Presenting the July 2023 Lather Log, or I'm Not Late, I Like to Build Suspense
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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. :)
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.
Probably not any dumber; maybe just less experienced! :)
Configuring these bots can also get pretty complicated!
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. :)
Presenting the June 2023 Lather Log, or Breaking Up is Hard to Do
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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. :)
I think I may have forgotten the "newbie friendly" part, thank you!
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.
Woohoo! Thanks all for bringing the podcast back. I'm looking forward to listening to it!
You're welcome!
Presenting the May 2023 Lather Log, or I May as Well Go For Maximum Imaginary Internet Points, Right?
At long last, another edition of the Lather Log is up. This is r/Wetshaving's (and now I suppose also sub.wetshaving.social's) monthly report on the soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for our shaves.
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'll at least let us know the brand, and I only have to record the scent as unknown.
May was a relatively big month for brands new to the Lather Log: we saw eleven this month, a little more than usual. A relatively older brand is Herban Cowboy based in the USA; then we also saw a few shaves with something from Bull and Bell Premium Supply Co. in New Hampshire; and we got to see Seven Potions in England; then something from High Thyme FARMacy in Tennessee; and YourShaving in Spain put their brand on a tenth anniversary soap; and while I've heard of Historic & Oak's aftershaves the soap is new to me; we saw a shave with a soap from Bottega Verde over in Italy; then we were introduced to Hajamat in India; a shave was finally posted with a soap from the Shave Mercantile; then we also met Drughet, which I believe is an Italian producer.
And even though the Lather Games, and Wildcard Wednesday, aren't until July this year, we also saw one shave in May with Moretti, an Italian medical equipment producer, who makes ultrasound gel.
Maybe it's to be expected as Spring hits its stride, the weather's great, and some schools are wrapping up for the Summer vacation, but there was another little drop in most activity here in May. We saw 2,156 shaves posted, which is 32 fewer than in April... it's 69.55 per day, and that average is 3.38 less per day than April. There were 164 active SOTD authors in May, a drop of 15 from April (23 authors started posting, while 38 stopped), and each author posted a mean of 13.15 shaves in May (this was a slight increase of 0.92 over April's mean per author). But there was another increase in scent choices this month, with 27 more unique scents used in May than April.
Category | May. 2023 | Change from Apr. | Apr. 2023 | Mar. 2023 | Feb. 2023 | Jan. 2023 | Dec. 2022 :-- | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: Total Shaves | 2,156 | -32 | 2,188 | 2,487 | 2,271 | 2,227 | 1,847 Unique Authors | 164 | -15 | 179 | 187 | 186 | 175 | 169 Mean Shaves per Author | 13.15 | +0.92 | 12.22 | 13.30 | 12.21 | 12.73 | 10.93 Unique Soapmakers | 167 | +5 | 162 | 134 | 146 | 151 | 146 Unique Scents | 688 | +27 | 661 | 617 | 641 | 656 | 574 Single Use Scents | 335 | +1 | 334 | 278 | 302 | 335 | 284
The most shaves posted in one day was 83 on Wednesday, May 3rd, which is the same as April's maximum. The fewest shaves posted in one day was 56 just two days later on Sunday, May 21st, which is 7 fewer than April's minimum.
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 | Mean December Shaves for Weekday | Weekdays in May | Total Shaves in May :-- | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: Sunday | 59.00 | 70.40 | 72.50 | 71.00 | 64.60 | 58.00 | 4 | 236 Monday | 71.00 | 75.75 | 84.50 | 83.75 | 75.20 | 62.50 | 5 | 355 Tuesday | 73.00 | 75.75 | 82.75 | 87.00 | 77.40 | 64.25 | 5 | 365 Wednesday | 75.20 | 72.75 | 84.20 | 90.75 | 73.00 | 60.25 | 5 | 376 Thursday | 72.00 | 72.50 | 83.80 | 78.25 | 73.00 | 58.20 | 4 | 288 Friday | 72.00 | 75.75 | 77.60 | 85.75 | 71.75 | 57.60 | 4 | 288 Saturday | 62.00 | 69.20 | 75.00 | 71.25 | 67.50 | 57.60 | 4 | 248 Overall | 69.55 | 72.93 | 80.23 | 81.11 | 71.84 | 59.58 | 31 | 2,156
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Martin de Candre and MacDuff's make the top ten list for the first time! As does Rope Swing, though this is not Summer Break's first entry.
May. 2023 Top 10 Scents | Uses (People) | Apr. Uses | Mar. Uses | Feb. Uses | Jan. Uses | Dec. Uses | Change in Ranking from Apr. :-- | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: Tabac - Original | 45 (14) | 37 (16) | 14 (10) | 40 (18) | 38 (14) | 30 (14) | ^ 4 Barrister and Mann - Seville | 38 (20) | 47 (18) | 40 (13) | 44 (16) | 32 (16) | 24 (12) | v 1 Martin de Candre - Vetyver | 33 (2) | 6 (4) | 3 (2) | 2 (1) | 0 (0) | 5 (2) | ^ 78 (new to the top ten) House of Mammoth - Shire | 31 (16) | 28 (18) | 9 (6) | 4 (4) | 5 (3) | 4 (2) | ^ 2 House of Mammoth - Alive | 30 (14) | 23 (13) | 10 (5) | 13 (8) | 8 (5) | 10 (7) | ^ 3 Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime | 29 (14) | 41 (25) | 17 (14) | 27 (17) | 33 (19) | 11 (8) | v 3 Summer Break Soaps - Rope Swing | 28 (6) | 6 (4) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | ^ 74 (new to the top ten) Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch | 27 (12) | 38 (19) | 20 (10) | 25 (14) | 32 (12) | 29 (13) | v 4 Bufflehead - Tishomingo | 26 (1) | 24 (1) | 15 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | v 2 House of Mammoth - Indigo | 24 (11) | 19 (9) | 7 (5) | 20 (16) | 20 (11) | 10 (8) | ^ 2 MacDuff's Soap Company - Birch + Root | 24 (1) | 2 (1) | 1 (1) | 2 (1) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | ^ 216 (new to the top ten)
Dropped from the top ten since April:
- Col. Conk - Lime
- Australian Private Reserve - Skye Fall
- Barrister and Mann - Reserve Waves
- House of Mammoth - Sonder
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Alas, but I suppose the Colonel was not destined to stay on the top ten makers list.
May. 2023 Top 10 Soapmakers | % of Shaves | % of Apr. Shaves | % of Mar. Shaves | % of Feb. Shaves | % of Jan. Shaves | % of Dec. Shaves | Change from Apr. | Total May. Shaves Using This Soapmaker :-- | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: Barrister and Mann | 13.4% | 16.3% | 9.9% | 15.0% | 17.2% | 19.4% | - | 288 House of Mammoth | 9.6% | 7.2% | 3.7% | 7.4% | 7.3% | 8.2% | ^ 1 | 206 Stirling Soap Co. | 9.0% | 9.4% | 44.2% | 13.1% | 8.4% | 9.7% | v 1 | 194 Noble Otter | 5.3% | 5.2% | 3.4% | 6.7% | 5.5% | 7.4% | ^ 1 | 114 Declaration Grooming | 4.4% | 5.3% | 3.9% | 6.1% | 7.5% | 6.3% | v 1 | 95 Summer Break Soaps | 3.8% | 2.7% | 1.5% | 2.2% | 1.5% | 1.8% | ^ 2 | 82 Spearhead Shaving Company | 3.5% | 5.0% | 2.3% | 3.6% | 4.8% | 3.7% | v 1 | 75 Ariana & Evans | 3.4% | 3.6% | 3.0% | 2.2% | 2.8% | 2.3% | v 1 | 73 Grooming Department | 2.3% | 1.6% | 1.5% | 0.9% | 1.0% | 0.7% | ^ 8 (back in the top ten) | 50 Southern Witchcrafts | 2.2% | 2.0% | 1.5% | 2.2% | 2.5% | 2.1% | ^ 1 (back in the top ten) | 48
Dropped from the top ten since April:
- Chiseled Face
- Col. Conk
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Some months, there may be a bit of shuffling places back and forth, but no other changes in the most prolific list.
May. 2023 Top 10 Most Prolific | Scents used in May. | Scents used in Apr. | Scents used in Mar. | Scents used in Feb. | Scents used in Jan. | Scents used in Dec. | Change in Rank from Apr. :-- | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: Stirling Soap Co. | 66 | 56 | 96 | 71 | 52 | 46 | - Barrister and Mann | 48 | 53 | 50 | 52 | 52 | 52 | - Ariana & Evans | 38 | 32 | 29 | 26 | 29 | 21 | ^ 1 Declaration Grooming | 37 | 38 | 32 | 42 | 43 | 37 | v 1 Grooming Department | 24 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 9 | ^ 1 Talent Soap Factory | 23 | 24 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 6 | v 1 House of Mammoth | 21 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 18 | 17 | ^ 2 Catie's Bubbles | 19 | 20 | 13 | 23 | 19 | 20 | v 2 Noble Otter | 18 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 21 | 21 | v 1 Wholly Kaw | 18 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 14 | ^ 1
Nobody dropped from the top ten since April.
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Twenty four shavers posted a shave for each of the thirty one days in May.
r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for May 2023:
- u/35048467
- u/walden
- u/Crisp_Mango
- u/djundjila
- u/el_charminman
- u/EldrormR
- u/Engineered_Shave
- u/Environmental-Gap380
- u/Eructate
- u/gcgallant
- u/Impressive_Donut114
- u/InfernalInternal
- u/jwoods23
- u/loudmusicboy
- u/Madflava81
- u/MaplePoplar
- u/Old_Hiker
- u/oswald_heist
- u/PhilosphicalZombie
- u/scribe__
- u/USS-SpongeBob
- u/whosgotthepudding
- u/worbx
- u/WudULikADrinkPackage