Pre-shave:- Cold Water straight from the tap Brush:- RazoRock Plissoft Synth. 24/57mm knot Soap/Cream:- Arko (4 shaving sticks grated into a 250ml plastic tub) Bowl/Scuttle:- Captain's Choice Razor/Blade:- Gillette Red Tip E1 1959 / Vintage NOS England Wilkinson Sword #14 Post-shave:- Thayers Witch Hazel & Tea Tree Oil / WAHL Bay Rum Aftershave Splash Fragrance:- L'Eau Bleue D'issey Pour Homme
SOTD 2-08-19 YINTAL Bright Silver DE Safety Razor / Derby Extra
Semogue Excelsior 830 boar brush
Pre de Provence shave soap
Pre de Provence Sante Green Tea aftershave
2/7/19 Reef Point Sublime Vie-Long 13052 6/8 Puma #91 Tony Miller 3" Premium Fast Bridle Strop RazoRock Alum Stick Clubman Citrus Musk George F. Trumper Lime Skin Food Hove Limes des Buras
2/8/19
C.O. Bigelow
H.L. Thater 4376/3 Silver Tip
Edwin Jagger DE-89L
PolSilver (5)
RazoRock Alum Stick
Proraso Green AS Lotion
Proraso Green AS Balm
Penhaligon's English Fern
Declaration Grooming Sni Mato - It smells JUST like my parents' liquor cabinet from when I was a kid. It's a basement + Creme de Cacao + Sprite smell = awesome. The performance is typical Declaration Grooming. It didn't burn me. I didn't want the shave to ever end.
I love the original Razorock Mamba. They sure got it right. It's mild, but it's so smooth. The Mamba 70 seems to shave the same for me, BUT it doesn't have the same effortless "nothing happening" feeling.
The Minora blades are sweeeet. IMO, these are the closest thing to the old Gillette Swede Platinum blades.
This Shannon's Lit aftershave is interesting. Much smokier than the soap. Less Orange Flower water. Nice menthol kick.
Keeping with the Gillette Adjustable theme, I reached for my 69 Super 84 this morning and dropped a Voskhod blade into it. I have several Slims, Aristocrats and Fatboys but this Super 84 is a better shaver than all of them. Two passes on 6 and the last on 5 left me with zero irritation and a BBS shave. Haven’t used the Proraso Green in a while so I grabbed the pre-shave cream and the shaving cream and finished off with the matching AS for today. Excellent shave all around.
Rating: 5 / 5
Razor: Gillette Super Adjustable 1969
Blade: Voskhod
Brush: Simpson 59
Lather: Proaso Green
Aftershave: Proraso Green
Additional Care:
Proaso Green Pre-Shave Cream
B.I.G. Co. Alum Block
Fine Accoutrements - Lather Bowl