Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, June 18th, 2025 (#736)
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 2 days ago
Canned Shave Goop featuring a Canadian pharmacy’s intercom music playlist: Day 18 of Lather Games
- Brush: Chisel and Hound – Flame On with v26 Fanchurian
- Razor: Eversharp-Schick Hydro-magic (I2, NOS) #Injector
- Blade: Personna Injector Blade
- Lather: Speick – Men Active Rasierseife
- Post Shave: Pitralon - Swiss version
- Fragrance: Acqua di Parma – Blu Mediterraneo Mirto di Panarea
Theme justification: All of these products were bought in the department store less than five minutes of foot from my home.
The Speick soap is really good. It’s a vegan base that’s easy to lather and doesn’t froth a lot (which I find that commercial European soaps often do), and I enjoy the generic fresh scent of Speick products. In fact, I also used the matching deodorant today. This soap was the first shave soap that I really liked, and I used it exclusively for a while before I slipped and fell into the rabbit hole. Pitralon is a favourite of mine and it leaves the skin silky smooth like SW toners (used to 😭) do.
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 1 day ago
Funnily, the Speick Active soap used to be one of my first proper shaving soaps as well after using shaving creams almost exclusively for a time. My first was one of those Wilkinson Sword soaps in a blue container which was notoriously hard to lather. The Speick was a clear improvement, but the scent was - to me at least - something akin to toilet cleaner and those well-known “Klosteine” in my region of Germany. The cheaper red soap stick of Speick was way better IMHO, as it featured the signature herbal scent of Speick bar soaps and creams. Together with the green Palmolive soap stick, one of my favs before I got into artisan products. Sadly both sticks aren’t readily available anymore in smaller drugstores like they used to be…
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 day ago
The palmolive one is even out of production :(
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 1 day ago
That’s really unfortunate. Together with their sensitive shaving cream, it was the favourite of my grandfather. That scent, together with Tüff and Hattric aftershaves, was a real trip down memory lane for me.