SOTD 31 January-6 February 2021

SOTD: Smooth citrus shave this morning - hope everyone is doing well!

SOTD THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Today is my birthday and this morning’s shave is dedicated to my lovely second wife, Lauren, whose birthday was yesterday. Lauren and I lost our respective first spouses to cancer during November and December of 2012. Lauren had been married for 28 yrs and I’d been married for 42 years. We will be married for five years this June. In her honor I selected two incredible shaving tools. My very early Cast Steel H. Boker French Point and my refurbished Schick F Type injector were the perfect razors for my mug and dome shaves respectively. I do love the way this old Boker feels in hand, and after two pasted and one leather stropping easily swept away my mug whiskers in three, easy passes with the Traveling Wilburys “Handle with Care” playing in the background.

The huge MrEE Monster Aluminum Handled Tuxedo Synth is a lathering beast that easily generated the thin, slick facial lather that the old Boker glided through on its three pass whisker obliteration mission. The following bowl lathering exercise could have kept three barbers supplied, but resulted in the overly generous, thick, protective lather carpet I prefer for my dome shaves. The old F Type used for the dome shave accompanied my neighbor’s Marine Officer father through the Pacific. It saved his life on Bougainville where it along with the rest of his mess kit was severely damaged blocking shrapnel from a Japanese grenade. It was restored for me by the very able Tom White (Twhite) and now delivers an excellent shave again. I'm grateful to be a cancer survivor pushing three quarters of a century. The Krampert’s Frostbite AS Splash was the perfect ending, leaving me feeling cool, clean, and velveteen smooth on this beautiful, cold, sunny Philadelphia day! I wish the Lord’s Grace and health to all my shave brothers and sisters!

RAZOR: H. Boker Cast Steel French Point (Mug), Schick F Type
BLADE: Schick Proline B-20 Injector
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: MrEE Aluminum Handle Monster Tuxedo Synth
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Krampert’s Frostbite AS Splash.

Happy Birthday to you and Lauren!!!

4/2/2021
Saponificio Varesino Tortoiseshell/DG
Trismegistus/Rockwell 5 + Stork Aristocrat
+ Feather/Terre d'Hermes/Emulsione Analcolica Santa María Novella

Felices afeitados.
All the best.

SOTD THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Today is my birthday and this morning’s shave is dedicated to my lovely second wife, Lauren, whose birthday was yesterday. Lauren and I lost our respective first spouses to cancer during November and December of 2012. Lauren had been married for 28 yrs and I’d been married for 42 years. We will be married for five years this June. In her honor I selected two incredible shaving tools. My very early Cast Steel H. Boker French Point and my refurbished Schick F Type injector were the perfect razors for my mug and dome shaves respectively. I do love the way this old Boker feels in hand, and after two pasted and one leather stropping easily swept away my mug whiskers in three, easy passes with the Traveling Wilburys “Handle with Care” playing in the background.

Happy birthday to you and your wife. 

Old met New today.  Gave me a great idea for this weekend's video.  Any guesses?

SOTD 5th Feb

Razor: Razorock Game Changer.84
Blade: Astra Green
Brush: Semogue Boar 2000
Pre-shave: Hemp Seed Oil
Soap: Haslinger Sheep Milk
After-shave: Dr.G RED Blemish For Men All In One

ETHOS Clean is on the way home.
I currently have another soap and splash from ETHOS but a couple of weeks ago I had to purchase unscented one to use immediately for a reason.

I thought I will be able to use the existing ones months later
and I could no longer use Haslinger, leading me to buy Clean ones.

Haslinger sheep milk is the one I first bought for soap when I just stepped into wet shaving.
When I knew nothing about soap, I thought Haslinger was just enough for me.
Then, I got to know ETHOS, bought the soap and splash and found them outstanding and superior.
However I had to keep them in my den and stop using [font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]after[/font][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif] using a few times [/font]because my wife got much more sensitive to scents than before and that is why I got to use Haslinger again, which I thought of as meritless anymore.

That was why I bought Clean ones.

I am looking forward to using ETHOS again

Thursday AM 2021-02-04
National Homemade Soup Day


Rooney 1/1 Ivory Finest (22/45)
Brooks Brothers shaving soap (vintage) 
Wolfman WR2-SB/WRH3
Wilkinson London Bridge (10)
Ginger's Garden Ginger Blossom aftershave

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