June 5, 2024 – LG 5: Canned Shave Goop
- Brush: Amazon Badger #WEDONTNEEDNOSTINKINGBADGERS
- Razor: Gillette Mach 3 Turbo
- Lather: Gillette – Soothing Aloe
- Post Shave: Burt’s Bees – Balm
- Fragrance: Giorgio Armani – Acqua di Gio
All drug store/big retail products. Bowl lathering canned cream seems so pointless, but alas, it’s LG. A little water actually helped I think. I don’t get bowl lathering. Why spend money on luxurious brushes (unlike today’s 12+ year old purchase as a foray into wetshaving) to barely use them on your face, just sayin.
Do I really need to do a #FOF for Barbasol? It’s refreshing, I’ll give it that. The burts bees is a bit minty, basically like their standard chapstick. This is a vintage Acqua Di Gio, purchased circa 2004, so you know it’s the good stuff. Ready for that slow dance, confessions and my boo playing back to back to close the evening. A citrusy aquatic, I’m not going to claim the scents stand out much. I feel like the limited mass market frags I’ve smelled are all much more blended than our small artisan counterparts which move and develop through more phases on dry downs.
For our #PHOTOCONTEST cactus seemed fitting not only for canned lather quality, but also cause a cactus is kinda like aloe, though technically the latter is a succulent.
I was praising the bases of today’s sponsor yesterday, but I’ll shout out Spearhead/Ironbeard again. Integral part of the community, killer products, Adventus Calendar (which I was the inaugural winner of) was such a cool idea and seemingly still an ongoing tradition he started.
soap brands 5/30, post shave 5/30, frag 5/30, post/frag linked 5/30, software sponsors 3/16, hardware sponsors 5/2, razor hashtags 3/15, brush hashtags 4/15, photo contest 5/30, daily challenges 4/26, special challenges 1/4