SOTD by u/Environmental-Gap380

August 6th, 2022 - Raw Hoggin’ the Mammoth GEM

• Prep: Warm water and extra patience

• Brush: Zenith B36 “Copper Scrubby!”

• Razor: GEM (is truly outrageous) MMOC Gen 2

• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (sei)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Alive

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Alive Splash

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Alive Balm

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Day 6 Raw Hog Before and After

I really slept in today. Briefly woke up around 8ish, but went back to sleep and finally got up a bit before noon. Lazy day today, just some straightening up of the house. I think I am going to finally finish clearing out some junk from my home office/guest bedroom. It has become the place where clutter gets dumped.

Shaved earlier than normal today. Usually, I shave in the evening after work or after dinner. One advantage to having mostly white facial hair , I don’t get a 5 O’Clock shadow, so I look less scruffy with a day’s growth. Also, sometimes kids ask me if I’m Santa Claus 🎅. Shaving in the evening really frees up some time in the morning when I am getting ready for that long commute downstairs to my home office. Traffic can be pretty rough if the cats think they are underfed and want more food (they aren’t though, usually there is plenty left in their bowls.)

For todays shave, I might be a bit stingy with the soap, but looking at the tub, if I keep loading trying to get InstaYoutube levels of lather, the tub won’t make it to the 31st. I took a small scoop today and really tried to work it up on my face. I did reach a decent amount of well hydrated, but not runny, lather for the first pass. Second pass, not so much. I tried to squeeze out enough, but ended up loading about a pea sized bit of soap to get enough for a pass.

The GEM today really is starting to perform well. The feedback is smoothing out and second pass is feeling quite good. I think the blade has finished with the rough start, and now I hope it will last for the rest of the month or more. One thing I realized, when I mark the blade, I’ve been using a brown Sharpie. Those marks make it look like the blade is rusting in a pattern of dots below the spine.

The Mammoth set is going strong. I wonder which ingredients in the splash are settling at the bottom of the bottle. Got to remember, give it a good shake first. Today, I think my familiarity with the scent has finally let me get the fruit and floral notes up front. I really like this set, and will want to replace it when it is gone, but I need to kill 2-3 tubs before I buy another. Also, I would want a full set of Hygge sometime, but after the order for the 31mm sub exclusive boar brush, the den is closed for new software and hardware.

Happy Saturday everyone.