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Prep: Shower and PAA cube
Pre: PAA cube
Soap: Yaqi sandalwood soap
Brush: Yaqi Cavern Lake Two Band Badger
Razor: Pearl Flexi
Blade: Persona Viking Sword
Post: Alum, Baxter’s of California Shave Tonic and L’Oréal barbershop reinforcing aftershave balm.
This brush looks fantastic, has a little stiffness which I’m guessing will soften with use and created a ridiculous lather. It looks beautiful with the morning light filtering through the aqua blue handle.
The soap… well it started so well, the smell is genuinely one of the strongest I’ve ever had straight out of opening the tin. Strong but mild sandalwood hits you and it’s comforting and warming. It then layers a ridiculous amount exploding out the tin lulling me into a false sense of security. I started lathering my face, again very impressed by the sheer volume of the overflowing soap… however then reality hit, it was despite the amount produced, it turned out to be smoke and mirrors a thin, synthetic type soap. Basically a spray foam/gel like soap, it gave at best an ok shave saved only by the PAA cubes slickness. By the third pass it was going on cm deep but disappearing before I’d completed the pass. I guess the best way to describe it, is the opposite of the unexpected and pleasant surprise you get when using a Yaqi brush. It’s extremely cheap, tick, smells great, tick, but just doesn’t deliver on a smooth luxurious lather. It’s a shame but on the key elements you want on the soap it hits the price and smell brilliantly but fails on the most important main purpose a slick lather.
Consigned to the bin or bath for my kids to play with and it’s bubble bath like foam.
Pre: PAA cube
Soap: Yaqi sandalwood soap
Brush: Yaqi Cavern Lake Two Band Badger
Razor: Pearl Flexi
Blade: Persona Viking Sword
Post: Alum, Baxter’s of California Shave Tonic and L’Oréal barbershop reinforcing aftershave balm.
This brush looks fantastic, has a little stiffness which I’m guessing will soften with use and created a ridiculous lather. It looks beautiful with the morning light filtering through the aqua blue handle.
The soap… well it started so well, the smell is genuinely one of the strongest I’ve ever had straight out of opening the tin. Strong but mild sandalwood hits you and it’s comforting and warming. It then layers a ridiculous amount exploding out the tin lulling me into a false sense of security. I started lathering my face, again very impressed by the sheer volume of the overflowing soap… however then reality hit, it was despite the amount produced, it turned out to be smoke and mirrors a thin, synthetic type soap. Basically a spray foam/gel like soap, it gave at best an ok shave saved only by the PAA cubes slickness. By the third pass it was going on cm deep but disappearing before I’d completed the pass. I guess the best way to describe it, is the opposite of the unexpected and pleasant surprise you get when using a Yaqi brush. It’s extremely cheap, tick, smells great, tick, but just doesn’t deliver on a smooth luxurious lather. It’s a shame but on the key elements you want on the soap it hits the price and smell brilliantly but fails on the most important main purpose a slick lather.
Consigned to the bin or bath for my kids to play with and it’s bubble bath like foam.
