Damn I thought I'd double checked, can't edit on tapatalk, once home. Cheers for the heads up!I've got 3 currently and one coming for my birthday. I'll be in on this in the coming week. Great soaps. You might want to check your spelling though Nishy
Strange I can edit my posts on tapatalk?Damn I thought I'd double checked, can't edit on tapatalk, once home. Cheers for the heads up!
Slacker!You know I thought I had too many soaps, but I haven't had any that have been the focus of a SAW yet.
Clearly I need to buy more!!!
Slacker!
Grab the SV anniversary edition from Shavedash (small sample) well worth it or MDSYou know I thought I had too many soaps, but I haven't had any that have been the focus of a SAW yet.
Clearly I need to buy more!!!
Yep editing the post is fine but the title is not an option.Strange I can edit my posts on tapatalk?
Click on the first post then hit the pencil ✠icon top right.. Hope it helps [emoji6]
Nice review fancontroller. I'm just prepping my shave for this evening. Some key questions. I returned my fern as it had hardly any fragrance to it. Since coming across Sterling's Ozark Mountain no fern scented soap has come close in the scent strength department.Pre: Proraso sensitive pre-shave
Soap: Saponificio Varesino - Felce Aromatica
Brush: Whipped Dog 24mm synthetic
Bowl: Woodhead Pedestal
Razor: Weber + Bulldog handle + Rapira Swede SS (3)
Post: WH, SV Felce Aromatica AS, Coral Skin Food
When I first acquired this soap I very much wanted to love it. Fern scent, excellent wooden tub, sounded perfect. However this is what I've found which I also experienced this morning.
First, the packaging:
Looks and feel fab this wooden tub. There's a plastic inner tub/sleeve in which the actual soap puck sits to protect the wood from water damage. Ok, good idea I thought. As soon as you start to load the brush the damn inner sleeve starts to spin, of course you can stop it by loading in other directions but its a pain in the tub. When you finish shaving the dilemma is the water inevitably will get between the sleeve and the wooden tub, so do you take out the sleeve and towel off any moisture? This is what I've been doing but boy is it difficult to get that sleeve out, it's like a suction cup. Turning the whole thing upside down sometimes does it but more often than not the puck just falls out the sleeve and everything just gets sticky. So maybe I'll just leave the sleeve in (which is what I did today as it was impossible to remove) and let the moisture dry out through the wood - exactly the opposite of what feels right to me. Another thing about the tub; being next to the sink it tends to sit in a puddle of water and soaks up from the bottom of the tub - probably not a good thing and has led to some discolouration of the outside of the tub.
Next the soap:
I'm convinced I must have a duff puck because everyone raves about the scent. For me it's less of the Felce Aromatica and more of the Faintly Aromatic. I can smell fern but only just and I wasn't aware of it really during the shave. Lather is weird, starts out frothy then creates a sticky film on the lather bowl. Eventually it produces a workable lather but not dense and slick like NSS last week. I feel the shave was let down by lack of slickness and body.
The Shave:
It was a bit unfair to start out with the Weber/Rapira Swedish combination as over the last few days I don't think they work together well but today's lather heightened the negative points. A scratchy shave.
The After Shave:
I do like SV's own Felce Aromatica AS. Great scent and a really nice feel on the skin. The stuff is thick (for an AS) and a little oily so it's kind of half way between an AS and an ASB. It doesn't have a great deal of conditioning though so I normally end up applying an ASB as well, as today.
So in summary. Not a great start to the SAW but maybe with some practice and daily use of this soap things will improve. Only time will tell.
Nice review fancontroller. I'm just prepping my shave for this evening. Some key questions. I returned my fern as it had hardly any fragrance to it. Since coming across Sterling's Ozark Mountain no fern scented soap has come close in the scent strength department.
Regarding the bowl, I own only one wooden bowl and opted not to have any more including with SV. I just leave my puck in the plastic sleeve and hand lather then face lather. It does spin slightly but a drawing pin through the bottom of the plastic sleeve resolves this.
Have you tried the anniversary edition or MDS fancontroller?
Arghh I see I did not know you were not able to edit the titleYep editing the post is fine but the title is not an option.
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