The CTB is a nice break from formulating my own shaving soaps and creams. Being my own guinea pig, the face has been taking quite a beating lately so I went back to using a PSO today - lavender scented tea seed oil. With that as a base I slipped a personna platinum blade into my razor and lathered up with the Acca Kappa 1869 shaving cream. What a shave, the cream lathered more readily than most I think, with a delicious genuine lemon scent too. DFS, no irritation and my face feeling nourished afterwards. (Perhaps due to the PSO, must try the AK by itself alone tomorrow to verify.) Finished with the MB unscented winter aftershave balm - a half decent but uneventful concoction full of goodness but me, I'm looking for more of a bracing effect!