June 2025 – The Eclectic Mix @ Lathropworld

The Saturday Proraso Shave of the Day

You'll recall that a couple of weeks ago, I tried out the Bic Chrome Platinum blades that I'd had in inventory since last September. I'd seen them posted in the Wicked Edge subreddit a few times (certainly less than some...

Paul June 29, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

SOTD – Proraso Sunday with the Durablade

Back in April, I'd decided to pull the trigger on getting my fourth razor, the Rockwell 6C. I've written about it (and my other razors) here. I'd also been wanting to get more of my favorite blade, the Gillette Nacet,...

Paul June 22, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

Software – The Pre-Shave

A lot of people get into wetshaving/safety razor shaving/double-edge razor shaving because it can be a simple thing: razor, soap, water...But you quickly learn that really, you've just changed some of the hardware, and that likely, you've ignored a bunch...

Paul June 17, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

The Sunday Gillette Platinum SOTD

In the Wicked Edge subreddit, the Gillette Platinum blade is frequently held up as a favorite. It's frequently presented as being very sharp and very efficient. I've had a tuck of them since I got my Gillette sample pack back...

Paul June 15, 2025

Games Sim

Return to Wisterberg

...And we're back to the Cities Skylines 2 city I introduced you to last month. In just about a month, the "city" (better termed a region for how I'm handling it with a large urban core and some connected and...

Paul June 12, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

The Sunday Bic SOTD

The Bic Chrome Platinum blades shown above came to me as part of a sensitive skin blade sampler from Razor Emporium back in September 2024. (I see that since then, they have removed these blades from that sample pack and...

Paul June 10, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

Shaving Storage – Hardware or Software?

As I started gathering more shaving hardware or software, I needed to figure out how to store it all. Our house and bathroom are not large, so figuring out how to efficiently store 4 aerosol cans of shaving foam and...

Paul June 8, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

SOTD – The King C Gillette shaves

This is the last week of the series where I decided to try using my three favorite and best razors (the King C Gillette, Henson AL13 + mild, and Rockwell 6C) with the blades they came with from the factory....

Paul June 5, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

More Software – Gels & Foams

In most of the online forums, shave gels and foams are frowned upon. They don't offer the same kind of protection and lubrication as soaps and good lathered creams, and they aren't applied with a brush, which most will say...

Paul June 3, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

The Proraso Post

Here we go again with another mention of that Wicked Edge SubReddit. But I can't adequately express how helpful that forum has been to me: it has shown me products that have, for the most part, been very useful for...

Paul June 1, 2025