January 2008

Back to a great shave

January 30, 2008

When I got home this evening, I took a close look in the mir­ror and was sur­prised to see how badly that Zor­rick blade had beat up my neck. A year ago, I would have just skipped shav­ing for a day or two, to let my neck recover from the dam­age. But these days, I […]

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The reason for blade assortments

January 30, 2008

Last evening, it was time to make a blade change in my trusty Merkur 23C. I’ve been get­ting absolutely great results with Derby blades, but Gio­vanni at Bar­bi­eria Ital­iana had sent me a small blade assort­ment, so I looked through the offer­ings.  I spied a Zor­rick blade, which I know some have had really good […]

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Here’s a great wet shaving blog

January 29, 2008

I’ve men­tioned Mantic’s YouTube wet shav­ing chan­nel in other entries, so you may already be famil­iar with his name. The good news is that Man­tic has decided to estab­lish a blog site, called Shave­Tu­tor. Man­tic has done a lot to edu­cate other men about all the plea­sures of wet shav­ing, so be sure to visit his blog.

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Want to meet a really nice gentleman?

January 28, 2008

I guess I’ve been pretty lucky, as I’ve ven­tured back into this world of double-edge shav­ing and mix­ing lather with a shav­ing brush. I’ve met some really nice ven­dors that know their prod­ucts well and are more inter­ested in cre­at­ing a solid busi­ness rela­tion­ship than they are in sim­ply turn­ing a quick dol­lar. We’ve all […]

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No, that wasn’t a sneeze

January 27, 2008

As I’ve been look­ing over my choice for this evening’s lather-producing prod­uct, I’ve decided it is time to try another of the Mama Bear shav­ing soaps — Patchouli. No, I didn’t just sneeze. Patchouli is the name of the essen­tial oil in this par­tic­u­lar soap. What is patchouli, you ask? My answer is that I […]

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