WetShaving

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This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.

New subscribers welcome!

Please visit our wiki, which is always and forever a work in progress.

🪒 Check out these alternative front-ends for this server:

https://gem.wetshaving.social/ - a nice modern interface

https://old.wetshaving.social/ - designed to look like old.reddit.com

Our sister Mastodon instance is https://wetshaving.social/.

🪒 Track the uptime of our various services here:

https://uptime.splettnet.com/status/wetshaving

🪒 Community Rules

Rule 1 - Behaviour and Etiquette
Rule 2 - Content Guidelines
Rule 3 - Reviews and Disclosure
Rule 4 - Advertising
Rule 5 - Inappropriate Content
Rule 10 - Moderator Discretion

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🎉🎉🎉🎉 It's Friday!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

The topic of this discussion is: anything.

Anything exciting going on in your life? Things got you down? Did you try a new recipe that you'd like to share? etc.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by enndeegee to c/wetshaving
 
 

Thrill is dead and so is u/enndeegee. Atlas shaves died a long time ago. Today it returns. Ish.

Worlds Strongest Shaver lives.

Let this be understood.

Rules

  • Don’t be a knobhead. If you’ve been a knobhead you are DQd and lose all points and cannot win.

  • You track your own score this is a month of for DJ.

  • Your daily and running total must appear in your SOTD

  • Earn at least 1 non-bonus point a day or you are out.

  • Out is Out is Out

  • Last shaver standing wins, unless more than one person makes it to Feb 28th in which case points will be compared.

Points

6 points for shaving with the daily theme soap

4 points for shaving with the artisan who made the daily theme soap

3 points for shaving with the scenter who scented the daily theme soap

2 points for shaving with a soap with at least half of the same scent notes.

1 point for airbudding the day (only one air bud point is allowed per person)

Bonus Points

+1 point for cross posting to at least two of the core channels used by our community (reddit / lemmy, mastodon whatever else).

+1 for successfully identifying an error in another sub members SOTD or for spotting a rules infringement.

-All the points for the day for mistakenly calling out another sub member

+1 for having been a good member of the community the day before and engaging with others in the community (without breaking rule 1)

Daily Theme

**Lucky’s Dad’s rule apply so ignore PAA or Lothur **

The daily theme soap is the last latherbot quiz soap before midday GMT on the day before the date.

i.e. the 1st February theme will be the last quizzed soap by latherbot before 12 noon GMT on the 31st January. If that soap is by PAA or Lothur then the theme soap will be the one before that.

FAQ

Who are the Judges?

There is no judge, just a tallyman at the end. All else is based on community policing and rule 1

How do I query a rule?

You don’t. Rules are the rules. Want to push it, fine but you risk a DQ.

How do I ask questions?

Postal queries are accepted only on postcards that have a picture of a bearded dragon on and sent in to Blue Peter.

What’s a ‘knobhead’?

British slang. If you find it hard to distinguish between being funny and mean then err on the side of caution. Some examples:

P2 can be funny but he can swing wildly, miss badly and get a cob on, and Jeff’s dry humour isn’t always spotted so he can rub people the wrong way. Neither are knobheads but both can sometimes comes across as a knobheads. They should be careful. On the other hand I don’t think I’ve ever seen you-know-who be anything but a knobhead on discord, he is probably best sitting this one out or seriously thinking about why so many people on discord have him muted.

What if I want to add a prize/side contest / something else

Don’t ask permission. Just do it.

Can I cross post this?

Sure why not?

Prize

A custom Rad Dinosaur Brush.

Custom Flair for entrants and winner

Do I look like a mod?


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Prepare your smush, and choose your brush wisely!

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🎉🎉🎉🎉 It's Friday!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

The topic of this discussion is: anything.

Anything exciting going on in your life? Things got you down? Did you try a new recipe that you'd like to share? etc.

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Successful Half-Blind Mail Call (sub.wetshaving.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by djundjila to c/wetshaving
 
 

A very long awaited mail call from Black Friday finally made it to me and I was a bit worried about two of the blind buys in it. Fortunately I got lucky across the board.

The goods, from the safe buys to the risky ones:

  • A bottle of SBS Valedictorian EdP. This has been one of my favourite outdoorsy scents for a few years now, but I've never had the frag so far.
  • A bottle of uncool Shire splash. I love the scent of Shire, but the cooling agent in the previous splash always felt jarring to me. So far, all know stuff for me.
  • A set of CF Gemütlichkeit soap and splash. I love warm wintry gourmands, so I was pretty sure I'd like this one and it's delightful off the tub. I'm looking forward to trying it soon.
  • A trickhole set of CB Blugère. It felt a bit stupid to blind buy an entire trickhole set, but shipping and reshipping for alcohol over pond is super expensive and adding a frag to a shipment costs so much less that adding a shipment for the frag, so I made the gamble that I'd like it and would regret not getting the frag. I think that was the right call.
  • A set of CB DFTR soap and splash. The description for this one has had me intrigued for a while now. Boozy green fig with tobacco and woods? Sounded delightful. The scent is really interesting (in a nice way): Bright fresh green with warm tobacco.The combination reminds me of both CGC/HoM Armonía and T&S Madagascar. I'll enjoy exploring this in more detail.

It feels good when a gamble pays off 😊

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A Look Back on 2024 (self.wetshaving)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by PorkButtsNTaters666 to c/wetshaving
 
 

Thanks to the newly acquired logging capacity of sotd.el (the oldest SOTD plugin for any reasonable^TM^ editor I am aware of), I've been logging every shave this year, and I thought: why not inflict the data on you?

I shaved 231 times in 2024 (roughly every 1.5 days). The move from reddit to lemmy coincides with a switch to straights – straight razors dominated my routine in 2024 (64.5%), though I still used my DE razors (22.5%) [though mostly when not at home], and occasionally I used GEM (9.5%) or AC (3.5%). If this continues, I will never again have to buy new blades. My brush collection splits between horse (45%), boar (32%), and synthetic (22.9%).

Let's go into the details, shall we?

Razors

Razor Frequency
Thiers-Issard 188 7/8 'Coq et Renard' - Straight 40
Parker Straight Razor - Straight 29
River Razors Kamisori - Straight 22
Koraat 14.2 Straight Razor - Straight 21
Ertan Süer L'Ours Russe (7/8th) - Straight 20
King C. Gillette DE Razor - DE 14
Edwin Jagger DE89 - DE 12
Greencult GC 2.0 II - DE 12
Dovo Barbarossa Stainless - Straight 11
Mühle R41 (3-piece) - DE 9
Star 1912 Type Razor - GEM 9
GEM MMOC - GEM 9
Feather Artist Club SS Kamisori - AC 5
J.A. Henckels Friodur 72 - Straight 4
GEM Flying Wing - GEM 4
Tedalus Essence - AC 3
Karve CB Brass C Plate CC - DE 3
Soviet Straight Razor Raketa - Straight 2
Merkur 34C - DE 2

My top five razors are straights, and it appears that I have somewhere a Friodur that I've forgotten to use.

Brushes

Brush Frequency
Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎 70
Muninn Woodworks Gloire de France with Zenith 505BC Boar 🐗 36
Zenith 506U XS Horse 🐎 34
Semogue Owner's Club Boar 🐗 'Taj' 30
Chisel & Hound Blaireau de la République with 24mm G5 Synthetic 23
Yaqi 24mm Synthetic Panda 14
Semogue 610 Boar 🐗 8
Yaqi Aqua 24mm Synthetic 6
Yaqi 28mm Synthetic Rock 6
Benny's 21mm Synthetic 4

2024 was once again dominated by the Semogue C3 horse brush. Greatly recommended!

Lather

Soap Frequency
Southern Witchcraft Autumn Ash 33
Abbate y la Mantia Ishtar 18
Haslinger Schafmilch 🐑 18
Le Père Lucien Narcisse 16
Stirling Electric Sheep 🐑 14
Abbate y La Mantia Marduk 13
Haslinger Algae 13
The Goodfellas Smile Amber Fougère 12
Wholly Kaw Entropy Man 11
HAGS Megalodon 11
Zingari Man Mousse Illuminée 9
Zingari Man Bon Monsieur 9
MacDuffs Old Strathcona 8
Zingari Man The Watchman 8
Stirling Arcadia 8
Barrister & Mann Le Grand Chypre 5
Cella Aloe Vera 5
Chiseled Face Midnight Stag 5
Barrister & Mann Death 4
Barrister & Mann Plague 4
Barbury's Shaving Soap 1
Meissner Tremonia Mint Ice Menthol 1
Spearhead Spiced 1
Stirling Oro Valley 1
Abbate y La Mantia Don José 1
Barrister & Mann Famine 1
House of Mammoth You and I (Will Die) 1

Trivia

I had Claude explain the chi-squared test to me and apply it to my data. It turns out that the Blaireau de la République has become dedicated to Zingari Man soaps (a value of 100.40 with one degree of freedom, highly significant, p>>0.001).

I killed three soaps (Autumn Ash, Schafmilch and Marduk), and bought three others – which is net neutral overall (yay!). I unfortunately was less disciplined with razor purchases.

The BVWSC shaves allowed me to get to know several artisans that were unknown to me, and some impressed me highly. I did not yet jump the gun, though, and my thoughts for purchases are rather geared towards what I could possibly propose as not-so-well-known soaps for the club.

In 2025, one aim is to improve my honing skills – which yield as of yet rather unpredictable outcomes.

Thank you for attending my TED Talk!

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by PorkButtsNTaters666 to c/wetshaving
 
 

It's high time we got started again for our February meeting! Nominate your soap here!

You have until Saturday 4th January, 18:30 CET.

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