SOTD by u/Newtothethis

u/Newtothethis posted on 2023-07-12 21:08:03-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

July 12, 2023 – The Winnie The Pooh Shave  

  • Brush: Stirling Synthetic  
  • Razor: Maggard V3  
  • Blade: Gillette Silver Blue   
  • Lather: Catie’s Bubbles – ’95 Liquid Labels  

It’s Catie’s Bubbles. It’s today’s featured artisan for a reason.

Challenge: well, I both leg lather AND bowl lather. Legs are too much surface area to lather all at once. You will dry out.

Normally I shave in the shower. I directly load my brush to put a pasty proto-lather on, then whip up a soap soup runny lather in a bowl and finish the process with a leg lather as I approach each section.

But today is not that day. Today, we have to do the opposite. Today we get weird.

I shaved at the sink so it was a Winnie the Pooh situation. Since I couldnt leg or bowl lather, and because of the aforementioned pants-less-ness I couldn’t go get a plate, so I went for the counter lather.

Now the problem is the volume of lather I need for legs. I couldn’t just lay out a large enough puddle of perfect lather in the space I had. So I built my own bowl of dryish lather up, and created a little lake inside of that. This way I was able to dip my brush in the wet, pick up a little bit of the denser lather and slap it all on my leg for a decent texture. All while standing like a flamingo with one foot in the sink.

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**[July 12, 2023 – The Winnie The Pooh Shave](https://imgur.com/a/k5Jjj6u)**  

* **Brush:** Stirling Synthetic  
* **Razor:** Maggard V3  
* **Blade:** Gillette Silver Blue   
* **Lather:** Catie’s Bubbles – ’95 Liquid Labels  


It’s Catie’s Bubbles. It’s today’s featured artisan for a reason.

Challenge: well, I both leg lather AND bowl lather. Legs are too much surface area to lather all at once. You will dry out.

Normally I shave in the shower. I directly load my brush to put a pasty proto-lather on, then whip up a soap soup runny lather in a bowl and finish the process with a leg lather as I approach each section.

But today is not that day. Today, we have to do the opposite. Today we get weird.

I shaved at the sink so it was a Winnie the Pooh situation.
Since I couldnt leg or bowl lather, and because of the aforementioned pants-less-ness I couldn’t go get a plate, so I went for the [counter lather](https://imgur.com/a/Wt0SGFX).

Now the problem is the volume of lather I need for legs. I couldn’t just lay out a large enough puddle of perfect lather in the space I had. So I built my own [bowl](https://imgur.com/a/VOZb5GH) of dryish lather up, and created a little [lake](https://imgur.com/a/w6jsPeI) inside of that. This way I was able to dip my brush in the wet, pick up a little bit of the denser lather and slap it all on my leg for a decent texture. All while standing like a flamingo with one foot in the sink.

Edit: formatting