15/7/20
Brush - Omega 10075
Soap - Signature Soaps A Capra (Unscented Goats Milk)
Razor - Ball End Tech
Blade - Lancet Super Platinum (8)
Post - Witch Hazel
AS - Signature Soaps Danum Patchouli Splash
The mailman brought me a few items this morning courtesy of the ever generous
@BrianH who included a chunk of dog shampoo (to clean brushes), a sample bottle of his Patchouli splash with my order of A Capra soap and I used both for today's shave.
The A Capra's scent is quite an earthy one, and I went about lathering the soap like I do for other SS soaps by taking out a small amount of soap and pressing it to a lid, then loading it to the brush then building the lather on my face and for today's shave after putting the soap on my face it was clear I didn't put enough soap to begin with but still had a enough of a lather for a pass and a bit of a clean up, which was fine even if was a little on the thinner side of things.
The lather produced good slickness for the blade as well in the shave, I'd noticed this particular blade reacted a little unfavourably with certain lathers but worked really well with this one. I didn't have a huge amount of lather, enough for a pass and a half, but it was enough to get the job done.
The post shave feel of this soap is exceptional, my face felt great at the shave, no need for a balm in the slightest bit. I'm looking forward to getting to know this soap better with time.
Onto the splash, the Danum Patchouli splash on the nose smells pretty much of Patchouli! Feels good on the skin though.
And then I followed on to using my 3rd SS product for the day, the dog shampoo to clean my brush. Gave the brush a swirl on the solid shampoo and it's definitely made my brush a bit more supple. I used it on my Yaqi Plissoft which had a terrible funk to it when it picked up some unsavoury scents when I used it on some Arko that had become rancid, and I cannot even begin to describe how bad that brush smelt, but the dog shampoo bar worked wonders. I'll definitely use it for my other brushes and even though I do not own any badgers, I imagine it'd be great for defunking them and for new boars.