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Presenting the July 2023 Lather Log, or I'm Not Late, I Like to Build Suspense in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

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Presenting the July 2023 Lather Log, or I'm Not Late, I Like to Build Suspense (sub.wetshaving.social)

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And here is the July edition of the Lather Log, the monthly report from the Wetshaving community ([email protected]) and r/Wetshaving on the soaps, creams, and occasional other stuff we use in our shaves of the day. If you like this sort of thing, please check out r/sotdreports for previous iterations of software & hardware SOTD reports, all the way back to December of 2018.

As always, the data in this report comes from our daily SOTD posts, excluding duplicate and deleted posts. If you used more than one soap/cream/whatever, only one gets noted in my data. Usually it's pretty clear, but every once in a while nobody knows what you used, and I put it down as unknown.

With the Lather Games pushed back a month, July was a relative flurry of SOTD posts. And with the Games encouraging people to bring out the odd ones out, we saw well over fifty new brands used this month. Of course, not all those brands intended their products to be used in a shave. Others, maybe, but surely not as lather.

So we saw a total of 2,697 shaves posted in these two communities in July; 2,649 on Reddit, and 48 on Lemmy. That adds up to 956 more shaves than were posted in June, albeit from 13 fewer authors. So each author posted a mean of 18.35 shaves over the month, which is 7.47 more than May, and 87 shaves per day (28.97 more than May's mean per day).

Category	Jul. 2023	Change from Jun.	Jun. 2023	May. 2023	Apr. 2023	Mar. 2023	Feb. 2023
Total Shaves	2,697	+956	1,741	2,156	2,188	2,487	2,271
Unique Authors	147	-13	160	164	179	187	186
Mean Shaves per Author	18.35	+7.47	10.88	13.15	12.22	13.30	12.21
Unique Soapmakers	249	+98	151	167	162	134	146
Unique Scents	1,037	+401	636	688	660	617	641
Single Use Scents	597	+266	331	335	333	278	302

The most shaves posted in one day was 99 on Sunday, July 2nd, 72 of which were in the Lather Games thread, 24 in the regular old Reddit thread, and another 3 were unique to the Lemmy thread. The fewest shaves posted in one day was 56 on Sunday, July 31st, I guess as everyone was pooped after the Games, where 54 of these were in the Reddit thread, and only 2 unique to the Lemmy thread.

Weekday	Mean July Shaves for Weekday	Mean June Shaves for Weekday	Mean May Shaves for Weekday	Mean April Shaves for Weekday	Mean March Shaves for Weekday	Mean February Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in July	Total Shaves in July
Sunday	86.20	52.25	59.00	70.40	72.50	71.00	5	431
Monday	83.60	60.50	71.00	75.75	84.50	83.75	5	418
Tuesday	88.50	51.25	73.00	75.75	82.75	87.00	4	354
Wednesday	87.75	66.75	75.20	72.75	84.20	90.75	4	351
Thursday	89.75	60.40	72.00	72.50	83.80	78.25	4	359
Friday	88.25	61.00	72.00	75.75	77.60	85.75	4	353
Saturday	86.20	52.75	62.00	69.20	75.00	71.25	5	431
Overall	87.00	58.03	69.55	72.93	80.23	81.11	31	2,697

Thanks in part to Almonday, Cella tops the charts for July.

Jul. 2023 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	Jun. Uses	May. Uses	Apr. Uses	Mar. Uses	Feb. Uses	Change in Ranking from Jun.
Cella - Cella	42 (40)	13 (9)	14 (9)	10 (7)	5 (3)	8 (6)	^ 18 (back in the top ten)
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime	39 (31)	35 (15)	29 (14)	41 (25)	17 (14)	27 (17)	-
Martin de Candre - Vetyver	35 (5)	27 (1)	33 (2)	6 (4)	3 (2)	2 (1)	-
Proraso - Sandalwood	29 (22)	19 (8)	17 (6)	15 (11)	12 (5)	16 (9)	^ 1
Tabac - Original	25 (19)	37 (19)	45 (14)	37 (16)	14 (10)	40 (18)	v 4
Arko - Arko	22 (20)	4 (3)	16 (5)	6 (6)	6 (4)	16 (8)	^ 86 (back in the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Le Grand Chypre	22 (22)	17 (9)	7 (7)	14 (9)	8 (5)	11 (7)	^ 3
Barrister and Mann - Seville	22 (15)	13 (11)	38 (20)	47 (18)	40 (13)	44 (16)	^ 13 (back in the top ten)
Catie's Bubbles - Tonsorial Parlour	21 (1)	0 (0)	2 (1)	2 (2)	0 (0)	1 (1)	^ 592 (new to the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Adagio	20 (10)	8 (5)	2 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 22 (new to the top ten)
Noble Otter - Orbit	20 (16)	8 (7)	11 (8)	7 (6)	6 (6)	10 (6)	^ 22 (back in the top ten)

Dropped from the top ten since June:

Barrister and Mann - Figarose
House of Mammoth - Alive
House of Mammoth - Shire
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch
Summer Break Soaps - Rope Swing
Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag

While the Lather Games shake up this list a little, it's mostly diluting the top ten by encouraging the use of less often seen brands.

Jul. 2023 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of Jun. Shaves	% of May. Shaves	% of Apr. Shaves	% of Mar. Shaves	% of Feb. Shaves	Change from Jun.	Total Jul. Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Barrister and Mann	8.8%	14.1%	13.4%	16.3%	9.9%	15.0%	-	238
Stirling Soap Co.	7.7%	9.4%	9.0%	9.4%	44.2%	13.1%	-	209
Declaration Grooming	4.8%	4.1%	4.4%	5.3%	3.9%	6.1%	^ 2	129
Noble Otter	4.5%	5.0%	5.3%	5.2%	3.4%	6.7%	-	122
Catie's Bubbles	4.0%	2.3%	2.0%	2.0%	0.9%	2.3%	^ 8 (back in the top ten)	107
House of Mammoth	3.8%	6.5%	9.6%	7.2%	3.7%	7.4%	v 3	103
Southern Witchcrafts	3.7%	2.6%	2.2%	2.0%	1.5%	2.2%	^ 3	101
Chiseled Face	2.8%	2.9%	1.7%	2.6%	2.0%	2.5%	^ 1	75
Spearhead Shaving Company	2.7%	3.8%	3.5%	5.0%	2.3%	3.6%	v 3	74
Zingari Man	2.6%	2.4%	1.7%	1.5%	1.0%	1.2%	^ 2 (back in the top ten)	69

Dropped from the top ten since June:

Ariana & Evans
Summer Break Soaps
Proraso

Black Ship Grooming makes the most prolific list for the first time!

Jul. 2023 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in Jul.	Scents used in Jun.	Scents used in May.	Scents used in Apr.	Scents used in Mar.	Scents used in Feb.	Change in Rank from Jun.
Stirling Soap Co.	62	59	66	56	96	71	-
Barrister and Mann	51	53	48	52	50	52	-
Declaration Grooming	49	35	37	38	32	42	-
Catie's Bubbles	35	21	19	20	13	23	^ 2
Ariana & Evans	32	34	38	32	29	26	v 1
Noble Otter	25	17	18	19	18	18	^ 3
Talent Soap Factory	25	23	23	24	21	10	v 1
Zingari Man	24	18	16	13	14	12	-
Wholly Kaw	23	19	18	16	16	15	v 2
Black Ship Grooming Co.	22	4	3	5	3	5	^ 17 (new to the top ten)
Southern Witchcrafts	22	14	12	14	15	14	^ 3 (back in the top ten)

Dropped from the top ten since June:

Chiseled Face
House of Mammoth
Grooming Department

Nobody dropped from the top ten since May.

Only thirty four every day shavers in July 2023.

Every Day Shavers for July 2023:

u/35048467
u/alg82
u/chronnoisseur42O
u/Crisp_Mango
u/djundjila
u/el_charminman
u/EldrormR
u/Environmental-Gap380
u/Eructate
u/gcgallant
u/glink48
u/hairykopite
u/Impressive_Donut114
u/InfernalInternal
u/jeffm54321
u/jwoods23
u/loudmusicboy
u/Madflava81
u/Marquis90
u/OnionMiasma
u/oswald_heist
u/partyman97_3
u/pridetwo
u/Priusaurus
u/rebdoomer88
u/RedMosquitoMM
u/sahenders
u/scribe__
u/souleater7173
u/Tetriside
u/tsrblke
u/USS-SpongeBob
u/whosgotthepudding
u/worbx

Weekly Questions Thread (Newbie Friendly) - Aug 28, 2023 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also, thanks for making the questions thread weekly! Otherwise I might have missed this entirely since I'm not on the community every day anymore. :)

Weekly Questions Thread (Newbie Friendly) - Aug 28, 2023 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hah, thanks, yeah, I'm still around. Just busy enough that I haven't written up the next reports. The daily SOTD threads help because not everyone puts a date in their SOTD posts. A lot of them are backdated after the fact; people may go a week or so without posting then post a bunch all at once. Daily threads mean that's organized in such a way that I can count someone as an every day shaver even if they didn't actually post every day, on that day.

Presenting the June 2023 Lather Log, or Breaking Up is Hard to Do in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably not any dumber; maybe just less experienced! :)

Configuring these bots can also get pretty complicated!

Presenting the June 2023 Lather Log, or Breaking Up is Hard to Do in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While it added to the time spent, that was the most fun part of this.

But it didn't help that I started writing my own client from scratch, then reverted that in favor of a third party library... then decided I wasn't happy with it after all, and dropped that in favor of rewriting my own client from scratch all over again. :)

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Presenting the June 2023 Lather Log, or Breaking Up is Hard to Do (sub.wetshaving.social)

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In the words of djundjila, "where did July go so fast?"

But here we are with another edition of the Lather Log, the monthly report from sub.wetshaving.social and r/Wetshaving on the soaps, creams, and occasional other stuff we use in our shaves of the day. If you like this sort of thing, please check out r/sotdreports for previous iterations of software & hardware SOTD reports, all the way back to December of 2018.

As always, the data in this report comes from our daily SOTD posts, excluding duplicate and deleted posts. If you used more than one soap/cream/whatever, only one gets noted in my data. Usually it's pretty clear, but sometimes you just won't tell us what you're using, and I end up recording it as unknown. Sometimes you're guessing, and you know what? I'll take it. And the sometimes, if you not only don't mention anything in the post, but also include a picture with no lather product, I'll take your word for it that you used nothing, not even water.

So, June. It was a month for meeting up, and blacking out. Hmm, that might sound bad, out of context. Of course I mean the Maggard Meet at Maggard Razors, and the r/Wetshaving blackout to protest Reddit's new API terms. There was also the creation of the Wetshaving community on sub.wetshaving.social, and a bit of a breakup in the community: some people even after the blackout are posting there exclusively.

So I included SOTDs from Lemmy this month... this took far longer than it should have. I also want to not count duplicates, and on top of work to pull data from Lemmy in a compatible format, this month at least I sunk in a lot of time manually checking, reconciling usernames, and removing duplicate entries. I'm sure I missed some, especially amongst people who posted on both but with completely different usernames not obviously connected. Even for those obviously connected, I dunno that I'm going to keep building a custom map between platforms... well, it's already time to start on the July report, but that'll be overwhelmingly Lather Games posts, and Lemmy activity dropped off quite a bit.

In other news, June saw lather products from only two brands new to the Lather Log: a soap from Rex Supply Co., and shaving cream from Schick.

Probably in no small part due to the blackout, June saw a huge drop in shaves posted, even accounting for Lemmy. We saw 1,741 shaves posted, which is 415 fewer than in May (132 of those were only posted on Lemmy, so Reddit's drop was 547 shaves). That's 58.03 shaves posted each day, which is 11.52 fewer than in May. Across both communities, I think there were probably 160 active SOTD authors, which is probably 4 fewer than in May, and each author posted a mean of 10.88 shaves in June (this is 2.27 below May's mean per author).

Category	June 2023	Change from May	May 2023	Apr. 2023	Mar. 2023	Feb. 2023	Jan. 2023
Total Shaves	1,741	-415	2,156	2,188	2,487	2,271	2,227
Unique Authors	160	-4	164	179	187	186	175
Mean Shaves per Author	10.88	-2.27	13.15	12.22	13.30	12.21	12.73
Unique Soapmakers	166	-24	190	181	153	163	167
Unique Scents	636	-52	688	660	617	641	654
Single Use Scents	331	-4	335	333	278	302	332

The most shaves posted in one day was 83 on Wednesday, June 7th, which is the same as the last two months' maximum (the Lemmy community wasn't quite up yet, so this was all on Reddit). The fewest shaves posted in one day was 32 on Tuesday, June 13th, in the middle of the Reddit blackout. Of these, 23 were unique to the Lemmy post, while 9 people went back to Reddit after the blackout to post in the Reddit thread.

Weekday	Mean June Shaves for Weekday	Mean May Shaves for Weekday	Mean April Shaves for Weekday	Mean March Shaves for Weekday	Mean February Shaves for Weekday	Mean January Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in June	Total Shaves in June
Sunday	52.25	59.00	70.40	72.50	71.00	64.60	4	209
Monday	60.50	71.00	75.75	84.50	83.75	75.20	4	242
Tuesday	51.25	73.00	75.75	82.75	87.00	77.40	4	205
Wednesday	66.75	75.20	72.75	84.20	90.75	73.00	4	267
Thursday	60.40	72.00	72.50	83.80	78.25	73.00	5	302
Friday	61.00	72.00	75.75	77.60	85.75	71.75	5	305
Saturday	52.75	62.00	69.20	75.00	71.25	67.50	4	211
Overall	58.03	69.55	72.93	80.23	81.11	71.84	30	1,741

We welcome Figarose to the top ten scents, Midnight Stag makes a non-contest-related appearance, and Seville drops from the list for the first time since August.

June 2023 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	May Uses	Apr. Uses	Mar. Uses	Feb. Uses	Jan. Uses	Change in Ranking from May
Tabac - Original	37 (19)	45 (14)	37 (16)	14 (10)	40 (18)	38 (14)	-
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime	35 (15)	29 (14)	41 (25)	17 (14)	27 (17)	33 (19)	^ 4
Martin de Candre - Vetyver	27 (1)	33 (2)	6 (4)	3 (2)	2 (1)	0 (0)	-
Barrister and Mann - Figarose	23 (2)	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (2)	^ 685 (new to the top ten)
House of Mammoth - Alive	19 (10)	30 (14)	23 (13)	10 (5)	13 (8)	8 (5)	-
Proraso - Sandalwood	19 (8)	17 (6)	15 (11)	12 (5)	16 (9)	9 (6)	^ 10 (back in the top ten)
House of Mammoth - Shire	18 (10)	31 (16)	28 (18)	9 (6)	4 (4)	5 (3)	v 3
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch	18 (11)	27 (12)	38 (19)	20 (10)	25 (14)	32 (12)	^ 1
Summer Break Soaps - Rope Swing	17 (5)	28 (6)	6 (4)	1 (1)	1 (1)	0 (0)	v 2
Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag	17 (3)	8 (7)	7 (5)	5 (4)	5 (5)	5 (5)	^ 41 (back in the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Le Grand Chypre	17 (9)	7 (7)	14 (9)	8 (5)	11 (7)	10 (7)	^ 48 (back in the top ten)

Dropped from the top ten since May:

Barrister and Mann - Seville
Bufflehead - Tishomingo
House of Mammoth - Indigo
MacDuff's Soap Company - Birch + Root

A surplus of sandalwood shaves spurs Proraso back into the top ten brands.

June 2023 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of May Shaves	% of Apr. Shaves	% of Mar. Shaves	% of Feb. Shaves	% of Jan. Shaves	Change from May	Total June Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Barrister and Mann	14.1%	13.4%	16.3%	9.9%	15.0%	17.2%	-	246
Stirling Soap Co.	9.4%	9.0%	9.4%	44.2%	13.1%	8.4%	^ 1	163
House of Mammoth	6.5%	9.6%	7.2%	3.7%	7.4%	7.3%	v 1	113
Noble Otter	5.0%	5.3%	5.2%	3.4%	6.7%	5.5%	-	87
Declaration Grooming	4.1%	4.4%	5.3%	3.9%	6.1%	7.5%	-	72
Spearhead Shaving Company	3.8%	3.5%	5.0%	2.3%	3.6%	4.8%	^ 1	67
Ariana & Evans	3.3%	3.4%	3.6%	3.0%	2.2%	2.8%	^ 1	57
Summer Break Soaps	3.1%	3.8%	2.7%	1.5%	2.2%	1.5%	v 2	54
Chiseled Face	2.9%	1.7%	2.6%	2.0%	2.5%	4.5%	^ 5 (back in the top ten)	51
Proraso	2.6%	1.7%	2.0%	1.1%	1.5%	1.0%	^ 4 (back in the top ten)	45
Southern Witchcrafts	2.6%	2.2%	2.0%	1.5%	2.2%	2.5%	-	45

Dropped from the top ten since May:

Grooming Department

A three-way tie for tenth place gives us a little longer list than usual!

June 2023 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in June	Scents used in May	Scents used in Apr.	Scents used in Mar.	Scents used in Feb.	Scents used in Jan.	Change in Rank from May
Stirling Soap Co.	59	66	56	96	71	52	-
Barrister and Mann	53	48	52	50	52	52	-
Declaration Grooming	35	37	38	32	42	43	^ 1
Ariana & Evans	34	38	32	29	26	29	v 1
Talent Soap Factory	23	23	24	21	10	11	^ 1
Catie's Bubbles	21	19	20	13	23	19	^ 2
Wholly Kaw	19	18	16	16	15	18	^ 2
Zingari Man	18	16	13	14	12	16	^ 3
Noble Otter	17	18	19	18	18	20	-
Chiseled Face	16	12	10	8	13	12	^ 3
House of Mammoth	16	21	18	17	20	18	v 3
Grooming Department	16	24	20	16	13	12	v 5

Nobody dropped from the top ten since May.

Due to the blackout, two days in June had many fewer shaves, or perhaps people ended up posting under radically different names on Lemmy: as far as I can tell, only thirteen shavers posted a shave for every day in June.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for June 2023:

35048467
walden
djundjila
el_charminman
gcgallant
Impressive_Donut114
InfernalInternal
Old_Hiker
RedMosquitoMM
scribe__
USS-SpongeBob
whosgotthepudding
worbx

The Lather Games Podcast is Back! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, I'm laughing listening to your comment: I had thought about preparing for the Games this year instead of flying by the seat of my pants, but you're probably right it's a little late to start at this point. :)

Monday Daily Questions Thread (Newbie Friendly) - June 26, 2023 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Decent razors, or decent blades? If you're using a DE razor, I'd recommend picking up a sample pack with several or a dozen different types. I've found the same blade will give a better or worse shave in different razors, so there's some utility to trying several different brands, if you've got the basics of how to handle a DE razor. I've been going through sample packs for three or four years now.

And if you're using canned foam, it's also possible just switching to a better cream or soap might do well. It may not be as fast or convenient, but I think some creams like Speick or Cella might do better, and be nearly as fast to lather up with a wet brush as spreading it with your fingers. Just a thought, if you're looking for a better shave. And I suspect a good soap would be even better.

The Lather Games Podcast is Back! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Woohoo! Thanks all for bringing the podcast back. I'm looking forward to listening to it!