Shaving Kit Giveaway

Hello, my most prized items would be my collection of British Gillette Aristocrats. Terrific razors made so many years ago and still functioning perfectly. Mind you,in todays prices, probably I wouldn't be able to afford a single one of them.
Greetings and many thanks.

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First I would like to thank you , Christopher for the opportunity to win the giveaway. I just turned 71 and started back to wet shaving a few months ago. I have purchased some old Gillette razors and a Schick Injector type g. I have a few soaps but cannot afford the volume that I could if I was still working. I would love to try the Vloid  soap and aftershave. I have read so much about it from others on Shave the man. I only have 2 brushes. The brush from the Gods  and a semogue boar. I do have the joy of having most of the Fine aftershave splashes , but would enjoy so much having more. Being of the age that I am, I find it so hard to find a quality soap that retains the slickness of multiple passes with some of them without more added soap. Tiki, Soap Commanderand CB are some  of the few that I can afford that does that, along with PAA that also does it. I really could use the additional products if I am lucky enough to win. I love your shave, couch and review videos. Please keep using them, I really enjoy your down to earth honest reviews. I agree with you on most of them. I wish I could afford the latest soap in your review, the flying Mango, LOL. But the wife is curtailing any future buying as our funds will not allow future purchases. I love wet shaving and will continue as long as I can whip a lather and shave. Again, Thank you for all you do for our community of wet shavers.  Keep up the great work you do.

My favorite or most cherished piece of shaving equipment is the straight razor that my grandfather gave to my father before my grand father passed away. When my father found out that he had asbestos cancer, he handed down the razor to me The razor is a carved ivory scaled Leader straight razor. One of the scales was broken when my father handed it down to me and to this day it is still broken. Although I custom make scales, just don't want rescale it. I can't bring myself to do it. It's almost as if I will be letting go of my grandfather and my dearly missed father. It's a fitting memory to two special people in my life.

Hi Chris, Thanks for all you do for the wet shaving community.  I'd like to enter your giveaway contest.  I'm looking to expand my DE razor collection, although I am mostly a straight user.  I only have three DE's currently.  And I'd really like to get some of that Vloid.  My favorite brush is currently the Satin Tip "The Purest", my favorite razor is my Wostenholm Hollow Ground 5/8 Barber's Notch Razor, and my favorite soap is Ballenclaugh Old Barber Menthe which always finish with Osage Rub.  But my favorite A/S is Folsom & Co. Black Powder.  Thanks for your consideration. --- Steve

My favorite gear has to be Phoenix 'The Beach' soap and aftershave combo.  Just because I think the scents are incredibly unique and imaginative.  Those qualities are big in my book.

Hello Chris,

My favorite piece of shaving gear is this semi unidentified Gillette razor that belonged to my grandfather. Through a long string of life events I didn't have a chance to know him, or any of my grandparents really, as well as I would have liked and this, along with a very well used brush, are some of the artifacts that give me a tangible connection to my heritage. I haven't shaved with it for quite some time, but it is one piece of my shaving gear that will never leave my possession.

Nice video Leroy reminds me of my crazy dogs lol. For me it would be my silver shave set with ABC empire. It doesn't get much use but it is fancy

Well without a doubt the most treasured piece of gear i have is very old yet fairly new to me.  Earlier this year my Grandmother passed away at the age of 93 and me and my dad where going through some of the stuff in her house, and there was a lot of stuff piled all over that house, when in a night stand in a spare bedroom i found a Gillette old type razor.  My Dad said he remembered his old man using it back in the day.  Then my dad asked me if i wanted it and of course i said yes.  I never got the privlige to meet my grandfather but now i get to use something of his to shave.

Excellent video! I'm not in, but I really appreciate you pointing me towards this forum! Good luck to everyone!

My favourite bedtime evolutionary story, the history of wet shavers! (as never taught in school ~ the first conspiracy... And the true story of wet shaving)
It was in deepest, darkest Africa. Birth place of civilisation that was 2million BC when man first chipped off the sharp edged Andesite flint to shave with and his name was Fred Flinstone! So you can credit the birth of modern man to this act as Fred is recorded in cave drawings as the first wet shaver! The search for a better shave led early man to start mining and experimenting with metals and the golden age of wet shaving was born. This required co-operation and so the first organised communities were born, leading to complex government and the need for time keeping and so shavers could know when 'shavedays' of rest were to be observed. And so, religion was born! But the search continued and bronze was born, making razors last longer, shaves closer with less nicks and cuts. This innovation was so popular that the Greeks needed a system where by they would decide which shave was best and so democracy and voting was born. Romans liked the idea of voting and so not only adopted democracy, but thought forums were the best place to exercise this new form of wet shaving decision making. Once a man called Caesar refused to shave and so the forum got together with their Iron shaving blades and gave old Caesar a permanent close shave and so collectivisation for the greater good of wet shaving was invented. Time passed and at last the Germans tried to unite the world in shaving the German way. This led to WW-Merkur and the great depression when beards and narrow moustaches became popular. Led by Edwin Jagger, the second WW-Muhle weapons of mass destruction known as R89 Grande Safety Razor was deployed for the first time in anger. It was a narrow win for the Artisans that stood against this ternary and soon new scented soaps were being produced and shipped all over the newly freed world! The Iron Curtain fell to the people revolt for freedom of choice for aftershaves (some of which they drank, the rest they splashed around and so aftershave and cologne was born). Next to fall was Red China, when it was discovered they would recycle badgers into amazing new invention known as the shaving brush! But soon environmentalists wanted vegan brushes and so after much letter writing by a popular traditional shaver on youtube, the brush of the gods was born and they named him 'PLISSON' after his french wetshaving inventor. NASA was born to answer the burning questions like, cant you wet shave in space (yes) and can we take wet shaving to the rest of the universe? That great step of evangelising wet shaving to the rest of the universe stands before us and never before have so few, faced so many with so large a task. But razors raised, lather mixed and blades selected. We will go forth, teach others to grow hair so they can mow it down and forever bring the peace that wet shaving brings to the Universe! And here endth the lesson, Amen! (you did say 'tell a story' after all)