Finished.!!

Finished my Stirling Bay Rum Soap today after 4 years (in rotation with other soaps).
I got this through @Mr_Smartepants group-buy of Stirling soaps and has been my favourite Bay Rum scent ever since - probably the best Bay Rum scent in the world!
Thanks again Erik, for organising that, what a gent.
This soap gives luxuriously thick lather and really good skin conditioning afterwards.
Would I buy it again? Yep, but need to thin the herd somewhat before adding to it.

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My Blade-Bank is full so it's time to empty it out. Handily I managed to fit all the blades into the Stirling soap tub so an easy way of disposing them.

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Barrister & Mann Cheshire soap sample I got from Maggard Razors this May.

Only a sample really but I got over half a dozen shaves from it! Like all B&M soaps I've tried, performance was top rate. The Cheshire scent is very pleasantly fresh and is one I could use daily without getting tired of. Would I purchase the full tub? Probably not because I have so many other tubs to use first which will last me a few years and this scent does not stand out as very different from many other scents. It was great to try it though.

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While I have, of course, finished products over the years, these past five years have seen me finish precisely one product, a Speick stick milled into a small bowl. I have so many things in the rotation now, I have trouble finishing any of them. My TOBS Sandalwood is still 20-30 more shaves and it's 5 years old now! But, of course, I just bought a spare...
 
I finish a tub of TOBS shaving cream about every three months. A tub of Trumper shaving cream lasts me about four months because it's larger. So far this year I've finished off one tub of TOBS shaving cream, one tub of Trumper GFT shaving cream and one tube of Body Shop shaving cream; I'm now working on a tub of Trumper Sandalwood shaving cream. On my last trip I finished a stick of Harris Lavender soap, which I'd been working on for several years since I used it only for travel.
 
i have my soaps and a/s set up for the year - so by the end of 2018 I will have finished - 60g Cella, 70g Nanny's Bergamot hardsoap, 75g verguilde hand and possibly 70g Proraso red. as for a/s I will have finished 80ml of Bond Executive, 100ml homemade mentholated Bayrum, 100ml Verbana Sauvage and possibly 90ml Patrich Noir.

I know it's cheating to list them in advance but I will report in at the end of the year to confirm :) bet you can't wait...
 
i have my soaps and a/s set up for the year - so by the end of 2018 I will have finished - 60g Cella, 70g Nanny's Bergamot hardsoap, 75g verguilde hand and possibly 70g Proraso red. as for a/s I will have finished 80ml of Bond Executive, 100ml homemade mentholated Bayrum, 100ml Verbana Sauvage and possibly 90ml Patrich Noir.

I know it's cheating to list them in advance but I will report in at the end of the year to confirm :) bet you can't wait...

I admire your discipline [emoji51]


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