May 2025 – The Eclectic Mix @ Lathropworld

SOTD – The Henson Setup

Week two of my shaves using my favorite razors and the blades they shipped with. Today's SOTD (May 25, 2025): Razor: Henson AL-13 Mild Blade: RK Stainless Steel Pre-Shave: Razor Emporium Pre-Shave Shaving Soap Soap: Nivea Sensitive Shave Gel Alum:...

Paul May 30, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

SOTD – Getting Over My Fears

It's the last shave of the week--Thursday. And this week, I've been using the Rockwell 6C razor with the Rockwell blades it came with. (You'll recall that I'm doing this because I wanted to see how my 3 favorite razors...

Paul May 28, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

SOTD – Proraso Sunday, All Rockwell

Back in the Blade post, I mentioned that I hadn't shaved with the blades that came with my 3 best (and most recent) razors. The reason was basically was that I'd already had favored blades that I wanted to try...

Paul May 26, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

More Software – Soaps

Early on in this journey, I kept seeing posts saying that the only way to shave is with a good soap. Gels, creams, foams, etc. aren't worth it at all and don't perform well, blah, blah, blah. Hey, those gels,...

Paul May 24, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

Software – Let’s Talk Blades

Blades are the fundamental software--in fact, initially I thought they were classified as hardware in the discussions. But no, they're a consumable, so they're software. Outside of razors, soaps/creams/gels, brushes, and pre- and after shave routines, few things generate as...

Paul May 22, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

More Hardware – Brushes

In the Wicked Edge subreddit and elsewhere, shaving gear is referred to broadly as hardware and software. This pretty much falls along the lines of items that are designed to be replaced and used up, and items that are designed...

Paul May 20, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

The Hardware – Razors

As of this writing (May 6, 2025), I have 4 razors. The first two were completely uneducated purchases bought out of convenience. One turned out to be good. The other, not so much. The Van Der Hagen There's a point...

Paul May 18, 2025

Cooking

Chicken Nuggets

There was a time when my wife decided to try living a gluten free/minimal diet to see if it helped her health. So I accommodated it. Gluten free pasta, mixing up a gluten free flour replacement using a recipe from...

Paul May 16, 2025

Games Sim

Welcome to Wisterberg

Cities Skylines II is a simulation video game I play in which the player can build a city of remarkable complexity while managing the needs of the citizens of the city. Players need to manage traffic, mass transit, employment, housing,...

Paul May 14, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

SOTD (Shave of the Day)

This was my Shave of the Day (SOTD) for Sunday, May 11, 2025. The Wicked Edge SubReddit has a tradition of people posting their shaves of the day. Most of the time there's a photo of what was used. Sometimes...

Paul May 11, 2025