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AimlessWanderer
Remember to forget me!
Yes, this was the soap for today's shave.
No, this wasn't the brush for today's shave.
It was back to the Maggards 22mm synthetic brush in order to try this Grapefruit and Peach scented soap. The soap is soft, and the brush loaded very quickly indeed. It took very little time to produce a high performing, comfortable lather, and the razor sailed through it as effortlessly as with any of my other current lather choices.
The first scent I got was metallic, then a citrus and metallic edge, which further developed into grapefruit with a metallic twang to it. This stayed with me until maybe two thirds of the way through the first pass, before the unmistakeable second scent made it's appearance. Baby sick!
The baby sick scent, which is how artificial peach scents present to my nose, wasn't particularly prominent, and with the hope of letting my mind tune that out, I finished that pass, rinsed and lathered for a second pass. In doing so, the metallic grapefruit side of the scent came back to the front. Sadly, it didn't last as long before the infant puke reappeared, this time with a more pungent presence.
After the second pass, I rinsed off the residual lather and metallic grapefruit scent, leaving just the olfactory torment of regurgitated milk and Calpol. A healthy post-shave lathering of face, moustache, and goatee, with London Oatcake Mahogany was required, to exorcise the scent.
Thanks again for the PIF @Cal, and the reminder of one of the many reasons I never wanted kids, but I'm afraid I shall not be putting this on my face again
Sadly, due to having to batter the scent into submission with a different lather, I can't comment on the post shave feel of this soap.
Good performance. Shame about the scent.