Found my holy grail set-up!

[Benoni]

After a year of wet-shaving I'm pretty sure I found my sweet spot when it comes to products and tools:

Mühle R89
Featherblade
Proraso white pre-shave
Le Père Lucien
Speick Active aftershave
(Nivea Sensitive balm)

Things I like to implement once in a while: Mühle R41 (longer beard), MWF, Cella, Proraso soaps (white/red), Floid Blue and Pinaud Clubman.

Now I'm left with a fairly large amount of other products/blades that I'll most probably not use in the future... Do you guys go through everything you buy in the hope it will work in the long run?

Ps: If you are doubting LPL soap, for me it's truly exceptional and shines in every department. Amazing...

 

[kansaskyle]

Glad you found a setup that works for you!

If you want to trade products, put a post up in the Shaving Mall (Buy/Sell/Trade) area of the forum, and maybe you'll get lucky!

 

[the_edski]

Glad you found a setup that works for you!

If you want to trade products, put a post up in the Shaving Mall (Buy/Sell/Trade) area of the forum, and maybe you'll get lucky!

+1, venture to the B/S/T and see what happens!

I do work in some products every once and a while, just to keep it from getting stale. But nothing wrong with sticking to one firm setup.

 

[FL shaver]

I'm curious about your razor history. Have you tried Merkur or Jagger razors? Vintage Gillette's? I haven't tried any Muhles and i'd like to know how it compares to other well-known razors. Thanks for any feedback!

 

[Vespasian]

I'm getting close to declaring my grail set-up complete. But I won't ever stick to it exclusively. While I approach greatness, I will still have all my other soaps, creams, aftershaves, and colognes to use and enjoy. I can see using my grail set-up (with TGS Bergamotto Neroli products) at least once or twice a week.

 

[PMT]

Nice! Congrats!

 

[forrestgump]

glad youve got your setup. having beautiful shaves is surely something to rave about. i found my grail setup just recently. wash my face with mwf and then i use my Vintage gold Progress, a Gillette Platinum, and my Nivea Sensitive cream or gel, both are great. no redness, no irritation, bbs. you just feel like youve climbed a mountain when you leave your bathroom with shaves like that. no one else probably gets it, but we all here do.

 

[BSAGuy]

Congrats!!

 

[Benoni]

I'm curious about your razor history. Have you tried Merkur or Jagger razors? Vintage Gillette's? I haven't tried any Muhles and i'd like to know how it compares to other well-known razors. Thanks for any feedback!

I haven't tried many razors: Merkur Futur, Mühle R41 & R89 and had a few shaves a 34C. I really liked the 34C but I feel like the R89 with a Feather gives such careless and close shaves... Maybe I'll try a slant and a nice stainless steel razor in the future.

I've just ordered a bottle of Lucky Tiger aftershave, 100 astra blades and a stick of Arko. Why? I keep justifying it by telling myself: I'll probably be shaving for another 60 years or so, better try everything so I know what works for me. I should stay away from the Shavemac website.

 

[FL shaver]

Thanks. I use a 34C as a daily and I appreciate the comparison. I'll have to try the R89 some day.

 

[snowman]

Wonderful, so glad you found your formula, enjoy many many wonderful shaves.

 

[dakotajfarley]

Congrats! Getting consistent shaves from your setup is very rewarding

 

[grump]

Congratulations!

 

[andythepandy]

Congrats! I hope I find my ideal set up soon!

 

[stoof2010]

Man now i have to buy an R89....

 

[Vespasian]

I've been thinking about this more and more. I am right on the verge of stopping the very fun accumulation of soaps and colognes; like St Augustine said, "Lord, make me good, just not yet."

But I have the grail razor, brush, bowl, and mug, and tonight I added the blade: Astra SP. I have 25+/- soaps and creams, 10+ AS and colognes. My holy-grail products are fast emerging to be TFS Bergamotto Neroli. They make pre-shave balm, soap, cream, and post-shave balm. Once they come up with the rumored after-shave blast, I'm theirs, for the long haul.

But then I have the rest of the stuff, much of which I love. If I do go on a no-buy 2015 restraint, I'll work through a bunch of stuff. If I get to Jan 1 2016 without wanting to replace any of it, I will have captured the elusive grail. But I dunno; I bet I will still have some non-grail products I liked too much to kick curbwards.