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  • DaveWave94
    4·
    9 months ago

    SOTD 19.02.2024

    • Prep: warm water
    • Razor: Headblade S4 Lunar Eclipse
    • Blade: HB 2
    • Brush: AP Shave Co. Snakeskin w/ 26 mm Fan/Flattop
    • Lather: Proraso Wood & Spice cream
    • Post Shave: Phytorelax Headshave ASB

    So today’s shave was basically a repeat of yesterday. I brought the Headblade with me for convenience - the Proraso cream is almost empty, so I hope I’ll be able to kill it while I’m over here.

    1 pass, very fast but not super comfortable. Well, there’s always a downside to everything.

  • gcgallant
    4·
    9 months ago

    February 19, 2024

    • Brush: AP Shave Co Lemondrop 28mm SynBad

    • Razor: Ralf Aust 5/8 Stainless Full Hollow Spanish Point

    • Lather: Eufros - Rosa Oud - Soap

    • Toner: Thayers - Rose - Toner

    • Aftershave: Eufros - Rosa Oud - Aftershave Balm

    • Talc: Yardley Classic
       
      2 passes. Face lather. Good shave.

    u/VisceralWatch introduced me to Eufros. I’m so happy he did. I think that the soap and balm are of very high quality.

    Most of the shaves I get from straights are “excellent” these days but this shave was “good” as was the last shave in which I used a stainless straight razor. Stainless has a dubious reputation in the SR community but I think it may have to do with how the material is sharpened and not the material itself. I think I need to adjust my technique for stainless a bit. Note that almost all DE blades are stainless and they do not hinder a great shave.

  • djundjilaMA
    2·
    9 months ago

    Rinse, Repeat

    • Brush: Stirling Soap Co. Zenith Boar Brush 31mm × 50mm
    • Razor: Schick Repeating Razor Type B
    • Blade: Personna Injector
    • Lather: Stirling Soap Co. Varen
    • Aftershave: Stirling Soap Co. Varen
    • Fragrance: The Scottish Fine Soaps Company Vetiver & Sandalwood

    First of a series of Varen shaves with my current go-to travel razor while on ski break. It occurred to me that I brought this poor, ring-of-deathed Dutch soap to the least Dutch place imaginable to proceed with killing it; a mountain. Oh well.

    • PorkButtsNTaters666
      2·
      9 months ago

      You can always pretend that it has been named after this lovely place. It also occurred to me that the Dutch don’t thrive in the mountains, so it seems fitting to kill it on a mountain.

      • djundjilaMA
        2·
        9 months ago

        Lol, that lovely place is 16 km from where I am right now and I used to live right next to it during my internship for engineering school, which means that I should have thought of that convenient loophole.

        the Dutch don’t thrive in the mountains, so it seems fitting to kill it on a mountain.

        Like Herakles with Antaios, one must hold this Dutch soap aloft, far from its low motherlands to drain its life force 🙂

        • PorkButtsNTaters666
          2·
          9 months ago

          By the way, I looked at Varen, but the following is rather frightening:

          WARNING: DO NOT USE if you are pregnant or have epilepsy due to the oakmoss content

          • djundjilaMA
            2·
            9 months ago

            Yeah, I talked to Rod about that. When you hear him explain it, it sounds much less scary. That being said, I had a sample puck of Varen for a long time, but that comment freaked me out enough to make me wait until Djunior was over a year old before trying it 😅

  • waldenMA
    2·
    9 months ago

    February 19, 2024

    • Brush: Maggard 24mm Synthetic
    • Razor: GEM Flying Wing
    • Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (2)
    • Lather: Van Der Hagen - Deluxe - Soap
    • Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Lyssa - Aftershave
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth/Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Liniment
    • Post Shave: Harry’s - Aftershave Balm
    • Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Jitterbug - EdP
  • sahenders
    1·
    9 months ago

    Mammoth Monday: Return from a State of Hygge

    I returned from my trip to Copenhagen, so of course I had to trickhole Hygge. It’s Mammoth Monday—even better!

    Rating: 4.5/5