What soap/cream did you use today?

Zingari Man

Varen – Stirling

Noble Otter / Northern Elixir

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The Holy Black - Gunpowder Spice

Fougère, bol en frêne (Martin de Candre) classic fougère
Shave 15 ・ 209 g

I hear the call of the fougère again. This bowl of soap is too big to fit into the bins I use to stow my soaps, so it just sits on my desk gathering salty beach dust. It also gathers mass. I mean, it gets heavier with each use. It’s like the Day of the Triffids – the more I swipe at it, the more it just keeps coming back, stubborn and relentless.
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Brush Plisson Heritage Bordeaux (36) ・ Razor Karve Bison (34) ・ Blade Derby Extra (4)

LPL - High Speed, I never liked the lather these pux made. Scents were ok,.... I tried to like them as they were getting a lot of love a few years back, but cushion and slickness was lacking. Do you get it dialed in?  Tell us brother!

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Hi Tommy and Bouki.  

It's hard to answer fairly because I broke my own change control rules and changed two big things in the same shave:  (1) using an effectively new-to-me soap with (2) a different method of hydrating the brush.  It took an annoying amount of fiddling to get the lather decent enough for the first pass, at the end of which, the lather had dissipated to a bubbly, undense, unuseable mess.  What followed was a few {add soap/add water/work the lather} cycles at the end of which, I had an okay lather.  Even so, the process was worky, and the shave was not fun.

In fairness to LPL, the resulting shave was bloodless, on the borderline between CCS and DFS, and the skin felt rather good, although not uber good, as it feels with some of the best soaps.  I consider that an inconclusive but hopeful outcome, considering that my own lack of change control discipline must have hurt the process.  In any case, I'm planning to try again with the LPL Vetiver - using only familiar equipment and techniques - and I will make it a point to critique the soap again in this thread.

LPL - High Speed, I never liked the lather these pux made. Scents were ok,.... I tried to like them as they were getting a lot of love a few years back, but cushion and slickness was lacking. Do you get it dialed in?  Tell us brother!

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Hi Tommy and Bouki.  

It's hard to answer fairly because I broke my own change control rules and changed two big things in the same shave:  (1) using an effectively new-to-me soap with (2) a different method of hydrating the brush.  It took an annoying amount of fiddling to get the lather decent enough for the first pass, at the end of which, the lather had dissipated to a bubbly, undense, unuseable mess.  What followed was a few {add soap/add water/work the lather} cycles at the end of which, I had an okay lather.  Even so, the process was worky, and the shave was not fun.

In fairness to LPL, the resulting shave was bloodless, on the borderline between CCS and DFS, and the skin felt rather good, although not uber good, as it feels with some of the best soaps.  I consider that an inconclusive but hopeful outcome, considering that my own lack of change control discipline must have hurt the process.  In any case, I'm planning to try again with the LPL Vetiver - using only familiar equipment and techniques - and I will make it a point to critique the soap again in this thread.

I had that experience with LpL. Admire your Captain Kirk no fear mentality. Lol forward to seeing your results.

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