June 16th, 2025: Where's the Beef?

• Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations "Nebulagance" - TurnNShave Quartermoon 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: RazoRock - Game Changer .76-P $CNC
• Blade: Wizamet Super Iridium (5)
• Lather: Declaration Grooming - Delta-V - Soap
• Post Shave: Stirling - Arkadia - Aftershave
• Fragrance: GLHF Workshop - Atriox - EdT

$discord

Theme: I used Declaration Grooming's Delta-V soap in the Milksteak base, which includes bison tallow as one of its ingredients.

Challenge: After a very busy and stressful Monday, I did not have it in me to mess around with reversing my shave routine. I just needed a good, relaxing, and comfortable shave. $SELFCARE

$FOF - Atriox is a dupe of Brut by Faberge. A soft, smooth and, dare I say, elegant barbershop-y scent, it nicely rounded out the bright grapefruit and orange in Arkadia. It's a classic scent for a reason. Thanks for the bottle u/pridetwo!

$ROTY

June 16, 2025

• Brush: Chisel & Hound Raven 26mm V26 Fanchurian
• Razor: Dovo Art of Shaving 5/8 Hollow Ground Round Point
• Lather: Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Soap
• Post Shave: Noble Otter - Cerberus - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Thayers - Coconut - Toner
• Fragrance: Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Eau de Parfum

3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

For today's theme, this soap contains bison tallow in its Milksteak base.

For today's challenge, I chose to do a 3-pass trifecta shave in reverse order. My progression for today was:

• Fragrance
• Aftershave
• Toner
• Third pass (lathering, then using my third pass pattern)
• Second pass (lathering, then using my second pass pattern)
• First pass (lathering, then using my first pass pattern)
• Pre-shave - my normal "peoples' preshave" method; working proto-lather into the face with water

I will say that this was, by far, the best shave I've had ... today.

Octidi 28 Prairial an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Thym

• Brush: Yaqi 26mm Synthetic Bingcha (Iced Tea)
• Razor: Thiers-Issard 188 7/8 'Coq et Renard'
• Lather: Martin de Candre Absinthe
• Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
• Postshave: Mennen Le Grand Large
• Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm

Absinthe is really a great scent, and I'm very happy to have tried it (and also the MdC base). Excellent shave.

Have a good night!

~Shared via emacs & sotd.el~

16.06.2025

• Brush: AP Shave Co. Snakeskin w/ 26 mm Silksmoke Flattop/Fan hybrid
• Razor: GEM Micromatic Open Comb
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
• Lather: Zingari Man - The Rambler
• Post-Shave: alum block; Lavera Men sensitive ASB

-> 1 pass WTG + clean-up on the head. A nice shave, but a few bloody dots - haven't used the MMOC in quite a while.

And it wasn't very clean either. In fact, I had to go with a cartridge over a spot I missed at the back of my head (where GEM razors are tricky to use perfectly). Yet still, I took my time for a nice shave again that I could post. Last Thursday I only used my cartridge and brushless cream under the shower, which IMHO wasn't worth writing about.

Rambler is a very sweet scent, but it's the first ZM soap I ever bought so it's kinda special to me. I still suck at lathering ZM sometimes, but the soap rewards me with nice glide and a great post shave feeling.

Currently I sit at home this week to prepare for my practical and oral exams. Haven't done much for it yet tbh, but I plan to change that tomorrow. I wanted to get back into gaming a bit, but I often feel frustrated by the modern game market. For example, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle would be something totally up my alley - yet the disk version contains a meager 300 KB and ~157 GB of the game are downloaded over the MS store. I mean, why even bother with a physical version then? It's just window dressing in that case.

June 16th, 2025: Bear Tallow

• Brush: L'Occitane Plisson Synthetic
• Razor: Wolfman Guerilla - Gen 1
• Blade: Personna P74 (86)
• Lather: Red House Farms - No Scrub - Soap
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Nivea - Sensitive Beard & Face - Balm
• Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - EdP

Theme justification: ingredients are Soy Wax, North American Black Bear Tallow, NAOH, KOH, Castor Oil, Coconut Oil, Glycerine, Aloe Vera, Fragrance, Shea Butter, Cocoa Butter, Lanolin, Sodium Lactate, EDTA, Titanium Dioxide.

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Not only is there no Beef Tallow, but it also excludes the most common ingredient of all -- stearic acid.

I've had questionable lathers with this soap in the past, so today I was determined to get a good one. It's a small container, so I figured that probably inhibits proper loading. I loaded loaded loaded loaded to make sure I got enough soap in my brush, and it helped a ton. Very decent lather. I think this soap is worthy of a container transplant, but first I have to make sure I can safely remove/move the label. It just wouldn't be the same without that handsome bear on the front.

Relevant post shave: Varen is a scent from Stirling Soap Co., and in soap form it's only available in the Mutton base which uses sheep tallow. So in a roundabout kind of way, it has something in common with No Scrub.

June 16th, 2025: Where's the Beef?

• Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations - Stars w/ AP G5C Synthetic
• Razor: Schick - Injector
• Blade: Schick Yellow
• Lather: Red House Farm - No Scrub - Soap
• Post Shave: Catie's Bubbles - Tonsorial Parlour - Aftershave

Daily Theme Justification: No Scrub soap contains North American Black Bear tallow.

Daily Theme: Today's theme was relatively easy for me. I have a few soaps that contain duck fat, but I realized I hadn't used No Scrub yet during the Games. My lather sucked today, but 100% my fault due to today's challenge.

Daily Challenge: I'm not sure if this is a new challenge, but man this was not that enjoyable. The splash was nice to start out with, but building a lather on a dry face proved to be really difficult. It doesn't help that this soap can be difficult to load with a big brush. After two passes and a rinse, I was finished up. A very unsatisfying finish to a shave. I am looking forward to tomorrow for something a little bit more normal. Happy Monday!

Where's the Beef?: Day 16 of Lather Games

• Brush: Chisel and Hound – Flame On with v26 Fanchurian
• Razor: Wade & Butcher The Sheffield (9/8", extra hollow ground) #Revenant #Str8Snob
• Lather: Grooming Dept – Almond Vanilla
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Almond Leather
• Fragrance: Tom Ford – Lost Cherry

Theme justification: This base has duck fat. Almond vanilla has this sweet kind of almond that smells like cherry, and its a fun little experiment to sniff it between more almondy almond like HoM Almond Leather and real cherry in TF Lost Cherry. When I sniff Almond leather and Almond Vanilla, Almond Vanilla smells like straight cherry to me. But after sniffing a bit of Lost Cherry, Almond Vanilla switches to almond in my brain. Oh the fun you can have.

I typically lather up and then shave, and today's challenge would invert that order. Luckily for me, I forgot about the challenge until it was too late.

I honed up this razor during my lunch break, just before the shave, and its a pretty one. I thought I was buying a typical quarter- or half-hollow W&B à la FBU, but this one is fully hollow ground. I didn't know that WB did such grinds until now.