Well.....we are a bunch of old guys...
Speak for yourself, pal! ;-)
Great shave Randall!
We grilled burgers and hot dogs too!
Awesome. It's a tradition at my place. My eldest son texted me yesterday to say that he went to his fiancee's for the 4th of July and they were having Little Caesar's pizza! It's an outrage! lol
I concur with her assessment. It smells so bad to me that just hearing you guys talk about it affects me physically as if I just smelled it again.
Wow. Well, she'll be happy that she's not the only one who doesn't like it.
121/158 this morning.
Back to my ultimate comfort zone, I suppose, with Soapy Science LC scent and the Noonan. Three passes on the cheeks, 2 on the neck, a bit of touch-up; CCS+. I'm starting to wonder how much longer this edge can last without a refresh. I guess my stropping has really improved. It still feels plenty sharp and smooth, at least for now.
So, the only thing different this morning was a new-to-me aftershave. Yesterday my wife and I drove out to Smithfield, VA just for fun and to have lunch at a restaurant that was highly recommended by a friend. While we were there, we saw a soap shop called Perfectly Natural Soap. It is a company that apparently has its headquarters in Williamsburg, just up the road a bit.
Anyway, I didn't expect to see shaving stuff at all, but they make shave soaps, shave creams, and aftershaves in both splash and lotions. I have too much shave soap already so I didn't buy one. It is a vegan soap that has a pretty good ingredients list:
Stearic acid, water, avocado oil, cocoa butter, shea butter, potassium hydroxide, palm oil, aloe vera juice, coconut oil, glycerin, sodium hydroxide, castor oil, sodium lactate, bentonite clay, natural fragrance.
Sounds like it might be a reasonable soap, but like I said, I don't need soap right now.
Their aftershave splash was not really a typical alcohol-forward concoction. Ingredient list follows:
aloe leaf juice, witch hazel distillate, glycerin, polysorbate 20, natural fragrance, phenoxyethanol, tea tree leaf essential oil, citric acid, white willow bark extract, alcohol, tetrasodium EDTA.
So, mostly aloe, witch hazel, and glycerin. I don't have a bunch of aftershaves, and one of the scents (labelled Citrus Menthol Mint) intrigued me, so I grabbed a bottle of it and used it for the first time this morning. It was nice. The scent was really good. When I first put it on I thought there wasn't much menthol, but after a few seconds the menthol kicked in. I'd say it was a moderate amount. Nice stuff. It comes in 4 other scents, as well.
Anyway, that's about it for today. Have a good one.
