Lather Games Day 28- If Only I Had Read The Fine Print About These Alleged "Savings" From Wetshaving
- Brush: Semogue 1800
- Razor: Schick Eversharp G
- Blade: Schick - Injector
- Lather: Master Soap Creations - Peppermint Latte
- Post Shave: Thayers - Lemon Witch Hazel
This was not the shave I intended for this day. Once I read the rules for the shave and the Daily Challenge yesterday, everything had to get juggled around. I'm taking this shave as the opposite of last year's Flex Day, or whatever it was called, where you could show off your $400 razor, $500 brush and the rarest soap in the world made with milk from Tibetan mountain goats and white truffles. Since we already had Drugstore Day or Canned Shit on Our Faces, there is no need to use something silly like a disposable. So here's the cheapest shave I could pull off today and still keep my 30/30 soapers intact.
1) The Shick Eversharp G - These sell at a number of price points. I've seen them as low as $10 and as high as $45. This is the injector that got me started down the injector/GEM rabbit hole. I picked this up at an antique shop in Western Maine for a whopping $6 and it needed no restoration. It was pretty much in mint condition.
2) Schick Injector blade - The unfortunate thing about injectors are the price of blades on per blade basis. Where you can buy DE blades for pennies and GEM blades for around $.20/blade, injectors are $1/blade.
3) Semogue 1800 brush - If you Google it, it runs between $15 and $20. So let's call this $17 for the sake of argument
Today's Hardware cost is $24. That's a pretty sweet deal if you ask me.
Alright, on to software we go.
Master Soap Creations Peppermint Latte was not the original choice for this day, but I couldn't confirm how much (or how little) I paid for a 1oz tin of Red House Farm Lumos. I had already used Arko and Stirling and Proraso is on tap for tomorrow so here's MSC to the rescue. This is a 6oz tub that I bought for $14.99, which comes out to $2.49/oz. This is not too far off the Stirling mark on a per-ounce basis. It's a great soap and it is friggin' cold, which is perfect for a humid morning.
Thayers Witch Hazel can be procured here locally for $10.95. It's a 12-ounce bottle so that comes out to $0.91/oz.
So yes, if I only wanted one good soap that packed a lot of value on a per ounce basis and on a quality-of-shave basis, and if I wanted to use witch hazel as my post (I don't love using it), then I could definitely save money.