Mon 31 Soap Barrister & Mann Seville Brush Yaqi 26mm Lucky Dice 2 Band Badger
Tue 1 Soap Tabac BrushYaqi 26mm Moka Express 2 Band Badger
Last use of the tabac for 2022. Will save this top-shelf soap for another year. Absolutely awesome quality lather, and the brush, and aftershave are great as well...
Soap The Goodfellas Smile Sea Citrus Brush Yaqi 24mm Atlantis
Superb lather qualities from this soap, smelling wonderful with the matching splash. The brush is very good too.
Soap Yaqi Lemon, Lime Cedarwood Brush Yaqi 24mm Mountain Lake 2 Band Badger
Nice enough soap for the fabulous lather and the cooling scent, accentuated by the matching splash. The brush is just fantastic...
Soap Stirling Haverford Brush Yaqi 26mm Rainbow
I love this soap! The aromatic scent is strong & outstanding while the lather is super creamy & slick! The matching aftershave allows me to enjoy it for longer...
Soap Stirling Pumpkin Spice Brush Yaqi 22mm Ever-Helpful 2-Band Badger
A very slick and creamy lather from this soap...whip up easily and blissfully on the face with the excellent compact badger brush...love it!
Not posted for a while; however, I still have lots of soaps and brushes, so will dip in now and again.
Brush: Old Vulfix boar, re-knotted by me many years ago (my first re-knot) with a small (18mm) Golden Nib silvertip.
Soap: Madame Scodioli 'Step Right Up'.
Since I prefer them to have some scritch, the brush is far too soft (and small) for me now and I can really only use it on very light growth.
The soap is a glycerine soap, no longer available, which smells superb and produces a good lather, if a little tacky.
Soap Yaqi Musketeer Rapier Brush SOC Cherry Wood Boar
The soap & matching splash smells really nice and strong. The lather created by the excellent brush was fabulous...
Brush: Vintage Culmak Senior (boar)
Soap: Dusy Kabinett
The brush came to me as an Ebay purchase some time ago, unused and boxed. I would say the knot is bleached - it's typically pale and soft(ish), unlike another Culmak I have, which looks to be untreated. The Senior is still not fully broken in, hence the dissipating lather.
I haven't pictured the soap - the initiated will know that it came as 2 x 250g bars (a half kilo!) so a chunk has been sliced off and popped into a container. The successor to Klar Kabinett, it has a lovely rose scent, lathers beautifully and is supremely slick. The difference between it and Klar - one's coconut oil, the other palm oil. Even Dusy looks hard to find now.
Referenced above, this brush comes from a set I picked up (principally for the GII handle) which has a soap in an identically coloured bowl. It has a small knot characteristic of the era. I reckon it's untreated as it's as grey as a murky British Bank Holiday Monday. It's proving to be a job to break in - I reckon Culmak clipped their knots indiscriminately and I say that having shaved with their boars for c. 30 years.
The soap - I've had this a fair old while and neglected it. Reviewers often said it smelt 'like weeds' and, to me, it smells like cut dandelions(!) but I've come back to it, having watched a recent shaving video. It hasn't turned and I wouldn't say the smell has mellowed - but it produces a superb, glossy lather with beautiful slickness. I'll post the ingredients next pic, should those with a newer version want to compare.
Soap Southern Witchcraft Samhain Brush Spiffo Manchurian
Super creamy lather from the soap with a pleasant scent augmented by the matching splash. The brush is just amazing...super soft!
