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TSC’s International Man of Meh
After nearly 2 years 3017ing some P.160 and then about a week with a Mystic Water sample, Shaving Yeti's Mamacita on the Rocks represents my first run with a new soap in what seemed like forever. A long, loving forever, but still "forever" nonetheless. 
It's a glycerin melt'n'pour base with a scent that really does smell like a margarita and you can see from the photo below that it contains Triple Sec and Tequila (more on that later). Don't worry about the quantity in the container as I filled my shave stick container with the soap prior to starting to use the remnants of the puck.
SCENT: The scent is great! The quick punch'o'lime to the face upon opening and while loading the brush quickly fades into a comfortable and not overpowering scent while face lathering, with just enough menthol to provide a cooling but not freezing effect. A very nice job done on this aspect IMO.
LATHER: Being a big fan of Mama Bear soaps, I have no issue with glycerin soaps and do not subscribe to the "Tallow is best" mantra. To me, a good soap is a good soap, however it was made. As expected, a quick and easy loading on a semi-dry brush (so far, I have used a horse and a boar) results in a nice and thick paste which then explodes into lather on the face. It's hard to add too much water when face lathering, as you get to know the limit of what your lather can hold fairly quickly. The nice and slick creamy goodness provided wonderful glide, but near the end of pass-1 it was easy to notice that the base of my neck was starting to dry out; it wasn't flaky soap yet, but visibly starting to dry out and thicken up.
Pass-2 was a surprise, as what was a full brush'o'lather after applying pass-1 was now strangely appearing to be MIA. A thin coating is all that I could apply and adding some water to the brush didn't help to rehydrate it very much at all. Hmmm. I held off on writing my review until I used my boar for a few shaves to see if it was an issue with the wonderful @Graydog horse that I have, but it was the same with my boar. Not good at all. Even switching from puck-loading to over-applying to my face with the shave stick I made had the same results for the 1st and 2nd passes.
SUMMARY: The scent on this soap is great; it has an excellent combination of a resort margarita and just the right amount of menthol to make it truly enjoyable. Alas, coming back to my opening comment about the Triple Sec and Tequila being in the mix, I have to think that there is something from those ingredients that is affecting the lather's stability and has drastically shortened its half-life. This makes the soap usable for a quick single-pass shave but it's simply too frustrating to see a full brush-load of lather evaporate/collapse/disappear between passes.
VERDICT: Pass on this one.
It's a glycerin melt'n'pour base with a scent that really does smell like a margarita and you can see from the photo below that it contains Triple Sec and Tequila (more on that later). Don't worry about the quantity in the container as I filled my shave stick container with the soap prior to starting to use the remnants of the puck.
SCENT: The scent is great! The quick punch'o'lime to the face upon opening and while loading the brush quickly fades into a comfortable and not overpowering scent while face lathering, with just enough menthol to provide a cooling but not freezing effect. A very nice job done on this aspect IMO.
LATHER: Being a big fan of Mama Bear soaps, I have no issue with glycerin soaps and do not subscribe to the "Tallow is best" mantra. To me, a good soap is a good soap, however it was made. As expected, a quick and easy loading on a semi-dry brush (so far, I have used a horse and a boar) results in a nice and thick paste which then explodes into lather on the face. It's hard to add too much water when face lathering, as you get to know the limit of what your lather can hold fairly quickly. The nice and slick creamy goodness provided wonderful glide, but near the end of pass-1 it was easy to notice that the base of my neck was starting to dry out; it wasn't flaky soap yet, but visibly starting to dry out and thicken up.
Pass-2 was a surprise, as what was a full brush'o'lather after applying pass-1 was now strangely appearing to be MIA. A thin coating is all that I could apply and adding some water to the brush didn't help to rehydrate it very much at all. Hmmm.
I held off on writing my review until I used my boar for a few shaves to see if it was an issue with the wonderful @Graydog horse that I have, but it was the same with my boar. Not good at all. Even switching from puck-loading to over-applying to my face with the shave stick I made had the same results for the 1st and 2nd passes.SUMMARY: The scent on this soap is great; it has an excellent combination of a resort margarita and just the right amount of menthol to make it truly enjoyable. Alas, coming back to my opening comment about the Triple Sec and Tequila being in the mix, I have to think that there is something from those ingredients that is affecting the lather's stability and has drastically shortened its half-life. This makes the soap usable for a quick single-pass shave but it's simply too frustrating to see a full brush-load of lather evaporate/collapse/disappear between passes.
VERDICT: Pass on this one.
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