{"id":3280,"date":"2013-01-27T14:55:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T22:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2013-01-27T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T22:59:07","slug":"shave-of-the-day-mitchells-hoyts-timor-and-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shave-of-the-day-mitchells-hoyts-timor-and-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Shave of the Day – Mitchell’s, Hoyt’s, Timor and Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a few months from my last shave using s straight razor. Today I had the opportunity to take a little extra time and enjoy a shave. I reached in the cabinet and picked up a few shaving soap varieties, finally settling on Mitchell’s Wool Fat Shaving Soap, using the original 1893 formula. Mitchell’s is a product of Bradford Yorkshire England. Being a solid soap, my first choice for a brush was the Simpson Super Badger Chubby 1, another product of England. As for the razor, I grabbed the Timor Special, a nice blade coming from Solingen Germany. I was getting the feeling that this shave was going back in time so I opted for Hoyt’s Cologne in it’s 1868 formulation.<\/p>\n

Today’s shave started by stropping the razor on the linen side and then going to the horsehide side several times. I wanted to make sure that I have a good edge. I dampened the brush and soap while I applied a hot towel to my face to soften up the stubble. I quickly got a good lather going and worked it up to a better lather on my face. The Simpson Super Badger Chubby 1 is a great brush. It is soft on the face, yet is has the stiffness that helps with a solid soap to work up a lather. Once my face was covered with a great lather, I then worked the razor down with the grain of my whiskers to begin clearing my face of the roughness.<\/p>\n

Once that was complete, I went with the hot towel for a minute and then applied another lathering of the Mitchell’s Wool Fat Shaving Soap. This time I went up against the grain. For this I use my left hand on the right side of my face. I have found it much easier to do that than use my right hand. Of course, i have learned to eat with my left hand over the years so i do have some fine motor skills in my left hand. The shave was getting closer and closer. I was surprised how smoothly everything went as I had not shaves with a straight razor for several months. I attribute that to a good sharp edge and smooth slick shaving soap. <\/p>\n

On my chin area I needed to do a little cross grain cleanup. That went quickly and I was off to cleaning up anything that had grown in on my neck. I really like the light fragrance of the Mitchell’s shaving soap.<\/p>\n

As for the Hoyt’s, it is one of my favorite fragrances. Not overpowering and not wimpy. It felt great on my face after I cooled it with water. It was a great shave.<\/p>\n

\"Simpson<\/a>

Simpson Super Badger Chubby 1, Mitchells’s Wool Fat Shaving Soap, Timore Special razor and Hoyt’s Cologne<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been a few months from my last shave using s straight razor. Today I had the opportunity to take a little extra time and enjoy a shave. I reached in the cabinet and picked up a few shaving soap varieties, finally settling on Mitchell’s Wool Fat Shaving Soap, using the original 1893 formula. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shaving","tag-shaving","odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}