Friday morning November 17 - changing it up
Supply Single Edge injector V 2.0 / Personna ( 6)
Semogue Owners Club cherrywood boar brush
Arko stick
Alum and Lucky Tiger
Inspired by
@Bama Samurai,
@PanChango and other recent users, I ditched the creams in favour of Arko today.
My Semogue boar demonstrated that face lathering from a stick is not its forte. When I use a synthetic or even a badger with Arko, I rub the stick on once and the brush not only covers my face with lather, it fills with enough surplus for another couple passes. My boar managed to work up a decent lather coating for the first pass, but there was absolutely nothing left over in the brush. I had to reapply the Arko before the second pass.
Granted that reapplying the Arko isn't precisely the end of the world: after multiple uses, this stick looks like it's down about a whopping 1/4" - and there are another 12 sticks to go in my backup carton. Still, I think in future I will use a different brush with any sticks and save the SOC boar for tub loading and bowl lathering.
The Supply v2.0 injector on its two-dot (medium) plate once again gave an easy shave. I seem to be firmly moved up from the one-dot (sensitive) plates to the medium ones on both versions of this injector. Today's shave was a two pass DFS with no effort to chase the baby -- and with quiet alum. I then complemented the industrial lemon of the Arko with the orange citrus of a healthy splash of Lucky Tiger.
Btw, I started the day with a shower using Alepeo bar soap from Aleppo. It comes either as a paste "black soap" or as brownish handcut bars. It's a traditional North African soap that I think may be similar to the black soap Neal
@NCoxSTL uses, except this doesn't have plantain ash in it so it's not gritty. What it does have is a mixture of olive oil and bay laurel oil, with the laurel oil being the primary medicinal ingredient. Fendrihan recently started carrying it and claimed it was a traditional remedy for many skin problems. I have always had a problem with folliculitis (a form of acne) especially on my back, so I decided to give it a try. Even the lowest concentration of laurel oil seems to do an excellent job removing excess skin oil and drying out and clearing up inflammations. The soaps Fendrihan sells range in strength from 4% to 30% laurel oil content; I am using the 4% and so far am quite pleased with it. Just thought I would post that as general information for anybody who might find it useful.
Hope everybody is heading into a good weekend!
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