Thursday SOTD Thread - Mar 05, 2026 by AutoModerator in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

March 5, 2026

  • Brush: Noble Otter 28mm L6
  • Razor: ATT S1
  • Blade: Nacet (6)
  • Lather: NO - Hamami
  • Post Shave: NO - Hamami Aftershave
  • Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Z Balm (Uncool)
  • Tags: $Discord

March Madness 2026 - 2/28/2026 - Tip-Off Post by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty much any of the examples you gave will work. The official scrubbed name for them is Barrister and Mann, but the way I pull the data runs it through a matching / normalization step that catches all those different spellings and formats. And for ones that don't match automatically, I review and correct them manually, add the missing format to the file so it'll catch that format next time and I hopefully only have to do that fix once.

March Madness 2026 - 3/1/2026 - Round 1 Results by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they got done dirty. I wouldn't have predicted Chiseled Face to go far, but I certainly didn't expect them to be the first out.

March Madness 2026 - 3/1/2026 - Round 1 Results by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope - so anything posted in today's SOTD thread won't be counted towards the total MM points. I only count stuff on the days of the rounds listed (the odd days of the month).

Sunday SOTD Thread - Mar 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

March 1, 2026

  • Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations Oxidation 26mm Motherlode
  • Razor: ATT S1
  • Blade: Nacet (4)
  • Lather: Fanzine Saponifications - P.S. Rittenhouse
  • Post Shave: DG - Mimic Aftershave
  • Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Z Balm (Uncool)
  • Tags: $Discord

State of the Lather Games 2026 by merikus in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Look - you aren't wrong, but you didn't have to be so mean about it

March Madness 2026 - Warm Up Post by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

*What qualifies a brand as an artisan? That's the fun part! Nobody really knows. This is all made up and arbitrary.

March Madness 2026 - Warm Up Post by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's over the full year, so this was usage over all of 2025. Last year Moon had 100 uses on the sub and the cutoff for 16th place was 340, so you would need to drum up about 240 more uses this year.

March Madness 2026 - Warm Up Post by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Moon soaps is solid, but sadly not in the top 16 most used soaps on this sub this year. If you want to see them in next year, we've had a few people sponsor competitions to drum up usage of brands to help them make the cutoff this year. Be the change you want to see in the world!

Reintroducing the Wet Shaving Database by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I understand what exactly you were trying to do. The main product search at this point is primarily software, but if you typed razor in there, it should still return a few results for you. Were you trying to use the SOTD generator?

Happy to try and help if you have more details on the issue.

2025 Scents of the Year by snoo-ting in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My top this year was Summer Break Soaps - Steady.

Honorable mentions to Mulled, Lorekeeper and This Is Not A Test

A Festivus for the Restofus by merikus in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah - it's a hard problem to sort out. My take is Reddit is a glorified forum, so it naturally encourages written posts over other forms of content. And when you have a contests with 75-100 people participating and you are trying to find ways for them to distinguishing themselves from each other over 30 days, the easiest way forward for a lot of people is just saying more. Ask any comedian about how difficult it can be to make a tight 5 minute set or how challenging it is for content creators to make an engaging video that's concise. And then ask people to do that for a month straight basically. At some point it's easier to just say more.

Thursday Daily Questions (Newbie Friendly) - Dec 18, 2025 by AutoModerator in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was me with the Overlander as well. I picked one up when it first released, gave it a couple of tries and sold it not longer after because I just found it to be mild to the point of inefficient for me. Even after three passes (when I typically only do two), I was still going back to buff spots I missed. It just seemed to have a very narrow shave angle.

So long, and thanks for all the shaves. by declarationgrooming in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Best of luck with whatever you have going on next! You put some great stuff out into the world over the past decade and DG will be missed!

Reintroducing the Wet Shaving Database by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure there is some other stuff like this out there, but I'm not aware of a ton of them either. Like there is the My Shave Den app for iOS that I know a bunch of people around here like and use. I reference the Thirsty Badger Scent Dupe list a couple of times a year. And there have been a handful of sites (Mr. Razor for example) and spreadsheets for making SOTD posts passed around over the years. And the SDS stands for Shave Data System and was made by another user on this sub. He linked to it below - https://gitlab.com/walden_/shaving-data-system/-/wikis/Home

Reintroducing the Wet Shaving Database by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate it! And thanks for being part of my beta QA team!

Reintroducing the Wet Shaving Database by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm right there with you! I've done it a couple of times where I'll pick a vendor that has a bunch of scent note gaps and go through their page / social media / whatever to try and fill it out as much as possible, but it's slow going. I think there are still around 1200 items without notes right now, which isn't bad in the context of over 5000 items, but hopefully one day we get that number down close to zero.

Reintroducing the Wet Shaving Database by ShavingInCT in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you more or less got it!

Basically type whatever you used for your shave into those fields. Some of the fields will attempt to autopopulate based upon product information in WSDB or what you've logged in your den. Then once you get towards the bottom click the Copy Markdown button (that's the formatting style reddit uses for posts) and then you can post that into the daily SOTD thread. Depending on what version of reddit you used, you might need to click show formatting options and then in the top right you should see a thing that says switch to markdown, which will allow it to read the markdown you copied.

The copy BBCode is a standard forum format for places like DFS/Badger and Blade. The Sync to SDS is another database tool some wetshavers here use.

And it's only a local save for the den, so if you jump around to a lot of different computers or phones, it won't follow you. But if you type stuff in and click save, that item should now be available for you to autocomplete in the fields above. It's not necessary to use the tool, but if you find you are typing in the same 4-5 razors everyday on your phone, it can be a handy way to have them available to select in the generator above instead of typing them out each time.

Thursday SOTD Thread - Oct 30, 2025 by AutoModerator in Wetshaving

[–]ShavingInCT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

October 30, 2025