My Personal Blend

[Graybeard57]

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I saved the dregs of every soap I used for I don't know how long and put them in an empty Stirling container. This is the reverse order they were put in. I think I'm dipping into some Mike's Honeysuckle now. You can see the layers in the photo. Great soap, with wonderful aromas.

Fine L'Orange Noir
Local Gent Tobacco Lounge
Local Gent California Barbershop
Fine Santal Absolut
Mike's Honeysuckle
B$M Seville
L&L Cuir et Epices
L&L Bandwagon
Fine American Barbershop
Mike's Lime
CRSW Spiced Amber

 

[dangerousdon]

That's awesome!

I've been working on my special blend for a couple years now.

 

[clyde72]

Interesting!

 

[Graybeard57]

It may be the easiest and best lathering soap I've ever used. Thick and creamy every time. ?

 

[dangerousdon]

It may be the easiest and best lathering soap I've ever used. Thick and creamy every time.

All the best qualities of...well all of them!

 

[Spider]

Dregs? Are you squeezing your brush lather into that container?

 

[Graybeard57]

Dregs? Are you squeezing your brush lather into that container?

Well, no, but there is residual lather in the container! I try not to whip up more than I need for one shave.

 

[Spider]

Well, no, but there is residual lather in the container! I try not to whip up more than I need for one shave.

no, I don’t understand. What are dregs? How did you make your soap blend?

 

[GearNoir]

Pretty cool idea! Hopefully the pinkish color it has acquired isn’t simply mildew...?

 

[Quijote]

no, I don’t understand. What are dregs? How did you make your soap blend?

I am thinking the dregs are just when it gets low enough that it gets hard to get enough loaded onto the brush.

 

[Graybeard57]

Don, you are right. I hate wasting perfectly good slivers of soap, but it's frustrating trying to whip up enough to shave, so I just scrape them out, put 'em in the big old green tub, and open the next puck. When it finally got full, I started using it, about a month ago.

 

[Graybeard57]

Pretty cool idea! Hopefully the pinkish color it has acquired isn’t simply mildew...

Hey, Queen Charlotte was pink! That hue must be the effect of the lighting, as it doesn't look pink in person. Whenever I added a sliver I'd leave the tub uncovered till it hardened, so no mildew.

 

[Spider]

I hate wasting perfectly good slivers of soap.

I'm not really sure what slivers of soap are..... LOL. (I think I have too much soap).

 

[Graybeard57]

I'm not really sure what slivers of soap are..... LOL. (I think I have too much soap).

Ha! Well, around here I'm sure I'm in the minority. I use one soap at a time.

 

[Quijote]

(I think I have too much soap).

Blasphemy!

 

[Dave in KY]

Kinda like an "Infinity Bottle" for bourbon. I like the idea and will have to give this a try. Thanks for the idea!

 

[Graybeard57]

I like the fact I don't get frustrated at the end of a container, and waste no soap. I'm "frugal".

 

[dangerousdon]

I actually do something similar. The last tiny bits of samples and tubs or parts of soaps I just don't care for...they all go int a container in hopes that someday I will fill it up to create my own "Franken-Soap."

 

[Graybeard57]

I actually do something similar. The last tiny bits of samples and tubs or parts of soaps I just don't care for...they all go int a container in hopes that someday I will fill it up to create my own "Franken-Soap."

That'll work. ?