LG SOTD 29Jun2024
- Brush: Yaqi Purple Haze - 24mm (synbad) synthetic
- Razor: Henson - Ti22 Medium
- Blade: Silver Star - Super Stainless (1)
- Blade: Treet - Falcon (1)
- Lather: Los Jabones De Joserra - Passion Incense
- Bowl: La Creuset - Yellow Mug
Welcome to the thirtieth and final shave of the 2024 Lather Games. Today’s theme is Bon Voyage, Lather Games where we bid farewell to a month of scripted shaving by shaving with lather made somewhere other than where we were born. Taking the difficulty up (and possible satisfaction down), adding in the World Traveler special challenge where every bit of gear used is from a different country than the other gear, and none of those are where I was born (USA).
As covered on earlier shaves, don't do fragrances and I don't have anything to use as a post-shave that was made outside the USA. But, do have a selection of other gear from around the world to shave with today.
- The lather is something brand new to me, Los Jabones De Joserra, a mouthful of a brand made in Spain that I picked up a sample for recently.
- The brush is the first nice brush I ever bought myself, my Yaqi Purple Haze that was made in China.
- Going to whip that up in another makeshift bowl, this is a Le Creuset mug made in France that my daughter picked up when she visited there.
- Razor is my Henson Ti22 that was made in Canada.
- The blades facing off in today's fight are the Silver Star, made in Egypt, and the Treet, made in Pakistan.
As special challenges go, this one is on the easier side since wetshaving is a fairly international affair and there were a number of combinations I could have used to fulfill the conditions.
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The shave…
Off the puck the lather was squarely in the spicy aromatics branch of fragrances and lathered that opened up more intensely. This is very much a fragrance you might have found in a mall import shop in the days or yore and lives up to the “Passion Incense” name. I don’t see it as tub worthy likely but it’s pleasant and I’ll be back to test the lather with a more standard hardware set up.
Today was the opposite of the tiny vintage brush and a large modern bowl, it was a modern brush versus a vintage sized mug and much banging about was had. The soap held less water than I expected but didn’t break thankfully and it was very slick. Since I am skipping any sort of post shave, experienced the full dry down and post shave from this stuff and it’s solid. I got a very close shave, no irritation, and my skin feels good. The fragrance holds the same balance as it fades out, another plus. It reminds me of BaM’s Melange minus the fireproofed chimney brick scent. A good first impression and I’m likely to try other scents from LJDJ.
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Tournament of Blades Fight 424, Round 1. Silver Star - Super Stainless (Egypt) vs Treet - Falcon (Pakistan)
No question today, the Treet gave a near perfect performance. I can’t really fault anything from the Silver Star but its feedback was not nearly as butter smooth as the Treet’s.
Winner of R1: Treet - Falcon
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And there we have it, another Lather Games in the bag.
- I shaved with twelve different razors from six brands, three of them hardware sponsors. I fulfilled five of the razor HWSH hashtags.
- I shaved using twenty different brushes from eight brands, one of them a hardware sponsor. I fulfilled six of the razor HWSH hashtags.
- I shaved with thirty on-theme lathers from twenty-three brands in twenty-five bases (Stirling and Cella getting in there twice each with base variants). Thirteen of the brands were software sponsors. I completed the “30 Lather Scents Bonus”.
- I completed twenty-four of twenty-six daily challenges and three of four special challenges.
I went further than I have before. By my reckoning, my score looks something like this:
- Daily Theme Points: 60/60
- Relavant Post Shave & Fragrance: 0/6
- Daily Challenges: 4.8/5.2
- Special Challenges: 1.5/2
- Daily Judge Evaluation: ?/20
- Bonus for Legendary Posts: ?/5
- Hardware Scavenger Hunt: 1.1/2
- Hardware Sponsor Points: 2/2
- Software Sponsor Points: 13/16
- Software Sponsor Bonus: 0/1
- 30 Lather Brands Bonus: 0/1
- 30 Lather Scents Bonus: 1/1
- 30 Post Shaves Bonus: 0/1
- 30 Fragrance Bonus: 0/1
- GRAND TOTAL: 83.4 / 98.2 Pre-Judge Points
Without the judge’s input, I’ve got a passing grade of 84%. Not bad but any chances of doing well are going to come down to how I am measured by my judgey peers.
That is it. Enjoy what is left of your weekend! Tomorrow I get to bust into my BaM veggiebus samples I’ve been dying to try and had no where to slot in during the games 😄