(07-23-2023, 01:54 AM)Bouki Wrote: Solid Shaving Soap (Cyril R. Salter) lavender & rosemary
Shave 1 ・ 75 g left
This is a fine soap. There’s nothing wrong with it. It lathered well and gave me a good shave. Smelled pretty good, too, in a mild, clean, unobtrusive fashion. My only grouse is that it’s just not remarkable in any way … well, in any good way. What I mean is, the only thing that’s unusual about it is the size. This is a teeny tiny puck, measuring about 2¾ inches at its widest. And it doesn’t come in a tub. You have to supply your own. I shuffled through all my empties, but I couldn’t find anything small enough to accommodate it. So I went up to the kitchen and nipped a little dipping bowl we picked up at Jugtown Pottery, Moore County, North Carolina, twenty years ago. Soap slipped right in, but I have to use the diminutive Simpsons Trafalgar T1 to get at it. Anything larger swallows up the puck whole.
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Brush Simpson Trafalgar T1 ・ Razor Karve Aluminum Christopher Bradley SB-B, 3" blue pommel handle ・ Blade Wizamet ・ Hoard 191 soaps ・ 315 consecutive shaves
Another tactic would be to grate the puck and pack in into a larger tub. It would make it so much easier to load, and not dictate the size of brush. I've read on the forums where lots of guys do this with smaller tubs of soap (or ones that don't arrive in a tub, like yours), for this exact reason.
Bouki,
Nero,
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