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Nice skills no read hidden message finding!

The folks on lemmy aren't square!

True. I shall amend based on comments.

At least Walden has read it.

##The end of the den tour

• Brush: MOAR
• Razor: Gillette New
• Blade: persona platinum (20)

And so we reach the end of the tub tour. 20 soaps all in all with a few more to be en route when Irish moos lands.

Next up will be a sample killing spree.

So what did I save to last? The best of the best obviously, but before I go in to that let's recap

Burns

1. panta rei gattopardo - weird texture to the soap and something in it burns slightly. Scent is ok at best
2. aties bubbles le marche du rasage - good scent but it burns. Chris says it's one of the inhibit not the oakmoss which I'd originally assumed it to be

Basic bitches

1. body shop maca root and aloe - easy to use and decent lather but nothing special. If you had no other options this is better than anything else on the high street
2. signature capra - good base but unscented
3. mitchells woolfat - hard enough to last forever, but not for me so it's been released from my den
4. elysium pineapple ambrosia - average soap and a scent that starts nice but the dry down isn't great

Gud

1. Wickham gothic revival - eucris dupe. Surprisingly strong for a euro soap but average peformer
2. Grooming dept mallard corretto - kids favourite scent. Lucky it's not a soup and is a good quality soap base and a nice gourmand that reminds me of black forest gateaux. I'm just not a gourmand fan.
3. wickham ninfeo di egeria - light and summery scent I like it a lot but the soap base isn't as good as those above it
4. Noble Otter rawr - decent. I don't get the love for the scent but it's not bad, just forgettable
5. Stirling varen- dark and dank and sheep base is great
6. signature brittania - surprised this ended up here but the aniseed works really well and the base is the best the UK has
7. Chicago ag1889 - great base and scent that's a classic
8. Noble otter northern elixir - would be higher but I can't cope with menthol year round
9. Mammoth smash - great base and good scent just a little too sweet for my preference

Would be happy as my only soap

1. MdC fougere - slick as rick and great scent.
2. Chiseled face Santa Paula - citrus for those that don't like citrus. Don't know why but it just tickles me in the right way.

Desert island soap

1. barrister and mann sandalwood - a classic. There's a reason it's a favourite for a lot of people and softheart base slaps

Bestest of best

1. No scrub x red house farm no scrub

Is the base the best - no

Is the scent the best - no

No, it was never going to be anything else. This is literally the greatest thing I've done as part of the community and one of the most fun things too. Onion and ray and grindermonk all came together to help turn my daft idea into reality and it meant that I could go out on a high with the no scrub list.

Of course I'm not the type to play the lather games properly, too many rules too much soap and splash and razors needed to score highly even with creativity. But I am the type to enjoy the community aspect of things and to enjoy the shit posts. And so hope thats what I've done in the community - from resurrecting the photo contest to various stupid pifs to rebooting and reenvisaging atlas shaves - it's all about the twin pillars of community engagement and ‘shits and goggles’.

So the shitlist was for me the real heart of the lather games. It was great at driving community engagement driving and encouraged people to do things for the shits and giggles, moreover in the earlier days it was very much a singular vision. If itchy liked it then it went in, and he usually shat on you at the same time. Then it became shared by the judges flagging what they liked and it was watered down and then eventually it kind of died (although by then shit posting was a core part of lathergames).

'course I've said this before but the year there was no list was worse as a result. It culminated in a massive whingefest day, where it became apparent that loads of people hadn't been able to see all the shit posts for the shit. I think I did a SOTD that highlighted a great post each day to prove the whingebags wrong. And that kinda planted the seed for the no scrub list. It's like the shitlist but worse, and it didn't even start until a few days into the games after me and DJ were chatting about it. No prize just a curated list.

Risky and self indulgent but I think people liked it. it was a lot of work, and I felt bad there was no prize. But then a single prize was problematic because you ended up with the pppork situation where a single extended riff didn't win because there was a great one off shit post. So I came up with the idea of an exclusive soap, and grindermonk took it further by refusing to take any money for it so it became a group exclusive prize.

Unbelievably the no scrub soap came together, exclusive for people who shit posted their way to notoriety and an inducement to get squares to loosen up. For that it's the best.

Bestest even.

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I've gone on too long and too earnestly (but at least only 6 people will read it). But don't worry there's a hidden message.

Rawr.

Some point over the weekend

Hey look it's everyone's favourite black sea glass brush aficionado.

I actually shaved first thing. Next in line was no scrubs but that's been bumped to last as it's special. So instead it's the first shave of a NO double header.

Northern elixir. A scent my daughter really likes and good for hot weather. She says it smells like a cold forest and she's not wrong

Are you a gourmand fan? They're probably at the lower end of my scent prefs

Catholic guilt - -

3 Scots.

A set I won in a pif from the awesome VW and a scent that I really like. There's something catholic church about the mix of spices and incense but I like it.

Got the wife approval but children prefer gourmands because they're filthy heathens

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

5. wickham gothic revival
6. grooming dept mallard corretto
7. wickham ninfeo di egeria
8. Stirling varen
9. signature brittania
10. Chicago ag1889
11. 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

MdC fougere ++ how's the absinth scent?

Congrats on the kill

Giggity

Varen++

Santa Paula.

First shave in over a week and a late night one.

Picked this up after someone described it as a citrus scent for someone who doesn't like citrus scents. Absolute banger and chiseled face base is always good for me when needing a quick shave

Gorgeous.

Almost enough to make me have FOMO

Nice!

Good job DJ.

Den tour day 13 maybe

Same gear.

Soap- Stirling varen. Now this is a deep and funky fougere. I like fougere but there's a tiny bit of burn from the oakmoss.

Rankings worst to best

panta rei gattopardo - poor performance and a bit of burn caties bubbles le marche du rasage - nice scent but it burns bodyshop maca root and aloe - good for a brick and mortar shop signature capra - good performance but who likes unscented mitchells woolfat - see above. Also about to leave my den to cross the pond elysium pineapple ambrosia - scent dry down is a bit odd

From here on the scents are all good.

wickham gothic revival - decent scent but not my favourite soap grooming dept mallard corretto - like a black forest gateaux but too sweet for me wickham ninfeo di egeria - light and bright. This one has grown on me and id be tempted to do a tub kill to really get to know it. Soap performance lets it down Stirling varen - great scent but a bit of burn signature brittania - simple but effective Mammoth smash - touch too sweet for me but I love it MdC fougere - great soap and scent barrister and mann sandalwood - top tier scent and soap

Same gear.

Soap: signature soaps Britannia

Mint and aniseed scented soap from UK's best.

Really nice with a little menthol kick. Mid tier and Gabe myself a nick but as I'm now 12 or 23 shaves onto the den tour I expect blade is going to start fixing a bit of grief.

Got as far as getting the scrubty-four out of storage to send to DJ. Baby steps

Today I mostly shaved with false hype

April fools suckers.

Same gear

Elysium pineapple ambrosia.

This soap ( and splash) appeared once day with a 1914. Unexpected and a massive surprise courtesy of hairy.

Does show how awesome folk on the sub are