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Atlas Shaves Theme:

Alchemical Romance by Apex Alchemy Soaps with the following notes: Chocolate, Vanilla, Butter

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Atlas Shaves II - Day 26

  • Brush: Maritime Brush Co Box Puffer 24mm M5C Synthentic Knot
  • Razor: Blutt Rasur BR-1 0.99
  • Blade: Gillette Nacet [22]
  • Lather: Apex Alchemy Shaving - Grēn River - Soap
  • Post Shave: Apex Alchemy Shaving - Grēn River - Aftershave (Alcohol Free)
  • Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Everett - Eau de Parfum

I purchased this Apex Alchemy Summer Sample Set a few years ago. These are more along the lines of a novelty soap. Each a different color of blue, red, or, as in today's pick, green. The scents are all way too sweet. Grēn River is not quite as bad, and it smells a little like Fruit Loops to me. Fortunately, I had forgotten about these and they were still in my den.

Category Δ
Daily theme soap 24 0
Artisan 56 +4
Scenter 3 0
Half of the scent notes 14 0
Airbudding the day 0 0
Cross posting 26 +1
Snitching 1 0
Snitching incorrectly 0 0
Goody Two-Shoes 17 +1
Total 141 +6
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Damn, a soaper match, your den makes you untouchable in this game 😄

I'm impressed!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hoarder is more like it 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

  • Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations "Nebulagance" - TurnNShave Quartermoon 26mm synthetic
  • Razor: Bic Sensitive
  • Lather: Barrister and Mann - Spice
  • Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber Aftershave splash
  • Post Shave: Nivea - Sensitive Post Shave Balm
  • Fragrance: Stirling - Stirling Gentleman EdT

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Feb. 26, 2025

  • Brush: Proraso Professional
  • Razor: GEM Open Comb Micromatic Gen. 2
  • Blade: GEM PTFE (1)
  • Lather: Barrister and Mann - Smoking Bishop - Puck
  • Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented - Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Osma - Osma
  • Bowl: Georgetown Pottery - G20

I haven’t slept in so long.

I haven’t shaved in so long.

Nothing makes sense anymore.

Good shave anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

February 26, 2025

  • Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations w/ Boti HMW Silk
  • Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy
  • Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
  • Lather: Noble Otter Barrbarr
  • Post Shave: Noble Otter Barrbarr splash
  • Post Shave: Zingari Man Sego Unscented balm
  • Fragrance: Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime

Finally figured out how to make an account here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Day 26 of Atlas Shaves 2 – Electric Boogaloo Wed 26 Feb 2025

  • Brush: Dogclaration LG 2022 Mystery Brush (B16)
  • Razor: Wolfman WR2 (1.55 mm SB / 1.25 mm OC)
  • Blade: Polsilver Stainless Blade
  • Lather: Southern Witchcrafts and Chatillon Lux – La Forêt de Analingus for Excellence in Shitposting
  • Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts and Chatillon Lux – La Forêt de Analingus for Excellence in Shitposting
  • Fragrance: Southern Witchcrafts and Chatillon Lux – La Forêt de Analingus for Excellence in Shitposting

Analingus is La Forêt de Liguest plus chocolate, so the notes are cypress, oakmoss, cedar, vetiver, rose, geranium, juniper, bergamot, grapefruit, vanilla, benzoin, musk, patchouli, and chocolate.

Back on the Road to Victory:

Category Δ
Daily theme soap 18 0
Artisan 52 0
Scenter 0 0
Half of the scent notes 18 +2
Airbudding the day 1 0
Cross posting 26 +1
Snitching 7 0
Snitching incorrectly -5 0
Goody Two-Shoes 25 +1
Total 142 +4
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Now we just need to figure out if chocovan and cocao aldehyde are "chocolate".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
  • lather: Catie's Bubbles - A Midnight Dreary

Atlas daily points: 0 points +0 for crossposting on lemmy and reddit

Atlas cumulative points: out

Another day I wouldn't have passed because dark chocolate isn't a match for chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

February 27, 2025

  • Brush: Simpson Trafalgar T3
  • Razor: Fatip Classic Testina Gentile
  • Blade: Personna 74 (31)
  • Lather: Spearhead Shaving - Seaforth! Leather - Soap
  • Post Shave: Spearhead - Seaforth! Leather – Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral
  • Post Shave: House of Mammoth/Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Liniment

This blade felt brand new today. Super great lather. So slick.

@[email protected] has been busy making the daily SOTD posts. I filed a bug report with the developer of the scheduling software. The logs are showing some 400 errors when trying to make a post. It worked as recently as this past Sunday. I'm not sure what changed between now and then. I tried to fix some things myself, and somehow didn't break anything... but it also didn't solve the problem.