SOTD – Wed 23 Feb 2022
My Aussie Wednesday shave with Stuga Australia – COCONUT & FRESH LIME, a vegetal soap base made in NSW Southern Highlands (new workshop). Stuga, “stooga”, or “cottage” in Swedish, is to simplify and enhance daily life. Stuga is a family owned business, that have been designing and handcrafting functional wood, leather, wool, metal and Artisan products that first started at a store in Hobart, Tasmania 1986.
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Shave Result: Stuga soap is a hard soap, but not tripled milled and is pliable enough to scrape a quarter teaspoon sample from and squash in my lathering bowl. Had no problems generating a rich creamy lather with great performance and the lather and residual felt luxurious on the skin, however, the lather did start to breakdown a little at the end of the shave. Scent is a pleasant coconut forward scent with some lime background, scent strength about 5/10. The DSC T7-SE razor with the Wizamet was a mild smooth clean DFS (near BBS).
The Gear:
+ Pre Shave: Verde Glycerine Activated Charcoal bar soap (A)
+ Brush: Yaqi “Glacier” with 24mm 2Band Badger
+ Soap: Stuga Australia – COCONUT & FRESH LIME (A)
+ Bowl: Whispers from the Woods (A)
+ Razor: Dscosmetic T7-SE (Zamak Mamba clone) with Yaqi Lobster 90mm handle.
+ Blade: Wizamet Iridium (3)
+ Splash: TN Dickinsons Witch Hazel with menthol
+ Balm: Lucky Tiger Vanishing Cream
+ After Shave: Malizia UOMO Vetyver
+ Moisturiser: Sukin for Men Facial Moisturiser (A)
(A) = Australian Made
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