What soap/cream did you use today?

Spent the last three days on the mountain and the snow was glorious.  Snow turns summer cacophony to stillness meant for meditation.  The elk and deer are on their winter range.  Geese and ducks are wending their way to warmer climes.  What’s left up here are the moose, martens, grouse, and trumpeter swans.  The ice is 8 inches think under about two feet of snow and we had some fun catching them.  The boys still think show shoes are more bother than just post-holing out across the ice but this older man appreciates the floatation of the shoes and my metal knees like not having to kiss my ankles as I move around.  It felt good to shuffle out across the ice on about a mile long loop.  I didn’t even bother putting a line in the water. Excellent holiday weekend.  
While there I took minimal kit and tried Nivea shave gel without a brush.  Worked well once I added some water.  The scent was pleasant but oh so generic.  Kept me clean shaven though and the finish was plump.

Where did you find this soap.  Nivea told me they do not import it any longer

Found it under the sink in my downstairs bathroom after a son moved out a couple of years back but it looks like it’s available online.

First shave with MacDuff's Kananaskis Explorer.



Today was one of the best days on the slopes so far this year.





And this was the best chicken I've ever made. The trick I'm finding with chicken (the dark meat, on the bone and with the skin, at least) is err on the side of a little longer. The two legs I ate fell apart at the touch of a fork. The skin was crisp, and all the fat inside the skin melted onto the meat within.

It all looks great to me.

Best Barbershop scent in the biz.  So good.  Performance is so very predictable for me.  

Dr. Jon's Flowers in the Dark Shaving Soap

Dark Limes v. (Meißner Tremonia) earthy lime

I’m having to re-think the way I make a lather. My new Henson aluminum razor gives me an awesome shave, but it’s too light to navigate a thick, billowing emulsion. Thin and slick is much more to its liking. So I’m drenching even my light vegan lathers until I’ve got only a glaze on my face. I usually get it right by the third pass. Luckily, Dark Limes has quite a bit of clay in it, and that makes it thirsty and stable so I can work it down to a thin icing.
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Henson Al13 • Astra Superior Platinum (1) • Phoenix Shaving Peregrino 24 mm • CRSW Morning Ghost Aftershave • $16.82
    

Wholly Kaw - Rebelle

Dark Limes v. (Meißner Tremonia) earthy lime

I’m having to re-think the way I make a lather. My new Henson aluminum razor gives me an awesome shave, but it’s too light to navigate a thick, billowing emulsion. Thin and slick is much more to its liking. So I’m drenching even my light vegan lathers until I’ve got only a glaze on my face. I usually get it right by the third pass. Luckily, Dark Limes has quite a bit of clay in it, and that makes it thirsty and stable so I can work it down to a thin icing.
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Henson Al13 • Astra Superior Platinum (1) • Phoenix Shaving Peregrino 24 mm • CRSW Morning Ghost Aftershave • $16.82
    

Bouki, sorry if I might have missed it somewhere else, but what's your methodology for calculating the cost? Based on current tally of uses? Projected uses?

Dark Limes v. (Meißner Tremonia) earthy lime

I’m having to re-think the way I make a lather. My new Henson aluminum razor gives me an awesome shave, but it’s too light to navigate a thick, billowing emulsion. Thin and slick is much more to its liking. So I’m drenching even my light vegan lathers until I’ve got only a glaze on my face. I usually get it right by the third pass. Luckily, Dark Limes has quite a bit of clay in it, and that makes it thirsty and stable so I can work it down to a thin icing.
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Henson Al13 • Astra Superior Platinum (1) • Phoenix Shaving Peregrino 24 mm • CRSW Morning Ghost Aftershave • $16.82

Bouki, sorry if I might have missed it somewhere else, but what's your methodology for calculating the cost? Based on current tally of uses? Projected uses?

Nero: You're right. My calculations are based on a running tally of uses. I keep a spreadsheet that shows how much I paid for each of my razors, blades, brushes, and soaps. I also keep a diary that tells me what items I use each day. To figure out the overall cost of each day's shave, my spreadsheet divides the original price of each item by the number of times I've used it. Then it adds up all the results, and that gives the total cost for that shave. The more I use a razor or a brush or a soap, the more its cost per use drops, and the cheaper my shaves become. This whole exercise is just incentive to use new or expensive items until their cost per use becomes, well, ... reasonable. And I like to see the big numbers drop over time. It sort of soothes a conscience that's a little embarrassed by how much has been spent to remove a few whiskers.

Don Marco