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- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: The end of Tabac original formulation
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6708
Re: The end of Tabac original formulation
Thank god I stocked up on the good stuff. 20 pucks and 20 sticks, last this lifetime any way.
- Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:15 pm
- Forum: SOTD - Shave of the Day
- Topic: Brush of the day
- Replies: 1003
- Views: 174361
Re: Brush of the day
Oh I agree, you can't go wrong with a decent boar. Good that there's another new (well, new to me) brand that's supplying them.
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:27 pm
- Forum: SOTD - Shave of the Day
- Topic: Brush of the day
- Replies: 1003
- Views: 174361
Re: Brush of the day
How are you doing in here Gary
That Zenith boar is new to me, looks like a quality boar, is itbseen as similar quality to the highly rated omega and semogues?
That Zenith boar is new to me, looks like a quality boar, is itbseen as similar quality to the highly rated omega and semogues?
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:23 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Where is Everybody?!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14466
Re: Where is Everybody?!
Similar story with a number of forums I used to frequent. I heard that the rise of social media took away much of the traffic, which is confusing at first, as it really doesn't provide the same sort of content, but apparently now people just don't use websites outside of the major social media sites...
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:56 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Ancient North American cultures
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5321
Re: Ancient North American cultures
Long ago there were cliff dwellers somewhere in the Southwestern part of the US. Anthropologists and historians have speculated as to who they were and how did their culture operate. No mystery - I imagine my own family (and everyone else's family) a wife and one or more infants, toddlers, adolesce...
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:25 am
- Forum: Shopping
- Topic: NEW: Martin de Candre Shaving Soap in Wooden Bowl
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6647
Re: NEW: Martin de Candre Shaving Soap in Wooden Bowl
+1fallingwickets wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 4:34 amnot sure if youre being sarcastic gary, but from this side of the screen the product/packaging looks: hideousOne of the classy-est presentations
clive
Looks like a cereal bowl overflowing with brains.
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:21 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Tabac/Maurer & Wirtz announces a new scent
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4901
Re: Tabac/Maurer & Wirtz announces a new scent
Let's hope for a soap. Tabac released that other scent a few years back and was, I believe, deodorants and aftershave, cologne etc. A new tabac scentbto replace Irisch Moose would be perfect.
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:18 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Pre shave oil
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13260
Re: Pre shave oil
I hate to be a cynic but I fear its a way for vendors to make an extra chunk of change off newbs. Read these forums and count the numbers of recs they get from people not selling them. If you must have some; look at the ingredients: it's easily reproducible in any supermarket.
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 12:19 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: English Fern tallow soap by Penhaligon's
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17945
Re: English Fern tallow soap by Penhaligon's
You're right - it's not black magic to make a decent shaving soap. But if you have to obey EU rules about banned ingredients, and you have bean-counters who have decreed that profit will be maximised by using cheaper ingredients, plus you're selling to a generally ignorant public who can't tell the...
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:03 am
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: The state of the current English Shaving soaps
- Replies: 44
- Views: 33182
Re: The state of the current English Shaving soaps
Oh dear #-o Makes me wonder about what trumpers business actually is. They've been selling these 'not fit for purpose' soaps for years now. I think it may be that much of their sales are gifts and ye olde England trinkets. Perhaps theyre notbactually being used much? Oh well, at least the home soape...
- Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Acquisitions thread
- Replies: 275
- Views: 136573
Re: Acquisitions thread
Looks like a duke 2 but I think at one stage Plisson was making a number of Simpson copies for floris.
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:55 pm
- Forum: Selling & Trading
- Topic: SOLD: Vintage Plisson Plexi 20 High Mountain White Brush
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2752
Re: FS: Vintage Plisson Plexi 20 High Mountain White Brush
Wow. That's the kind of brush that makes you want to move continents and become rich.
Good luck.
Good luck.
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: On the subject of fidelity
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4200
Re: On the subject of fidelity
A couple of years ago my searching days ended. My fidelity is for comfort and security. Changes I make these days are for sport, and they always bring enjoyment. Changing razors means the General rests a few days each month so I can sharpen and enjoy the straight razors. Twelve brands of soaps and ...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:48 pm
- Forum: Shaving Brushes
- Topic: Shavemac in synthetic game...better late than never?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13399
Re: Shavemac in synthetic game...better late than never?
Brutus, Another thanks for the review, very informative =D> A question about the new shavemacs; when you talk about their backbone, should I be thinking about the sort of backbone you get from a dense badger brush, that comes from I guess the total number of hairs divided by the area of the knot? Or...
- Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:31 am
- Forum: Shaving Brushes
- Topic: Small rotation of favorite brushes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10905
Re: Small rotation of favorite brushes
Long live YMMV! :D It fuels the fires of discussion. I believe it is true that quality boar brushes have also rendered budget badger brushes superfluous. It is undisputed, as you pointed out, that boars offer something a little different. It's the differences that keep the pot boiling. Imo the avai...
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:45 pm
- Forum: Shaving Brushes
- Topic: Small rotation of favorite brushes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10905
Re: Small rotation of favorite brushes
My feeling is that quality synths have rendered budget badger brushes superfluous. Boars offer something a little different.
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:26 pm
- Forum: Shaving Brushes
- Topic: 2019-100yrs since my family started the business
- Replies: 32
- Views: 22550
Re: 2019-100yrs since my family started the business
I'm also interested in what's selling these days.* I sense it'd be harder to break into the market now than it would have been 10-15 years ago. You can get a quality semogue boar for the price of a couple of coffees, or a good synthetic for a similar price. Having said that I think there will always...
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:09 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Harris soap reformulation
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19849
Re: Harris soap reformulation
The new formula DRH soap now lists tallowate as the first ingredient, just as does Salters new formula. Evidently these two soaps now share identical top 9 ingredients. Now that's very interesting! Now if only trumpers would use the same manufacturer for their shaving soaps...that would be heaven! ...
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:03 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: The state of the current English Shaving soaps
- Replies: 44
- Views: 33182
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:31 pm
- Forum: Shaving Brushes
- Topic: Do I need a boar brush?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 32425
Re: Do I need a boar brush?
Chris, do I recall correctly that one of those boars went to Gordon, with the stipulation that if he used it exclusively for a month you would send him a really nice (Plisson?) badger brush? (It seems to me I remember a lot of grumbling from Gordon during that month.) - Murray I sent him the Plisso...