SOTD July 23 - 29

Hot shower
Proraso Pre-Post towards end of shower
SR 3124
'60 Fatboy w/ Crystal blade (Day 1)
UK Palmolive cream + The Body Shop cream
Warm water rinse
Cold water rinse
Skin Bracer A/S splash
Cold water rinse
Mama Bear's Peppermint/Menthol milk + Anherb A/S milk + Trumper's Limes Skin Food
C&E Nomad EdT

Night: Nivea mild
Morning: Hot shower
Nivea Mild Face Wash
EJ Superbadger Large
'54 SS red tip with Derby (Day 3)
TOBS Sandalwood + Honeybear peach
No styptic pencil
Cold water rinse
Nivea mild AS
Dolce&Gabbana EdT per uomo

Shower
NfMS face wash
Bodyshop shaving cream
EJ BBB
Muehle shaving mug in stone bowl filled with boiled water
Hot towel
Merkur HD with Merkur blade (1st shave)
1st pass: WTG; 2nd pass: XTG ear to nose; 3rd pass: XTG nose to ear
Area underneath chin N-->S on all passes (still being careful).
Rinsed with warm water between passes
Cold water rinse
NfMS ASB
ACO caring face cream.
Good shave, basically smooth in all directions except ATG.
No irritation or nicks.

Beverage: Liquid Planet - Guatemalan (Aeropressed)

Audio: M.C. Hawking - A Brief History of Rhyme

Shower:
Dr. Bronner Peppermint
Design Line Tea Tree Shampoo
Design Line Tea Tree Conditioner

Post-Shower Hair:
Pinaud Eau du Portugal
Design Line Style Gel (Medium hold for spikes)

Shave:
Slant w/ Derby
B&B2k6 Finest Horn Brush
QED Grapefruit & Peppermint Soap w/ Proraso (Green) - A very delicious combination indeed!
Alum
Proraso A/S
Proraso ASB

Scent:
Royall Mandarin All-Purpose Lotion

Errata:
Corn Huskers applied to hands and forearms

Shower, then @ sink:

-Merkur HD
-Feather, day one
-C&E BBB
-Nancy Boy Signature Shave Cream
-Proraso ASB
-Nancy Boy Replenishing Facial Moisturizer

Cornhuskers Hand Lotion pre-shave
38C
Feather corked
Shavemac 501
MB Bonzai
Quick splash o Thayers Witch Hazel
Coral Skin Food

Monday

WS pure badger brush
Weleda SC
Injector J1 + Schick blade (day 3-1 passe)
Speick AS
Aqua Velva Ice Balm
Tam Dao edt

after shower at the sink:

23c/IP (1)
EJ Medium Silvertip
CSF
DR Harris Marlborough s/c (sample)
WWR
touch up with disposable Gillette
CWS
Thayers Lavender w/h
Proraso a/s
Paul Sebastian edt

Shower and light face wash with my pecial "Preshave Facial Soap"
Arlington Brush in Pure
Proraso SS
HD with Derby on day 3
N-S & S-N. Wasn't enough left to bother with an ATG pass
Preraso Pre as a post after WWR
CWR and pat dry with towel
Polar Ice followed by Mama Bear's Summer w/ Peppermint ASB

Do you believe my face feels cool???

What an awesome shave. Never even used the Alum Block as it was already packed!!!

Merkur Slant w/Derby day 2
C&E Large Super badger
Tabac SS
Alum Bar
Proraso ASB

Monday

B&B Ebony Razor
Saville Row 3120
HBS Soap - Old Spice
Old Spice

"Paperclip" Brit Aristocrat with Tesco blade
Trumper super badger
Ingram's SC
Old Spice A/S

Shave in the shower,

Noxema Original as a pre-shave
Merkur Progress
2 shave old Feather
Taylor’s Avocado
Shavemac 429 Finest brush
Witch Hazel (plain old Dickenson’s)
Gillette After Shave Gel
Corn Huskers for a little extra moisturizing

Merkur 38C
Swedish Gillette
Simpson Chubby #2
QED Patchouli/Tea Tree/Peppermint Soap
Mama Bear's B&B Summer ASM
No EdT today

Geo. F. Trumper Warwick-handled Razor with a Gillette Swede
Edw. Jagger for Crabtree and Evelyn Super Badger
Coates Lime Shaving Cream
QED Lemon Verbena Hydrosol
Geo. F. Trumper Lime Skin Food
Geo. F. Trumper Extract of Limes Cologne

1918 silver-plated Gillette "Old Type" (Military-issue) w/Israeli Personna blade
"Frank", Sterling-silver pure-badger shaving brush
"Nora", Sterling-silver shaving mug
QED Wild Rose shaving soap
No styptic pencil
Witch-hazel
SCS Savory Rose EDT

Merkur HD-IP
SR 3120
C&E Sandalwood SS
Davinci H2O
C&E Sandalwood ASB
C&E Sandalwood EDT

Slant head /38C
Feather
Plisson # 12
Trumper's Almond
Dickinsons Witch Hazel
NO Styptic Pencil
Comoy's Specimen Straight Grain

Monday

Just returned from a two week vacation. Used for the whole time:

T & H Rose shaving cream (tube)
AOS (Vulfix) travel brush
Merkur Progress with UK Wilkinson blade
Trumpers Limes Skin food.

Today I used:

Trumper's Limes Shaving Cream
Simpson's Chubby 3 Manchurian
Merkur Vision with Euro-Gillette blade
D.R. Harris Arlington After Shave Milk (older version)

Ken