What soap/cream did you use today?

Stirling Barbershop

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Yep- good choice Sasco

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Mystic Waters is a conundrum to me.  I like the performance a lot but the soaps have a floral note that is just not masculine but if you have 8 billion other soaps amd can buy a tub and leave it alone for a year the floral climbs in the Buick and goes to the church to play bingo and leaves you alone.  This tub of Oakmoss and Vetiver has been aging for over a year and POW it’s here and great.  

I have this one and don't pickup any floral notes, I think mine is before she reformulated her soap though.

Yesterday's shave.  There wasn't much of the Scheermonick left so I need to start testing out new travel soaps.  Definitely like the container size, scent and performance on this one.  My only hesitation to keeping as my travel soap is that it is a tallow soap.  I really prefer to have non-tallow in the dopp kit so that I don't have to pack witch hazel as well.

Curious on your thoughts on needing witch hazel with tallow soaps but not non tallow ? Thanks

If I don't use witch hazel after using a tallow soap, there is an increased chance of developing acne/whiteheads.  It generally happens after several uses of a tallow soap without applying WH.  If it's only a few consecutive "tallow" shaves, there's generally no issue.  But when I shave consistently with non-tallow soaps and don't apply WH, i have never had an issue with acne.

That's interesting. I'd send you some No. 13 to test the variables.

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Eucris Cream (Geo. F. Trumper) oakmoss cologne
Shave 7

Today I used Ethos First Lather to see if it made any noticeable difference in the shave. It didn’t. Eucris cream is already pretty slick all on its own, and there’s no trouble building a lather with it, even though it’s dried up and as hard as beach pebble. So I’ll save the First Shave for lathering the Eucris hard puck that’s winging its way across the ocean to me. That soap is nearly impossible to lather, but I’m hoping a combo of the First Shave and the Plisson pour L’Occitane brush will conjure up something useful. I finished off today's scraping with a spritz of Penhaligon's Sartorial. The moss in that perfume plays pretty with the base notes in Eucris.
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Brush Plisson Antique (8) ・ Razor Blackland Vector Ti (111) ・ Blade Feather Soft Guard (3)

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