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Have a question for you Frank! How do you use the Musgo Real soap? I know it sounds like a silly question...but I have been using it and it doesn't seem to really do much for me. Sure it cleans my face...but so does my shower. Anyway...do you leave a thin bit of lather on...or do you rinse it off completely. Just curious to see if I am doing something wrong.
 
dangerousdon said:
Have a question for you Frank! How do you use the Musgo Real soap? I know it sounds like a silly question...but I have been using it and it doesn't seem to really do much for me. Sure it cleans my face...but so does my shower. Anyway...do you leave a thin bit of lather on...or do you rinse it off completely. Just curious to see if I am doing something wrong.
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I wet my face first thing in the shower, and then I rub it all over my beard like it was an alum block, then I massage it into my face with my hands for a minute or so, then rinse it off. I don't know that it does a lot that another Glycerine soap wouldn't do, but I like the scent, and it does seem to soften my beard without making my face squeaky like other soaps seem to do. There is the passage of a couple of minutes time between when I first wet my face and the application of the soap, while I shampoo my hair, and another couple of minutes after the Musgo, while I wash the rest of me before applying the Pre-shave. So my face is wet for about 8 or 9 minutes during the shower, with the Musgo being used about halfway through.

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Mid afternoon shave, and it was sort of an impulse shave. I had nothing planned, and just went with impulses.

Prep: Hot shower, Stirling Charcoal Face Soap, Proraso Red Pre-shave cream
Razor: Schick Krona
Blade: Astra SP (2)
Brush: Simpson Berkeley 46 Best Badger
Soap: Stirling Gatlinburg
Post-shave: Osma Tradition Alum Block, cold water rinse
After-Shave: PAA Black Bot
Talc: Borotalco

It wasn't a great shave, but it was very good. I think I'll move Gatlinburg into the Fall/Winter section of the storage tub. I'm going to dive into my mentholated offerings for the rest of the month, and try out the theme thing. I pulled out the Black Boy Aftershave, which I should use more, as it's a good, long lasting scent. I've got a whole package of bacon to cook tonight, so it's BLT time tonight and tomorrow!

Thanks for reading and have a great shave!

Frank

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I revisited Ethos/CBL Lime today, and boy am I glad I did!

Prep: Hot shower, Musgo Real Lime Glyce Soap
Razor: Gillette NEW SC
Blade: Vokshod (1)
Brush: PAA Atomic Rocket
Soap: Ethos/CBL Lime
Post-shave: Osma Tradition Alum Block, cold water rinse
After-Shave: Ethos Lime Skin Food Splash
Talc: Borotalco
Fragrance: Royall Lyme

Over the years, one of the areas of debate/controversy in wet shaving corridors has been that of blade rigidity. I've read horror stories of blades chattering and causing irritation, nicking, and all manner of maladies. I've also read skeptical treatise presenting all manner of measurements with micrometers under magnifying glasses and whatnot. In all honesty, it is certainly clear to me that a singing blade must necessarily be a resonant blade, and while I can't say that this resonance is of sufficient amplitude to affect the closeness or comfort of a shave, I do feel that a razor that really clamps down on the blade close to the cutting edge can't hurt. My Paradigm does this, and the audio feedback during a pass isn't resonant, at least as far as I can tell. My other razor that really clamps down is my NEW SC, and that's what I went with today. I hadn't used it in months, and I just felt like a nice, close, comfortable shave, which the NEW SC excels at. I washed the faint patina of talc, which now covers things all over the place and really necessitates a thorough roomwide cleaning, and threw a new Vokshod in it and clamped it down. I revisited Ethos/CBL lime today, inspired in part by me recent (this morning) purchase of Ethos Succes soap and Skin Food Splash, and a totally overboard order of 10 soaps from CBL. The prices were just too reasonable given the variety of scents and the great regard in which they are held around here. If I can find a nice Fatboy, that'll round out my purchases for quite a while, or at least until SV Desert Vetiver is available domestically! The Ethos/CBL lime really is a superb soap. It loads and lathers so easily, is soft on the face, and is redolent of fresh lime. The NEW did its job perfectly, and I got a smooth, "chatter-free" four pass BBS shave with no irritation, and just the right amount of cooling from the nourishing skin food. I applied some Royall Lyme around my neck and arms, just to round out the lime theme, and I'm good to go and citrus fresh! I love the NEW, love the Ethos/CBL, and am super happy with today's shave, from beginning to end!!

Thanks for reading and have a great shave!

Frank

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Prep: Hot shower, Musgo Real Lime Glyce Soap, Proraso Red Pre-shave cream
Razor: Paradigm Diamondback
Blade: Vokshod (1)
Brush: Omega Pro 48 Boar
Soap: CBL Tonsorial Barber's Chair
Post-shave: Osma Tradition Alum Block, cold water rinse
After-Shave: Jovan Musk AS
Talc: Borotalco

Tonight was my first try of a CBL soap, the Tonsorial Barber's Chair. I'm really impressed! It loaded quickly and provided a ton of rich, creamy lather with good slickness and very good residual slickness. It rinses off leaving my face feeling supple and clean. The scent was very light, but pleasant. Since I have 11 more varieties incoming, it was great to see that the rave reviews this soap garnishes here are well-founded. Next week, I'll start going through each one in turn, and I'm very excited. I think I got 8 standard and 3 premiums. I'm very excited. The shave was superb, with the Diamondback continuing to provide the perfect heft and balance. The Vokshod was smooth and sharp. I literally have no complaints about today's shave. Now for an evening of reading Doc Savage books. I should be able to finish volume 1 and maybe vol 2 as well. Thanks KJ!

Thanks for reading and have a great shave!

Frank

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I was just craving a shave this morning, so I went ahead and shaved with 16 hours growth. It was worth it!

Prep: Hot shower, Neutrogena Foaming Face Cleanser, Proraso Green Pre-shave cream
Razor: Schick Krona
Blade: Astra SP (2)
Brush: West Coast Shaving Silvertip Badger
Soap: Zingari Man The Magician (first use)
Post-shave: Osma Tradition Alum Block, cold water rinse
After-Shave: Captain's Choice Venture
Talc: Borotalco

I love this soap! The scent is really clean and fresh, and assertive. I enjoyed it throughout all four passes. And the more I use the Krona, the more I like it! Thanks again to @Spider for giving me the opportunity to try one out. Once I get ahold of a Fatboy, I think I'll probably be set for a vintage collection. I've got Old Types, NEWs, Techs, and Super Speeds, and now a Krona. The adjustable is really the main deficit, and I've got a line on one of those for next month. I think that'll do it. But the Krona is just a solid, smooth razor . I'm a happy guy. Now, I'm off to get some breakfast and then a lazy day reading as many Doc Savage novels as I can fit in a day.

Thanks for reading and have a great shave!

Frank

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Prep: Hot shower, Musgo Real Lime Glyce Soap
Razor: Paradigm Diamondback
Blade: Gillette Nacet (2)
Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Super Badger
Soap: Martin de Candre Original
Post-shave: Osma Tradition Alum Block
After-Shave Mem Vintage English Leather
Talc: Borotalco

Sunday special shave today. The Chubby 2 whipped up some incredible amounts of creamy lather from the jar of MdC. I'm really blessed with super top quality water here. Lathering soaps was such a chore in Baltimore. Here, I don't have a single soap that causes the least bit of difficulty. I used the Original scent of MdC, and it's a subtle scent, and while I do agree with @BarberDave that it lacks the slickness and residual slickness of Kaizen, and of SV Opuntia, there's just something in the simplicity of MdC - the feeling of clean and fresh in the post shave feel, that I really enjoy. Which is good for whoever inherits my estate, because at the rate I use it, it will outlast me! I love the glass jar too. The Nacet in the Paradigm left me BBS after four really enjoyable passes, and not a whit of alum sting. I broke out the only truly vintage AS I own, a bottle of Men English Leather. I can't really tell a difference between the vintage and the new. It seems to be an axiom with some that older formulations are usually better (I'm looking at you Old Spice), and it is definitely on my bucket list to pick up a vintage Shulton Old Spice, and I use the Indian version myself, and loved the Family Dollar Vi-John back when it was a thing, but I don't know if, on general principal, older is always preferable. In the 80s I had a bottle of Grey Flannel, and just recently bought a new bottle. The new bottle smells different to me, but my olfactory system is 30 years older and surely that is the most likely culprit. Same goes with Cool Water. It's lighter now than I remember it being, but maybe I'm losing my senses a bit in my dotage. I have to go light on the colognes for the sake of my younger-nosed brethren. I really do not want to be *that guy* who overpowers everyone around me. Of course, these past few months, there's no one around me really. Today I'm going to get more reading done, and do a thorough den cleanup. Borotalco is getting everywhere!

Thanks for reading and have a great shave!

Frank

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I don’t think the changing of the frag scents is just you...I see it a lot in reviews of classic scents that are still in production. I imagine many houses play with ingredients in an attempt to update it a little or in finding a new means of oil supply.
 
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