First time using the boar brush in a while! I prefer my various synthetics andy badger but variety is the spice of life.
Saguaro smells really great but I do have a very slight sensitivity to something in it. After a while I start to feel a little irritation just around my lips. Luckily it's barely noticeable and no redness or lasting irritation.
Pete Hegseth definitely would not have approved of my previous grooming.
This time, I shaved off 6 days of beard. The combination of Absinthe and Opuntia works surprisingly well.
Lotion: Humble Bee Botanicals Calendulove Face Cream
Fragrance: Stirling Deton-8 EdT
1st pass WTG, 2nd pass XTG, touch up on chin XTG. CCS. This was one of my faster shaves ever - the Deton-8 smells so good but.. I do think there is something about it that my face doesn't like. So I can't be letting it sit around on my skin.
Brush: Wolf Whiskers - "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
Razor: GEM Pushbutton
Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (1)
Lather: Southern Witchcrafts - Tres Matres - Soap
Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts - Tres Matres - Toner
Fragrance: Barrister and Mann - Lavanille - EdP
What a great shave. The Pushbutton treated me very well, and Tres Matres smells great. Lavanille was just an impulse but I think it compliments Tres Matres in a way. They're both sort of funky, strange, and interesting.
9 Comments
FWAaron@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 127d
April 18, 2026
First time using the boar brush in a while! I prefer my various synthetics andy badger but variety is the spice of life. Saguaro smells really great but I do have a very slight sensitivity to something in it. After a while I start to feel a little irritation just around my lips. Luckily it's barely noticeable and no redness or lasting irritation.
snooting@wetshav.ing · 7 pts · 127d
April 18th, 2026
Splash kill!
DBS++; always a lovely shave.
BossHoggins10@wetshav.ing · 6 pts · 127d
April 18th, 2026
Shave 71 of the brain bowl
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social · 6 pts · 127d
Nonidi 29 Germinal an 234 de la Révolution, jour de Myrtille
Pete Hegseth definitely would not have approved of my previous grooming. This time, I shaved off 6 days of beard. The combination of Absinthe and Opuntia works surprisingly well.
Have a good day!
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The VP gets a pass, obviously.
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social · 5 pts · 127d
The priviledge of rank.
TriplePlaid@wetshav.ing · 5 pts · 127d
SOTD - 2026-04-18
1st pass WTG, 2nd pass XTG, touch up on chin XTG. CCS. This was one of my faster shaves ever - the Deton-8 smells so good but.. I do think there is something about it that my face doesn't like. So I can't be letting it sit around on my skin.
pi_dash_rho@wetshav.ing · 5 pts · 127d
SOTD - 2026-04-18
Have a good day.
walden@wetshav.ing · 5 pts · 127d
April 18th, 2026
What a great shave. The Pushbutton treated me very well, and Tres Matres smells great. Lavanille was just an impulse but I think it compliments Tres Matres in a way. They're both sort of funky, strange, and interesting.