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Share your SOTD for Monday!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey look gang I shaved again.

Come up towards the most recent purchases in the shave den tour, and hitting another sub exclusive soap AG1889.

Amazing base and decent scent.

Rankings worst to favourite:

Burns

  1. panta rei gattopardo
  2. caties bubbles le marche du rasage

Basic bitches

  1. bodyshop maca root and aloe
  2. signature capra
  3. mitchells woolfat
  4. elysium pineapple ambrosia

Gud

  1. wickham gothic revival
  2. grooming dept mallard corretto
  3. wickham ninfeo di egeria
  4. Stirling varen
  5. signature brittania
  6. Chicago ag1889
  7. Mammoth smash

Would be happy as my only soap

  1. MdC fougere
  2. chiseled face Santa Paula

Desert island soap

  1. barrister and mann sandalwood
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Apr 21, 2025 - 🦣 Mammoth Monday: Voices 🦣

  • Brush: Highlander Brushes Jade 26mm Cashmere Synthentic Knot
  • Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Ti
  • Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless (Green) [9]
  • Lather: House of Mammoth - Voices - Soap
  • Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Voices - Splash
  • Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Voices - Eau de Parfum
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
  • Brush: Semogue 820
  • Razor: GreenCult 2.0 III
  • Blade: Bic Astor Stainless
  • Lather: D. R. Harris - Arlington shave soap
  • Post Shave: Denim Original splash, Dr. K. Lemon & Lime aftershave balm
  • Fragrance: Hermes - H24 EdP

Denim and H24 really work well together. Quick shave and off to my aunt's for a belated Easter lunch

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

04/21/2025

  • Brush: Wolf Whiskers "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic

  • Razor: Union Razor Cutlery 5/8 Full Hollow (2)

  • Lather: Australian Private Reserve - Raconteur - Soap

  • Post Shave: Australian Private Reserve - Raconteur - Aftershave

  • Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream

The above SOTD was formatted by a new project that has consumed me for way too long the past couple of days... I saw something online about something called "Baserow", and it sent me down this path. It's a neat piece of kit that combines a database and a simple front end. So, I put my shaving items into the database, and created a dropdown picker that gets formatted into the standard format.

It's complex and was frustrating to set up, and I have work to do to make it more mainstream (like adding a field for a SOTD picture, blade uses, etc.), but it's at a good stopping point for today.

In the future I'd like to refine it and look into how to make this a template that other people can use. Right now you could go to baserow.io, open a free account, and get to work making your own, but I'm telling you... it's a process. If I can figure out how to make a template that people could import, it might catch on. ShavingInCT maintains https://wetshavingdatabase.com/ and he mentioned that maintaining the SOTD function is a bit of a burden. This has potential, and has some benefits over the WSDB.

Behind the scenes it presents itself as a spreadsheet, but also has database type filtering, sorting, etc. For example, I like to keep track of all soaps that have come and gone (even smushes), but once they're gone I can mark them as "killed" or "sold", etc. Only things that I still have (which are marked as "In Den", get shown in the dropdown menu.

This link might work, but no guarantees if you want to check it out. This only gives you access to the SOTD picker, not the database and all that stuff (which is behind a login). https://sotd.selfhost.ing/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Congratulations! It's not exactly an editor plugin, but it's a start 🤣🤣🤣

@[email protected] – where's your project for computer-assisted SOTD creation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's, uhmm, BETTER! than a plugin.

I can access it from anywhere in the world which is good since I travel for work.

I just cobbled together auto-increasing blade count on a per-blade basis, so...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it counts if you can frame a browser as an internet editor.

Q.E.D. @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ShaveDjPT.wetshaving.social is in the works, check back in 1 to 5 years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

!remindme 5 years

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

April 21, 2025

  • Brush: AP Shave Co Pure Bliss
  • Razor: Merkur 34C
  • Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
  • Lather Fanzine Saponifications - Testing… Testing…
  • Post Shave: Zingari Man - The Watchman

Hoping to finish this Fanzine sample this week. Happy Monday, hope everybody has a good week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a REDACTED smush from Fanzine that I’m gonna use after this puck is gone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fuck, the word REDACTED gives me such fomo...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Duodi 2 Floréal an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Chêne


I'm getting sloppy posting... but here I am finally. I get the anise more and more in Absinthe, and I probably should load less. But it is always extremely slick, and a delight to shave with.

Have a good evening!

~Shared via emacs & sotd.el~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I probably should load less

Never

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I probably should load less

Never

Big soap has taken over

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

April 21, 2025 -- Moar Mammoth Monday

  • Brush: Zenith r/Wetshaving 31mm x 57mm Moar Boar
  • Razor: Koraat 14 "Moarteen" 15/16" Full Hollow
  • Lather: House of Mammoth - Beloved - Soap
  • Aftershave: House of Mammoth - Beloved - Splash
  • Talc: Yardley Gold
     
    2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

Wonderful second shave with the Moarteen. This Jnat edge is gentle, yet efficient. A perfect match for this "14" geometry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
  • Brush: Chisel and Hound w/ V18 Fanchurian 26mm Badger

  • Razor: Blackland Vector titanium

  • Blade: Schick Proline

  • Lather: Australian Private Reserve - Skye Fall

  • Post Shave: Australian Private Reserve - Skye Fall

  • Fragrance: Al Hind Oud - Blind Test

Day 21 of APRil, I'm just crashing out that my moarteen isn't here yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mon 21 Apr 2025

  • Brush: Zenith – r/Wetshaving exclusive MOAR BOAR (31 mm × 57 mm bleached boar)
  • Razor: Koraat – r/Wetshaving exclusive Moarteen (15/16", full hollow, carbon steel)
  • Lather: House of Mammoth – Shire
  • Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps – Valedictorian

I'm back home from a long Easter weekend in my hometown, which means I have access to the Moarteen again, and I can do a late Mammoth Monday shave with the wonderful Shire-Valedictorian combo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Monday, April 21, 2025

  • Brush: Maggard - 24mm synthetic bulb
  • Razor: BIC Sensitive
  • Lather: Stirling - Island Man
  • Post Shave: Fine - Italian Citrus Aftershave splash
  • Fragrance: Stirling - Arkadia EdT

Pretty rough shave, I think I was just tired and not paying attention ATG.

Have a good one y'all.


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