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Mar 14, 2024 - Awakening
- Brush: Trotter Handcrafts Daliesque 26mm Manchurian T1 Knot
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24 #MMarch24
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE [14]
- Lather: H.A.G.S. - The Awakening - Soap (Vegan) (OSIRIS)
- Post Shave: H.A.G.S. - The Awakening - Aftershave (Alcohol Free)
Excellent shave with a new Trotter brush! Love this dupe of Tom Ford’s Bitter Peach.
Rating: 4/5
Amazing brush!! And I love the precision of the arrangement in that photo!
Thank you. You may be giving me more credit than I deserve for this photo, but I’ll take it anyway. 😗
Classics, but with a (nose) wrinkle
- Brush: Rubberset 400-3 with a 26 mm unbleached Zenith boar knot at 56 mm loft
- Razor: Wade & Butcher Celebrated Fine India Steel Razor -13/16 near wedge with barber’s notch
- Lather: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
- Aftershave: Pitralon Swiss version
- Fragrance: Echt Kölnisch Wasser N° 4711
A particularly old-school shave today with only classics.
Mostly a great shave, but unfortunately, the unbleached Zenith is redeveloping his boar funk, in a massive, Texas Pig Stink Massacre-evoking, porta-pottyesque way. I had concluded a few days ago that something most be alive in it, and that I should attempt to kill it.
A little bit of googling and scrolling past the “hand lather a few times and it’ll be fine” comments showed that a typical approach is to… bleach it with oxiclean. Now supposedly it’s colour safe, but I still wasn’t about to bleach my unbleached knot before having exhausted other remedies. So I soaked it in alcohol-based hand disinfectant (i.e., 70% rubbing alcohol, 30% water) for two days, rinsed it, did a long and thorough hand lather yesterday and let it dry overnight. This morning, I was rather optimistic sniffing the result. However, the second water touched that brush was like opening a cesspool hatch.
So now I’m back to square one, considering bleaching that knot with oxiclean. I’m very much open to other suggestions.
Other than that, great shave as mentioned. This firm boar knot is perfect for making The Fat lather without excessive foam, the Fine India Steel W&B is one of my treasured possessions and never fails to feel great, and Pitralon and 4711 are always pleasant (albeit short lived).
I have very little patience with stinkiness. Bon chance!
Fine India Steel++;
merci!
That sounds unpleasant
And smells worse 😅
I’m very much open to other suggestions
I’ve successfully used baking soda dissolved in water to eliminate the smell in stinking t-shirts - and which I thought I would have to throw away.
I also used boric acid powder years ago to make a shoe deodorizer that worked rather well - but this isn’t available in France anymore.
That being said, these might ruin your knot - but hey, at least it’s not bleaching 😎
Huh. I think baking soda is a bleach, ackchually,
I should be brushing up (hihi) on my undergrad chemistry classes, but I’m starting to think that the main risk of baking soda and sodium percarbonate (oxiclean ond other brand names) isn’t to the knot but to the aluminium handle. Luckily the knot is hot-glued, so I should be able to extract it, play breaking bad with it, and reset it.
My plan, a ratchet of destinkification as it were, goes as follows:
- Dish soap followed by full dry and rewet cycle (low confidence in any effect)
- Extraction of the knot
- Baking soda, a.k.a. bleach(?) light, followed by full dry and rewet cycle (low to moderate perceived risk to knot)
- Sodium percabonate, followed by full dry and rewet cycle (moderate perceived risk to knot)
Huh. I think baking soda is a bleach, ackchually, I should be brushing up (hihi) on my undergrad chemistry
You had undergrad chemistry, so I’ll take your word over mine 😁
In my lay man’s mind, bleach was something that removes.color, and I don’t believe that this happened to my clothes when treated with baking soda.
Good luck with your destinkification!
Thanks! I’m really hoping it’ll work, this brush was one of my best boars pre restankening
March 14, 2024
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Brush: Chisel & Hound Classic 26mm V23 Fanchurian
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Lather: Faena - Taurus - Soap
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Toner: Thayers - Rose - Toner
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Aftershave: Combe Inc. - Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue - Aftershave
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
I almost forgot to post this shave, but it was a very nice one. I enjoy this Faena soap base.
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March 14, 2024
- Brush: Stirling 24mm Synthetic
- Blade: Cien Men 2-Blade Cart (2)
- Lather: House of Mammoth - Santa Noir - Soap
- Post Shave: Aqua Velva - Ice Blue - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral
Gonna use this soap again tomorrow
