Travel Tubac Tubesday

Tubes of Tabac creme and aftershave balm standing next to an E-bar leaning on the handle of an ESC Medium Jock handle in front of a decorated bathroom wall.

• Razor: Ever-Ready Natural Angle (E-Bar)
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
• Brush: Executive Shaving Medium Jock
• Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original Cream
• Post shave: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original aftershave balm

First of a few travel shaves in merry old England, and I brought my made in England E-bar for the occasion. I’m not sure the brush is made here, but at least its branding is from Scotland.

Happy Tabac Tuesday, everyone!

• brush: MOAR BOAR
• razor: Gillette NEW type
• Lather: barrister and mann softheart sandalwood

Sandalwood+++++

• Razor: Ever-Ready Streamline
• Lather: B&M Fern
• Brush: Muhle 23mm Synth
• Blade: PTFE (4)

I rarely post a SotD, not sure I ever have on Reddit, only now and then at B&B. But somehow I feel motivated by this new place. This was last night (June 13th somewhere!) and a bit of a rush so no straight but the Streamline with a blade in the sweet spot was certainly no hardship! I actually had put off grabbing one of these since people didn’t seem to highlight the shave particularly and while it’s cool looking I wasn’t about to splash out just for that. Glad I bumped into a user-grade one because it instantly tied my Clog-pruf for favourite Gem shave. Bit milder but not so very much as the newer ones and, while I don’t mind light razors and find some modern ones a bit heavy, the heft here is just right.

June 13, 2023 – Tempo Tuesday

• Brush: Declaration Grooming B11 Jefferson “Lake Pelham Watson” one-off
• Razor: Gillette Slim
• Blade: 7 O’Clock – Super Stainless (Green)
• Lather: Storybook Soapworks – Fresca Intensa
• Post Shave: Australian Private Reserve – Fresca Intensa

On my running calendar, Tuesdays are workout days. Today, that meant a 40-minute tempo run in the pre-dawn swampiness of central Florida summer. I saw 5 bunnies on the first lap around the neighborhood. On the second lap, I saw 5 bunnies and an armadillo.

Cooled off in the shower and had an excellent shave with Fresca Intensa. The Storybook Soapworks soap just exploded into a rich, well-hydrated lather with minimal effort. I dialed the slim down to 5 and did 2 quick passes to get a shave that’s plenty good enough for my day full of Zoom meetings.

Doing my SOTDs on wetshavingdatabase.com and then copy-pasting them into Lemmy isn’t half bad. Certainly no worse than copy-pasting them into Reddit. Fuck Spez.

June 13, 2023

• Brush: Rubberset 400-4 w/24mm Maggard SHD
• Razor: Weck Sextoblade
• Blade: Kismet hair shaper
• Lather: Chicago Grooming - Way-Oh
• Post Shave: Lucky Tiger
• Post Shave: Zingari Man - unscented balm
• Post Shave: CeraVe Daily Moisturizer

I wanted to keep the sample kill attempt going. I overlook my samples too much. I should try to get through them all. I have way too many. I could use nothing but samples the rest of the year and still not kill them all. I’ve got 6 months worth of Stirling samples alone.

June 13, 2023 – [42]uesday

• Brush: West Coast Shaving Clear Smoke Burlwood 26 mm
• Razor: Timeless Titanium Slim
• Blade: Durablade Sharp Titanium (4)
• Lather: Barrister and Mann – 42
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – 42

A cold and rainy late spring day and I felt like reaching for some more Barrister and Mann. I’m getting a better appreciation for the Ti Slim. I used to think it was too aggressive, but I was just applying too much pressure since I’m used to heavier razors.

Hope your day is bright.

Jun 13, 2023 - Phantom of Kyiv

• Prep: Klar - Activated Charcoal - Face Soap
• Brush: Shore Shave Honey Jar 26mm Plisson Knot
• Razor: Blackland Razors Blackbird Ti
• Blade: Personna Lab Blue [13]
• Lather: Areffa Soap - Phantom of Kyiv - Soap
• Post Shave: Areffa Soap - Phantom of Kyiv - Aftershave

Phantom of Kyiv is a refreshing scent: woody with a citrus opening. Areffa has several soap bases, and this is in their beef tallow base. It was easy to work with and produced a slick, dense lather.

Rating: 4/5

Edit: I also wanted to point out the cool Made in Ukraine stamp in the soap.

SOTD 13.06.23

• APR - Fougère Trois
• Yates Precision - 921 H
• Polsilver Stainless Steel
• Trotter Handcrafts - 26mm T1

Possibly the Goat when it comes Fougère scents, Rose and Heliotrope really make this a beautiful scent that lingers all day.

First post on here an i honestly have no idea what Lemmy even is so hopefully its worked

• Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts 49ers Custom with 28mm B5 knot
• Razor: Muhle Rocca R94
• Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum
• Lather: Declaration Grooming - Fake Yellow Light
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather

Rocca mowed through a little over 2 days’ worth of growth with no issue. Getting closer and closer to killing this tub of FYL and I’d very much like to do so before LG

June 13, 2023

• Brush: AP Shave Co. 26mm G5C
• Razor: Karve CB
• Blade: Astra SP (Green) (1)
• Lather: Barrister and Mann – Mûir(e) Wood
• Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps – Teacher’s Pet
• Post Shave: Noble Otter – Bare

Busted out the Karve to do a full 3 pass today. Was going to let my hair grow out this summer, but the inflammation and dandruff is already unbearable, so definitely shaving my head again tomorrow.

6/13/23

• Brush: Muninn Woodworks w/ 24mm Silvertip
• Razor: Koraat 8/8, Near Wedge Square Point
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Voices
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Voices Aftershave Splash
• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Voices EdP

I picked up this Voices EdP from the zaar and it just showed up last night. This is Mrs. Puddings favorite scent in my den. I really like this one too. Sweet without leaning too hard into gourmand. Mrs. Pudding is always blown away by how Ben managed to capture the smell of the rice.

The near wedge on this Koraat was a stark contrast compared to the thin and light Fili yesterday. An awesome shave all the same, however. Just not as chatty.

Jun. 13, 2023

• Brush: Yaqi 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Gillette Super Speed Flair Tip
• Blade: Gillette Platinum
• Lather: House Of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap
• Post Shave: House Of Mammoth - Sonder - Aftershave

Good shave with this old beauty.

June 13 2023

• Brush: Zenith MOAR BOAR

• Razor: Muhle Rocca R95

• Blade: Derby Premium (2)

• Lather: Stirling - Vanilla Sandalwood

• Post Shave: Stirling - Sandalwood splash

• Fragrance: D.S. & Durga - Radio Bombay

Stirling and MOAR BOAR is such a great combination, I got an easy lather from this endless tub. I had a much better shave with the Rocca than I did last time, which confirms that the bad shave must have been a fluke. Good to know I’m not losing my touch.

I got assigned to an annoying workflow so I’m going to do the bare-ass minimum today

• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Scots Pine Sheep Soap
• Brush: Declaration B4 Vastness
• Razor: Wolfman WR1 .67 SB
• Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Z Unscented Balm

got a little weeper rapira blades are decent but not my favorite. was one i threw in my travel razor, blade going in the bin.

SOTD Tuesday 13 June, 2023

• Prep: WDCB.org Chicago’s Home for Jazz
• Prep: Warm Shower
• Brush: Van der Hagen Boar
• Lather: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag 1st of 10 samples
• Razor: 1940s Gillette Gold Ball-End Tech
• Blade: Shaving Revolution Platinum Series (9)
• Post: Nivea Men Maximum Hydration Moisturizing Post Shave Balm
• Post: Brut Classic After Shave

First time with the gold ball-end tech. First of all, the tomato skin comes off when I rub it with my dry thumb. This razor is really starting to glisten. The shave was better than I expected - as long as I rode the cap. Otherwise it passed over the hair without much cutting. Minor stinging with my balm and some irritation, especially on my neck. Small portions of my neck are still tender, but this is typical since my neck hair lays flat - sometimes I gotta press a little. Not BBS, but DFS which is nice. I supposed the shaves will get better with experience. Have a great day, everybody!