Saturday SOTD Thread, June 28th, 2025 (#746) (sub.wetshaving.social)

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It's Alive!: Day 28 of Lather Games

Brush: Declaration Grooming Washington Blood of Kings B3
Razor: Thiers Issard Le Dandy (5/8", square point, carbon steel)
Lather: Dr Djudjenstein's – Nocce di Super Coco
Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Wild Ride

Theme justification: I smashed together Vitos' Super Extra Coco with Wholly Kaw's Nocce di Cocco. Vitos soap is an old-school hard soap, so hard that it crumbles to dust instead of deforming, which makes it super hard to sample. WK's soft base to the rescue! If you mash Vitos dust with a smush of WK's, the concoction becomes malleable again and sticks to the bottom of the loading bowl.

Unsurprisingly combining these two solid soap bases provided for a very slick shave. After this wild ride, I finished off with, well...

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