• brush: MOAR BOAR
• razor: Gillette NEW type
• Lather: barrister and mann softheart sandalwood

Sandalwood+++++

Today I mostly shaved with false hype

April fools suckers.

Didn't have time to old hiker up my samples so back to the SSL kill. A bit of dedication and shaving more than once a week and I could probably kill it before Christmas

Hey look it's everyone's favourite black sea glass brush aficionado.

I actually shaved first thing. Next in line was no scrubs but that's been bumped to last as it's special. So instead it's the first shave of a NO double header.

Northern elixir. A scent my daughter really likes and good for hot weather. She says it smells like a cold forest and she's not wrong

Hey look gang I shaved again.

Come up towards the most recent purchases in the shave den tour, and hitting another sub exclusive soap AG1889.

Amazing base and decent scent.

Rankings worst to favourite:

Burns

1. panta rei gattopardo
2. caties bubbles le marche du rasage

Basic bitches

1. bodyshop maca root and aloe
2. signature capra
3. mitchells woolfat
4. elysium pineapple ambrosia

Gud

1. wickham gothic revival
2. grooming dept mallard corretto
3. wickham ninfeo di egeria
4. Stirling varen
5. signature brittania
6. Chicago ag1889
7. Mammoth smash

Would be happy as my only soap

1. MdC fougere
2. chiseled face Santa Paula

Desert island soap

1. barrister and mann sandalwood

May 27th, 2025: sample killed

• Brush: Zenith - red Boar
• Razor: Gillette - Rocket HD
• Blade: Personna platinum
• Lather: Phoenix & Beau - Iceni - Soap

First sample kills dead

@djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social does the portal pick up lemmy posts too?

$roty

1914

SSL

red 27mm zenith boar.

Ain't no better gem.

##The end of the den tour

• Brush: MOAR
• Razor: Gillette New
• Blade: persona platinum (20)

And so we reach the end of the tub tour. 20 soaps all in all with a few more to be en route when Irish moos lands.

Next up will be a sample killing spree.

So what did I save to last? The best of the best obviously, but before I go in to that let's recap

Burns

1. panta rei gattopardo - weird texture to the soap and something in it burns slightly. Scent is ok at best
2. aties bubbles le marche du rasage - good scent but it burns. Chris says it's one of the inhibit not the oakmoss which I'd originally assumed it to be

Basic bitches

1. body shop maca root and aloe - easy to use and decent lather but nothing special. If you had no other options this is better than anything else on the high street
2. signature capra - good base but unscented
3. mitchells woolfat - hard enough to last forever, but not for me so it's been released from my den
4. elysium pineapple ambrosia - average soap and a scent that starts nice but the dry down isn't great

Gud

1. Wickham gothic revival - eucris dupe. Surprisingly strong for a euro soap but average peformer
2. Grooming dept mallard corretto - kids favourite scent. Lucky it's not a soup and is a good quality soap base and a nice gourmand that reminds me of black forest gateaux. I'm just not a gourmand fan.
3. wickham ninfeo di egeria - light and summery scent I like it a lot but the soap base isn't as good as those above it
4. Noble Otter rawr - decent. I don't get the love for the scent but it's not bad, just forgettable
5. Stirling varen- dark and dank and sheep base is great
6. signature brittania - surprised this ended up here but the aniseed works really well and the base is the best the UK has
7. Chicago ag1889 - great base and scent that's a classic
8. Noble otter northern elixir - would be higher but I can't cope with menthol year round
9. Mammoth smash - great base and good scent just a little too sweet for my preference

Would be happy as my only soap

1. MdC fougere - slick as rick and great scent.
2. Chiseled face Santa Paula - citrus for those that don't like citrus. Don't know why but it just tickles me in the right way.

Desert island soap

1. barrister and mann sandalwood - a classic. There's a reason it's a favourite for a lot of people and softheart base slaps

Bestest of best

1. No scrub x red house farm no scrub

Is the base the best - no

Is the scent the best - no

No, it was never going to be anything else. This is literally the greatest thing I've done as part of the community and one of the most fun things too. Onion and ray and grindermonk all came together to help turn my daft idea into reality and it meant that I could go out on a high with the no scrub list.

Of course I'm not the type to play the lather games properly, too many rules too much soap and splash and razors needed to score highly even with creativity. But I am the type to enjoy the community aspect of things and to enjoy the shit posts. And so hope thats what I've done in the community - from resurrecting the photo contest to various stupid pifs to rebooting and reenvisaging atlas shaves - it's all about the twin pillars of community engagement and ‘shits and goggles’.

So the shitlist was for me the real heart of the lather games. It was great at driving community engagement driving and encouraged people to do things for the shits and giggles, moreover in the earlier days it was very much a singular vision. If itchy liked it then it went in, and he usually shat on you at the same time. Then it became shared by the judges flagging what they liked and it was watered down and then eventually it kind of died (although by then shit posting was a core part of lathergames).

'course I've said this before but the year there was no list was worse as a result. It culminated in a massive whingefest day, where it became apparent that loads of people hadn't been able to see all the shit posts for the shit. I think I did a SOTD that highlighted a great post each day to prove the whingebags wrong. And that kinda planted the seed for the no scrub list. It's like the shitlist but worse, and it didn't even start until a few days into the games after me and DJ were chatting about it. No prize just a curated list.

Risky and self indulgent but I think people liked it. it was a lot of work, and I felt bad there was no prize. But then a single prize was problematic because you ended up with the pppork situation where a single extended riff didn't win because there was a great one off shit post. So I came up with the idea of an exclusive soap, and grindermonk took it further by refusing to take any money for it so it became a group exclusive prize.

Unbelievably the no scrub soap came together, exclusive for people who shit posted their way to notoriety and an inducement to get squares to loosen up. For that it's the best.

Bestest even.

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I've gone on too long and too earnestly (but at least only 6 people will read it). But don't worry there's a hidden message.

World's weakest shave.

SSL

RED ZENITH 27MM BOAR

1914

not on theme and not using ait bud. That puts me out first and officially the waeakest shaver.

X-post from lemmy or whichever one it is I use.

In addition to what @snooting@sub.wetshaving.social said. People often ruminate on a range of things. This month @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social will be talking through and a/b straight razor test for example.

I'll mainly be forgetting to post.

• Brush: MOAR

• lather: summer break soap - steady

• Razor: no scrub industries - onionty-four

• Tea pet: turtle

Today is always a special shave where u/onionmiasma and u/ktturtlesue bring us together to bring something special out of what must be a hard day for them both. 

It's amazing to see how the day has grown and how vendor sub members like u/rocketk455 have joined in with a scent that is fresh and bright on a cold autumnal eve. (Full disclosure I shave in the evening so this was done the night before the 12th but late enough that it was the 12th somewhere).

Anyway. To make the shave special I decided that today was a day to have with friends and id like to think onion and turtle are friends. Not good enough friends to fly me out to the US to be with them and have a shave trip like u/priusaurus though. Maybe they see me more as an acquaintance. Or just someone who has a load of soap stored at their house. Or maybe just a Cadbury s mule. Maybe the fact that I'm not an artisan like rocket and Prius makes me just a nobody.

But I am somebody. u/iamsms

No wait that's not me. Though I am Indian and he's an indianlathergod so I see your confusion.

I am a shit poster. And I AM AN ARTISAN. I have designed, prototyped and built a razor. (Please be my friend u/onionmiasma)

I am somebody and I can shave with my friends.

So last night (late enough for it to be the 12th for Asia based sub members)  I shaved with 

• u/ktturtlesue or at least a toy turtle that came with a Moana doll that eventually lost one arm and got called onearma for the rest of the time we had it. 

•  u/onionmiasma or at least an onion with a treet blade stuck in it. It sucked and mainly cut me on the first pass so I threw it away. Sorry onion

• u/djundjila, u/j33pguy13 and u/merikus. No I didn't  use GUTL but those guys made MOAR so they're good by me and where there as a result

• u/raymoonie and u/thestallionpartthree. Good pod boys hope the curse doesn't get you 

• u/hairykopite - via the 1914 (Best vintage gem)  he sent me which fixed the second and third passes

And that's what this is all about. You're not alone. (Especially if you start making black sea glass brushes) we're here for each other through thick and thin. In shit posts and seriousness. 

Also, I DECLARE wildcard wednesday. You're all scrubs. 

Except for whoever knows how to get the photos off discord to stick into the comments.

#discord

SSL

Again and again and again.

Given I've not mentioned the set up here I probably should. I'm pretty much exclusively using my red zenith 27mm boat. It's got a nice hot loft so has that floppiness that I like. Not too much but not too little (my only heerlf with the moar is the splay). Still it's not as good as the SOC was when it died. I'm hoping it will get there.

Razor is the NEW. I like the vintage open combs as I shave every few days and nowt beats them. I tend to rotate through them swapping when the blade feels ready to toss.

Blaze is a random selection. Don't know ehat

1. Multiple routes to victory. - I'd have it so that you can't hit 30 themes and 30 different makers etc so you are forced to choose

2. People who just post standard sotds with matchy matchy soap but don't engage at all in the wider games shouldn't place higher than engaging idiots.

3. I'd have a shitlist. I'm still hopeful someone will come through this year

September 4th, 2025

• Brush: Zenith - red Boar
• Razor: Ever-Ready - 1912
• Lather: The Body Shop - aloe and maca root - Cream

Will this cream tub ever end? Must be near the 30s for shaves on this razor/blade combo as a result

Rawr.

Some point over the weekend

3 Scots.

A set I won in a pif from the awesome VW and a scent that I really like. There's something catholic church about the mix of spices and incense but I like it.

Got the wife approval but children prefer gourmands because they're filthy heathens

Den tour part 3

Signature soaps a Capra unscented

Can't believe I did a June to end of August run with this soap back in 22 as an unscented lather games to AA self challenge.

Unscented soaps suck, but the performance is good. By far the best UK artisan in my book. Also looking how little is left it's probably going to be my next kill attempt.

Unscientific den ranking so far

1. Wickham ninfeo di Egeria
2. Signature a Capra
3. Caties bubbles le marche du rasage

Same gear

Elysium pineapple ambrosia.

This soap ( and splash) appeared once day with a 1914. Unexpected and a massive surprise courtesy of hairy.

Does show how awesome folk on the sub are

Same again sam

Two maybe three shaves left of the tub kill. And the. It's on to the next in line

Same again.

Ring had been smashed to the middle of the tub. Not long now. (Spoiler it'll probably be end of Feb given how little I shave)