What soap/cream did you use today?

Mystic Water - Tea Tree & Blue Gum

Love that brush handle.

Went with Boelis Panama shaving soap. Started with damp brush and got good suds while loading and spreading on the face so decided to go for so called ‘ultra lather’ and did not add any water. It was so slick and shave was so comfortable, I could go very aggressive and still very comfortable. It was one of the best shave I had gotten recently. I have seriously started doubting if adding water really adds any more slickness. Of course, YMMV!

Egyptian Dragon t. (Mystic Water) resin, rose, amber, patchouli

Unused and unloved for over a year, this speck of Egyptian Dragon had slipped to the very bottom of my samples box. I had to shovel down through layer after layer of stale soap before I found its little flattened envelope crammed in a dusty corner. Scooping up all that remained, I smeared it thick in my lather bowl, and then took after it with a stout solar brush. It rewarded me with mellow sandy scents, resins and angels’ breath and ambrosia folded into Turkish delight and left to melt in the hot Saharan sun. It smelled of joy and forgiveness and soft summer wind, or an annunciation painted into the crumbling stone of a hallowed wall. And the lather? It wasn’t like any I normally know. No, it was softer than a child’s tender smile and slicker than seaweed on a spongy reef. This soap has charisma that goes beyond appeal. It borders on reckless allure, and it’s good now it’s gone, having mercifully left me just one small grain of clouded reason.

Proraso Green Menthol Shave Cream

Yesterday afternoons shave.

Clayton

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Egyptian Dragon t. (Mystic Water) resin, rose, amber, patchouli

mellow sandy scents, resins and angels’ breath and ambrosia folded into Turkish delight and left to melt in the hot Saharan sun. It smelled of joy and forgiveness and soft summer wind, or an annunciation painted into the crumbling stone of a hallowed wall. And the lather? It wasn’t like any I normally know. No, it was softer than a child’s tender smile and slicker than seaweed on a spongy reef. This soap has charisma that goes beyond appeal. It borders on reckless allure, and it’s good now it’s gone, having mercifully left me just one small grain of clouded reason.

Well, it's official. I'm going to bust out a guitar and write music to this report. Haha. Rare form Bouki and I've never had a lady fall in love over a soap review before but methinks this might do the deed.

Tallow + Steel Sicily

Now here's a quandary! I looked for some old soaps that have dust on them and found this puck of de Vergulde Hand, a workaday soap from the Netherlands. Well, I just had a crummy shave like I haven't had for years. Had to break out the styptic pencil and tell it how things worked. hey, with a alum block and some raw Shea butter I'm up and running now but wow, it looks like I'll pass on tomorrow mornings shave. What was the issue? I've used the soap many times before and although it's not I'm the realm of top fire aoaps, it's workable. Scent is awesome. Slickness is just fine, I think the issue was a week-old blade. I picked up from Nero some Gillette Platinum and this is the first blade I've used. The blade is a week old and still felt sharp. Guessing it's past its prime though and nicked me up a bit. So I still think the soap is fine, my technique is fine, just change the blade and it'll be good.

My gut reaction would be the blade, too. However, logic says it's probably a compound situation...

You used a blade with wear...

You went to a soap you haven't used in a long while...

and that soap didn't have the protection you have gotten accustomed to...

Perhaps just the perfect storm sort of situation?

Egyptian Dragon t. (Mystic Water) resin, rose, amber, patchouli

mellow sandy scents, resins and angels’ breath and ambrosia folded into Turkish delight and left to melt in the hot Saharan sun. It smelled of joy and forgiveness and soft summer wind, or an annunciation painted into the crumbling stone of a hallowed wall. And the lather? It wasn’t like any I normally know. No, it was softer than a child’s tender smile and slicker than seaweed on a spongy reef. This soap has charisma that goes beyond appeal. It borders on reckless allure, and it’s good now it’s gone, having mercifully left me just one small grain of clouded reason.

Well, it's official. I'm going to bust out a guitar and write music to this report. Haha. Rare form Bouki and I've never had a lady fall in love over a soap review before but methinks this might do the deed.

Couldn't have said it better. His reviews really are pieces of art.

Chiseled Face / Summer Storm

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