Well it only took me three years and nine months to do it. I am reminded of Robert Duvall’s line in a movie whose title escapes me. “I was small [for football] but I made up for it by being slow.
Recently I finished my first ever puck of soap, AOL unscented, and as I looked ahead at what to use next, I decided to break open the CF lavender again. It’s been something of a “special occasion” cream since I bought it about two years ago. I had a bit of trouble with it at first, but the scent makes the learning curve well worth it. This is a dense, fragrant cream that I find is best treated as a soft soap. I load a damp EJ medium silvertip brush directly from the tub and face lather. The lather I get this way far exceeds anything I was able to build in a bowl when I first started with CF. I park the lather laden brush in a Dirty Bird Brush Scuttle. The second steaming pass is my favorite part of every shave. What I have found is that I am getting the most irritation free shaves of my life right now. Although not the closest, I can definitely say I am getting a DFS every time. I even shaved two days in a row for the first time. I do the usual finish with alum and witch hazel and then I apply some Castle Forbes Lavender ASB. CF does not moisturize well compared to my other go to creams by Nancy Boy, but I would not call it drying at all either. Instead, my face feels powder dry and smooth, but not tight. Some time after the balm has been absorbed and the scent is long gone, I rub a few drops of jojoba oil into my face and then I am good to go.
I am pretty sure that I am going to do this until the CF is all gone and I know what I will be looking forward to after that, breaking the seal on a tallow-first puck of Penhaligon’s English Fern that I have been saving for awhile.
Good times now, good times ahead.
Recently I finished my first ever puck of soap, AOL unscented, and as I looked ahead at what to use next, I decided to break open the CF lavender again. It’s been something of a “special occasion” cream since I bought it about two years ago. I had a bit of trouble with it at first, but the scent makes the learning curve well worth it. This is a dense, fragrant cream that I find is best treated as a soft soap. I load a damp EJ medium silvertip brush directly from the tub and face lather. The lather I get this way far exceeds anything I was able to build in a bowl when I first started with CF. I park the lather laden brush in a Dirty Bird Brush Scuttle. The second steaming pass is my favorite part of every shave. What I have found is that I am getting the most irritation free shaves of my life right now. Although not the closest, I can definitely say I am getting a DFS every time. I even shaved two days in a row for the first time. I do the usual finish with alum and witch hazel and then I apply some Castle Forbes Lavender ASB. CF does not moisturize well compared to my other go to creams by Nancy Boy, but I would not call it drying at all either. Instead, my face feels powder dry and smooth, but not tight. Some time after the balm has been absorbed and the scent is long gone, I rub a few drops of jojoba oil into my face and then I am good to go.
I am pretty sure that I am going to do this until the CF is all gone and I know what I will be looking forward to after that, breaking the seal on a tallow-first puck of Penhaligon’s English Fern that I have been saving for awhile.
Good times now, good times ahead.
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(Must be all of 50c Australian worth there lol)
Congrats on your landmark posting.
