What soap/cream did you use today?

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Today's razor is a Tatara Masamune OC plate and handle mated with the Nodachi cap.  The specs for this combination are a 0.73mm gap and 0.05mm exposure.  These specs reminded me of the Karve Overlander, a solid bar which has slightly greater exposure, and about which there has been a great deal of happy buzz.  Now, my thinking brain understands that connecting razors by their specs is a connection made with thin thread, but even so, I was curious.  I already owned the Nodachi - a top DE favorite of mine - and I have long wanted to try it with the Masamune handle, so I recently splurged and got the Masamune handle and OC plate as well.

Today's shave, a maiden voyage with the hybrid, was for the most part along the lines I expected.  It was not mindless, and yours truly got a weeper to prove it, although it was a weeper that dried up on its own.  That aside, the angle was easy to find, the shave was very smooth, and the efficiency was very surprisingly good.  The end result was a glass smooth BBS with nothing bleeding by rinse-off time.  So now I am really curious to see what kind of story a few more shaves will tell.

Proraso - Green cream

This and the matching splash hit the spot after some outdoor activities.



Someone's 10th birthday today!

Happy Birthday Big Happy boy! Man's best friend - no doubt

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Someone's 10th birthday today!



 

Stop taking pix and let's play!  Happy Birthday!

I know... And how dare I take time to shave!
Thanks, he says!

Fully intended to use an MdC soap tonight.  Then I realized it's still 90 degrees outside and when I saw King of the North, well, plans changed...

Great call... Love this stuff!

Original (Martin de Candre) herb garden
Shave 8 ・ 194 g left

Man, I’ve got a lot of soaps. I’d like to visit them all, but I’m having a hard time breaking away from Martin de Candre Original. What keeps me coming back to this soap is the challenge of getting it right. Original is supremely easy to lather. It makes a great slick emulsion. And it smells like I’ve spent the morning rolling around in the herb garden. What could go wrong? Normally, nothing. I generally get a terrific shave that just seems to improve as the hours pass. But from time to time a shave with it doesn’t turn out. Irritation wells up several hours after the last rinse or I get a lingering warm sensation. I’m not sure what causes this. So I’m going to hang with this soap until I figure out what brings on the troubles. I’ll use today’s shave, which was perfect, as my baseline. And I’ll change one variable each day until I find the trigger.
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Razor Edwin Jagger DE86RCSH (14) ・ Blade Gillette Silver Blue ・ Brush PAA Peregrino (501) ・ Menthol Yes ・ Aftershave No ・ Hoard 16,053 g

   

Why do I bother with anything else?  Scent is fantastic and it lingers.  Performance always offers a perfect shave.  

Original (Martin de Candre) herb garden
Shave 8 ・ 194 g left

Man, I’ve got a lot of soaps. I’d like to visit them all, but I’m having a hard time breaking away from Martin de Candre Original. What keeps me coming back to this soap is the challenge of getting it right. Original is supremely easy to lather. It makes a great slick emulsion. And it smells like I’ve spent the morning rolling around in the herb garden. What could go wrong? Normally, nothing. I generally get a terrific shave that just seems to improve as the hours pass. But from time to time a shave with it doesn’t turn out. Irritation wells up several hours after the last rinse or I get a lingering warm sensation. I’m not sure what causes this. So I’m going to hang with this soap until I figure out what brings on the troubles. I’ll use today’s shave, which was perfect, as my baseline. And I’ll change one variable each day until I find the trigger.
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Razor Edwin Jagger DE86RCSH (14) ・ Blade Gillette Silver Blue ・ Brush PAA Peregrino (501) ・ Menthol Yes ・ Aftershave No ・ Hoard 16,053 g

   

Hi Bouki 
I’m going to ask you a couple of questions. Do you have any of the other scents by MDC? If so do you get the same things happening as with the Original? If not it may just be the Aroma ingredients as I’m pretty sure other than that all the formulas are the same.  

Just saying…

Oh wow you guys! Once I read Bouki used MDC today, my face all of a sudden felt really dry. 


























kidding

Proraso - Green cream

This and the matching splash hit the spot after some outdoor activities.



Someone's 10th birthday today!

Big day! Happy 10th and many more to a good and loyal friend