Thursday SOTD Thread - September 5th, 2024 (#452)
Share your shave of the day!
Share your shave of the day!
September 5, 2024
Brush: Zenith B40 28mm Boar
Razor: ERN 7/8 Full Hollow Round Point
Lather: Abbate Y La Mantia - Don Josè - Soap
Toner: Thayers - Lavender - Toner
Aftershave: Ariana & Evans - SoCal Hipster - Aftershave
2 passes. Bowl lather. Good shave.
Great theme today! AYLM (made in Italy) is certainly among the soaps that are made furthest from where I live. I would have used The Great Bear by Murphy & McNeil, but that tub decided to stop producing lather. Too bad because Ursa Major certainly fits this theme. Both Voyagers have been going since 1977 and both have traveled well over 10 billion miles by now.
Today I made the worst lather I've had in years. I wasn't trying to do this, but it came out of the bowl like one of u/sgrdddy's slurry lathers only wetter and thinner. That I'm using a new boar brush (5 uses now) didn't help at all. It had nothing to do with the AYLM soap. It was just poor work on my part.
Nonetheless, the coticule edge on this ERN performed brilliantly. My actual shave result was excellent; very comfortable and BBS.