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It's high time to get things rolling for december. Nominate your soap here, nominations close Tuesday 4, 19:00 CET.

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[–] BossHoggins10@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Catie’s Bubbles - Crangere

A customer turned friend reached out to me with a wonderfully bad idea. He loves our Blugere and Cape Cod Cranberry and wondered if we could take the cranberry note and give it the Blugere treatment. I created a fougere bottom end with some similarity to Blugere but different enough to stand on its own and then layered the top end of Cape Cod Cranberry to create a new, enjoyable fruit topped woody fougere.

Notes:

Cranberry Seamoss Bergamot Lavender Geranium Galbanum HoWood Oakmoss Coumarin Vetiver Sandalwood Patchouli Oud

[–] snooting@wetshav.ing 6 points 1 month ago

Woolly Wash Soapery - Night at the Pub

Bourbon, Fruit Cake, Oak, Bay, Caramel

This summer I organized a group buy on the r/wetshaving discord from Woolly Wash Soapery, a soap maker from a farm in Bollon, Australia that just happened to post their Etsy store in one of the weekly Deals/New Products threads. My understanding is that they only make sheep tallow soaps using tallow from their own sheep.

This one is a nice gourmand that smells a lot like really good carrot cake to me.

Declaration Grooming - Cerberus

Notes: stone fruit, opoponax, jasmine, labdanum, patchouli, sandalwood

Fragrance done by Ben at House of Mammoth.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Barrister & Mann - Promises

Citrus and exhaust smoke in the Omnibus base.

Infused with notes of orange, bergamot, real honey, whiskey lactone, peat, and nutmeg, this fragrance encapsulates the spirit of Northeastern winter adventures, further heightened by the incorporation of high-grade saffron molecules, lending an industrial yet nostalgic character reminiscent of idling sleds.

Citrus and exhaust smoke sounds kinda good

Saponificio Varesino - Tundra Artica

The name derives from the geographical area called Arctic Tundra, where the vegetable additives used in this soap find their natural habitat: the Icelandic lichen (soothing, purifying, antibacterial, calming) and the cranberry (suitable for sensitive skin, soothing and toning, gives freshness and vitality)

Fragrance: to recall the atmosphere of the Arctic Tundra, we chose the scent of Agar Wood (oud) but harmonized to give the sensation of open and fresh spaces, with a markedly woody perception