What soap/cream did you use today?

Eufros Tobacco shaving soap (tallow), my favorite tobacco soap

Sweetwood [tallow, Van der Lovett] Nero

Puck is identical in performance and packaging to the old Fine product........ a subtle sweet Sandalwood. ETHOS Mysore classed up the bathroom.

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Glad you're liking the soap!
And agree the Ethos Mysore EDT is special stuff. I received that last week.

...It turned into an absolutely superb lather after about 10 minutes of face-lathering...

That's a Helluva lotta time face lathering. Surprised no brush burn. Perhaps next time with more initial water it will lather quicker, let's hope.   

At night, that moment you turn the lights out, and for about 10 to 15 seconds, if you keep your eyes open, it’s dark but you can now see shapes moving? These are the things people fear the most. Alone, in a cabin, in the deep woods; stare out the window into those trees for as long as you can. I promise you, the images will come to you of what’s out there....

Regarding Nik Kieje’s JG ... anything Japanese Folklore gets my immediate attention. Japanese Grotesqueries will be 50 years old next year! That book was done in 1973. It will always be a relevant book. The sketches of ghosts and demons are ... just wow!

The dust cover on mine is getting a little tattered ... how’s your copy? 

ExtraProtein, last night around 2:30 a.m. I came across your post. Creeped me out. Thought I ought to give it a try, so I turned off my desk light, lowered the lid of my laptop, and looked around the darkened room. Your eyes really do weird things as they adjust to the absence of light. Everywhere I looked I could see cat's eyes glaring back at me and dark forms floating around the walls. Chilled my spine!

Japanese Grotesqueries ... what a great book. I always borrow it from the library, so it's hardbound and wrapped in mylar. Good shape still. But fifty years?! Unbelievable. I read it every couple of years and then go watch Miyazaki's Spirited Away. I like looking for traces of all the ghosts and goblins that made it into the movie.

Leviathan sample (Barrister & Mann) coffee & leather
Shave 4 ・ 13% left  |  Moby Dick, Ch. 3 “The Spouter-Inn” ・ 8% read

One of the latest trends among YouTube shavers is to mist their lather with a Flairosol spray bottle. It's showy and it produces a very fine mist that gives the lather a high histrionic gloss. Does it improve the lather? Well, yes ... and then some. I think I wrote the other day that I didn’t have a spray bottle, but I did have a bottle of rose water with a mister attached. I thought I’d give it a try again today. As you might expect, it turned Barrister & Mann’s Omnibus lather into a slithery ice rink. But what’s even better, it turned Leviathan’s bold aroma into something I can enjoy. Rose really works wonders in all sorts of men’s fragrances from Grey Flannel to Fougère Royale, filing down the sharp edges and smoothing out the wrinkles. Today I discovered it can even tone down the bitter bits in Leviathan. This little experiment just might turn into a habit.
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Razor Henson AL13 Medium ・ Blade Astra SP ・ Brush Phoenix Shaving Peregrino ・ YTD 653 g

   

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