Above you see the unopened package from Fitjar Såpekokeri: printed box, custom label, and a leaflet providing background information: intention of fragrance and its components, along with a list of ingredients.
Fitjar Såpekokeri sent both a shaving soap and shaving cream. Here is the box opened:
I chose an Omega boar brush, one of two commonly named “the Mighty Midget.” I’ll discuss the soap and lather in detail in Monday post, following the Sharpologist summary. But I can certainly say now that the lather was totally shaveworthy, and I am the happy owner of a BBS face, thanks to the Elite Razors version of the Edwin Jagger: a jasper handle with the EJ head, which in this case holds a Swedish Gillette blade.
Three easy passes, no nicks, and very smooth action. I really should use my EJs more often: the head is very nice.
A good splash of La Toja aftershave (couldn’t locate my Speick splash until the shave was done, so that’s up for tomorrow).
Topic change:
Mama Bear is apparently closing her online shop at the end of the year: mamabearssoaps.com. She plans to sell through Amazon, but I am taking this as a call for a good-sized order. Someone on WE was surprised to find that there were coffee-fragranced shaving soaps. I suspect his surprise is because he’s looked only at mainline shaving soaps (TOBS, D.R. Harris, Geo. F. Trumper, and so on), and those are not in a position to provide unusual fragrances: they have to stick to the mainstream. That’s one reason I like artisanal shaving soaps and creams. (The other reasons are that it’s not unusual to get superb performance at a modest price, though of course the occasional artisan doesn’t understand shaving and sells something as a shaving soap that simply does not work. Mama Bear soaps, along with those from other artisans, do work well.)
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