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My Guess... 3017

SCS Mocchaccino Sample bit the dust today....
Will start the MdC challenge a day early on 1.31.2015


10.01.2012 to 10.25.2012 - SCS Pumpkin....will replace
10.26.2012 to 01.30.2013 - SCS Sandlewood....( Huge puck from Sue auctions) will replace
02.01.2013 to 03.16.2013 - Klar Siefient....
03.17.2013 to 03.24.2013 - Vintage Yardley....(just a small amount, Thanks Rudy) Damn I wish could replace this
03.25.2013 to 04.05.2013 - Klar Siefient....will not replace
04.06.2013 to 05.06.2013 - Vintage Colgate....Wished I could replace
05.07.2013 to 05.25.2013 - LaToja Manantiales....I would replace if I could.. I do have 1 more puck
05.26.2013 to 05.29.2013 - Sample SCS Mochaccino....Will most definitely buy
05.30.2013 to 05.31.2013 - Sample Provence Sante cream....Will Not Buy
06.01.2013 to 06.09.2013 - SCS Bay Rum with a twist.... Will Replace
06.10.2013 to 06.21.2013 - SCS Lime.... Will Replace
06.22.2013 to 07.03.2013 - SCS Oak Moss Lavendula....Maybe Replace
07.04.2013 to 07.19.2013 - SCS Coconut....Must Replace
07.20.2013 to 08.12.2013 - SCS Moss Lime... Not a lover
08.13.2013 to 09.04.2013 - SCS Mochaccino... A must replace
09.05.2013 to 09.22.2013 - SCS Bulgarian Lavendar... meh scent... ?
09.23.2013 to 09.27.2013 - Godrej Cream... Okay stuff.... not replace
09.28.2013 to 10.21.2013 - SCS Pumpkin First Puck Excellent should be on everybodies list!!
10.22.2013 to 11.20.2013 - SCS Pumpkin Second Puck
11.21.2013 to 12.15.2013 - Partial Latoja Manantiales
12.16.2013 to 01.24.2014 - SCS Sandlewood....A must replace
01.25.2014 to 03.06.2014 - SCS Mochaccino....A must replace
03.07.2014 to 04.08.2014 - SCS Coconut....A must replace
04.09.2014 to 05.05.2014 - SCS Fairway....A must replace
05.06.2014 to 06.14.2014 - SCS New Spice about 6 more shaves in it
06.15.2014 to 06.21.2014 - Stone Cottage Soap Premium Shave Cream..... Good stuff !!!!!!
06.21.2014 to 06.25.2014 - SCS New Spice... Will Replace
06.26.2014 to 07.13.2014 - SCS Lime
07.14.2014 to 07.18.2014 - Stone Cottage Soap Premium Shave Cream
07.19.2014 to 08.02.2014 - SCS Lime....Will replace
08.03.2014 to 08.16.2014 - SCS Refined plus Menthol.... Will Replace
08.17.2014 to 09.30.2014 - Stone Cottage Soapworks Coconut Holiday/ Fougere... Will Replace
10.01.2014 to 10.31.2014 - SCS Pumpkin !!...Fantastic !!!!
11.01.2014 to 11.27.2014 - Stone Cottage Soap Premium Shave Cream Pumpkin.. Will Replace
11.28.2014 to 01.12.2014 - SCS Mochaccino
01.13.2015 to 01.27.2015 - Stone Cottage Soap Premium Shave Cream
01.28.2015 to 01.30.2015 - SCS Mochaccino sample
01.31.2015 to 00.00.2015 - MDC




00.00.2015 to 00.00.2015 - SCS Fairway
00.00.2015 to 00.00.2015 - SCS
00.00.2015 to 00.00.2015 - SCS
00.00.2015 to 00.00.2015 - SCS
00.00.2015 to 00.00.2015 - SCS
 
Killed my 1/2 brick of ABCBA. Damn fine soap. Lasted about 9 weeks.

Starting my tour of the classics. First up, Tabac stick.
I'm getting about 7 shaves for every 10g piece so far. Not sure why I'm getting that type of mileage out of it as my other soft soap use is 3+g per shave.

Really enjoying it and like the ability to cut off as much as I want each time.
 
Finished Cade Thursday. It was a great soap for me and will be replaced. Next up are two 1 oz samples of MdC.
 
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I love the Cade scent. It's definitely in my top 5 scents.

Agree on both!

Here's the list.

L'Occitane Cade 1/29/2015
RazoRock The Freedberg 10/8/2014
Haslinger Ringelblumen (Stick) 7/2/2014
Art of Shaving Lavender (75%, Stick, Tallow) 4/24/2014
La Toja Stick - Travel shave stick 2/7/2014
RazoRock Chianti Lavender (Stick) 2/4/2014
Mystic Water Coconut (85%, Stick) 12/5/2013
Pre de Provence (60%, Stick) 11/2/2013
P160 Tipo Duro (~60 gm stick) 7/24/2013
DR Harris Arlington (Full puck as a Stick) 5/13/2013
Muhle Sea Buckthorn (Stick) 12/2/2012
Provence Sante Green Tea (Stick) 8/6/2012
Gold Dachs Rivivage 5/23/2012
Ralph Lauren Safari 3/14/2012
Mama Bear Dublin Tweed 12/4/2011
Van der Hagen Glycerin 11/2011
Cella 11/2011
Honeybee Clean for Men 6/2011
Honeybee Bay Rum 3/2011
Honeybee Ye Olde Barbershop 1/2011
Van der Hagen Glycerin 2010
Williams 2010
Van der Hagen Deluxe 2010
 
I'm still plugging away with PannaCrema Libanese. I used my L'Occitane Plisson brush today. I swear it lathers in half the time that it takes with my boars and badgers. I almost feel like I'm cheating when I use this brush.
 
It's time to begin my next 3017. I've worked through 4 samples and I'm ready to take on a full size product. I like beginning on the first of a month. Tomorrow I'll dive into Strop Shoppe Apples and Cinnamon from their holiday pack. It's a smaller 60 ml soap. It came in a nice, but small tub just like a mini version of the usual Strop Shoppe plastic tub. I transferred it to an empty MWF bowl to give myself some room to load.

It's REALLY soft! Like if you mixed 50/50 Cella and TOBS cream and could homogenize that, it's that soft. I'll have to be careful not to overload. Out of the tub it smells exactly like it says it does -- and it's a fairly strong scent strength at that. I'm not sure how much I'll enjoy smelling like this every day but given my run with the SS Bay Rum I'm guessing I'll have 3 weeks or so to figure that out. After this it's the 3/15 Ides of March Spring soap fest with Brian.

One last note, since late October I've been doing spice stuff -- Bay Rum, Spice Tea, Winter Spice, Spiced Citrus etc. etc. After this I'm so done with spice anything for a while it's not funny. Hard turn into herb/floral me thinks.

Here we go:



So far:

Soap/CreamFromTo
DRH Arlington2/1/143/28/14
Samples3/29/144/2/14
RR Don Marco4/3/144/23/14
Samples4/24/145/8/14
Nancy Boy5/9/147/8/14
QCS Vostok7/4/148/16/14
Samples8/17/148/31/14
Speicktember9/1/149/30/14
SCS Pumpkin10/1/1410/18/14
Samples10/19/1410/31/14
Strop Shoppe Bay Rum11/1/141/10/15
Samples1/11/151/31/15
Strop Shoppe Apple and Cinnamon2/1/15


edit to add -- Just realized tomorrow is my anniversary following the 3017 way. It's been a year 3017'ing all soaps and creams. It's become so natural I didn't even think about it. Thanks johnniegold!
 
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I'm still plugging away with PannaCrema Libanese. I used my L'Occitane Plisson brush today. I swear it lathers in half the time that it takes with my boars and badgers. I almost feel like I'm cheating when I use this brush.

That may be a good thing or a bad thing as it will take longer to go through product ;)
 
That may be a good thing or a bad thing as it will take longer to go through product ;)

That did occur to me. I've settled into a small, 3 brush rotation for the time being: 1 badger, 1 boar and 1 synthetic. I may pull out my trusty RR Amici and teach this soap a lesson :lol:
 
I finally gave the 3017 treatment to my 1997 F-150 extended cab. I purchased it new in 1997 and wouldn't you know it, 173,000 miles later the transmission gave out. $3000 replacement mininum, so I went and found an Izuzu Hombre (1998) with 67,671 actual miles for $2700. I hope to make it last another 18 years.
 
Alpine Frost will be done either today or tomorrow. Then it's on to another Strop Shoppe offering. I'm not sure which one yet, though; I have peppermint, barbershoppe, London morning and black tie. I'm leaning towards London morning but we'll see.
 

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Now half as wise
Started the MdC Challenge on schedule! I might have bee able to wring one more shave from the tube of LaToja but didn't try.

This was my first use of the MdC and it will take some time to dial in. First shave was good but not great, but it was the same with PdP. Actually went back to the jar for the third pass and that was fantastic. Not to self-Load more

Arlington (80+%) 8 Oct 2012 to 13 Jan 2013 Note there were 4 travel shaves and about 10 shaves finishing a tub of Mr. Taylor's Cream.
TFS Rose (32g) 14 Jan 2013 to 31 Jan 2013
Valobra stick (51g) 1 Feb 2013 to 6 March 2013
Haslinger Coconut (60g) 7 March 2013 to 26 April 2013
Arlington Cream (weight tbd) 27 March to 10 Aug 2013 Used to make superlather. Especially nice with AOS Unscented
AOS tallow unscented added (75g) 8 May to 18 July 2013 61 shaves, taking out the days I was traveling
QCS Vostok 19 July 2013 to 4 Sept 2013 (44 shaves)
Valobra Menthol 5 Sept 2013 to 12 Oct 2013 33 shaves. The rest were travel days.
Tabac 13 Oct 2013 to 31 Dec 2013 77+ shaves. There were 2 or 3 left that got moved to the Frankensoap tub.
AOS Sandalwood (new formula) 1 Jan 2014 to 14 April 2014 92 shaves
Trumpers Violet 15 April 2014 to 12 June 2014 55 shaves/75 grams of soap
Pre de Provence 13 June 2014 to 19 Dec 2014
174 total shaves
LaToja cream 20 Dec 2014 to 31 Jan 2015 43 shaves (partial tube)
Martin de Candre 1 Feb 2015 to ???
 
So does it count as 3017 if I have one soap at a time, but take the occasional (once or twice a month) day off and use something else? The Palmolive is calling to me, but I know 2 months (I shave on alternate days) is too much to ignore some of my other soaps and creams.
 
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