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The pleasure was mineThank you B. for introducing me to the Cobra, it left a lasting impression.P.
No but I found some rocking-horse shit!The pleasure was mine
Congratulations on the find......did you discover any Hen's Teeth while you were searching?
...I did wonder about Panda brushes!
What you said mate - does anybody know why this is the case? Is it that tallow has been appropriated by another industrial process that can pay higher prices than soap makers for it - or are the compliance rules for using fat of an animal origin becoming uneconomic? Have the companies done their market research and decided that people want vegetarian soaps? If the latter was the case - why would Salters have reintroduced a tallow soap into the market recently? In American artisan soaps - there seems to be no end of tallow used - be that cow, sheep, pig, bison, duck, otter and marmoset - okay I just made the last two up. You take my point though. Like you I enjoy a choice in my soaps - I have some very good vegetarian soaps but I would miss the tallow ones dearly. Perhaps a couple of experts here could shed some light on it? Yours - I.
@OSP @Fox
I wish to join you in your fight as part of the T.L.OSotd - 16/5/18 -
Razor - Yaqi DLC Double open comb red & black mini.
blade - Kai (1)
brush - Semogue 2000 boar
soap - Kent tallow hard soap
post - witch hazel
a/s - Vitos Tobacco
balm - Aloe Vera gel.
Result - face strokingly good.
After the last crap shave - the bloody shave gods owed me - and lo - they listened to my entreaties and blessed me handsomely. For they are good. I got my two new Yaqi razors yesterday - I had originally gone on to get one of the DLC double open comb heads in black - which I did - I'd been impressed enough with the free open comb I got with my brushes - to give them a try. At the price - why not? On their AliExpress page I noticed the black and red versions of the head with handle available in three different sizes. Delta Echo lite - if you will. They looked pretty cool I thought - and on a whim - I ordered a mini one - it would do for travel use if nothing else. It turns out - for me - to be a superb and serious razor. This is going into the normal rotation never mind travel use. No blemishes in the coating at all. It has real heft due to the brass handle - which balances well against the very light alloy head. The engineering tolerances for a razor costing this much (£19.67 - shipped to UK) were superb. The blade mounted evenly first time - no problem. It looks a bit scary - as you can see a lot of the blade through the open comb top cap. It's also not that mini - it is only a few millimeters shorter than my Merkur 37 Slant for reference. It fits comfortably in my big hands. The head is narrow - the blade tabs protrude prominently on either side - but - for me - this makes it very deft in use. It is superb under the nose and on the upper lip. It is not fussy about the angle and does the proper double open comb thing of leaving 'stripes' of lather on the face for when you go back over the same area. I'm impressed - as you may have gathered. The black head alone is £7.53 shipped to the UK. I'd been working all day in the sun so I needed to give something back to my skin - step forward the Kent hard soap - aka stealth MWF. It lathers ridiculously easily with the big boar Semogue - soap everywhere - you can clean up later - it's no problem. I love this brush - it puts a smile on my face every time I use it. The tips have split much quicker than my 1305 did and it is easily as soft as a good badger now. Try one if you haven't already. They don't cost much. So - job done - back on track - enjoy your shaves one and all - yours - I.
Founder - and so far only member - of the T.L.O - the Tallow Liberation Organisation - read the charter - 'The Tallowist Manifesto.' Siblings - time to stand up for our rights! We have only our beards to lose.
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