Aug. 26, 2022 - Headless Mammoth Hoggin' Day 26
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Solid 3 pass shave today. Today I decided to try a steeper angle with the shavette to see if I could gain a bit of efficiency and it might be placebo but it certainly felt like I was getting a bit closer with each pass. I may have ended up with just slightly more irritation, but that may also be due to the mileage on the blade, who knows.
One thing that I've been thinking about is the idea that the rate at which a brush picks up soap is probably closer to asymptotic and than linear, but I have no way of scientifically measuring it but it makes sense to me. When a brush has no soap on it, the fibers make direct contact with the soap and the friction of the brush should be greater than when a brush is full of soap. If a brush is already saturated with soap, then I would imagine rubbing soap against soap you're less likely to pick up more. Of course this is complicated by the amount of water in the brush and how much pressure you're exerting when you're loading, but for someone like me that loads with a very light touch it has been fairly easy to get the right amount of soap to build the type of lather that I want without feeling like I overloaded.
Now that we're near the end of the month of boar, it's also time to be a bit more objective in evaluating boar brushes now that we're well past the honeymoon period. At the beginning of the month I was curious about how soft the boar would actually get and whether it would actually end up feeling pillowy soft and luxurious, and right now the answer for me is no but that may be because I'm not using a nice Zenith. What it is is a great tool for building excellent lather very efficiently with a little bit of scrub. It will be interesting to see if I end up reaching for my boars at about the same rate as my badgers and synthetics. I tend to reach for synthetics when I want a quick brainless lather that's very easy on the face maybe after a rough shave the previous day and when I want that silky face feel. In the end I'm guessing I'll just pick up a boar when I want some variety and it's different enough to keep in the den.
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