Sheffield Wet-Shaver Shopping 21-05-2011 - Truefitt & Hill: Authentic No. 10

New from Truefitt & Hill, and as far as I know (from reading forums such as The Shaving Room, mostly), distributed only through Boots the Chemists' shops - and not all of those.

I checked around our somewhat un-buffed Steel City, only to find this range of products available in the Meadowhall branch. Now that was a tense scene for me and my anxieties etc. The products, are in either  semi- fluorescent green boxes, or au naturel in their brown plastic containers (as far as I remember - and that could be faulty what with traumatic amnesia, etc...). While Boots did have the products included in their three for two promotions, I only got two...

Hey, I only wanted the two! OK?

Saturday Evening 21-05-2011

Le Tuft's bespoke Urban Hermit's Black & Blues shave set

Asco Blue & Red super stainless blade  

Truefitt & Hill Authentic No. 10* shave cream  

MICAlum stick  

Thayers' Peach witch hazel  

Truefitt & Hill Authentic No. 10* cologne/balm ASC

Crikey - wot a shave! ... and the T&H scent is light but for me, hard to describe; mossy woodsy scented?

Maybe ...
Anyway, the cream was very luxurious, and didn't quit before the beard did - and the after-slip? Suh-weet.

*NOTE: The new Truefitt & Hill Authentic No 10 product range is the topic for the Sheffield Wet-Shaver Shopping post tonight.

The cologne/balm cream might be a bit greasy, but then again, tonight's spastic muscle/nerve twitches were mostly non-affecting, but one meant a double dose of ASC.

Still, it feels nice, and occupies the ol' sniffer without knocking the rest of the olfactory stimuli from nasal perceptuality.
Wootness, eh?

Shave of the Day 26-04-2011

Tuesday Evening:

- EJDE89BA11 
- 7O'Clock Stainless
* Gillette Russian Green
- SOC Cherry-wood Boar 
- Classic Vanilla from Classic Shaving
* in Brown Unbreakable Marvy Mug
- Thayers' Rose Petal witch hazel 
- MICAlum stick 
- Pinaud Classic Vanilla ASL

Shave of the Day 25-03-2011

Friday Evening:

• (Gillette) Minora Open-combed, 3-Piece ((all-metal) aluminium Tech) razor
• (Gillette) Minora Super-Platinum blade
• La Maison du Barbier Professional Formula Hard soap
• Omega Pro 49 Boar
  
• Thayers' Cucumber Witch Hazel
• Floid (Italian) Blue ASL

I see that I still have a couple of followers even though my posts are rather sporadic. I always planned this to be a no-ob-blog, but I didn't expect a bad back and a boomerang cold to team-up and knock the crap out of me like this.

... or perhaps my CFS/ME/FM is about to relapse, in which case, I could be seriously copulated to all-get-out.

Shave of the Day 17-03-2011

Thursday Night:

• Doctor Henk's Urban Hermit's Happy Okapi custom razor
• Big Ben Blue, Super Stainless
• Vie Long 13725 Horsehair; 'Mahogany Browns' acrylic; round-handle
• Nanny's Arabian Nights soft shave soap
• brand new, arrived in today's post
• performed with all of the customary excellence I have come to expect from Sharon's soaps
• MICAlum stick
• Humphries Cucumber Melon Witch Hazel
• Floid (Italian) Blue ASL

Shave of the Day 03-03-2011

Thursday Night:

• EJ DE 8x Series razor head and a solid stainless steel handle
• Erasmic Bowl shave soap
• many folks bash this stuff claiming it doesn't make good lather
• worked very well for me - maybe they need to use a boar or a horsehair brush, but they're using a badger with too soft tips?
• or their water to product ratio is off ...
• Centwin Platinum blade
• Omega Pro94
• MICAlum stick
• CarePlus Distilled Witch Hazel
• Floid (Italian recipe) Blue ASL

Shave of the Day: 02-03-2011

Wednesday Night:

• Parker 84R 3-Piece
• Lord Cool super stainless
• Vie Long 13725 horsehair
• Nanny's Ice & a Slice (with Goat Milk)
• Magical Ice Crystal Alum stick
• Humphreys Cucumber Melon
• Alcolado Glacial
• The air conditioner in a bottle!

Shave of the Day: 25-02-2011

Friday Night:

Tonight saw the usual ample use of cold water rinses between passes, as well as the return of the face-dunking in a sink-full of cold, clear, fresh water - much more of that in the near and foreseeable future!

• Merkur 40C Barrel-Handled
• aka The Big Blue Butt-Plug
• Gillette (Malaysia) Super Nacet Platinum
• Vie Long 13723
• or as I usually call it: Old Scout
• Wildfields East Cape Manuka Oil hard shave soap
• second go; still working on water to product ratios
• Humphreys Cucumber Melon Witch Hazel
• Edouard Pinaud Clubman Classic Vanilla ASL
• a long name, but a great splash

Shave of the Day: 24-02-2011

Thursday Night:

• Le Tuft UH's Black & Blues custom shave set
• Big Ben Blue super stainless blade
• Wildfield's East Cape Manuka Oil hard shave soap
• Humphreys Lilac WitchHazel
• Inter Parfums Quiksilver (sic) ASB
• Myrsol Formula K ASL

Shave of the Day: 23-02-2011

Wednesday Night:

• Le Tuft Urban Hermit's Black & Blues custom shave set
• Lord Cool super stainless blade
• Nanny's Deluxe Neroli soft shave soap
• Humphreys Lilac Witch Hazel
• Phyto Expert Ginseng & Eucalyptus ASB
• Myrsol Formula K ASL

Shave of the Day: 22-02-2011

Tuesday Night:

• Le Tuft Urban Hermit's Black & Blues shave set
• Gillette (Malaysia) Super Nacet Platinum blade
• Dr. Henk's Dutch Moss soft shave soap
• Humphreys Lilac Witch Hazel
• Myrsol Formula K ASL

Shave of the Day: 20-02-2011

Sunday Night:

• Gillette Adjustable
• fatboy newly re-plated by Dave at safety-razors.co.uk
• now it's a phatboy! yo-yo-yo-yo!
• Date Code: F4 = 1960; 4th quarter
• Sputnik Teflon
• Nanny's Sandalwood
• One of the new "Luxury Line" of soft shaving soaps
• & it's truly luxurious indeed
• Sharon's Neroli is on order
• Vie Long "Old Scout"
•  sketched fake-badger look horsehair in a squared translucent acrylic handle
• in 'mahogany browns'
• Care+ Distilled Witch Hazel
• Lloyd's sell it (all pharmacies, to the best of my knowledge, carry bottled distilled Witch Hazel in  one brand or another - Boots has their own brand)
• if you don't see it on the shelves, ask for it
• SuperDrug Fresh Forest
• ASL - I got mine at the branch in Chapel Walk
• also a 'Cool Water'-type available
• I haven't found it myself, but I've read/been told  they have a third ASL as well

Shave of the Day: 17-02-2011

Thursday Night:

• Le Tuft Urban Hermit's Black & Blues
• Custom shave set in cobalt blue acrylic and black walnut
• Voskhod Teflon
•  Russian blade but not ZAO St Petersberg
• same factory as the Rapira lines
• Nanny's The Spicy One
•  I've been using this sample of the new Nanny's soap for most of the last week or so
• excellent quality, great lather, beautiful after-slip, more than sufficient cushion
• and a real nice smell to it too
• Magical Ice Crystal Alum  stick
• ugly mock healthy nudes and camp purple holder deodorant
• I also use it after shaving as well as  as a deodorant
• hey! alum is alum. As long as it's potassium alum, it's great, but all the same stuff
• superior value at 99P Shop, long-lasting, hard-wearing alum stick
• Inter Parfums' Quiksilver (sic)
• Aftershave Balsam (appears in today's Sheffield WetShaver Shopping post too)
• for a product that makes a statement about it's personal private, organic sandalwood source, which is harvested by aboriginal peoples, and makes claims for their fair trade cred ... why are there so many freakin' chemicals in this stuff, and why does it seem to my nostrils, to smell alot like Nivea for Men aftershave balms
• does do the soothing job well though, I must admit
• Skin Bracer Original
• by Mennen
• by Williams

Sheffield Wet-Shaver Shopping 17-02-2011 - Quiksilver Aftershave Balsam

This afternoon, between work and a medical appointment, I stopped of at the Savers (Castle Market), wondering if they had any 'old formula' Erasmic cream in the metal tubes. They didn't; only the new plastic-tubed "Erasmic Supreme" creams were in stock.

They did, however, have a bottle of this French aftershave balsam I had never noticed before. I'd never heard of the Quiksilver (sic) brand before, but maybe it's because I have led such a sheltered life, and I'm so unworldly-wise ...

... yeah, well anyway, the blurb on the back of the box was all 'Australian sandalwood ... organic ... private source ... harvested by aborigines ... Fair-Trade-credibility-this-and-that'; for £2.19 I figured 'what the heck' I'd splurge out for it.

Maybe they took every ingredient and broke them down into their chemical components, maybe not, but there is a shit-load of chemicals on the list of ingredients! - and the stuff, as far as my limited olfactory palette can tell, seems a lot like the Nivea for Men range of aftershave balms.It also worked at least as well as they do, and for about 1/3rd of the price.

Shave of the Day: 16-02-2011

Wednesday Night:

• Merkur 40c Barrel Grip Handle
• "the Big Blue Butt Plug" Handle
• Merkur Super Platinum
• Vie Long 13723
• Mahogany Acrylic 'Squared' handle
• showing some small crack-age due to my nerve/muscle spasms
• Palmshave Lime
• still a rather unfortunate choice of name in my opinion
• Humphreys Cucumber Melon
• Witch Hazel
• Alcolado Glacial
• the Air Conditioner in a Bottle

Shave of the Day: 15-02-2011

Tuesday Night:

• Le Tuft UH's Black& Blues
•  custom-made shave set
• Big Ben Blue
•  super stainless blade
• by Lord Razor Group, Egypt
• Formula 31 Blueberry
• from Professor Blighty
• sadly  the more I use iit, the more I smell coconut
• & at least as sadly, the more I get the dry itchy-crawlies too
• Nivea for Men Cool Kick
• it's the blue colour coded one
• ASB
• Floid Blue
• wonderful ASL
• Italian Formula

Shave of the Day: 12-02-2011

Saturday Night:

• Gillette (England), 1958 Television Special Rocket
• quite possibly rhodium plated
• I'm no metallurgist, but, it sure is a shiny-shiny "oh, shiny razor!"
•  recently acquired from fellow TSR Forums  fellow missingskin
• thanks again Steve!
• Supermax Sunrise
• Super stainless
• Williams Menthol
• Shave cream
• small hole in tube 
• OCD might have over-worked the folding/rolling of the end a teensy bit
• Thayers' Lemon
• Witch Hazel
• Skin Bracer Cooling Blue
• By Mennen, which is by Williams

Shave of the Day: 10-02-2011

Thursday Night:

• Le Tuft Urban Hermit's Black & Blues
•  custom shave set
• Edwin Jagger DE8x razor head
• Sputnik Teflon
• Formula 31 Vanilla Old Spice Lime
•  well, I started off with Prof Blighty's soft shave soap, followed the instructions and
•  ... still no joy. Lather was thicker but still wispy, and no endurance, no cushion
• worst part, I got the itchy-dry-crawlies, skin sensation ... so, rinsed brush and face etc.
• 2nd pass was with the India/Shulton formulation of Lime Old Spice cream
• that worked out better for me
• Thayers' Lavender
•  Witch Hazel
• Floid Blue
• ASL from Italy
• still a big fave!
• ciao, bellissima!!

Shave of the Day: 09-02-2011

Wednesday Evening:

• Gillette Adjustable 
• Set on 7; 2.5 passes
• Slim; 'Birthday razor':  Date code: H3 - 3rd quarter of 1962
• Lord Cool
• very smooth super stainless, to go with the Slim @ moderately high setting
• Vie Long 13723
•  mahogany browns, squared acrylic handle
• Nanny's 'New' Spice
•  Prototype sample; second spin - grand stuff
• Thayers' Rose Petal
• Witch Hazel
•  absolutely lovely
• Formula 31 Rose
• by Professor Blighty

Shave of the Day: 08-02-2011

Tuesday Night:

• Le Tuft UH's Black & Blues
• custom shave set
• Merkur razor-head
• Asco Blue & Red
• Super stainless
• Nanny's New Spice
• Pre-release sample to 'guinea pig' on
• as ever, rich moist protective lather; simple but luscious scent diminished only by my cold/allergies(?), which, at times, turns my nose into a congested snot factory
• Thayers' Peach
• Witch Hazel
• Svoboda Freedom
• Aftershave cream from Mother Russia
• well, not my mum, but, whatever ...