WetShaving
This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.
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Our sister Mastodon instance is https://wetshaving.social/.
Community Rules
Rule 1 - Behaviour and Etiquette
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Be Respectful. Do not bully, flame, or harass others.
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Malicious comments are not allowed but heated discussion and salty banter is okay.
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Low effort replies and complaints about content will be removed.
Rule 2 - Content Guidelines
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Mail Calls, Simple Questions, and SOTD posts belong in the recurring weekly threads.
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Posts must have sufficient content to generate a meaningful discussion.
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Images, links, or videos must include additional text that summarizes the topic.
Rule 3 - Reviews and Disclosure
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Use [First Impressions] in the title if your experience with the product is limited.
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Use the [Review] in the title if you can provide comprehensive details with enough familiarity to answer follow-up questions.
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Disclose how the product being reviewed was acquired (e.g., PIF, loan, or purchase). If the product was provided to you directly by the maker or vendor free of charge or at a discount, you must disclose this fact even if the item will later be returned to the maker or vendor.
Rule 4 - Advertising
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Vendors are to keep marketing within the biweekly Deals/New Products threads.
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Non-vendors may post topics about products if it will foster a compelling discussion.
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Do not solicit donations or share fundraisers without mod approval.
Rule 5 - Inappropriate Content
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All NSFW/L content must request mod approval and be flaired appropriately.
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Non-shaving related NSFW/L content is not allowed.
Rule 10 - Moderator Discretion
- The rules may not apply perfectly to every situation. The mods have final discretion.
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Rinse, Repeat
First of a series of Varen shaves with my current go-to travel razor while on ski break. It occurred to me that I brought this poor, ring-of-deathed Dutch soap to the least Dutch place imaginable to proceed with killing it; a mountain. Oh well.
You can always pretend that it has been named after this lovely place. It also occurred to me that the Dutch don't thrive in the mountains, so it seems fitting to kill it on a mountain.
Lol, that lovely place is 16 km from where I am right now and I used to live right next to it during my internship for engineering school, which means that I should have thought of that convenient loophole.
Like Herakles with Antaios, one must hold this Dutch soap aloft, far from its low motherlands to drain its life force 🙂
By the way, I looked at Varen, but the following is rather frightening:
Yeah, I talked to Rod about that. When you hear him explain it, it sounds much less scary. That being said, I had a sample puck of Varen for a long time, but that comment freaked me out enough to make me wait until Djunior was over a year old before trying it 😅
Someone in my family once had a seizure, so I'm a bit reluctant to tempt fate 😐
I totally get that