Escaping from the dark side. A road map
Due to being brainwashed by marketing there are tens of millions of men in the world who use multibladed system razors with patent protected cartridges that you can only buy […]
Taylors of Bond Street
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 […]
My shaving brush collection, #2 the badgers
In part one we dealt with the boar, horse and synthetic brushes. Now it is time to deal with the badgers. As you can see I am a victim of […]
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 […]
The Real Shaving Co. products
Some of the biggest names in traditional shaving manufacture nothing, they are merely retailers, they put their brand name on a range of products made by other people. And the […]
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, […]
The global nature of real shaving kit
One of the really bad things about the multibladed system razors is that they try and force a communist like conformity. Supposedly we are all the same and must all […]
RAD, SBAD and other acquisition disorders
This gets discussed a lot in the traditional shaving community, mainly RAD (Razor Acquisition Disorder) and SBAD (Shaving Brush Acquisition Disorder), they are used self-deprecatingly to explain the growing piles […]
If you are in London on the 22nd. Discounts at Truefitt and Hill (also online)
I have written here before about the famous grooming shops in St James’s in London and especially the three “Ts” of Trumpers, Taylors of Old Bond Street (TOBS) and Truefitt […]
Fun in the shower
I have written on here before about the Ace fogless shower mirror which uses a patented water reservoir to stop it misting up in the shower. The problem with this […]