Some recent shaving related videos
Feather of Japan make famously sharp DE razor blades. This is a corporate video that contains some interesting footage of blade manufacture. I have mentioned Mantic59s excellent videos on here […]
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English shaving brushes, Morris & Forndran etc
A lot of people have recently seen the light and come over to real shaving. They see the products and industry as they are but they don’t see this history, […]
Make your own shaving soap, videos
Traditional shaving attracts some very keen hobbyists whose hobby goes to the extent of making their own shaving brushes and making their own shaving soap. You can see the attraction […]
£1,100 water badger brush at Trumper’s
This water badger brush with a black buffalo horn handle and gold lettering is for sale at Trumper’s St. James’s Shop at 1 Duke of York Street for £1,100 and […]
Nanny’s Silly Soap Company, new website
In an earlier article on here you were warned about some of the potentially nasty chemicals that can be in shaving soaps and creams, this was further reinforced when we […]
Turkish horse hair shaving brush
There is a Turkish vendor with a website where he sells all sorts of traditional shaving goodies at very good prices. On there he sells “Wooden Handled Shaving Brushes Made […]
Gillette in proposed $7.5 million settlement for alleged false and misleading marketing
Firstly here is the offending advertisement: Here is the website about the settlement. And here is the press release about it: If You Acquired a Gillette M3Power Razor Between May […]
The 1940s Gillette Super Speeds. My birth razor
I have written on here before about the Gillette Super Speed razors, but mainly the Flare Tip version that was available from 1954 to 1966 and its short lived Red […]
The new pogonotomy.proboards.com forum
I must say that I am very impressed at the response to this new traditional shaving forum, obviously there is a need for a well run online community. 60 members […]
Moustache by Rochas, a tragedy
When I was young you could buy an aftershave called Moustache made by Rochas and it was unique, unlike any other aftershave, it was completely distinctive whilst remaining remarkable pleasant. […]