Shave of the Day Thread - 2023

[Rusty Bridges]

A few years ago, that Proraso White was the only soap I had in the den. Simpler times... One of these days I might give it another try. Definitely my favourite of their products. Even if it smells like neither green tea nor oatmeal...

Hahaha tell me about it! I never understood the correlation between the actual scent and the scent description either but it is quite nice nonetheless.
I'm quite fond of the old Proraso myself and could never understand why they never made a tub soap of the blue (I did ask them a few years ago) as I like that one myself but to be fair they are all pleasant. I think the green soap was my first shave soap. I am definitely keen to hit the green with this hot weather. It always brings back fond memories for me.

 

[Mark1966]

Pre-shave: Hot Shower
Brush: Budapest Christmas Market's Horn Shaving Brush
Soap/Cream: APR Fougere Bourbon Rose shaving soap
Razor: Vintage Gillette 'Fatboy' (6)
Blade: Vintage NOS Wilkinson Sword Premium Chromium (6)
Post-shave: APR Fougere Bourbon Rose splash
Fragrance: N/A

This horn brush is very light

 

[klinker]

Timeless Titanium 0.95 / Wizamet / Ebonite 23mm SHD 2-Band / DG La Petite Prairie Shaving Soap & AS​

 

[SpeedyPC]

Pre-shave:- Cold Shower
Bowl/Scuttle:- Captain's Choice
Brush:- Semogue SOC 2 Band Finest Badger in Taj Resin 24/53mm knot
Soap/Cream:- Stirling Soap Co ~ Piacenza
Razor/Blade:- Blackbird Lite SB Polished / Gillette Yellow #1
Post/After-shave:- T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel Astringent mixed into the 240ml bottle with Invite E High Potency Pure Oil (10 drops), Natural Plant Glycerin (20) & Tea Tree Oil Antiseptic (5)
Fragrance:- L'Eau Bleue D'issey Pour Homme

 

[Gargravarr]

This weekend's shaves...

Pre-shave: Hot flannel, Pears soap
Brush: Forgotten Art "Southern Skies" 30mm Snow Leopard
Soap: Castle Forbes Lavender
Razor: Blackland Vector
Blade: Schick Proline
Post-shave: Shower, Castle Forbes Lavender balm, homebrew moisturiser, La Roche-Posay Anthelios SPF50+, Oxford & Cambridge cologne
COTD: Shakisso Estate, Ethiopia

 

[lu20vt]

ETHOS Vanilla Safi LE // SV Arlecchino Parangon // Filamónica EPBD // ETHOS Vanilla Safi Serum

 

[Gargravarr]

ETHOS Vanilla Safi LE // SV Arlecchino Parangon // Filamónica EPBD // ETHOS Vanilla Safi Serum

Wow, that's a stunning brush

 

[Holiday]

Pre-shave:- Shower/Proraso White Pre-Shave
Brush:- Simpson - The Harvard H1 Best Badger
Cream:- Proraso White - Green Tea & Oatmeal
Str8:- Dubl Duck - Goldedge

Blade honed on the Coti and polished on the "chunk of rock from where my mate Yoshi stopped to have a piss". ​

 

[SpeedyPC]

Wow, that's a stunning brush

The brush will cost you your kidney

 

[Gargravarr]

Blade honed on the Coti and polished on the "chunk of rock from where my mate Yoshi stopped to have a piss". ​

I'd forgotten I ever said that. Maybe I should ease up a bit on the malt...

 

[Mark1966]

Pre-shave: Hot Shower
Brush: Budapest Christmas Market's Horn Shaving Brush
Soap/Cream: Stirling Soap Co Sharp Dressed Man shaving soap
Razor: Vintage Gillette 'Fatboy' (6)
Blade: Vintage NOS Wilkinson Sword Premium Chromium (7)
Post-shave: Stirling Soap Co Sharp Dressed Man splash
Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co Sharp Dressed Man EDT

Not a bad little brush overall

 

[klinker]

Spicy Sunday

Yates 921-H Brushed Brass / Nacet / Oumo Mixed Wood 26mm Badger / OSP Old Gold Shaving Soap / B&M ‌Reserve‌ ‌Spice‌ AS​

 

[MadFlava81]

Brush: Chisel & Hound 24mm Maggard SHD
Razor: Karve CB brass SB-C
Blade: Gillette 7 O’clock Yellow (1)
Lather: Declaration Grooming - Bangarang
Post: Nivea Balm

 

[Holiday]

Belated b'day wishes @neongas ramping up to my 57th with some vintage gear and birth year razors

An excellent shave for the big 40.

Is 40 considered middle aged? The missus seems to think so

Pre-shave:- Shower
Brush:- Vintage Butterscotch Simpson 8 Best Badger from Marshall Field & Company, The Store For Men
Soap:- Yardley Shaving Soap
Razor:- 1966 L1 Slim @5
Blade:- Treet "Black Beauty" Carbon Steel (1)
Str8:- 1966 Russian "Capital"
Aftershave:- Le Pere Lucien - Lotion du Barbier

 

[SpeedyPC]

Soap:- Yardley Shaving Soap

You Yardley rotten bastard, where’s mine.

 

[Gargravarr]

...
Soap:- Yardley Shaving Soap
...

So what do you think of it?

You Yardley rotten bastard, where’s mine.

I've got it.

 

[Holiday]

So what do you think of it?

I've got it.

First impression a soap that performs better than a cream, with superior slickness and glide to any other I have tried.

 

[SpeedyPC]

First impression a soap that performs better than a cream, with superior slickness and glide to any other I have tried.

What about the scent, how does it smell?

 

[Mark1966]

Belated b'day wishes @neongas ramping up to my 57th with some vintage gear and birth year razors

Pre-shave:- Shower
Brush:- Vintage Butterscotch Simpson 8 Best Badger from Marshall Field & Company, The Store For Men
Soap:- Yardley Shaving Soap
Razor:- 1966 L1 Slim @5
Blade:- Treet "Black Beauty" Carbon Steel (1)
Str8:- 1966 Russian "Capital"
Aftershave:- Le Pere Lucien - Lotion du Barbier

Marshall Field & Company were an upmarket department store in Chicago, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Field, they had a lot of rebranded products like this and I think you have another butterscotch Simpson under this name?

 

[Mark1966]

Pre-shave: Hot Shower
Brush: Vintage butterscotch Simpson shaving brush
Soap/Cream: Declaration Grooming / Chatillon Lux Weinstrasse shaving soap
Razor: Vintage Gillette 'Fatboy' (6)
Blade: Vintage NOS Gillette Spoiler (1)
Post-shave: Declaration Grooming / Chatillon Lux Weinstrasse splash
Fragrance: Declaration Grooming / Chatillon Lux Weinstrasse EDT

Nice ...