Post 'Saturday SOTD Thread - Mar 30, 2024' of challenge 'MMarch24 Maddness Matchup 2024'

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The number of participants is 16

u/sahenders posted on 2024-03-30 02:12:57-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
Mar 30, 2024 - 🪻 Champs de Lavande 🪻
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. Green & Ivory 24mm Synthetic 2-Band Synthentic Knot
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24 #MMarch24
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE [30]
- Lather: Declaration Grooming/Chatillon Lux - Champs de Lavande - Soap
- Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Beloved - Splash
My first impression of Champs de Lavande was not favorable, but this morning's shave with it was much better. Beloved's opening blast of mint and lavender is still among my favorites.

Rating: 4.5/5
u/loudmusicboy posted on 2024-03-30 05:16:38-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
MM24MM
- Brush: MOAR F’N BOAR
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (27)
- Lather: Stirling - Scots Pine Sheep
- Post Shave: Stirling - Eucalyptus & Mint splash
- Post Shave: Crowne & Crane - Green Tea AS balm
I think we should all be sleeping in today after the March Madness Championship. I'm up early for a yoga teaching Saturday and The Sheeeeep was calling out to me. Getting close to time to put this away but the weather isn't warm enough yet. This blade is continuing to hold up, but I'm going to call it good after tomorrow's shave.

Try to enjoy your day and remember to be kind to one another.

#MMARCH24
u/hugbckt posted on 2024-03-30 06:32:47-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30, 2024
- Brush: Chisel & Hound v23 Fanchurian
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24 #MMarch24
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Mediterranean Man
- Post Shave: Dr. Jon’s – Hydra
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Unscented Toner
- Fragrance: House of Mammoth – Sonder
First time trying Sonder today. It’s nice, but much more subtle than I anticipated. A lovely shave all around, though. Excited to figure out this brush – I haven’t used anything like it before. Coming from boars and synthetics primarily, it’s amazing how soft this is for an animal hair brush.
u/AdWorried2804 posted on 2024-03-30 07:52:57-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30, 2024 – MMarch24 Saturday
- Brush: AP Shave Co. 24mm G5C Premium Synthetic fan Knot set in DS Cosmetics Jade Green handle
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: Personna PTFE Stainless Steel GEM (4)
- Preshave: Stirling Soap Co. – Unscented
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Island Man (6)
- Post Shave: Thayers – Unscented Witch Hazel Facial Toner
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Stirling Blu AS Balm (21)
- Tags: #MMarch24
Precision Load; Face Lather; WTG/ATG/Cleanup Passes; BBS Result; 28th Consecutive / 302nd Overall SOTD Post

Did a 14-hour growth shave to finally get myself realigned with the SOTD posting schedule. With this third quick turn shave in a row, indications of irritation appeared on my upper cheeks and lower chin during my first pass. Even though I thought my lather was acceptable, on a whim I decided to hand lather the second pass and while doing so added a palm-full of water while hand-lathering. To my surprise the lather exploded, and I had the slickest lather I had ever produced. Throwing caution to the wind, I proceeded with ATG and cleanup passes with no further signs of irritation noted. I will need to experiment further to see if I can successfully repeat today's lather results. If I can, my shaving journey will take a huge step forward. Happy shaving and have a wonderful day.
u/jimm262 posted on 2024-03-30 08:22:52-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
Mar. 30, 2024
Brush: Zenith Unbleached Boar
Razor: u/EldrormR Industries MM24
Blade: Personna GEM Uncoated [22]
Lather: Eleven - Five - Soap
Post Shave:* Eleven - Five - Aftershave

First go with the Eleven soap and splash today. This is a new brand for me and with the 50% off discount I decided to just roll the dice on what was essentially a mystery scent with “Five”. The base is isn’t especially better than others but also not worse so I’m perfectly happy with the quality of the lather. Turns out that Five (at least to my nose and my wife’s) is just “soap” scented soap (and “soap” scented aftershave). So I definitely smell clean and would use it again, but there’s no emotional draw from it.

The MM24 continues to provide great shaves, even with the uncoated (i.e. not PTFE coated) blades I bought by accident (I didn’t pay enough attention to the fine print after searching on Amazon for PTFE GEM). I’m sticking with this blade through MMarch24 since it’s still going strong, but I’m honestly curious if I’ll find that the PTFE coated ones perform noticeably better since I have zero complaints about these uncoated ones.

The Zenith unbleached boar is awesome, especially now that it has been completely defunked.

#MMarch24

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u/el_guapo26 posted on 2024-03-30 09:04:58-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
Mar. 30, 2024
Brush: Chisel & Hound Quartermoon
Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
Blade: AccuTec PRO
Lather: Noble Otter Soap Co. - Rawr
Post Shave:* Noble Otter Soap Co. - Rawr

#MMarch24
u/Impressive_Donut114 posted on 2024-03-30 09:07:42-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
Mar. 30, 2024 - March [MMarch24] Madness Smoldering Ashes-No-More-Bracket HSOTD
- Brush: DSCosmetic Jade Tuxedo 24mm
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24 #MMarch24
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (11)
- Lather: Van Der Hagen - Luxury Scenter - Soap
What the hell just happened here?!?

MM24 Bonus Shave^© to come.
u/tsrblke posted on 2024-03-30 09:14:44-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30, 2024
- Brush: Tns L4 on loan from u/j33pguy13
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM (30)
- Lather: House of Mammoth – Tobacconist
- Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Tobacconist
- Fragrance: House of Mammoth – Tobacconist
Victory shave today. Congratulations to u/mammothben. While I’m breaking my “shave with the other guy” trend I did that in the mammoth v. Stirling battle to shave with Diamond so it all balances.

Tomorrow is the last day of #MMarch24. It’s gonna be close but we could break 600 shaves. Not bad.

Have a good one I’m off to decorate eggs and bake a pie.
u/gcgallant posted on 2024-03-30 11:12:52-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30, 2024
- Brush: Chisel & Hound Gulf Short 26mm V22 Fanchurian
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: Personna Gem PTFE (11)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann - Seville - Soap
- Toner: Thayers - Lemon - Toner
- Aftershave: Barrister and Mann - Seville - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Floris of London - Elite - Eau de Toilette
- Talc: Yardley Classic
  
  2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
Well, I was certain that BaM would win March Madness but, of course, I too used HoM in yesterday's finals.

I chose Seville today to honor the runner up. Awesome shave using the MM24.

#MMarch24
u/RedMosquitoMM posted on 2024-03-30 11:29:37-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
#MMarch24 SOTD Mar 30, 2024
- Brush: Grizzly Bay ChubCubXL 26mm V17 Fanchurian
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24 #MMarch24
- Blade: GEM (66)
- Lather: Wholly Kaw - Nightcap - Tallow Shaving Soap
- Post Shave: Lather Bros. - Everglades - Balm
- Fragrance: L'Aventura - Quiet Spell - EdP
- Passes: WTG, XTG
- Coffee: Bolivia. Caranavi. v: Catuai. Typica. p: washed. r: 2024-03-14
- Music: Saint Saviour - Sunseeker
#MMarch24 continues for one more day!
u/oswald_heist posted on 2024-03-30 11:46:43-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30 2024
- Brush: Maggard mixed knot
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (39)
- Lather: Catie’s Bubbles - X
- Post Shave: Noble Otter - Monoi de Tahiti
- Fragrance: Ineke Perfumes - Idyllwild
Lovely stuff today. Blade holding up fine. This concludes the shave report.

#MMarch24
u/Priusaurus posted on 2024-03-30 14:03:47-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30, 2024
- Prep: Hot Shower
- Brush: Yaqi - Barbershop - 24mm Boar
- Razor: EldrormR Industries - MM24 - Tag: #MMarch24
- Blade: GEM PTFE
- Lather: Spearhead Shaving - Seaforth! Spiced Soap
- Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving - Seaforth! Spiced Splash
- Post, Post Shave: Zingari Man - Unscented Balm
Solid shave today.
u/Impressive_Donut114 posted on 2024-03-30 17:02:19-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30, 2024 – #MMarch24 Madness MM24 Bonus Shave©️
- Brush: Opus 12-ball Mother Lode 28mm
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (12)
- Lather: Hoffman’s Shave & Soap Co. – Burn the Ships
While the embers are still hot, let’s Burn the Ships because we need another Old Spice shave this month.

Have a happy rest of your day and be kind to one another.
u/jwoods23 posted on 2024-03-30 17:34:01-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
Mar. 30, 2024
- Prep: CeraVe - Hydrating Facial Cleanser
- Brush: Aurora Grooming Aristocrat 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (19)
- Lather: House Of Mammoth - Kryptonite
- Post Shave: T.N. Dickinson’s - Witch Hazel
- Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Hygge
- Tags: #MMarch24
u/Environmental-Gap380 posted on 2024-03-30 18:26:02-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30, 2024
- Brush: Noble Otter 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE
- Lather: Noble Otter - Jack
- Post Shave: Noble Otter - Jack Splash
MMarch24

Back to Otterday. My daughter is excited for Easter tomorrow. We are going out for a brunch in the early afternoon. 1 more shave on this blade before it goes into the blade safe. Last few shaves have been getting more toast buttering, especially under my chin.
u/OnionMiasma posted on 2024-03-30 22:51:22-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)
March 30, 2024
- Brush: Farvour Turncraft 'Blue Diamond Dust' / AP Shave Co G5A 26mm
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (10)
- Lather: House of Mammoth - Alive
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented - Balm
- Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Alive - EdP
#MMarch24