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My Guess... 3017

I saw the bottom of my tub of Razorock XXX this morning. Should only last another month or so.
I opened it about two weeks ago and discovered that it had totally dried out. I decided to rehydrate it and 3017 it. I've got the lather dialed in and have to say it's a better soap than I thought.


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I added two drops of Peppermint essential oil to Haslinger Coconut for the second pass this morning. I forgot how great Peppermint oil smells and feels! Wakes you right up! On the other hand, the lather suffered greatly. I will try again with only one drop after loading more soap.
 
My minimalist travel kit (shaving cream + Sensor cart) got restocked with a tube of Kent shaving cream that has been sitting unused in back stock for ages. Works great. Interesting scent beyond the menthol.
 
Haslinger coconut did just fine with one drop of Peppermint oil and a little longer load time this morning. Same great lather with a fresh kick.
 
Back from vacation where I was reminded how much I like Proraso blue, current tube in the travel bag. Just a great product for me. But now that I am back I have to get serious about my next project. After much deliberation I have chosen.

New vegan formula sandalwood.
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I think have 10 pucks of Haslinger, about time I used some :001_rolle


Back in early August I posted this with the intention of using Haslinger but it never happened. I was rotating CB Glace Herbe to beat the heat but didn't think I had the commitment to finish off the entire 8 oz tub. Well the heat stuck around and so the CBs. It was probably a little over 80% when I started and it’s getting the full 3017 treatment. Here it is today after I mashed it back down since there was a serious hole formed in the center.

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This puck looks like it's actually broken rather than dried out, no? This would always happen with MWF for me; other than aesthetically it's no prob.
You’re right. I had actually started using the puck like a stick. That morning, I stood the puck on end in the scuttle, intending to rub only that part of the puck on my whiskers, and that happened. It’s performing just fine in its new container. The top of the puck cracks between shaves, like MWF.
 
Unseasonably warm and humid weather has visited the region the past few days and looks to stick around a bit longer.
MdC Agrumes is becoming my go to soap while transitioning to the next 3017. I've been loading a bit heavier than usual and the result has been a string of heavenly shaves. I'm tempted to just make this jar my next 3017 attempt, but I know when the cold weather drops down from Canada I'll start jonesing for a tallow based soap.
 
Not sure if this classifies as "progress" or not but I am currently 3017ing my way through a Vitos Extra Super Coco brick. When I bought it I thought it was a 1kg block but it turns out it is only 1000ml. I cut off a chunk and put it into an empty soap container and yesterday I finished off the first 253.4 grams and today was the start of the second loading of the container. So I kind of finished a soap without actually finishing it... For those keeping score the first 253.4 grams provided 208 shaves.

Start Finish Soap
2014.05.31 - 2014.07.09 (40) Edwin Jagger Sandlewood Shaving Cream (100ml)
2014.07.10 - 2014.09.03 (56) RazoRock XXX (125ml)
2014.09.04 - 2014.11.13 (71) Proraso Shaving Cream Soap Menthol and Eucalyptus (150g)
2014.11.14 - 2015.01.31 (79) RazoRock Classic (150ml)
2015.02.01 - 2015.05.23 (112) Martin De Candre Savon à raser Fougère (200g)
2015.05.24 - 2015.06.03 (11) New York Shaving Company Elizabeth Street (65g)
2015.06.04 - 2015.09.13 (102) Shaving Yeti Colombian Necktie (125ml)
2015.09.14 - 2015.12.01 (79) Martin De Candre Savon à raser Le Domino (60g)
2015.12.02 - 2017.02.02 (428) D.R. Harris Marlborough (100g)
2017.02.03 - 2017.04.13 (69) Taylor of Old Bond Street Shaving Cream Tube, Sandalwood, (75ml)
2017.04.14 - 2017.05.09 (26) Musgo Real Lavender (3.4 oz)
2017.05.10 - 2017.06.22 (44) Bigalow Shave cream (5.2 oz)
2017.06.23 - 2017.09.12 (82) Shaving Yeti Yeti Snot (125ml)
2017.09.13 - 2017.12.27 (106) Barrister & Mann Leviathan (4oz)
2017.12.28 - 2018.04.07 (99) TVBshaving Lebelle Soaps - Puer Vetiver LE Tallow
2018.04.09 - 2018.07.21 (104) Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements - Malbolge
2018.07.22 - 2018.10.14 (85) Sudsy Soapery Sandalwood and Myrrh (5.5oz)
2018.10.15 - 2019.02.20 (129) Maggard Razors Platinum Soap Tobacco and Leather (4oz)
2019.02.21 - 2019.09.17 (208) Vitos Shaving Soap Block - Extra Super Coco (A)
2019.09.18 - xxxx.xx.xx (1) Vitos Shaving Soap Block - Extra Super Coco (B)

After the Vitos is finished I only have 58 more soaps to work through

Ruckin.
 

rockviper

I got moves like Jagger
2 month's in on my TTFFC Sue Moore Pink Grapefruit and it is coming to an end .... thankfully. This morning, I transmogrified the donut into a "Florida mountain" (i.e. a slight hump :001_tongu). Bear in mind that is is a 5 oz soap that will last about 9 weeks. I normally get 3 month's from a 4 oz puck, but having to reload between passes due to disappearing lather means that the normal forecast of 4 months for a 5 oz puck have pretty much been cut in half.

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2 month's in on my TTFFC Sue Moore Pink Grapefruit and it is coming to an end .... thankfully. This morning, I transmogrified the donut into a "Florida mountain" (i.e. a slight hump :001_tongu). Bear in mind that is is a 5 oz soap that will last about 9 weeks. I normally get 3 month's from a 4 oz puck, but having to reload between passes due to disappearing lather means that the normal forecast of 4 months for a 5 oz puck have pretty much been cut in half.

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Mirrors my experience with this soap except you had far more patience than I. I don’t recall if I binned it or PIFd it but I don’t think it made 2 weeks in my den.
 

rockviper

I got moves like Jagger
"Patient"...... Yeah, I'll take that.
I've been called much worse in the dedication to 3017ing, especially with bad soaps.
 
My time with the Palmolive menthol cream is coming to an end. Maybe 2 or 3 more shaves. Light scent. Just right amount of menthol. It could take a ton of water. I traveled with it multiple times and it never performed any differently with different water. Just a great all around cream.

Next up, and the final cream in my year of creams, will be a travel tube of Bigelow. I want to compare with the Palmolive while the Palmolive is fresh in my mind. I have other creams but I am so sick of creams I can't stand the idea of doing any more after the bigelow. I want to enjoy the creams I have left, not dread them, so they'll go back into the stash to be pulled out when I can enjoy them for what they are.

I 3017'd a few things while I worked through the Palmolive. First was a Maggards sample bottle of Myrsol blue. Then I finished off about half a bottle of Fine Snakebite and about a quarter tube of 444. Since the Fine has no skincare ingredients I'd put a pea size dollop of 444 in my palm, pour the snakebite on top and mix them up. Worked great.

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OkieStubble

Dirty Donuts are so Good.
Finished off two sticks of Arko today, that I had grated up together in a small plastic round container with a lid several years ago. Next 3017 project will be the last of a L'Occitane Cade puck. That triple milled soap is pretty hard so may take a minute or two.
 
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