Cheers.
Getting some really close shaves now. If I prep my skin properly I can get a really close one with two pases (with and against) by using a tiny bit more pressure, stretching the skin, and buffing rough bits at the end.
Ordered an alum block and the main benefit I'm finding so far is that it's an amazing help when stretching the skin!
Here are my three Palmolive lather methods:
Left to right:
- Shave cream, £1.80 from Tesco. I apply directly to a wet brush and lather on my face. Every brush stroke in a shave bowl is a brush stroke wasted imo, a stroke that could be exfoliating your face and getting the soap right under those hairs!
- Shave stick, 50p from Tesco, squished into a food container. I've since read about grating these so they're easier to compress. I'll try that next time!
- Shave stick again. Apply the wet stick directly to your prepared face, then lather on face with a brush. This is my favourite method so far because it seems to create the best lather and really grinds the soap into your face.
Next on the list: a proper shave brush, as I'm using an old badger and bristle from Crabtree & Evelyn that's not got much life left in it. It's lost a lot of hair and what hairs are left are very short and a bit stiff.
I also want to get a shave stick holder that rotates and pushes the stick out then retracts it again. This would make it easier for travelling too. Any ideas where I get get them?
And possibly my favourite shaving accessory, a fog free shaving mirror from Amazon:
£18 but it works so well.
The Feather blades are working really well for me so far. Very sharp but very few nicks, which is lucky, as I went straight ahead and bought 100 of them after reading about their magical properties
. Not had a single (what I would call) a cut yet.
