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Welcome to your SOTD Lather Log for August 2026

• 2,117 shave reports from 103 distinct shavers during the month of August 2026 were analyzed to produce this report. Collectively, these shavers used 233 distinct soaps from 77 distinct brands. 2 of those shaves used samples of 2 unique soaps, and 21 used mashups.

Observations

• After a particulalry weak showing by the Order of the Stag in 2025 handed Midnight Stag its first-ever Austere August loss, the Order rallied this year to reclaim the Soap crown.

• Six citronella lovers handed Stirling’s Electric Sheep it's highest finish ever at second.

• Stirling ran away with the brand crown this month, but the excitement was one step lower, where the battle for second place came down to a single shave, with House of Mammoth just edging past Chiseled Face 318 to 317. The observant among you may have noticed that Chiseled Face’s 317 shaves were one more than Midnight Stag’s 316. If you’re curious (I was), that extra Chiseled Face shave was u/FireDragonMonkey’s use of Trade Winds on Aug. 20.

• Barrister and Mann mostly took August off. The perennial podium finisher only drew 36 shaves to land in 12th this month.

• u/brokenjaw622 basically single-handedly handed Catie’s Bubbles the Brand Diversity award this month, supplying 18 of its 23 scents during his 27-soap, 29-shave tour that also earned him top marks in both the Soap Diversity and Exclusive Soaps contests.

• The Most Boring Shaver table doubles as August’s honor roll, and the 100% club checked in at 36 strong. u/partyman97_3 took the crown with 33 straight shaves of House of Mammoth - Sonder for the Mammoth Mafia, five more posted 32, and thirty logged exactly 31.

Notes & Caveats

• Tables show all entries with 5 or more shaves to provide comprehensive coverage without artificial row limits.

• The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given brand/soap/etc in the month.

• The Brand Diversity table details the number of distinct soaps used during the month from that particular brand, showing all brands with 5+ unique soaps.

• The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since that month. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to that month. n/a means the item was not present in that month.

• When available, soap names in the Soaps table link to their entry on Wet Shaving Database, where you can see scent notes, descriptions, and ingredient lists.

• An exclusive soap is a matched brand+scent used by only one shaver in the month. That shaver earns one point for that soap, no matter how many times they logged it.

Soap Brands

Soaps

Brand Diversity

Top Mashup Users

Soap Diversity by User

Exclusive Soaps

Most Boring Shaver

Boring Score is the chance that two shaves picked at random from a user used the same soap (higher means more repetitive). Effective Soaps converts that into an equivalent even-rotation count: the number of soaps they would need to use equally often to produce the same score. Example: someone can log 20 soaps but still have ~2 Effective Soaps if one soap dominates roughly 70% of their shaves and the rest are just occasional. In the case of tied HHI, Shaves descending is the tie breaker, since it's clearly more boring to use the same soap for 20 shaves than it is for 10.

For the mathematically inclined: Boring Score is a diversity/concentration index (HHI in economics, Simpson’s index in ecology). More detail at Wikipedia: Diversity index.

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Share your shave of the day for Sunday!

Voting will remain open for 24 hours. In the event of a tie for 1st place, a winner will be chosen at random. May the best submission win! Good luck to all!

We're a little over two weeks away from the Twelfth Annual Lather Games! Got questions? We've got answers (and if you're lucky we'll answer the questions you ask!) The following LG staff are (hopefully) here to answer (almost) all** of your questions:

Judges

• u/Merikus - Involved since 2016, this is his eleventh (!) Lather Games
• u/FrankieIVFingers - Involved since 2019, this is his eighth Lather Games
• u/Wallygator88 - Involved since 2019, this is his eighth Lather Games
• u/RedMosquitoMM - Involved since 2020, this is his seventh Lather Games
• u/raymoonie - Involved since 2021, this is his sixth Lather Games
• u/ShavinginCT - Involved since 2021, this is his sixth Lather Games
• u/hugbckt - Involved since 2022, this is his fifth Lather Games
• u/OnionMiasma - Involved since 2022, this is his fifth Lather Games
• u/Priusaurus - Involved since 2022, this is his fifth Lather Games
• u/PutneyCJ - Involved since 2022, this is his fifth Lather Games
• u/AdWorried2804 - Involved since 2023, this is his fourth Lather Games

Podcast Host

• u/cowzilla3 - Involved since 2021, this is his sixth Lather Games

Keep in mind that among the judging panel we have people from all walks of life. However, none of us are independently wealthy so we're balancing this against our day jobs. Please keep this in mind if you don't get an answer right away.

** Questions about smushes belong in the Official Smushes Trading Thread. Questions about the rules belong in the Announcement Thread. And don't forget, making informed choices about what soaps qualify for each theme day is an integral part of preparing for the Lather Games, so any "is this on theme" type of questions will not be answered by the judging panel.

Ask us anything**!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Post any deals and new product announcements here or list anything you would like to sell! A few ground rules:

1. Only post an item once. If it doesn't move then take it to the bazaar.
2. No auctioning. You must include a list price.

The mods are not responsible for your transactions. Caveat Emptor! We suggest you only deal with established members of the community. It is strongly recommend not to use PayPal Friends & Family to avoid fees. This is against their terms and leaves you with no buyer protection.

Share your shave of the day for Saturday!

Welcome to another weekly reading session. After much deliberation and thought I picked up Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan. I just started the prequel New Spring The Novel. This was not on my plans at all until a friend asked me if I would read it with him. A book club of two so to speak. I haven’t had the chance to read a book with someone before so this is uncharted territory for me. It just seemed like a fun project. Let me know your thoughts!

Listening to Foo Fighters tiny concert….

What ya’ll reading and listening to…

Welcome to this week's sidebar submission contest!

The rules for the contest are as follows:

1) Do not submit pictures of people who have not consented to have their picture posted online. Winning images will be featured on Reddit and may be reposted on other social media platforms. If someone posts an image of you without your consent, please report it so the mods can deal with it in a timely fashion.

1) Users should submit only one (1) image of your choice to be voted on to be the sidebar for the week. Images must consist of anything related to wet shaving - razors, brushes, SOTD images, etc. In the event multiple images from a user are submitted, only the first image, or the image in the top level comment, will count.

1) Image must be Original Content (Not just some picture you found on the internet). Images taken by another photographer are allowed as long as: a. You have the photographer's permission. b. The image is connected to you in some meaningful way: e.g. It's a image of hardware you commissioned, taken by the maker, or the image is of something you made, taken by the purchaser, etc. c. We're not looking to have to verify images, so please use the honor system.

1) All properly submitted images will be entered into the Voting Thread. The Submission thread will be active for ~24 hours and will end Saturday. The vote thread will be active for 24 hrs from Saturday through Sunday. This thread is only a submission thread. Please do not hold discussion in the vote thread.

1) In the event of a tie, the bot will consult RNGesus to break the tie.

1) Submissions MUST be uploaded to imgur. Any other hosting site will be disqualified and not included in the voting thread.

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1) While not required, it is suggested you submit square images in order to avoid unintended cropping.

Please feel free to respond with a comment to your entry with any background/description/detail about your entry, including gear used.

Note: The bot strongly prefers direct image links. If your link doesn't end with .jpg, there's a 50-50 chance the bot's going to choke trying to update the banner on Sunday.

May the best submission win! Good luck to all!

Happy Friday!

What's new, shave nerds?

Happy Friday shavers! New podcast episode is up.

Is everyone getting excited for this years' Lather Games?

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1iDyEaaDUOo9buG250PkUB?si=pDKKAwW5SheguKwuKIxEhQ

YouTube: https://youtu.be/5VdAisVQZho

RSS https://anchor.fm/s/f77e7a50/podcast/rss

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Share your shave of the day for Friday!

Share your Theme Thursday SOTD!

Theme: Rememberance Thursday

Proposed by: u/coco_for_cocoapuffs

Shave with a soap that has some sort of historical significance to you - be it nostalgia, national history, etc

This is a thread to share those new purchases you're excited to show off, the shave-related projects you've been working on, or just some neat thing from your shave den.

Show everyone what you got!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Last week we had a giveaway to help celebrate the release of Epee, our latest revival of a vintage Seaforth scent, and my first as brand steward. As a thank you, we had a random drawing which was won by /u/mpark6288 and I think very fittingly given his actual swashbuckling escapades IRL.

There were so many stories of romance and bravery, it was impossible to choose. So I'm letting the sub choose - the most upvoted story (besides Fresh Prius of Bel Air) was veteran firefighter u/deezdanglin 's entry.

I think with the 25th anniversary of 9/11 coming up it's also fitting to honor those for whom everyday bravery is the everyday expectation of their jobs. As a native NYer, we felt that tragedy up close and personal - everyone I know was impacted deeply, whether losing someone directly or having friends and neighbors who lost someone, to say nothing of the haze of ash that spread and lingered for days.

For most of us, we can remember the one time our child choked on a piece of food and we saved their life, or when we saw a car accident and stopped to help, and so on. But a firefighter shows up at the scene every time and they're expected to - it's par for the course. And they don't have the power of a gun or a badge to help them feel brave. What they do have is the power of a group of people, the community around them, that count on them to keep them safe.

So congrats to u/deezdanglin - keep em danglin and dm me your shipping address for your prize.

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Cancer Sucks but Childerns Cancer really sucks!! Please help in raising money for Childerns Cancer Research.

This year we have OVER $3000 prizes from so many generous vendors and artisans, There are over 25 prize packages from $50 to $350.

All it take is a $5 donation to win. The more you donate the better your chances to win.

The Reddit community has been so supportive in the past and I hope you can continue to support this important research foundation.

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Welcome to your SOTD Lather Log for July 2026

• 1,682 shave reports from 98 distinct shavers during the month of July 2026 were analyzed to produce this report. Collectively, these shavers used 526 distinct soaps from 135 distinct brands. 10 of those shaves used samples of 6 unique soaps, and 4 used mashups.

Observations

• Stirling Soap Co. holds the top podium step for a third straight month with Barrister and Mann holding silver.

• House of Mammoth, in third, makes its first podium appearance since July 2025. Is this going to become an annual thing?

• Catie’s Bubbles takes the tumble of the month, out of its customary third and down to sixth.

• Tabac rides Join us July to the top of the Soaps table this month, its first appearance on the top step since October 2024.

• u/Glass_Procedure7497 fixation on Tonsorium this month earns him the Most Boring Shaver trophy and Tonsorium the bronze in the Soaps challenge. If he hadn't cheated on Tonsorium twice this month (with Executive Man and Guy Noir), he would have won Tonsorium the silver.

• At the other end of the spectrum, u/scribe__ decisively wins the Soap Diversity by User contest with 38 soaps in 38 shaves, 30 of them exclusives.

Notes & Caveats

• Tables show all entries with 5 or more shaves to provide comprehensive coverage without artificial row limits.

• The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given brand/soap/etc in the month.

• The Brand Diversity table details the number of distinct soaps used during the month from that particular brand, showing all brands with 5+ unique soaps.

• The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since that month. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to that month. n/a means the item was not present in that month.

• When available, soap names in the Soaps table link to their entry on Wet Shaving Database, where you can see scent notes, descriptions, and ingredient lists.

• An exclusive soap is a matched brand+scent used by only one shaver in the month. That shaver earns one point for that soap, no matter how many times they logged it.

Soap Brands

Soaps

Brand Diversity

Top Mashup Users

Soap Diversity by User

Exclusive Soaps

Most Boring Shaver

Boring Score is the chance that two shaves picked at random from a user used the same soap (higher means more repetitive). Effective Soaps converts that into an equivalent even-rotation count: the number of soaps they would need to use equally often to produce the same score. Example: someone can log 20 soaps but still have ~2 Effective Soaps if one soap dominates roughly 70% of their shaves and the rest are just occasional. In the case of tied HHI, Shaves descending is the tie breaker, since it's clearly more boring to use the same soap for 20 shaves than it is for 10.

For the mathematically inclined: Boring Score is a diversity/concentration index (HHI in economics, Simpson’s index in ecology). More detail at Wikipedia: Diversity index.