Lather Games day 18 - tl;dr: I'm out, be nice, or not

• Brush: yaqi rainbow synthetic
• Brush: gillette standard 19mm boar
• Razor: st Leger
• Lather: no scrub X red house farm - no scrub shaving soap.

Long one incoming so it's split into three parts so each has its own TL:Dr

cease of trading announcement

So I've been around the sub for nigh on 6 years and in that time I've gone from lurker, to shit poster, to artisan soap, razor and brush maker. I've also taken on the honour of curating the lather games ~~shit list~~ no scrubs list. Not that anyone asked me to do that last one.

But there comes a time in every artisan's life when they decide that though they got into it the love they had is dead, the margins are tough and the competition is tougher.

1. Who wants a no scrub brush when you can go to dogwood or aurora?,
2. Who needs my custom razor when you can just get a wolfman or a Karve or even go on eBay and pick up a 1912?
3. Why get the no scrub soap when you can go to red house farm directly?

I mean who even needs the ~~shit list~~ no scrub list?

Ok so that last one has an answer and the year without a list was the reason I started back up last year, so I do believe a list is needed. But it's not going to be me next year

No scrub industries is officially no more. This year's list will complete, and soaps will be sent out but then that will be that. These fall under fulfilling commitments in terms of business closure and so the no scrub soap is truly a soap from a dead brand. RIP No scrub industries. You wont be missed.

I hope someone wants to curate next year's list though.

TL;DR 1: as Biggie once said: no scrubbing no problems.

wicked_edge appreciation

Let's face it mocking wicked edge is like shooting fish in a barrel. It's easy and simple because there's nothing worse than someone with a little knowledge. We’re superior yadda yadda yadda. But a lot of us went there and then found our way here because its not a bad intro place its just not a community in the same way wetshaving is.

I stopped subbing there a year or so ago so my only knowledge is from the vocal mod on discord, who seems to have sorted out a sub exclusive (or not I can't tell), the fact that something about that sub led to the ‘drama’ (yawn) earlier in the year and that two people who I know as valued members here are also mods (which I didn't know until recently). I went and looked yesterday and it's basically still the same place, except for u/mrtangerinesky who was trying to troll (badly). So yeah it's not as good as here but nowhere is, and it keeps feeding us new members so why don't we good naturedly humour them instead of mocking them

TL;DR 2, as Bill withers once said: just to two of us, wetshaving in the sky

Lather physics

But this is the lather games, and nothing gets judge points so much as SPITE shaves. And today my SPITE is reserved for BIG SOAP representative, WOKE humanitarian, and SCIENCE believer u/mammothben - who single handedly ruined the greatest single advancement in lather theory and opened the door to the heretical GUTL

SHAME ON YOU BEN, SHAME ON YOU.

The OG poster (whose post I can’t find), may have gone down a blind alley with his special bowl that built super physics defying dense lather because you know his application of the principle was nutty. But the idea behind it is sound: If you can remove excess air you can get a thicker, and hypothetically denser, slicker, better lather.

This is the point where a true lather games champion, or at least pretender to the throne would go all science and hypothesise and synthesise and eulogise. But I’m not a science believer, I’m all about the vibes. A bowl didn't work because it physically can't compress the lather in the way originally suggested, but there are tools and equipment that can do that, and fortunately the little syringe thing that comes with the kid’s calpol would do that. It looks like this. Big amount of lather goes in the top, plunger goes down and air goes squish

So I lathered up and then added some soap into the syringe and squeezed it onto my face. Did it take longer than Ben’s plate lathering? Yes. Was the lather objectively better than Ben’s plate lather? Yes. Was the lather subjectively better than Ben’s plate lather? Yes. Did it take less time than GUTL? Yes. Was the effort more rewarding than GUTL? Yes Was the lather objectively better than that created by GUTL? Yes. Was the future of wetshaving set back 3 years by small minded u/mammothben and his wetshaving enablers who brigaded a wicked_edge post? Yes.

SHAME ON YOU BEN, SHAME ON YOU.

Tl:dr 3:as velocepdic once said: I give this post a score of pridetwo out of cowzilla3

Edit: fuck knows what happened to original pics so here's a quick retake of the money shot.

#[Lather Games day 18 - tl;dr: I'm out, be nice, or not ](https://imgur.com/a/8houNDm)
* Brush: yaqi rainbow synthetic
* Brush: gillette standard 19mm boar
* Razor: st Leger
* Lather: no scrub X red house farm - no scrub shaving soap.

Long one incoming so it's split into three parts so each has its own TL:Dr

##cease of trading announcement

So I've been around the sub for nigh on 6 years and in that time I've gone from lurker, to shit poster, to artisan soap, razor and brush maker. I've also taken on the honour of curating the lather games ~~shit list~~ no scrubs list. Not that anyone asked me to do that last one.

But there comes a time in every artisan's life when they decide that though they got into it the love they had is dead, the margins are tough and the competition is tougher.

1. Who wants a no scrub brush when you can go to dogwood or aurora?,
2. Who needs my custom razor when you can just get a wolfman or a Karve or even go on eBay and pick up a 1912?
3. Why get the no scrub soap when you can go to red house farm directly?

I mean who even needs the ~~shit list~~ no scrub list?

Ok so that last one has an answer and the year without a list was the reason I started back up last year, so I do believe a list is needed. But it's not going to be me next year

No scrub industries is officially no more. This year's list will complete, and soaps will be sent out but then that will be that. These fall under fulfilling commitments in terms of business closure and so the no scrub soap is truly a soap from a dead brand. RIP No scrub industries. You wont be missed.

I hope someone wants to curate next year's list though.

**TL;DR 1: as Biggie once said: no scrubbing no problems.**

##wicked_edge appreciation

Let's face it mocking wicked edge is like shooting fish in a barrel. It's easy and simple because there's nothing worse than someone with a little knowledge. We’re superior yadda yadda yadda. But a lot of us went there and then found our way here because its not a bad intro place its just not a community in the same way wetshaving is.

I stopped subbing there a year or so ago so my only knowledge is from the vocal mod on discord, who seems to have sorted out a sub exclusive (or not I can't tell), the fact that something about that sub led to the ‘drama’ (yawn) earlier in the year and that two people who I know as valued members here are also mods (which I didn't know until recently). I went and looked yesterday and it's basically still the same place, except for u/mrtangerinesky [who was trying to troll (badly)](https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked_edge/comments/1diejvk/need_guidance_for_wetshaving/).
So yeah it's not as good as here but nowhere is, and it keeps feeding us new members so why don't we good naturedly humour them instead of mocking them

**TL;DR 2, as Bill withers once said: just to two of us, wetshaving in the sky**


##Lather physics

But this is the lather games, and nothing gets judge points so much as SPITE shaves. And today my SPITE is reserved for BIG SOAP representative, WOKE humanitarian, and SCIENCE believer u/mammothben - who [single handedly ruined the greatest single advancement in lather theory and opened the door to the heretical GUTL](https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked_edge/comments/llmidz/demonstration_a_beautiful_lather_in_just_2_minutes/)

SHAME ON YOU BEN, SHAME ON YOU.

The OG poster (whose post I can’t find), may have gone down a blind alley with his special bowl that built super physics defying dense lather because you know his application of the principle was nutty. But the idea behind it is sound: If you can remove excess air you can get a thicker, and hypothetically denser, slicker, better lather.

This is the point where a true lather games champion, or at least pretender to the throne would go all science and hypothesise and synthesise and eulogise. But I’m not a science believer, I’m all about the vibes. A bowl didn't work because it physically can't compress the lather in the way originally suggested, but there are tools and equipment that can do that, and fortunately the little syringe thing that comes with the kid’s calpol would do that. [It looks like this](https://images.app.goo.gl/KF7Cos1MrXNm8u8c6). Big amount of lather goes in the top, plunger goes down and air goes squish

So I lathered up and then added some soap into the syringe and squeezed it onto my face. Did it take longer than Ben’s plate lathering? Yes. Was the lather objectively better than Ben’s plate lather? Yes. Was the lather subjectively better than Ben’s plate lather? Yes. Did it take less time than GUTL? Yes. Was the effort more rewarding than GUTL? Yes Was the lather objectively better than that created by GUTL? Yes. Was the future of wetshaving set back 3 years by small minded u/mammothben and his wetshaving enablers who brigaded a wicked_edge post? Yes.

SHAME ON YOU BEN, SHAME ON YOU.


**Tl:dr 3:as velocepdic once said: I give this post a score of pridetwo out of cowzilla3**

Edit: fuck knows what happened to original pics so here's a quick retake of the money shot.