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[-] sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social 5 points 4 days ago

Jan 6, 2025 - Purple Grapefruit

  • Brush: Trotter Handcrafts Space Portal 25mm Mühle STF Synthentic Knot
  • Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Ti
  • Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless (Green) [10]
  • Lather: Catie's Bubbles - Purple Grapefruit - Soap ()
  • Post Shave: Grooming Dept - L'Avventura - Aftershave (Alcohol Free)
  • Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Beloved - Eau de Parfum

It was a lavender and grapefruit kind of morning.

[-] merikus@sub.wetshaving.social 7 points 4 days ago

Jan. 6, 2025

  • Brush: Proraso Professional
  • Razor: GEM Open Comb Micromatic Gen. 2
  • Blade: GEM PTFE [1]
  • Lather: Spearhead Shaving Co. - Seaforth! 3 Scots - Soap
  • Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented - Aftershave
  • Osma: Osma - Osma

As many of you know my wife and I are expecting our first child. We are in the “home renovations” phase of pregnancy where we decide to redo the entire house in the final weeks before birth.

Anywho, I shaved because I hadn’t for awhile because all I do is home renovations. It was great because 3 Scots is great. Again, so happy I picked this up during the drop.

Congratulations! Hope your renovations will go according to plan and your child will be healthy and strong. 🍀

[-] snooting@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 4 days ago

Monday, January 06, 2025

  • Brush: Omega - 10048 boar
  • Razor: GEM - MMOC (first gen, 1930-1932)
  • Blade: Personna - GEM PTFE (6)
  • Lather: Zingari Man - The Rambler
  • Post Shave: Zingari Man - The Rambler Recovery Splash
  • Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
  • Fragrance: Stirling - Oro Valley EdT

This is my first shave with The Rambler. It's a bit sweeter than I expected, but it still has a very nice scent. To my nose, it seems pretty similar to Roam Two. I didn't get much tobacco in the soap, but it's definitely prominent in the splash.


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Rambler is sweet but good IMHO. The fruity notes harmonise well with the tobacco flower (which is sweeter than cigar leaf tobacco). It's a very good companion for the mild seasons of spring and autumn! I used to have the matching beard balm and it definitely got me compliments.

[-] snooting@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah I was surprised that it was so sweet. I probably shouldn’t have been given the scent notes include vanilla and red fruit! :)

I’m happy to have it though. I enjoy the scent and the ZM lather is always great for me.

06.01.2025 - Herbal wellness SOTN

  • Brush: RazoRock 400 Noir SE 24 mm
  • Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium
  • Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
  • Lather: OAM - Oli del benessere
  • Post-Shave: OAM sensitive skin toner; Alterra men natural ASB
  • Fragrance: Bentley for Men Intense EdP

-> 2-pass head shave, 1 on the neck. Very comfortable!

Since my cold is thankfully almost gone, I was feeling like a wellness shave was a good idea. I rarely use this soap: it's a soft Italian croap in a huge glass jar with an aluminium lid - definitely very eco-friendly, but it kinda feels like a bottomless pit despite its softness. Basically it's a Stirling size amount of croap in the glass jar! Makes it very easy to load, but not so easy to store.

The name translates to "oils of wellbeing" or "wellness oils". If anyone is familiar with the old Herbal Essences shampoos and shower gels, this would fit quite well in their lineup. Basically, the soap uses 4 natural plant oils with good glide to substitute the tallow. I feel like it's definitely working; maybe not as good in skincare as my WK, ZM or B&M soaps, but still very solid. The sensitive skin toner has the matching scent and it actually works with lots of other soaps due to that - but today, it was a special treat since it intensified the scent a lot.

A fresh RPL again for the RR Cyber and the difference to the BIC is night and day. Not harsh at all, just very efficient. The search for a good non-russian blade shall continue once I've depleted my current stock. Any suggestions are highly welcome!

First day back in nursing school: it seems like this will also finish like my OT apprenticeship did in 2016 - after the exams are over, no contact to any former classmates anymore. The tensions are palpable, especially with the exams coming up this year. I'll start preparing for them more thoroughly now - should help with my future career options.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 5 points 4 days ago

Glad you're feeling better!

Thanks, same to you! I can recommend Tumeric as a supplement - seems like sickness lasts shorter if you even catch it at all.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 4 days ago

Sounds interesting! You have to love the internet. Looking at two sources, both of which I consider trustworthy, one says it's known to reduce inflamation, etc, and the other source says there have been no studies that have shown any health benefits. LOL.

I was honestly always skeptical about it. Last summer, when I was taking enough capsules to rival my very old residents at the nursing home, I decided to slim down my supplements to only stuff that's good for me and is recommended by nutritionists. I cut out B-vitamin complexes as there are possibly links between B6, B12 and a quadruple increase in lung cancer risk for male smokers. I also cut out fish oil and substituted it with the way tamer hemp oil - my heart wasn't really pleased with fish oil and the constant fish burps were awful. I also cut off L-Tyrosine, as the "effective" amount for ADHD and dopamine would be way higher in cost than I was willing to pay and the effects, if any at all, were just really minor.

Then I looked up what nutritionists and doctors say they take themselves. Apart from the always repeated Omega 3s in either animal or vegan sources, creatine and stuff like zinc, magnesium etc., turmeric/curcumin showed up quite a lot. One doc was the exception, who just said high quality local food and no supps at all, but judging by the salary he probably receives I reckon he can afford this 24/7/365. I actually began with a combination of organic curcumin, ginger powder and piperine and noticed no difference until the winter came: classmates as well as colleagues fell sick while I didn't have any issues with being ill. And now, when some probably more contagious germ(s) got me, I just had about 3 to 4 days of actually being sick instead of the usual week to ten days.

Take my advice with a grain of salt - I am in no way a supplement or nutritional expert, but I am quite skeptical about most common used things but this convinced me. Of course, without a healthy active lifestyle and a balanced, varied diet no supp in the world can help you. They only enhance, they aren't magic. As one old powerlifting book I used to read said very fittingly: "eating like shit but taking all the latest expensive supplements is like installing the most expensive and brightest lamps in an old, rundown cabin with leaky faucets, holes in the roof and mould on the walls. It sure looks pretty at night, but it doesn't make any f##king sense!". Thanks for listening to my TED talk 😅

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 4 days ago

That all makes sense to me. Thanks.

No worries, I actually find it very beneficial to critically assess anything we ingest and not just go with "trust me, bro". So far I only have my own anecdotal evidence. Sorry for info bombing you with so much text though!

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 3 days ago

Don't be! Providing info is important when it comes to these things.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 4 days ago

To clarify a bit more, here's the source that says it might not actually do anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric#Medical_research and the wording they use isn't exactly "no evidence", but instead "no good evidence".

I think this credible source link summarizes it pretty well. There's a lot of possible positive outcomes associated with it, much research was rather shallow and inconsistent and more research is needed. There's also a PubMed summary that sounds far more positive than this, but also explains that it probably won't help with chronic pain. So the answer is as always: it depends.

Unfortunately this is complicated by the fact that turmeric is perhaps more likely than most spices to have lead contamination as not only is there the usual possibility of contaminated soil there is also a somewhat common practice of using lead chromate to dye it a brighter colour: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/isesisee.2018.P02.3490

This is indeed a big problem. I personally recommend getting an organic supplement by a company that subscribes to the GMP standard to minimise the chances of such occurrences but - there's always a chance of malevolent interference.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 5 days ago

January 6, 2025

  • Brush: Zenith 508A XL/Bristle (B35) (MOAR BOAR) 31mm
  • Razor: GEM Flying Wing
  • Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (1)
  • Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Oro Valley - Soap
  • Post Shave: Old Spice - Original - Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

Don't forget to vote in the BVWSC Voting thread.

A nice MicroMatic non-Mammoth Monday Formation Flight. Very close, and almost perfectly comfortable.

Man, my nose was super sensitive today! I'm finally starting to feel better after my month+ long sickness, and although I'm not completely better yet, I think my nose is more sensitive since it has been "taking a break" for so long.

The sensitivity was more geared towards the brighter notes, as Oro Valley and Old Spice both had new to me bright, citrusy type notes. Quite nice!

[-] djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 4 days ago

I'm finally starting to feel better

Welcome back!

Septidi 17 Nivôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Marne


A quick midday shave. 🤗

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[-] djundjila@wetshaving.social 5 points 5 days ago

Entropy Man++;

[-] djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 5 points 5 days ago

MMMMFF Mon 06 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Manchurian
  • Razor: GEM Micromatic Flying Wing (NOS, chrome plated)
  • Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
  • Lather: House of Mammoth – Mood Indigo
  • Post Shave: Abbate Y La Mantia – Koké
  • Fragrance: House of Mammoth / Noble Otter / Declaration Grooming – Cerberus

Back to work shave 🎭

This scent combo is a bit of a miss. The strong pear in Koké completely overwhelmed the more delicate Mindigo rather than integrating itself with the boozy blueberry. LIve and learn.

Still a good MicroMatic Mammoth Monday Formation Flight with a comfortable BBS. Now back to the office.

I learned from watching the equivalent of the Great British Bake-Off that blueberry and peach are extremely delicate aromas, and that they will be covered by almost anything else. Seems that this is true not only in pastry!

[-] djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Good to know!

Edit: Yesterday's peach from A&E Peach & Cognac is the exception that proves the rule

Yesterday’s peach from A&E Peach & Cognac is the exception that proves the rule

Heaving a heavy hand when it comes to scent is sometimes an advantage!

this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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