September 5, 2024
- Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts w/Maggard SHD 30mm Fan
- Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
- Blade: Personna Lab Blue (5)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Nag Champa - Soap
- Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps - Woodshop - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Brut - EdT
I love the scent of Nag Champa. I think a certain part of my childhood must have contained this scent, because it sort of takes me back. Maybe it was the record shop, or the place that sold bongs, or maybe one of my brothers pothead friends? Either way, it's great.
I thought it smelled like incense 😱
Well, ok, good point, but I stand by what I said!
September 5, 2024
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Brush: Zenith B40 28mm Boar
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Razor: ERN 7/8 Full Hollow Round Point
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Lather: Abbate Y La Mantia - Don Josè - Soap
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Toner: Thayers - Lavender - Toner
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Aftershave: Ariana & Evans - SoCal Hipster - Aftershave
2 passes. Bowl lather. Good shave.
Great theme today! AYLM (made in Italy) is certainly among the soaps that are made furthest from where I live. I would have used The Great Bear by Murphy & McNeil, but that tub decided to stop producing lather. Too bad because Ursa Major certainly fits this theme. Both Voyagers have been going since 1977 and both have traveled well over 10 billion miles by now.
Today I made the worst lather I've had in years. I wasn't trying to do this, but it came out of the bowl like one of u/sgrdddy's slurry lathers only wetter and thinner. That I'm using a new boar brush (5 uses now) didn't help at all. It had nothing to do with the AYLM soap. It was just poor work on my part.
Nonetheless, the coticule edge on this ERN performed brilliantly. My actual shave result was excellent; very comfortable and BBS.
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Thu 05 Sep 2024
- Brush: Semogue Owner's Club (cherry wood and boar) (36)
- Razor: Zwilling J. A. Henckels Friodur 17 (NOS, 7/8", hollow ground, stainless steel)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Mountain Man
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Mountain Man
- Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. – Mountain Man
Simple, but fantastic shave this morning. I've never tried the original Silver Mountain Water, but the Stirling dupe is fantastic and consistently gets me compliments from the missus. I barely got a full spritz or of this frag sample, so I'll have to make a decision about whether I replace it, and if yes, whether by another Stirling dupe or the original.
I forgot about the resumption of The Thursdays, and this is definite not the soap made the furthest from me (that would be APR), but mountains are the closest we can get to space without technical help, so I'm theme-adjacent?
Theme Thursday - Godspeed Voyagers!
- Brush: AKA Brushworx Sea Creature 26mm AK7 Synthentic Knot
- Razor: Blackland Razors Blackbird Ti
- Blade: Gillette Platinum [7]
- Lather: Declaration Grooming - Delta-V - Soap
- Post Shave: Noble Otter - Orbit - Aftershave
Excellent shave, incredible scents!
It's a Voyager 1 themed Thursday at r/wetshaving, so I want to plug the documentary It's Quieter in the Twilight about the handful of JPL engineers still working the Voyager project.
Rating: 4.5/5
