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🧹🧙Witchcrafts Wednesday: Lycanthropy 🐺 🌝
- Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Purple Hybrid 28mm Declaration Grooming B7 Badger Knot
- Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Ti
- Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless (Green) [11]
- Lather: Southern Witchcrafts - Lycanthropy - Soap (Vegan)
- Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts - Lycanthropy - Aftershave (Alcohol Free)
- Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Roman Spice - Eau de Toilette
It’s a bittersweet goodbye to the brand that first introduced me to the world of artisan wetshaving through Desairology. The unique scents from SW will always hold a special place in my shave den.
I’m truly happy to see Courtney and Stephen following their passions, and wish nothing but the best for them. They’ll definitely be missed!
Southern Farewell Wed 23 Apr 2025
- Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Tabak Oridjinal, now with 28 mm Gelousy knot
- Razor: Koraat – r/Wetshaving exclusive Moarteen (15/16", full hollow, carbon steel)
- Lather: Chiseled Face Groomatorium – Midnight Stag
- Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts and Chatillon Lux – La Forêt de Analingus for Excellence in Shitposting
- Fragrance: Southern Witchcrafts – Autumn Ash
Tonight, I’m paying tribute to Southern Witchcrafts and Dogwood, and particularly to u/phteven_j and u/kenzykat who have been an enormous positive force in our community. When I joined the sub back in 2020, Dogwood and SW were all over the sub; in the SOTDs, the side bar, the new products, the mail calls, the reviews. I was fascinated by the SW scents, tried tons of samples, marvelled at their bold weirdness and found favourites of mine like Autumn Ash (the first SW scent I tried IIRC), Pomona, and Carpathia (and some I couldn’t get behind, but that’s baked in the concept). Phteven was also all over the sub with his endearingly unhinged but insightful comments, in the summer of 2021 his portal made the Lather Games sustainable, and the podcast made them a truly unique community event like I’ve never seen in any online group. u/kenzykat’s 2021 .rip day video with Splendamommy is one of the funniest shit posts I know. To a new sub member, it seemed like they were involved in everything fun happening in the sub, from the order of the stag to crazy Lather Games prizes like La Forêt de Analingus. Dogwood brushes are among the prettiest I know and the Tabac themed custom handle Ptheven made for me is still my favourite splurge in this hobby. I always thought that someday, I’d also have a hybrid one made, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards anymore.
I’m truly grateful that I was around during Southern Witchcraft’s and Dogwood’s heyday and I cherish my software sets and brushes.
In today’s shave, I’m using my all-time favourite brush, the Tabak Oridjinal, and this is the first time ever it’s being used to lather anything other than Tabac Original. I wanted a simple handle that immediately evokes the design of the Stank Tank® and the iconic Stank splash bottles, and phteven absolutely nailed it. The colours match perfectly, the resin layers are clean, crisp, and precise, the proportions are perfect (to me) in their simplicity.
The soap, Midnight Stag is famously his favourite scent, so much so that he created The Ancient and Noble Order of Stag which was completed by 14 people each of which received a phandle for their effort. The intensity of the stag craze may have relented a bit in recent years in the sub, but it remained the second-most used soap in 2024, in large parts due to the Order.
The post is a one-off Lather Games prize that SW and CL made for the 2021 games, and the fact that it exists blows my mind every time I think about it. It’s a gigantic effort in terms of work and coordination to create such a set for a silly internet challenge, and I love everyone involved for making it happen. It’s people with this kind of commitment and creativity to “our” weird little thing here that makes this such a special place to me.
The frag, Autumn Ash was the first SW scent I ever tried and I loved it. Today I learned that Autumn Ash is also the first scent that SW worked on so that’s weirdly fitting.
I hesitated about the razor. First I thought I’d use a Red Tip to commemorate Phteven’s first SOTD, then a WR1 for his last (NSFW) SOTD, but in the end, SW and DW are about software and brushes, so I decided to keep at it with the Moarteen instead.
Lovely shave this, albeit with a slightly uncoordinated scentscape. Thanks SW/DW! I appreciate what you’ve done, and wish you all the best going forward ♥♥
Thanks for the extra history and context behind SW’s involvement with and participation in the community.
They were mostly absent in the time since I’ve started wetshaving. I’m sad to see them go, but I’m at least glad to have gotten the opportunity to use their stuff.
Quartidi 4 Floréal an 233 de la Révolution, jour d’Aubépine
- Brush: Muninn Woodworks Gloire de France with Zenith 505BC Boar 🐗
- Razor: Koraat 14.2 Straight Razor
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Tabac Original After Shave Lotion
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
I tried again Tabac, this time with a boar – which worked well enough. I went in rather dry, maybe that helped. In any case, I don’t have any talk based Tabac around, and I believe what I’m using is the OG vegan base (though I through away the packaging, so I cannot be sure).
Have a good evening!
My observation is that the vegan puck is more white and the tallow is more yellow.
Vegan, I guess?
This looks like tallow to me . The vegan one is very white.
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Brush: Zenith r/wetshaving Moar Boar w/ 31mm Boar
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Razor: Koraat Knives Moarteen straight razor
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Blade: n/a
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Lather: Australian Private Reserve - Fougere Trois
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Post Shave: Australian Private Reserve - Fougere Trois
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Fragrance: Australian Private Reserve - Fougere Trois
Day 23 of APRil, yolo’d my very first straight razor shave ever with the moarteen. 2 slices and 1 chunk cut, gonna youtube how to do this before I try again. I miss modern soaps, a month of APR soap is wearing me down
I’m glad to hear you enjoyed your first straight shave.
I had a bloody good time
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April 23, 2025 – MOAR WatchDay
- Brush: Zenith r/Wetshaving 31mm x 57mm Moar Boar
- Razor: Koraat 14 “Moarteen” 15/16" Full Hollow
- Lather: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch - Soap
- Aftershave: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch - Eau de Toilette
- Talc: Yardley Classic
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
Very enjoyable, but efficient shave today. I did not have a lot of time to dawdle.
April 23, 2025
- Brush: Chisel & Hound Cherry w/ v25 Fanchurian
- Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Ti
- Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
- Lather Zingari Man - The Navigator
- Post Shave: Zingari Man - The Navigator
I always forget how damn good ZM base is. What a wonderful shave this morning. Happy hump day to those who celebrate!
2025-04-23
- Pre Shave: American Crew Ultra Gliding Shave Oil
- Brush: Sir Marlon Grant - Amazons finest /s, my first brush that I return to from time to time
- Razor: Merkur 25C
- Lather: Taylor of Old Bond Street - Lime Zest
- Post Shave: Alaun & Nivea Men After Shave Protect & Care
Just a quick and standard post shower shave with no obligations afterwards so no fancy after shave or fragrance post shave.
my first brush that I return to from time to time
My first badger brush I bought on Amazon. Though cheap and cheerful, I still go back to it now and then.
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Purple Green Wed 23 Apr 2025
- Brush: Zenith – r/Wetshaving exclusive MOAR BOAR (31 mm × 57 mm bleached boar)
- Razor: Koraat – r/Wetshaving exclusive Moarteen (15/16", full hollow, carbon steel)
- Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps – Hungarian Lavender
- Post Shave: Chatillon Lux – Pure Lavender
- Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Man
I got this tub of Mike’s Hungarian Lavender from the very generous u/ElrdrormR. It’s a sharp, aromatic lavender that reminds me of the lavender part of CB Purple Grapefruit, which is to say it’s lovely. Even though I’ve had samples of Mike’s since 2021, I’ve tried it for the first time this February during AS2EB, so I’m still not used to how easily this soap lathers into dense, slick lather. The Moarteen slid through my whiskers like it was nothing on this lather.
And now, a long day of WFH with workers updating our 123 year old balcony to modern safety standards. They came earlier than scheduled, so I got to open the door with lather face. Good start.
- Brush: Semogue 610 Boar
- Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
- Blade: Personna P74 (71)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann, Zingari Man - Nocturne - Soap
- Post Shave: Chatillon Lux - Delor de Treget - Aftershave
Quite a nice shave. This little brush always surprises me with how effective it is.
