year ago.

This morning I felt as if I had plucked up enough courage to try again. I pulled out my dusty and trusty Ming Shi 2000S, cleaned it up and inserted a new Astra SP blade. Washed face and face lathered with Palmolive Classic cream using a Mühle Classic medium badger hair brush.

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With the Ming Shi set on 1.5, I commenced with a WTG pass. I just couldn't finish that pass. With a weeper and a small nick, I gave up and pulled out one of my much safer traditional straight razor.

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Titan ACRM-2 T.H.60 Dutch point, 6/8, half hollow finished on diamond pasted balsa and dressed in Madagascan mahogany scales.​

I tried hard, I tried really hard, to get over my fear of shaving with a "safety" razor. I just can't do it. Not being able to see the edge on my skin blocks me.

That brush is still not to my liking so I'm switching back to my Chinese guaranteed genuine pure best badger hair synthetic brush.

I might give "safety" razor shaving another go later this year.
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i would suggest buying a better DE razor to shave with.. i am sure you will enjoy the experience
 
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/ Oumo Cove G5
/ Oleo Soapworks Livin Live in 5
/ Yaqi Raster V3
/ Kai Captain Titan Mild (3)
/ The Ordinary Mandelic Acid 10% + HA
/ Nivea Skin & Stubble

This soap's scent is very similar to the Razorock What The Puck Green (Woody and Aromatic), but more subtle and softer on the nose. Performance was good; the lather was velvety (the duck fat?) on application and resisted dryout, not needing much water for re-hydration, a practice I've been doing lately regardless of soap between passes. Post shave feel is a bit lacking, where the skin felt a bit taut similar to after a proper cleansing.
 
StratMan said:
i would suggest buying a better DE razor to shave with.. i am sure you will enjoy the experience
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It's not the razor. It is a psychological problem I have of being scared to shave with a "safety" razor. I need to be able to see a razor's edge on my skin to feel safe.
 
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