Share your Shave of the Day for Monday!
June 2, 2025
- Brush: Wild West Brushworks Blue Space 26mm Cashmere
- Razor: River Razors 6/8 3/4 Hollow
- Lather: Hendrix Classics & Co - Badass - Soap
- Post Shave: Unilever - Brut - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Thayers - Cucumber - Toner
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
I have not used any product by Hendrix Classics & Co before. I found this soap sample in my box o’ samples while wondering if I would need to skip today’s challenge.
IMO, Badass is not. Here’s how HC&C describes it:
Badass is an awesome, masculine scent. Citrus notes provide an excellent contrast to the depth of oakmoss and white cedarwood.
That’s the scent description that I could find. I found the scent strength to be mild and definitely masculine, in that, I’m a man and could smell no scent other than my own. Since I shaved after I took a shower, the lather smelled like me after a shower. From the sample jar, I could pick up hints of the oakmoss with the tiniest bit of citrus, but only because the description says it is there. I found the lather to be nice; a little more high volume that I prefer for straight razor shaving, but definitely a workable lather.
So Badass is a pass for me.
I have used every razor on the challenge list for today and I have shaved with a couple of knives in the past also. So, the best I can offer in the “New All Things” category is, admittedly, pretty lame. I have been trying to find an edge that works well with this razor’s particular geometry. Saturday, I put a coticule/Black Arkansas edge on it and used that yesterday. Last night I took the razor back to the Black Arkansas stone to add more refinement on that stone; essentially creating an edge texture that is more Arkansas and less Belgium.
So, it is a razor edge that I have never used before. Yeah, I know, tenuous at best, but more importantly (for me), I think I have found a great match in comfort and keenness for this razor. Today’s shave was closer than yesterday’s and as comfortable as yesterday’s.
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djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 18 hours ago
I Want To Be The Very Zest: Day 5 of Lather Games
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Theme justification: Black Pepper Lime is very lime forward. With grapefruit (Firefighter) and orange (Arancia di Capri) playing the main roles in the post and frag, the orange brush, and the orange razor, this entire shave is coloured like or smells like citrus.
It felt really good to have a normal shave, no new-to-me contraption, no leftorium, no lather shenans, just a straight-up good shave.
Today’s challenge suggestion: There be dragons
I’ll start. Natural stones. People swear by them, and they are pricey. Could they possibly be worth the investment in time and money? I don’t know, but I’m super curious. I have a solid progression of synthetic stones with grits ranging from 1k to 12k, and I get great-feeling edges from them, so I should be a happy camper, right? But then I keep following the discussions on the #straights channel on discord where experienced straight razor users and honemeisters swear that synthetic edges are harsher, that they get less splash feedback after shaving with a jnat edge, etc. You get the picture, I’m a victim of FOMO. I haven’t made the jump yet because frankly, the sheer number of options, the lingo, and the cost in the natural stone space scare me off, especially since I don’t even know whether I’m missing out on anything.
What’s my solution? Well, a couple months ago, Böker had a huge discount on the Böker Abalone razor where you could order one for about CHF 100. I have one of those and it’s one of my favourite razors. I contacted u/Whosgotthepudding and hatched a plan. I will send him two Böker Abalones, two completely identical razors, save for a mark on the tail, and he’ll put a jnat edge on one, and a synth edge on the other. I won’t know which is which, but he will. I’ll get to find out whether I can feel and/or appreciate the difference in how they feel, and might very possibly be forced to explore one more side tunnel of the rabbit hole. It’s a real test for my patience, because Böker is running late one month and counting with my order.