After seeing the march Madness Soap bracket that @Snowman94 started (Thread here); I was inspired to do my own also.
I had no intention of ever posting it on here, but with his encouragement I have decided to do a thread about mine. I wont have any cool pics, and a bunch of my bracket is already finished, so the write ups will be short and from memory.
Ground rules.
1. Same gear used for every matchup. Lupo 58, Yaqi purple haze, and a Wizamet blade.
2. I lather and shave one half of my face with each soap.
3. This is my bracket, and my results are only applicable to how I do things. If you get different results with the same soaps, then I encourage you to do your own bracket. You may find that a soap is better or worse performing than you remember.
I picked out 16 soaps, all with a different soap base. I don't see any point in trying multiple versions of the same soap base, as they should shave the same. The point of the bracket is to see how differently the soap bases perform for me, so I wanted to include as many different ones as possible and a 16 team bracket worked out well for me, and wont take me 3 months to complete.
I chose to do a double-elimination randomly seeded bracket. I have my favorites of course, but I am trying to be as open and fair to all soaps, so I let the bracket maker app put them in randomly, and went from there.
Here are the contenders in no particular order (listing because the app had a limit on name length, so some abbreviations may not make sense)
Tabac
Stirling Electric Sheep (Mutton base)
WSP Citrus Blast (Rustic base)
Razorock Caribbean Holiday
Stirling Pharos Dreamsicle
WSP Olympus (Formula T base)
Zingari Man Bon Monsieur (Sego base)
Seaforth Sea Ice Lime
Fine American Blend (older base, when they came as a puck in a cardboard box)
Razorock Mudder Focker
Noble Otter Neon Sun
Shannon's Soaps Pina Colada
Sudsy Soapery Bay & Citrus
B&M Nordost (Omnibus base)
Caties Bubbles Saturday Morning
A&E Kaizen (K2e base)
Computer generated bracket looks like this:
I had no intention of ever posting it on here, but with his encouragement I have decided to do a thread about mine. I wont have any cool pics, and a bunch of my bracket is already finished, so the write ups will be short and from memory.
Ground rules.
1. Same gear used for every matchup. Lupo 58, Yaqi purple haze, and a Wizamet blade.
2. I lather and shave one half of my face with each soap.
3. This is my bracket, and my results are only applicable to how I do things. If you get different results with the same soaps, then I encourage you to do your own bracket. You may find that a soap is better or worse performing than you remember.
I picked out 16 soaps, all with a different soap base. I don't see any point in trying multiple versions of the same soap base, as they should shave the same. The point of the bracket is to see how differently the soap bases perform for me, so I wanted to include as many different ones as possible and a 16 team bracket worked out well for me, and wont take me 3 months to complete.
I chose to do a double-elimination randomly seeded bracket. I have my favorites of course, but I am trying to be as open and fair to all soaps, so I let the bracket maker app put them in randomly, and went from there.
Here are the contenders in no particular order (listing because the app had a limit on name length, so some abbreviations may not make sense)
Tabac
Stirling Electric Sheep (Mutton base)
WSP Citrus Blast (Rustic base)
Razorock Caribbean Holiday
Stirling Pharos Dreamsicle
WSP Olympus (Formula T base)
Zingari Man Bon Monsieur (Sego base)
Seaforth Sea Ice Lime
Fine American Blend (older base, when they came as a puck in a cardboard box)
Razorock Mudder Focker
Noble Otter Neon Sun
Shannon's Soaps Pina Colada
Sudsy Soapery Bay & Citrus
B&M Nordost (Omnibus base)
Caties Bubbles Saturday Morning
A&E Kaizen (K2e base)
Computer generated bracket looks like this: