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  • waldenMA
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    1 month ago

    May 18, 2024

    • Brush: Maggard 24mm Tuxedo Synthetic
    • Razor: Merkur Futur
    • Blade: Astra Superior Platinum (1)
    • Lather: Central Texas Soaps - Cherry Pipe - Soap
    • Post Shave: Brut - Splash On
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo - Balm

    Whipped out the Futur. With it’s early 90’s aesthetic, I just assume these are used by guys with mullets and yellow Corvette’s. It shaves really well, I’ll give it that. I cranked it up to 3.5 today.

    • djundjilaMA
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      1 month ago

      Or a yellow Opel Manta leaving a trail of Pitralon on the Rhineland Autobahn.

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      Cherry Pipe sounds interesting. Comments on the soap?

      In addition to the mullet, and yellow Corvette, you forgot the sleeveless undershirt [ I won’t use the politically incorrect name ].

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        As you may know, Central Texas Soaps is out of the shaving game. I bought them a while back because they accepted cryptocurrency and I had several hundred dollars of “profit” to blow “at the time”.

        It’s solid soap and it was cheaper than Stirling I think. Vegan, though. A bit on the voluminous side, but still creamy. On their website they advertised it as a “thirsty” soap which I appreciate hearing from an artisan.

        The scent is pretty basic and nothing to write home about. I have “Down at the River” from them also, and it’s a nice fresh scent.

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          The scent is pretty basic and nothing to write home about.

          The scent sounded interesting; a cherry pipe tobacco fragrance. Elysian Soap Shop has a scent called Cherie Tobacco that has cherries and tobacco on the label. [ However, chérie means “dear” as applied to a woman as in ma chérie ].