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  • PorkButtsNTaters666
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    1 year ago

    December 6, 2023


    After yesterday’s meh experience with Ishtar, I tried a synthetic brush, and didn’t use any preshave. I loaded abundantly, and got loads of dense lather. It’s not as slick as Southern Witchcraft’s base though, even with lots of water. Yeah, it doesn’t spark as much joy as before.

    Have a good night!

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      1 year ago

      You used to love Ishtar, no?

      Is it just the lather, or do you also dislike the scent now?

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        The scent is great, but it’s gotten very weak since I had to change the tub (there was some reaction of the tin tub with the soap). I don’t know whether the lather quality declined with the scent, but I don’t get the wow effect anymore 😞

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          1 year ago

          #sad

          Did the soap react with the original tin from AYLM?

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            Yes, in both Ishtar and Marduk - and that’s why they changed most of their soaps to hard soap, with the rest going into glass containers (which are outrageously priced)

            #sadindeed

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              Oh damn, you weren’t kidding about outrageous prices!

              RIP AYLM Thrill

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                RIP AYLM Thrill

                To be fair, they increased also the tub size (from 150 to 200ml) - but they matched the 33% increase in size with a 50% increase in price.

                As much as I want to like their Babylonian gate themed soaps (they released a new one, Urash, recently), between issues of evaporated scent, latherability and €€€, it’s become hard to be a AYLM fanboy

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                  To be fair, they increased also the tub size (from 150 to 200ml) - but they matched the 33% increase in size with a 50% increase in price.

                  Isn’t it more like a 100% increase? I have some memory of passing less than €30 for a tin a year or so so.

                  it’s become hard to be a AYLM fanboy

                  💯

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                    Isn’t it more like a 100% increase? I have some memory of passing less than €30 for a tin a year or so so.

                    That depends on the soap - Marduk & Ishtar were always more expensive, but not on that level (I believe I paid 35 for Ishtar and 38 for Marduk in the glorious days before inflation)

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              Thanks, I had no idea and this is good to know. I’m lucky then that my Don Josè is still fine. Maybe I should play it safe and switch to bowl lathering it to avoid feeding the reaction with moisture.

              The hard soap is actually quite nice, I enjoy the Verbena Toscana one a lot.

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                I only bowl lathered, and still got the reaction (I thought it was stronger with Marduk, but maybe only because it is white, and it is more visible.

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                  1 year ago

                  It’s probably the clay reacting with the aluminium. The older soaps don’t have clay iirc, so they wouldn’t have that issue.

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                    For Ishtar,. maybe, but there doesn’t seem to be clay in Marduk. And if it was an issue with clay, O don’t know why they would have changed most of their soaps to a hard soap recipe.