SOTD by u/worbx

Wednesday, the 19th of July, 2023

• Brush: a clean sock
• Razor: Gillette thin cap old type
• Blade: Topaz Platinum (71)
• Lather: Speick - Soothing Lavender
• Post shave: Storybook Soapworks - Hook
• Fragrance: La Curie - Faunus

OK, I bit on today's challenge. But it turns out I hate the lather sock. First of all, I had to use an insane amount of shaving cream. Like, maybe five times what I should be using for the shave? Second, it took forever to lather it up. I think I spent like half an hour just trying to get a decent lather out of this. And a cream should be faster to lather up! Good grief, I'm glad this was on cream day.

Now, once I did get a lather, it was fine. Maybe a little suboptimal, but OK. Sure, I suppose with practice I could do better, but man, my first brush lathers were, like, orders of magnitude better.

Speick is a good cream, with a nice lavender scent. And the old type razor gave another good shave with this blade. Hook is an interesting scent... honestly, today I ended up getting some chlorine off it, I think, as it wore on later in the day. Faunus is a fun little scent, and kind of, sort of, thematically linked to Hook, perhaps only in that they're both evocative of fantasy settings.

**[Wednesday, the 19th of July, 2023](https://i.imgur.com/wMNRWRa.jpeg)**

* **Brush**: a clean sock
* **Razor**: Gillette thin cap old type
* **Blade**: Topaz Platinum (71)
* **Lather**: Speick - Soothing Lavender
* **Post shave**: Storybook Soapworks - Hook
* **Fragrance**: La Curie - Faunus

OK, I bit on today's challenge. But it turns out I hate the lather sock. First of all, I had to use an insane amount of shaving cream. Like, maybe five times what I should be using for the shave? Second, it took _forever_ to lather it up. I think I spent like half an hour just trying to get a decent lather out of this. And a cream should be faster to lather up! Good grief, I'm glad this was on cream day.

Now, once I did get a lather, it was fine. Maybe a little suboptimal, but OK. Sure, I suppose with practice I could do better, but man, my first brush lathers were, like, orders of magnitude better.

Speick is a good cream, with a nice lavender scent. And the old type razor gave another good shave with this blade. Hook is an interesting scent... honestly, today I ended up getting some chlorine off it, I think, as it wore on later in the day. Faunus is a fun little scent, and kind of, sort of, thematically linked to Hook, perhaps only in that they're both evocative of [fantasy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq09UkPRdFY&t=63) settings.