June 18, 2024 – 2024..06.18 SOTD: Lather Games Day 18 – RIP in Pieces

• Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Ti
• Blade: Feather (DE) (1)
• Lather: Mickey Lee Soapworks – The Drunken Goat
• Post Shave: Chicago Grooming Co. – Animal Crackers
• Fragrance: Zoologist Perfumes – Cow

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Daily Theme: RIP in Pieces

Theme justification: Mickey Lee Soapworks is officially closed

Relevant Post Shave & Frag: All my software products today have working animals on the labels. Drunken Goat has goats (farm animals), Chicago Grooming Co. Animal Crackers aftershave has circus animals (bear, sea lion/seal, lion), and Zoologist Cow, well, has a cow (farm animal).

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Scavenger Hunt ~~Justification~~: COMPLETED

Razor facts: N/A

Brush facts: N/A

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Daily/Special Challenge: Wicked Edge

I believe it was /u/OnionMiasma who, at the Maggard Meetup, said W_E is a community about wet shaving, and /r/wetshaving is a community for/of wetshavers (or something along those lines). Hell, my first ever wetshaving related post was on W_E. Both subs have their good and bad, but a lot of the bad seems to shine through on W_E (even if that is just due to difference in subs). I think some good conversations can be had over there, but I'll do my best to drum up an example of a ridiculously bad/annoying/odd post (mainly gleamed by looking at the most controversial post on W_E over the past year)(that also could pop up in the Daily Questions thread):

 

Why does DE Shaving Suck for Me? ? ...

For starter I picked up a Chiseled Face Groomatorium Titanium Legacy Razor - Herringbone razor cause i thought that they were good but Iguess they are not... Just sucks since I spent a small fortune on the razor and I cant even return it since i bought it used on facebook... I used feather blades since everyone here says that their the sharpest and I need that since I have super sensitive skin ... Am I DOing something wrong??... Seriously this razor is supposed to be great but when I shave with it no hair is cut and I dont know why because it should be ... it's like](https://i.imgur.com/qlKGVuU.jpg) the blade isnt cutting at all!!!

Why does shaving with this razor just freaking suck??... I am going to go back to my Dollar Shave Club razors since they worked for me and gave me a much better and superior shave to this Double Edge razor that does cut anything at all despite using feather blades...

FIN

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Fragrance description

First time I've ever used a MLS product. Drunken Goat smells like cookies and beer. I'd probably buy a full tub if it was still around.

Animal Crackers smells exactly like it is described: animal crackers. It's wonderful. A simple buttery vanilla cookie.

Zoologist Cow: Sage is the first thing that hits me, followed by violet. Oddly sweet (think some form of sweetened milk) that I don't find too appealing, but it's not terrible.

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Now onto the shave!

I am now really sad that I missed the MLS era of shaving soaps. This is absolutely fantastic stuff. Thank you very much for the sample, /u/Engineered_Shave! Loved the scent and the performance.

Decided to go with my Legacy razor today, just due to the name alone. Lovely razor produced a very nice shave. Probably helps that I used feather blades, which are the sharpest blades (as everyone knows). I did fix the odd issue I had in my W_E post, so don't worry :)

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Totals:

• Razor Hashtags: 10/10
• Brush Hashtags: 10/10
• Hardware Sponsor Points: 2/2
• Software Sponsor Points: 11/16
• Number of Lather Brands: 18/30
• Number of Lather Scents: 18/30
• Number of Post Shaves: 18/30
• Number of Frags: 18/30

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Contest Hashtags:

#FOF

#ROTY

• Brush: Stirling - 2 Band Synthetic.
• Razor: Gillette - Slim adjustable.
• Blade: Gillette - Silver Blue.
• Lather: Dr. Jon’s - Rose of Phrygia.
• Post: Geo F. Trumper - Coral Skin Food.
• Fragrance: Matiere Premiere - Radical Rose.

In a rush today, but wanted to note the smell and performance of this soap is wonderful. What a bummer it is no longer available and Dr. Jon’s is no longer. I am a year too late it seems. I read the insta from him about starting soap making as a hobby and being offered a position managing a dealership … creating the company to support his shaving hobby. Props to all the artisans putting out phenomenal products! I imagine it’s not a huge money making thing to do,and there is a lot of money, time, and labor involved but the love, dedication, and craftsmanship you devote to your goods- is really amazing and it shows. Thank you for sharing with the rest of us.

Also, I really love Rose soaps and this one was fantastic. Thank you so much to u/pilgrim32 for this and other smooshes - you’ve got stellar taste!

I’m not doing FoF, but I got this sample of Radical Rose and it’s pretty great. The description states it is the “only rose fragrance in the world to use Rosa Centifolia oil from the perfumer’s own organic farm (in France)”.. and It is super unique and wavers on more masculine side of rose to me.

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June 18, 202

• Prep: Hot shower
• Brush: Chisel and Hound Sakura with v21 Fanchurian
• Razor: Muhle Companion
• Blade: Astra Green (Indian)
• Lather: Crabtree & Evelyn - Sandalwood
• Post Shave: Zingari Man Sego Aftershave Balm Unscented

According to Wikipedia, Crabtree & Evelyn opened a store in 1971, became an international chain, closed most of their locations in 2009, ceased all operations in 2018, briefly existed as an online brand, and disappeared completely in 2022.

When I started wet shaving with a brush and "fancy" soaps 20ish years ago, shopping online mostly wasn't a thing. You bought what you saw in brick and mortar stores, which, for me, was Col Conk or Crabtree & Evelyn. I was familiar with this brand because my dad and grandad routinely gifted it to each other. I bought this particular bowl probably 15 or so years ago, and it's lasted, nearly untouched, because it was never my preferred scent. (I can't remember now what my preferred scent was.)

In terms of shaving experience, it's nothing worth writing home about. Slickness was okay, cushion was meh, post shave was meh. And the sandalwood scent is kind of bitter. Frankly, it's got nothing on modern artisan soaps.

Wicked Edge challenge: I've posted a bit in Wicked Edge, with my most up voted posts being some show and tells. But I gather that the challenge is really about war stories and carnage. So I'll tell a story that I could have posted to Wicked Edge, but didn't. Perhaps 6 months ago, during a typical day and an average shave, I nicked myself between my lower lip and my chin. It drew blood, but seemed really minor, and I didn’t do anything special about it. I went on about my business. While breakfasting, my daughter turned up, gave me a funny look, and asked me if I needed a band-aid. Initially, I had no idea what she was talking about, but then I remembered the shaving mishap, and I reassured her that it was no big deal, and I wouldn’t need a band-aid or anything. She said something to the effect of, “Ooookay, dad,” and backed away. Half an hour later, I made my way to the bathroom to brush my teeth, and I saw that the little nick had bled profusely, with thick streams of dried blood all down my chin. Rinsing the carnage off my face immediately reopened the wound, and I was forced to cork it with a big round band-aid.

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LG SOTD Jun 18 2024 - That is not dead which can eternal lie

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Theme: A bucket (of blood)

• Brush: Alpha - Outlaw 28mm G5 knot #PREMIUMPLASTIC #SHD #TOLL
• Razor: Merkur - Futur #ADJUSTABLE #FLIPTOP
• Blade: Feather - New Hi-Stainless
• Lather: Maol Grooming & Talbot Shaving - Heliopteris - Artisan Shave Soap - sample
• Post Shave: Dr. Jon's - 8th Dimension - Aftershave tonic
• Fragrance: JMD Jean Michel Duriez - L'illusiomagiste - Sample

WARNING WARNING WARNING

As solicited by the Lather Games rulers, this post contain mentions and depictions of cuts that go beyond safe hair removal. The following includes, but is no way limited to, NSFW and potentially triggering texts and pics.

Reader discretion is advised

If you feel urges of “purging” or cutting your skin, please take note of the following resources, and consider talking to a qualified health professional.
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/skin-picking-disorder/https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/self-harm/getting-help/

TODAY'S THEME

My tribute to some shaving and fragrance companies that are no longer in business:

• The soap is signed Maol Grooming and Talbot Shaving, two artisans who often collaborated on great soap + AS offerings
• Dr. Jon's, whose 8th dimension AS was released as a limited edition for 2019 Black Friday
• Jean-Michel Duriez, a French perfumer who launched his own brand after decades of working for big international houses, made it to the 2018 Perfume Guide by Luca Turin & Tanya Sanchez, and was announced as shutting down in 2021

TODAY'S SPECIAL CHALLENGE

I have no beef with anyone on r/wicked_edge.
I am not familiar enough with the posting style that I seem to be asked to mimic.
But "mama raised no quitter": today I am here to fully comply to the judges requests.
I understand that the goal is get the best shave ever with the most badass gear I have. No compromises.

You wanted Feather? Sure: got a brand new one, sharp as a scalpel.
And I picked my Merkur Futur, the Face Mauler.
Shaving is all about aggressiveness + efficiency.
What's better than Japanese medical technology combined with German heavy metal engineering?

So, forward to the objective. DFS?
You didn't say "amateur day challenge".
Today I'm gonna shave until there's no more sound feedback from my razor.
The Futur & new Feather combo provides that special toast bread scraping sound that I had previously felt only with my MM24.

After the first pass WTG, I got just a couple of red spots, as inferred in this pic.
But I remember some WetTuber guy saying that it's ok to get cut.
Must persevere!

After nineteen other passes (especially on my left side, where hair seems to be a bit more rebellious), I got the cleanest shave since I've been born. I know that in the past I objected to be asked to share pics of my shaved body parts, but I now understand, gotta be proud of accomplishments such as today's.
As requested, here's the evidence.

THE SCENTS

No dickholing today, but an effort to provide kind of an olfactory memorial.

The ceremony begins with the Heliopteris, a solar and clean fougère inspired by Ancient Egypt suggestions, and with notes that seem to care about reflecting the North African theme(Egyptian geranium, Egyptian coriander, Atlas cedar).
Helios, the sun, may appear to die at the end of each day, but its death is not eternal: a new dawn, a new day, a new life are waiting.

We then leap to the AS, an audacious 1980s throwback to the 8th dimension: since its creation, it was a Scent from Beyond, seducing the nose with a warm wood accord, but shocking the skin with a mentholated cooling effect. Totally different style and experience with respect to Heliopteris, but the overwhelming woods have no trouble making you forget the sunny fern of the lather.

Finally, another woody sensation - this one by a French perfumer who was tired of the "quick explosiveness" of commercial fragrances, and wanted to create scents that were mostly about the drydown.
L'illusiomagiste is the kind of cedar-vetiver accord with a hint of citrus that I can easily fall in love. This is not the first time that I wear it, and today I am still loving it. However, more often than not, I become maddened by "undying" drydowns.

After a long time smelling the same notes, my brains starts to impatiently ask for something different, more mobile, more lively.

The idea of something ending is discomforting, but at the same time, we are even more scared by the prospect of being in the presence of an undying creature?

#FOF

Note to the curious: if you travel to Italy and are up to a visit off the beaten path, check out the old anatomical wax models in museums such as La Specola in Florence. Also check out the website of the University of Cagliari collection of waxworks by Clemente Susini, where you may recognize someone familiar.

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June 18, 2024 - RIP in Pieces

• Brush: Yaqi Surf 22mm
• Razor: Yates Precision Manufacturing - 921-H
• Blade: Feather - New Hi Stainless x2
• Lather: K Shave Worx - Bitter Peach
• Post Shave: Clubman - After Shave Lotion

Today's Theme: Thank you to u/Eructate for the K Shave Worx Bitter Peach smush. Thankfully it was generously sized because I want to give it another shot.

Today's Challenge: Why am I still getting irritation? I have super duper über thick wiry facial hair growth. It is extremely tough to cut through and every method of shaving thus far has proved ineffective. It is like cutting metal. My new routine consists getting together the best gear known to man.

I start out by stropping Feather blades on my jorts because I find that Feathers need just a little more refinement. When I say Feathers, I mean it. I read that using shims is a super good idea to get more aggressiveness to shave my ultra wiry hair, so why not use an Feather that has been professionally stropped? Hopefully using a razor with a 0.040" blade gap and positive blade exposure will be enough to hack down my inhuman growth.

I whip up my lather into a creamy, thick, dense, voluminous and yogurty consistency and apply it. I know my lather isn't the problem because this is normally how I see people build lathers on YouTube, they must be experts otherwise they wouldn't post videos.

I always do WTG, XTG, and ATG with the hottest water out of the tap to rinse the razor. I have to use a lot of pressure to really cut down the hair even with two blades and still had a lot of tugging. I finished off my shave with a small amount of Clubman and it burnt so so sooo badly, but it felt good because I’m a closeted masochist. Can anybody help me figure out why I get razor burn, irritation, and a super dry face afterwards? I am at my wit's end with this shitty, dumb, old man style of shaving.

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Jun. 18, 2024

• Brush: AP Shave Co AP 400 22MM GELOUSY SHD FAN Badger

• Razor: Gillette 1962 Slim H 2

• Lather: Mickey Lee Soapworks - Pantie Dropper

• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Dickens

• Fragrance: Azzaro - The Most Wanted Parfum

RIP in Pieces day.

First I would like to thank everyone who commented about my kid. He is doing much better today. He woke up around 10:00am. He’s been awake ever since and we’ve been able to get some food into his stomach and the color is starting to comeback into his face. When he woke up this morning he was completely white washed.

This day I was in a panic over. I had nothing I could use. But thanks to u/souleater7173 for sending me this smoosh of Mickey Lee Soapworks pantie dropper. What an amazing soap. The smell is fantastic and just a little bit of water and a damp brush the lather was abundant. I had so much left over I was wishing I did not use as much of the smoosh as I did. But now I am on the search for more.

When he sent it to me and told me what it was, I told him I already have an idea for my picture and what splash and frag to use.

If you get the panties to drop, and the dickens proper, you will definitely be the most wanted.

Now for today’s challenge

Hello all,

I’ve been reading and lurking around here for a few months now. A few posts here and there but nothing of a substance. Well that changes today! I thought I made a friend in u/souleater7173 ! Boy was I wrong. Can you believe he would send me a soap called gasp Pantie Dropper. I almost spilled my tea when I read his message. Let me tell you something, the missus was none to pleased either! I came here looking for like minded folks who loved the art of Wet Shaving, not soaps with names like that! Pure Smut! I’m disgusted and disappointed! If it wasn’t for the name of the soap I would ask him if I could buy a sample from him, personal check or money order of course. I don’t trust sending money through the internet. I only trust Amazon but that’s only to get Proraso and my vitamins. Ya know what for get this whole post! I’m done here. You all lost what could a been a great member of this community but because of one dirty minded member I’ll be taking my ball and going home!

Photo Contest Humor my wife bought me this t-shirt 16 years ago

#ROTY #FOF #Photocontest.

SOTD format

LG2024- June 18th ☠️

• Brush: Elite Razor Custom Birch Synthetic
• Razor: Razorock GC .84
• Blade: Voskhod (5)
• Lather: Dr Jons- 13
• Post: Wholly Kaw- Eroe

Shave: another LG SOTD, another sample. Too bad Dr Jon’s isn’t around anymore cuz the 13 treated me very well today. Pleasant scent and great performance. RIP.

Challenge: not quite sure what the challenge is about today? I view Reddit subs in a similar way as religion… all have their own rules and regulations and attract different followers, doesn’t make one superior over another. TBH I find this sub more….dogmatic than WE. Sometimes I prefer the structure and consistency of this sub while other times I like the laissez-faire nature of WE. It can get weird here (see Lather games) and there you have to wade through a lot BS to get to some gems

Live and let shave. Though I highly prefer the shitposting here:)

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Jun. 18, 2024
Brush: Chisel & Hound Quartermoon
Razor: Yates Winning Ti
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
Lather: Dr Jon’s - Savannah Sunrise
Post Shave: Dr Jon’s - Savannah Sunrise * Post Shave: Osma - Alum
Post Shave: Jack Black - Double-Duty Face Moisturizer

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Jun. 18, 2024
Brush: AP Shave Co AP400 Gelousy SHD Fan 2 Band Badger
Razor: RazoRock Lupo 95 OC #CNC * Blade: Personna Red [2]
Lather: Ariana & Evans - Spartacus - Soap
Post Shave: Ariana & Evans - Peach & Cognac - Aftershave
Post Shave:* Tower 28 - SOS Rescue Spray

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June 18, 2024

• Brush: Aurora Grooming LG24 Synthetic ("Lux Emerald Green") #SUBBROOSH
• Razor: Fatip Piccolo Slant Closed Comb
• Blade: Feather - New Hi Stainless (3)
• Lather: Williams – Mug Shaving Soap
• Post Shave: Taylor of Old Bond Street – Mr. Taylor
• Fragrance: Frederic Malle – French Lover

This is my third day using a feather blade, and I got a fair number of nicks. So that’s my r/Wicked_Edge moment (continued below)

For today's SOTD I obtained a puck of Williams Mug soap. The lather wasn’t bad, though it was on the foamy side. The puck itself had a soft, mild vanilla-y scent; the lather didn’t really have a scent at all.

Without a splash or fragrance that fit the “no long in business" aspect of the theme, I decided to get conceptual. Williams smells (almost) like nothing, so I decided to follow it with two potentially overpowering scents—in this way Williams is being effaced, erased, re-interred, reburied.

I hadn’t used anything from Taylor of OBS. The Mr. Taylor aftershave sounderd promising—like a fougère / barbershop-type scent with a lot going on. Fragrance-wise, it didn’t disappoint—smelled sharp, potent and stung like all get out. Yow! Bracing. Instead of soothing the nicks, though, it seemed to make them bleed more. That’s not what an aftershave is supposed to do!

Frederic Malle French Lover is an unusual fragrance. I remembered it as having a powdery smell, but this time it revealed a green, atmospheric character reminiscent in some ways of HoM Shire. Leafy, but also earthy and damp. It's a polarizing scent, as can be seen from the reviews over at Fragrantica. Everything from "lovely green vegetal" to "clean fresh meditative vibe" to "night embraces in the back of a taxi, in the best possible way" to "cloves in a zoo cage." I'm beginning to think fragrance is subjective.

Today in Brush Strokes we feature a painting of a skull, attributed to the great monk-painter Itō Jakuchu. It's believed to have been painted in 1794.

#ROTY

RIP in Pieces

• Brush: Chisel and Hound Vitae Taper w/AP Shave Co. 26mm Pure Bliss Knot
• Razor: Yates Precision Polished Winning Razor
• Blade: Personna - Comfort Coated
• Lather: Archaic Alchemy - Agave
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Ramblin' Man Aftershave Balm
• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - 福

Daily Gratitude
Thanks to Tetriside for the soap smoosh. Thanks to m... what... I feel... like a wicked edger... it's taking over...

Thank you to u/StBandicootchie for always being my favorite mod in the world, and for protecting me from you weirdo's at wetshaving until I absolutely had to go here.

Erm... what the sigma, this shave was terrible! I thought now that I bought this new straight razor to replace my gillette super razor would mean I would get good shaves, especially since I got the winning one! I even got shaving soap to lather up perfectly, just like barbasol. Not even to mention that I got the perfect angle.

Unlike you nerds in r/wetshaving us wicked edgers actually touch grass, and I demonstrated that in the SOTD photo.

I even went outside of my usual arko and barbasol to match your stupid lather games prompt that actually doesn't make since because RIP stands for rest in peace and that means that this prompt is rest in peace in pieces. I did this by using this soap from Archaic Alchemy which is only extinct because you guys are evil and you guys ganged up on them.

And today I tried using aftershave and stinky cologne for the first time, agave is sweet so I went with some super sweet summery bright scents, I went with Ramblin' Man which I found out is actually a soap smell made by Creed, i'm pretty sure creed is about a boxer and boxing is mean and dangerous, is there a website to warn me about having any scents that are made by evil companies that are trying to make me violent? For the cologne I went with 福 因为它是猛犸象公司出品的柑橘花香，而柑橘就像龙舌兰一样适合夏天。

TL;DR poop fart brain wicked edging year rookie winner a razor.

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