What soap/cream did you use today?

MEISSNER TREMONIA - DARK LIMES - SHAVING CREAM

How do you like it?  I had it awhile back and found the scent to be overwhelming.  It gave me a slight headache every time i took a sniff.  The scent was really nice but just too strong for me.

Sounds like the exact reason I ought to get a jar

Just to be clear, the overwhelming part for me wasn't the scent strength of the soap.  There was just something in it that would give me a headache.  I've had the same thing happen with one other soap (Arko).  If you are looking for a dark scent that is a 9+ on the scent strength scale, I would suggest MT Black Beer No 1.  It may be dark but it is a well-blended scent that, after a few sniffs, you really start picking out the scent profile and can appreciate it even more.

Another lightning-quick shave this morning.  Ten swirls on a dry puck with a damp synthetic and about 90 seconds of face-painting...

I don’t know what the timeline is for a vintage soap.  For an auto, general consensus is 20 years.  Clothing is considered vintage from 20 to 100 years.  (Some of my Pendleton Jackets ar thus well into vintage).  Milk?  I suppose vintage milk would have been new last Wednesday?  But soap?  I’d have never thought this AOS Sandalwood tallow from Valobra would ever be discontinued, let alone vintage.   But here I am, swirling an amazing brush atop a tin that used to contain 2 pucks but is down to about one now, on a soap that hasn’t been sold in ages.  It’s still smelling fantastic and it hasn’t lost a step in performance.  Valobra is gone.  Tallow soaps don’t enjoy the elite status they had a decade ago.  And although AOS still offers a veg puck in Sandalwood, (very nice by the way), they no longer offer tallow.  With all the new offerings, this one still pleases me. 

Another lightning-quick shave this morning.  Ten swirls on a dry puck with a damp synthetic and about 90 seconds of face-painting...

What’s got you so busy these days?

Razorock XX

8/19/42

I don’t know what the timeline is for a vintage soap.  For an auto, general consensus is 20 years.  Clothing is considered vintage from 20 to 100 years.  (Some of my Pendleton Jackets ar thus well into vintage).  Milk?  I suppose vintage milk would have been new last Wednesday?  But soap?  I’d have never thought this AOS Sandalwood tallow from Valobra would ever be discontinued, let alone vintage.   But here I am, swirling an amazing brush atop a tin that used to contain 2 pucks but is down to about one now, on a soap that hasn’t been sold in ages.  It’s still smelling fantastic and it hasn’t lost a step in performance.  Valobra is gone.  Tallow soaps don’t enjoy the elite status they had a decade ago.  And although AOS still offers a veg puck in Sandalwood, (very nice by the way), they no longer offer tallow.  With all the new offerings, this one still pleases me. 

Nice visual contrast in support of text

GD Coattail Redux

Ariana and Evans - Which One's Pink? (Kaizen)