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Quite a few here use cartridges, and some even use gel or some other new fangled lather stuff. Overall though, I get the impression a lot of members consider the brush/lather/prep to be of more importance than the razor and blade. I think I'm in a minority here; using a good DE razor and blade was t...

Gutted Cancellaro got pipped, he did all the work in the last 10k.

AoS Sandalwood soap
D.R. Harris Marlborough (not Sandalwood, but same...genre)

Sam, It seems Yoga would be great for your health overall. After a while maybe you can start walking or even cycling or swimming. Weightloss is about calories in versus used; even if you were running hours a day your appetite would increase more or less proportionately, so there's no way around the ...

Gary, I'll be interested to read if you can coax a lather out of them. I have recently received a puck of Rose - and while is smells deliciously well - it doesn't lather at all; suds is all I can get. The 2-3 yr old puck of Rose, (all palm oil as well, btw) was significantly better. This new one is ...

I'm very impressed by Rapira blades, they're close to, if not equal with, my favourite blade (yellow 7 o'clock).

Esoteric83 wrote:Cella? - Ch-ella or Se-lla

Same question for Acca Kappa.

Chella.

numcks wrote:How about Semogue?

Believe it or not, I think its correclty pronounced 'Smog'. I think of it as sounding like brogue.

Muhle as in Mule, Tabac as in T-back, Jagger as in Edwin as in Mick. And pronounce Plisson as Plisson as in Plyson - Plee-SON sounds like an English person trying to do a French accent. Thats not good.

If I had my time again and I'd buy an Omega boar and a Semogue and be done with brushes completely. I've spent many 100's on badger brushes; they provide a bit more pleasure (but not much), and the lather is the same. The affordable, 'does what it says on the tin' thing appeals to me more and more.

This is a bit dependent on where in the world you are, but for me:

Arko for hard soaps.

Italian soft soap, by the Kilo, for soft soaps.

Real Shaving Company cream (made by Creightons) for creams.

Not for me, daily razor is a Muhle with a Merkur open comb, brushes from Thaeter and Simpson, soaps mainly tallow based sticks from Europe (though been dabbling with creams lately). I sometimes use Tabac soap with Tabac splash, thats as close as I get to brand continuity. edit: if we're talking fide...

Well, I voted Sandalwood, although I like some of the others as well. My ranking: Sandalwood is my fave. soap scent full stop. However, and I know this makes no sense (they're the same formula, scenting ingredients notwithstanding) - I could swear the Rose soap I had lathered a bit better than the ...

I usually lather a new badger brush a couple of times before use to get rid of the dead animal stench. Probably best to let it dry between lathers.

Or you could just use it as is. Badger brushes are pretty low maintenance and don't really need breaking in much, if at all.

Enjoy.

I purchased a Thater on clearance from Phil and knew that the clearance price came with no return/no exchange. I also purchased a Thater soon after they arrive at BullGoose Shaving. Any issue with the clearance brush would have been mine to resolve with the vendor via any warranty issue. My respons...

The feeling I'm getting is that guys like the fragrances of the GFT soaps, but it's not unusual to read neutral or negative comments on the performance of Trumper's soaps in general. A couple of negative factors are that Coconut soap is non-existent, except in name only. It's gone! Why? Is it being...

I purchased the ebony handled brush, shown in the first picture, from Bullgooseshaving.net. The brush I was sent was faulty - the handle isn't properly put together (metal foot-piece and ebony piece are not uniformly sealed). I informed the vendor and was told clearance item = no returns. I understa...

Their soaps have always been described that way. Geo F Trumper and some others label their soaps similarly, at least online.

It seems a majority of us, given enough time, come to identify ourselves as 'soap guys' - I self-appointed myself thus, and have for a long while used hard soaps (mainly in stick form), and Italian 'soft soaps', comfortable in my opinion I was using the best performers available. Loitering in my dra...

An Omega or Semogue boar. Spend your change on a mountain bike.

I used one and only one brush for thirty-five years. I replaced it only when I learned they were no longer being made but that I could still obtain a twenty-year-old example as new old stock. The second brush will most certainly outlive me and perhaps my son, too. There is nothing wrong with having...