October 2025 – The Eclectic Mix @ Lathropworld

SOTD – Bonus Shave Edition

My wife and I are heading out to a belated anniversary dinner (31 years!) tonight, and I wanted to cut down the two-day stubble. So I started thinking about what I wanted to use in my 4th shave for the...

Paul October 28, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

The Mostly Proraso White Shave Week

I've been shaving with the Proraso white combo since early March of this year. And the Proraso soap was the second soap I purchased and used in shaving. It because a long-time staple of my Sunday shaves, becoming the defacto...

Paul October 26, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

Changing the Ratings

Back to the spreadsheet! I bet you never thought you'd see so many entries about an Excel sheet in a primarily shaving blog... I live by rating the shave products I use, along with the comfort, quality and overall ratings...

Paul October 23, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

The “How Medium is the Medium” SOTDs

In the Planning the SOTDs post, I talked about what goes into planning the shaves, and two considerations that came into play in a big way this week were a theme, and continued experimentation. This week, I'm continuing to use...

Paul October 19, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

Sample Reviews – Part Two

A little while ago, I reviewed some of the samples I'd received in July, with a promise that I'd be back to review more of that collection. So here goes, the review of the rest of the samples: Edwin Jagger...

Paul October 16, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

Razor Rating Redux – A Razor Ratings Revisit

Back in July, I rated my razors (and razor experiences) and dropped them into a ranking against each other. While it's only been three months, I've added two razors and think I need to revisit this. So here goes. First,...

Paul October 14, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

The Shaves of the Week – Green Edition

The last time I used the Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Stainless Green blades was in February. This came after using the 7 O'Clock Yellows (Sharp Edge), and being very impressed with them. The KCG was my main razor at the...

Paul October 12, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Information

Some Shaving Observations

This hobby/experience/journey/whatever-you-want-to-call-it is an odd thing, especially in the forum of r/wicked_edge on Reddit. I've recently noticed that as I've gotten into this, I truly have been working to experiment and experience a wide variety of hardware and software combinations,...

Paul October 7, 2025

Personal Care Shaving Shaving Reviews

Another Shark SOTD Week

If I haven't said it, and in case you haven't picked up on the idea here, I like to try the new to me blades in all 4 of my primary razors (the Henson mild, medium, the Rockwell, and the...

Paul October 5, 2025