Wednesday SOTD Thread, June 18th, 2025 (#736)

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• snooting@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  June 18th, 2025: "Canned Shave Goop featuring a Canadian pharmacy’s intercom music playlist"

  • Brush: snoo-ting - Hands $ALLNATURAL
  • Razor: EldrormR Industries - MM24 $MODERNGEM
  • Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (8)
  • Lather: Walgreens - “Sandalwood” - Cream
  • Post Shave: Proctor & Gamble - Old Spice - Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial Unscented - Balm
  • Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz - 4711 Echt Kölnisch Wasser - EdC

  $discord

  Theme: This shave cream and aftershave are both sold in a pharmacy local to me.

  Challenge: Absolutely no energy for this today. Work has been way too much this week.

  $FOF - Old Spice into 4711 is a really nice progression. The carnation, lemon, and jasmine from the splash blend nicely with the citrus in 4711. My only gripe is that I wish the scent of 4711 lasted longer. I swear it’s pretty much completely gone after 15-20 minutes.

  My $SELFCARE today was just getting a shave in. I am so exhausted, but at least tomorrow is a half day then we’re spending the weekend at a rental cabin with some high school friends. I’m very much looking forward to that.

  $ROTY

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• walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  June 18th, 2025: Barbasol

  • Brush: L’Occitane Plisson Synthetic
  • Razor: Captured Ring Woodwork 34C Clone - Mahogany Handle
  • Blade: Personna P74 (88)
  • Lather: Barbasol - Foam
  • Post Shave: Barbasol - Brisk - Aftershave

  An evening luxury shave now that I’m home and have access to my precious can of Barbasol. I thought I had the purple kind, but all I could find was a normal can.

  Did it work? Sure. Was it good? I added water which does help this stuff, but it was lacking in pretty much every department.

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• gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  June 18, 2025

  • Brush: None
  • Razor: Geneva Cutlery Co. 6/8" Hollow Ground Round Point
  • Lather: Cremo - Palo Santo - Cream
  • Post Shave: Combe Inc. - Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue - Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Thayers - Cucumber - Toner

  2 passes. Face lather. Average shave.

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  I purchased this tube of Cremo 3 years ago for the first Lather Games in which I participated. I only every use it for LG. The substance is slimy, and very slick. It works, but that is all I can say for it. The best method for application is to build a lather on the face with your hands. The shave was close, just not that enjoyable.

  Aqua Velva is great, as always.

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• enndeegee@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  June 18th, 2025: sample kill 3

  • Brush: Zenith - red Boar
  • Razor: Ever-Ready - 1912
  • Blade: Big Ben
  • Lather: Southern Witchcrafts - Pomona - Soap

  $discord

  End of the southern Witchcrafts representative in my den RIP

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  • PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    RIP

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• walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  June 18th, 2025

  • Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
  • Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus (Atra) Cart (1)
  • Lather: Chiseled Face - Guy Noir - Soap
  • Post Shave: Old Spice - Original - Aftershave

  I forgot to pack a soap for this work trip, but that’s why I keep some samples in my Dopp kit. Guy Noir isn’t my favorite, but I do enjoy a good CFG lather.

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• BossHoggins10@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  **June 18th, 2025: Canned Shave Goop featuring a Canadian pharmacy’s intercom music playlist

  • Brush: Chisel & Hound - Cherry w/ v25 Fanchurian Badger
  • Razor: Merkur - 34C
  • Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
  • Lather: Barbasol - Extra Moisturizing Shaving Cream
  • Post Shave: Catie’s Bubbles - Tonsorial Parlour - Aftershave
  • Fragrance: Catie’s Bubbles - Crangère - EdP

  Daily Theme Justification: Barbasol is canned goop.

  Daily Theme: Well well well… canned goop day. Goop maybe the catalyst why we have fallen into this hobby type of shaving. It is cheap, accessible, and gets the job done, sort of. You can certainly shave with this stuff, but a brush and soap will always be better. How about using a brush with goop? Nope. I did that today and it still sucked. While this Extra Moisturizing formula of Barbasol is better than Original, it still leaves room to be improved. The slickness is just not there and can prove a chore to add just the perfect amount of water to get it just right. Lack of slickness brings about unnecessary tugging and dragging, keeping the razor and blade from doing its job. I would consider using this on vacation, but there are just too many wet shaving travel options out there that are much better.

  Daily Challenge: ¡ʞɔɐʇs sᴉɥʇ ɹoɟ slǝqɐl ǝɥʇ ʇɐ ǝsolɔ ʞool oʇ ǝɹns ǝʞɐW ¡ƃuᴉʞɔɐʇs ʎddɐH ˙ʞɔɐq ʎɯ uᴉ uᴉɐɹʇs ǝlɔsnɯ ɐ ɥʇᴉʍ dǝǝlsɐ ɟlɐɥ ƃuᴉǝq ǝlᴉɥʍ op plnoɔ I ʇsǝq ǝɥʇ sᴉ sᴉɥ┴

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• djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  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.

  Stacking!

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  • DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sadly both sticks aren’t readily available anymore in smaller drugstores like they used to be…

      The palmolive one is even out of production :(

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