Pre-shave: Hot flannel, Pears soap
Brush: TroyCraft "Vazon Forest" 28mm AP G5C
Soap: Yardley Black Label
Razor: Atelier Durdan Vestige
Blade: Personna GEM Stainless
Post-shave: TND witch hazel, homebrew moisturiser, Oxford & Cambridge cologne
I haven't quite finished my Yardley Green Label puck, but today I felt that I really deserved a treat after yesterday's
trauma. I overdramatise of course: that process was a nice ½ hour plus of refreshing sleep, it was just the preparation that was "suboptimal". For a man in his early autumn years, that's enough, thank you.
The incomparable, unobtainium Black Label is like a fresh breeze from my teens (back in the '70s). I had had gifts of YBL "Soap on a rope" (remember those?) many times (nobody seems to do that anymore) and I used this shaving soap with abandon when I first started shaving. I just need a time machine to go back and pick up some more. Just sublime.