How big is yours?
There is a current fashion for ridiculously large wrist watches, you are not a real man without half a pound of steel strapped to your wrist, yet I remember when […]
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Some traditional shaving bargains
Several times on this blog I have commented on the tenuous relationship between quality and price in traditional shaving. There are shaving soaps and creams with fancy names on them […]
Proraso on the small screen
It is a while since we had a video article, so here is some fun from those zany Italians. Proraso are a long established company who make great shaving creams […]
Simpson’s Milk Churn shaving brush
Oh, the weakness of the flesh! Such was the temptation of the low prices of Simpson’s brushes at Badger & Hone that I succumbed and bought another one to add […]
Preservatives in shaving products
Today we have another guest writer, it is Krissy Yoder of the artisan soap maker Prairie Creations, who has written this fantastic article about some of the chemicals that go […]
Custom shaving brushes from Penchetta and Penworks
Anthony Turchetta owns an insurance company in Arizona but very obviously likes making things of beauty with his own hands. So he also owns The Golden Nib (TGN), Penworks, Penchetta Pens […]
Shaving in Egypt
Since last writing here I have been lucky enough to spend a little time in Egypt, a country that is both in Africa and Asia. With a population of around […]
Evaluating shaving kit
Regular readers will know that there are two strong recurring themes in the articles here. The first is the near infinite choice that is to be enjoyed in traditional shaving. […]
A beginner’s guide to traditional shaving kit
Firstly a disclaimer, the variety of traditional shaving kit on sale is so vast that the choices are effectively infinite. And because you are different to the next man so […]
Disco bristle shaving brush from India
India is a country with hundreds of millions of wet shavers, many of them still using double edged razors. So, naturally, it is the source for much traditional shaving kit […]