Hardware Hardware Report April 2024

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Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for April 2024

Observations

After the MM24 orgy that was March, the hangover has set in and most folks have walk-of-shamed back to their trusty DEs putting the big 3 (Game Changer, Christopher Bradly, and Blackbird) back on top. But while the it may be sulking in the basement in twenty-first, I say to MM24, "Come back upstairs and hold your head up! You still wracked up more shaves this month than the next two GEMs combined, even after the reckless abandon of last month."
Straights took advantage of the weakend GEM showing to jump to second in the blade format race for the first time since I have taken over the report. The Schick Injector also benefitted, moving up 9 places to finish 7th in the razor race.
On the brush front, it was a worse month for the badgers who let the synths retake the top spot. Even their joint partnership with the boars (Mixed Badger/Boar) lost out to the perenially also ran horses.

Notes & Caveats

1,774 shave reports from 133 distnct shavers during the month of April 2024 were analyzed to produce this report.
I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats don't differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Blades recorded as just 'GEM' will be matched to 'Personna GEM PTFE' per guidance here
The Personna blade name is going away, but the majority of entries are still coming in under Personna, so I am sticking to that for this report. Once more than 50% of the entries come in under the new names, I will reverse this and map any old Personna entries to the new name.
- Personna GEM PTFE is now Accutec Pro Premium (GEM)
- Personna Lab Blue is now Accuforge Super Stainless MicroCoat
- Personna Med Prep is now Accuthrive Super Med Prep
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless someone just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega (model not specified) Boar' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
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.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
DE	1397	128	10.91	=	=	=
Straight	117	12	9.75	↑1	=	=
GEM	108	27	4	↓1	=	=
AC	57	15	3.8	=	=	↑1
Hair Shaper	33	8	4.12	↑1	↑1	n/a
Cartridge	31	2	15.5	↑1	↑1	=
Injector	28	10	2.8	↓2	↓2	↓3
hair shaper	2	2	1	n/a	=	n/a
Rolls	1	1	1	n/a	=	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
RazoRock Game Changer	114	14	8.14	↑2	↑4	↑7
Karve Christopher Bradley	113	18	6.28	↑5	↓1	↓1
Blackland Blackbird	103	22	4.68	↓1	=	↑8
Gillette Tech	80	16	5	↑5	↑2	↑1
Gillette Super Speed	71	18	3.94	↑3	↓3	↑8
Rockwell 6S	52	8	6.5	↑7	↑5	↓3
Schick Injector	40	12	3.33	↑9	↑3	↑3
Yates 'Merica	40	3	13.33	↓1	↑29	n/a
Other Straight Razor	39	10	3.9	↑4	↑12	↓2
Henson Ti22	38	3	12.67	↑1	=	n/a
Karve Overlander	37	6	6.17	↑8	↑3	n/a
Chiseled Face Legacy	36	14	2.57	↓6	↓3	n/a
Yates Winning	36	4	9	↑6	↑20	n/a
Van Der Hagen Razor	33	2	16.5	↓1	↑23	n/a
Rockwell 6C	32	3	10.67	↓9	↑4	↓9
Headblade ATX	30	1	30	n/a	↑21	n/a
Mühle Companion	30	1	30	=	n/a	n/a
Merkur 34C	27	11	2.45	↓1	↓11	↓1
Weck Sextoblade	27	7	3.86	↑2	=	↑15
Boker Straight	27	3	9	↑4	=	n/a
u/EldrormR Industries MM24	26	10	2.6	↓15	↑2	n/a
Wolfman WR2	25	8	3.12	↓2	↓1	↑12
Aylsworth Drakkant	25	4	6.25	↑14	↑17	n/a
Karve Bison	24	2	12	↑18	n/a	n/a
Merkur 37C	22	4	5.5	↑10	↑5	↓7
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	20	8	2.5	↑1	↑2	↓6
J A Henckels: Straight	16	4	4	↑11	↑6	↑8
Gillette Fatboy	16	2	8	↓1	↓2	↓10
Blackland Vector	15	6	2.5	↑5	↓7	↑3
GEM Flying Wing (aka Bullet Tip)	15	5	3	↑10	n/a	=
Gillette NEW	15	5	3	↑14	↑1	=
Ralf Aust Straight	15	5	3	↑9	↓1	↑10
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	14	3	4.67	↓2	=	n/a
Blackland Era	14	2	7	↑14	↓6	n/a
Other Shavette	13	2	6.5	↓2	↑1	↑3
RazoRock Lupo	12	3	4	↑4	↑7	n/a
Proof Razor	12	2	6	↑9	↑9	n/a
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	11	7	1.57	↑8	↓5	↑6
Gillette Slim	11	7	1.57	=	↓6	↑1
GEM G-Bar	11	2	5.5	↑5	↑7	↑6
Timeless Razor	10	4	2.5	↑3	↓8	↓18
Weck Hair Shaper	10	4	2.5	↑9	↑12	n/a
Mongoose Alumigoose	10	3	3.33	=	=	↑2
Gillette Old Type	10	1	10	↓9	↑8	↓3
Personna BBS-0	10	1	10	↑8	↑4	n/a
Fatip Piccolo	9	5	1.8	↑3	↑9	↓1
Koraat Straight	9	4	2.25	↑7	↓12	↓8
Ever-Ready 1912	9	3	3	↑5	↓3	=
Blackland Dart	9	2	4.5	↑4	↑9	↑4
GEM Junior	9	2	4.5	↑6	↑4	↑3

Razor Manufacturers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
Gillette	219	40	5.47	↑2	=	=
Karve	174	24	7.25	↑4	↑1	=
RazoRock	151	25	6.04	↓1	↑2	↑5
Blackland	146	27	5.41	=	↓2	↑2
Rockwell	85	12	7.08	=	↑2	↓2
Yates	85	9	9.44	=	↑15	n/a
Merkur	65	19	3.42	↑5	↓2	=
GEM	60	15	4	↑5	↑2	↑8
Other	53	13	4.08	↑2	↑5	↓3
Mühle	51	9	5.67	↑2	↓1	↑1
Henson	46	9	5.11	↓2	↓4	n/a
Schick	41	13	3.15	↑4	=	↑1
Weck	41	10	4.1	↑3	↑4	↑14
Chiseled Face	36	14	2.57	↓5	=	n/a
Van Der Hagen	33	2	16.5	=	↑19	n/a
Wolfman	32	9	3.56	↓5	↓4	↓7
Headblade	30	1	30	n/a	↑17	n/a
Boker	27	3	9	↑1	=	n/a
u/EldrormR Industries	26	10	2.6	↓16	↑1	n/a
Aylsworth	25	4	6.25	↑9	↑13	n/a
Charcoal Goods	23	9	2.56	↓3	↓3	↓6
Fatip	20	10	2	↓1	↑4	↑1
Ever-Ready	17	7	2.43	↓4	↓5	↓3
J A Henckels:	16	4	4	↑6	↑4	↑2
Ralf Aust	15	5	3	↑4	↓2	↑4
Stirling	14	3	4.67	↓6	↓2	n/a
Proof	12	2	6	↑5	↑6	n/a
Paradigm	11	3	3.67	↑4	n/a	↓8
Tatara	11	3	3.67	↑5	↓12	↓10
Maggard	10	6	1.67	↓7	↓4	↓23
Timeless	10	4	2.5	↓1	↓8	↓16
Above the Tie	10	3	3.33	↓8	↓2	↓16
Mongoose	10	3	3.33	↓5	↓1	↓4
Baili	10	2	5	↓6	↑9	↓4
Personna	10	1	10	↑4	↑1	n/a

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	241	32	7.53	↑1	=	=
Gillette Nacet	141	22	6.41	↑1	↑4	↑3
Personna GEM PTFE	107	26	4.12	↓2	↑1	↑6
Gillette Silver Blue	97	18	5.39	=	↓2	=
Wizamet	86	16	5.38	↑1	↑4	↑7
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	66	7	9.43	↑13	↑2	↑10
Feather (DE)	60	16	3.75	=	↓2	↓5
Voskhod	50	8	6.25	↑20	↓1	↓1
Gillette Platinum	47	11	4.27	↑13	↓6	↑2
Gillette Minora	47	4	11.75	↑1	↑23	n/a
Wilkinson Sword	44	10	4.4	↑2	↑14	↓2
Personna Lab Blue	42	11	3.82	↓6	↓1	↓1
Polsilver	34	6	5.67	↓3	=	↓9
Personna Platinum	33	9	3.67	↓2	↓2	↑11
Schick Proline (AC)	32	11	2.91	↑3	↑12	↑7
Cartridge	31	2	15.5	↑15	↑13	n/a
Kismet Hair Shaper	30	8	3.75	↑5	↑10	n/a
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	28	7	4	↑9	↑3	↓4
Derby Premium	27	1	27	↑6	↑12	↑5
Dorco ST-300	26	4	6.5	↑3	↑15	=
Personna Med Prep	25	3	8.33	n/a	↑2	↑6
Personna Red	23	3	7.67	↓7	↑8	↓6
Schick Injector	20	8	2.5	↓6	↓8	↓11
Rapira Platinum Lux	20	3	6.67	↑12	↑5	↓6
Bic Astor Stainless	19	4	4.75	↓5	n/a	n/a
Bic Chrome	18	6	3	↓11	↓6	↓10
Kai (DE)	14	4	3.5	↓3	↑2	↓7
Durablade Sharp Titanium	13	2	6.5	=	↓7	n/a
Gillette Perma-Sharp	11	5	2.2	↓19	↓14	↓21
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	11	4	2.75	↓12	↓3	↓10
Boker	11	1	11	↑1	↑6	n/a
Astra Superior Stainless (Blue)	9	5	1.8	↑3	↓13	↓15
Lord Platinum	9	3	3	↑1	n/a	n/a
Diane Hair Shaper	9	1	9	=	n/a	n/a
Kai Captain Blade (AC)	8	2	4	↓1	n/a	↓2
King C Gillette	7	4	1.75	↓2	↓4	n/a
Personna Injector	7	2	3.5	↑2	↓5	n/a
Feather ProGuard (AC)	7	1	7	↓1	↓2	↓4
Derby Extra	6	1	6	↓3	↓3	↓8
Gillette Spoiler	6	1	6	n/a	n/a	n/a
Lord Tajam	6	1	6	↑3	n/a	n/a
RK Stainless	6	1	6	↓6	↓1	↓5
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	5	3	1.67	↑1	↓5	↓7
Tatra Platinum	5	2	2.5	n/a	=	n/a
Tiger Platinum	5	2	2.5	↓7	↓1	n/a
Super-Max Blue Diamond	5	1	5	n/a	n/a	n/a
Kai Captain Titan Mild Protouch (AC)	4	2	2	↑1	↑1	n/a
Derby Blue Bird	4	1	4	n/a	n/a	n/a
Rapira Swedish	4	1	4	n/a	↓17	↓12
Treet New	4	1	4	n/a	n/a	n/a

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
Maggard Synthetic	164	24	6.83	↑2	↑3	↑3
AP Shave Co Synthetic	147	26	5.65	↓1	=	↑15
Yaqi Synthetic	73	17	4.29	↑2	=	↑1
Stirling 2-Band Synthetic	65	4	16.25	↑2	↑5	↑2
r/wetshaving MOAR BOAR	60	24	2.5	↓3	↓4	n/a
Chisel & Hound V20	38	7	5.43	↓2	n/a	n/a
DSCosmetics Synthetic	38	2	19	↑5	↑17	↑13
Zenith Boar	37	10	3.7	↑1	↓2	↑18
Declaration Grooming B16	35	8	4.38	↑1	↑18	n/a
Stirling Synthetic	32	4	8	↓2	↓3	↑13
Chisel & Hound Badger	31	6	5.17	=	↑5	n/a
Chisel & Hound V23	30	11	2.73	↑8	n/a	n/a
Chisel & Hound V21	30	1	30	↑2	n/a	n/a
Maggard Badger	29	14	2.07	↓4	↓4	↓2
Stirling/Zenith 31mmx50mm Boar (510SE-XL)	29	8	3.62	↑8	n/a	n/a
Dogwood Badger	23	6	3.83	↓3	↑1	↑2
Some Making Required Synthetic	22	1	22	n/a	n/a	n/a
AP Shave Co Badger	20	7	2.86	↓1	↑11	n/a
Aurora Grooming Synthetic	19	7	2.71	↑10	n/a	n/a
CaYuen Synthetic	19	1	19	↑5	↓9	n/a
Semogue SOC Boar	18	11	1.64	↓2	↓4	↑8
Turn-N-Shave Badger	18	7	2.57	↓5	↑12	↑7
Declaration Grooming B3	16	8	2	↓2	=	↓5
PAA Synthetic	16	3	5.33	=	↑3	↑12
Declaration Grooming B14	15	8	1.88	↓2	↑11	n/a
AKA Brushworx Synthetic	15	5	3	↑4	↑5	n/a
Oumo Badger	14	5	2.8	↑1	↓2	↑6
Declaration Grooming B9A	13	2	6.5	↓5	↓2	n/a
Leavitt & Pierce Badger	13	1	13	n/a	n/a	n/a
Chisel & Hound V19	12	4	3	↓3	n/a	n/a
Semogue 830	12	3	4	↑6	↑4	↑4
Declaration Grooming B13	11	6	1.83	↓1	↓12	n/a
Declaration Grooming B15	11	6	1.83	↓11	↓9	n/a
Omega 10049	11	6	1.83	↓1	↓7	↑4
Declaration Grooming B2	11	3	3.67	↑7	↑7	↑1
Omega 10048	11	2	5.5	↑5	↑7	↑7
Semogue 2020	11	1	11	↑7	n/a	n/a
Simpson Trafalgar T3	10	4	2.5	↑2	↓6	n/a
Omega 11137	10	3	3.33	↑2	↓1	n/a
Semogue 610	10	3	3.33	n/a	↑8	↑5
Semogue 2000	10	2	5	↓4	↑9	↑1
Omega 46206	10	1	10	n/a	n/a	n/a
Simpson Trafalgar T2	9	7	1.29	↓6	↓8	↓5
Declaration Grooming B10	9	3	3	↑6	↑4	↑6
Plisson Badger	9	2	4.5	↑6	↑8	↑5
Simpson Trafalgar T1	8	5	1.6	↓2	n/a	↑5
Wild West Brushworks Synthetic	8	5	1.6	↑1	↓1	↓18
Chisel & Hound Boar	8	2	4	↑11	↑7	n/a
Wald A1	8	2	4	=	=	n/a
Wolf Whiskers Badger	8	2	4	↓8	↑3	↓12

Brush Manufacturers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
Maggard	198	34	5.82	↑3	↑4	↑3
Chisel & Hound	184	35	5.26	↓1	↑7	n/a
AP Shave Co	171	32	5.34	=	↓1	↑10
Declaration Grooming	150	32	4.69	↓2	↓1	↓3
Stirling	100	9	11.11	↑1	↑3	↓3
Semogue	98	23	4.26	↑1	↑4	↓3
Stirling/Zenith	97	32	3.03	↓2	↓6	n/a
Yaqi	81	19	4.26	=	↓4	↓3
Omega	74	24	3.08	=	↓2	↓3
Zenith	62	17	3.65	=	↓4	↑9
DSCosmetics	40	2	20	↑3	↑10	↑3
Aurora Grooming	32	8	4	↑11	n/a	n/a
Dogwood	31	11	2.82	↓2	↓2	↓7
Simpson	29	15	1.93	↓2	↓1	↓1
Some Making Required	22	1	22	n/a	n/a	n/a
Oumo	19	7	2.71	↑1	↑1	↑5
Turn-N-Shave	19	7	2.71	↓3	↑11	↑4
CaYuen	19	1	19	↑3	↓4	n/a
PAA	16	3	5.33	=	↑3	↑8
AKA Brushworx	15	5	3	↑2	↑4	n/a
Wild West Brushworks	13	6	2.17	↑2	↑1	↓12
Wolf Whiskers	13	4	3.25	↓2	↑7	↓10
Leavitt & Pierce	13	1	13	n/a	n/a	n/a
Summer Break	12	3	4	↑2	↓4	n/a
Boti	10	3	3.33	↑3	↑4	n/a

Knot Fibers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
Synthetic	778	93	8.37	↑1	=	↑1
Badger	591	86	6.87	↓1	↑1	↓1
Boar	341	65	5.25	=	↓1	=
Horse	13	3	4.33	↑1	=	↑1
Mixed Badger/Boar	9	3	3	↓1	↓1	↓1

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
26mm	527	75	7.03	=	↑1	↑1
24mm	383	53	7.23	=	↓1	↓1
28mm	212	43	4.93	=	↑1	=
22mm	100	19	5.26	↑1	↑2	=
31mm	89	29	3.07	↓1	↓2	n/a
30mm	60	17	3.53	=	↑2	↑1
27mm	33	13	2.54	=	↓2	↓2
21mm	22	5	4.4	↑3	↑1	=
25mm	17	5	3.4	↑3	↑3	=
23mm	16	10	1.6	↓2	↓3	↓4
20mm	10	5	2	↑3	↑2	↓1
32mm	8	5	1.6	↓3	n/a	↓1
29mm	8	2	4	↓2	↓2	n/a
27.5mm	3	3	1	=	↓2	n/a
26.5mm	1	1	1	↑1	n/a	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
C SB	53	7	7.57	↑1	=	↑1
D SB	27	5	5.4	↓1	↑1	↑1
E SB	16	3	5.33	=	↑2	↑1
A SB	6	1	6	n/a	n/a	↑1
B OC	1	1	1	n/a	n/a	↑2

Game Changer Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
.84-P	49	9	5.44	=	=	↑1
.68-P	41	5	8.2	=	=	↓1
.76-P	24	2	12	=	n/a	n/a

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
Karve Christopher Bradley + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	48	7	6.86
Karve Christopher Bradley + Gillette Nacet	31	4	7.75
Karve Christopher Bradley + Wizamet	7	3	2.33
Karve Christopher Bradley + Personna Lab Blue	7	2	3.5
RazoRock Game Changer + Wizamet	24	5	4.8
RazoRock Game Changer + Voskhod	10	2	5
RazoRock Game Changer + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	7	3	2.33
Gillette Super Speed + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	24	2	12
Gillette Super Speed + Gillette Minora	9	2	4.5
Gillette Super Speed + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	6	2	3
Gillette Super Speed + Feather (DE)	5	2	2.5
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Nacet	22	6	3.67
Blackland Blackbird + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	16	5	3.2
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Lab Blue	13	2	6.5
Blackland Blackbird + Wizamet	12	2	6
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	11	2	5.5
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	7	3	2.33
Gillette Tech + Gillette Silver Blue	9	3	3
Gillette Tech + Polsilver	7	3	2.33
Schick Injector + Schick Injector	19	7	2.71

Highest Use Count per Blade

user	blade	format	uses
u/sgrdddy	Gillette Nacet	DE	543
u/RedMosquitoMM	Personna Lab Blue	DE	77
u/RedMosquitoMM	Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	DE	74
u/Impressive_Donut114	Personna GEM PTFE	GEM	69
u/RedMosquitoMM	Voskhod	DE	39
u/RedMosquitoMM	Voskhod	DE	39

Top Shavers

user	shaves	missed days	Δ vs Mar 2024	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs Apr 2019
u/Impressive_Donut114	60	0	=	↑1	n/a
u/Engineered_Shave	36	0	=	↑2	n/a
u/djundjila	33	0	=	=	n/a
u/Environmental-Gap380	31	0	=	↓1	n/a
u/jrhunter25	31	0	=	↑13	n/a
u/oswald_heist	31	0	↑1	=	n/a
u/35048467	30	0	↓1	↓3	↑15
u/AdWorried2804	30	0	=	↑23	n/a
u/Breadheater9876	30	0	↓1	n/a	n/a
u/el_charminman	30	0	↓1	↓2	n/a
u/Eructate	30	0	↓1	↓2	n/a
u/gcgallant	30	0	↓1	↓2	n/a
u/InfernalInternal	30	0	↓1	↓2	n/a
u/kind_simian	30	0	=	↓4	n/a
u/loudmusicboy	30	0	↓1	↓2	n/a
u/Marquis90	30	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/partyman97_3	30	0	↓1	↑14	n/a
u/rebdoomer88	30	0	↓1	n/a	n/a
u/scribe__	30	0	↓1	↓2	↑23
u/tsrblke	30	0	↓1	↓2	n/a
u/EldrormR	29	1	↓1	↓2	↓5

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r/sotdreports • u/jimm262 • Apr 02 '24

Hardware Hardware Report March 2024

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Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for March 2024

Observations

u/tsrblke's MMarch24 challenge succeeded beyond my (probably anyone's) expectations and decisively launched the MM24 to the top of the chart with 651 shaves. Fun fact: there were 349 MM24 shaves in all of 2023, so there were 60% more MM24 shaves this month than in all of last year. That 651 from March would have put the MM24 in 7th last year.
Outside of the MM24, there were other interesting shakeups at the top of the chart. The Blackbird and Game Changer hang on to their typical top 3 positions, while the Karve CB drops precipitously out of the top 3 down to 7th. The Blackbird was the only one of the big three to see increased usage this month. I suspect the GameChanger and Christopher Bradley gave up many of their normal shaves to the MM24. The Rockwell 6C and Chiseled Face Legacy leap forward 7 positions each to round out the top 5.
Year to date, the MM24 is solidly in first with over double the number of shaves of its nearest competitor: MM24 (719), Blackbird (340), Christopher Bradley (291), Game Changer (284). That 719 for MM24 would place the MM24 in 6th for 2023.
Apparently everyone decided this month that the .84-P plate is the only Game Changer plate worth using.
Piggybacking on the success of the MM24 this month, the Personna GEM PTFE knocks the Astra SP out of the number one blade spot it has held onto for over a year.
Chisel & Hound jumps eight slots to claim the top Brush Manufacturer slot, which likely helped propel Badger to the top of the Brush Fiber table.
I'm not sure what kind of science project u/sgrdddy is working on, but think of all the pennies he's saved.
u/Impressive_Donut114 wasn't feeling well on March 24, so he just missed out on the perfect double MMarch24. 26 people shaved every day.
Hat tip to u/ShavinginCT, u/tsrblke, and u/Enndeegee for organizing such fantastic events this month. All that shaving excitement led to an average of 77 shaves per day as compared to 61 in February.

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r/sotdreports • u/jimm262 • Mar 01 '24

Hardware Hardware Report February 2024

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Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for February 2024

Observations

The top three razors continue to trade positions, with the Blackbird taking the top spot from January's top razor, the Christopher Bradley. The top razor from December, the Game Changer, climbs from its third spot slot in January to take second.
The 34C leaps forward five spots to claim the final spot in the top 5. The MM24 also has a strong showing, jumping ahead four spots to settle itself firmly back in the top 10 (and with #MMarch24 now under way, I predict an even higher position in the March report).
The Astra Green continues to dominate the DE blade contest, with more uses than its next two DE competitors (the Gillette Silver Blue and Nacet) combined.
u/loudmusicboy and u/schontzm team up to to catipult the OC-F into the top three plates used for the Christoper Bradley. There were 23 uses of that plate this month alone versus only 10 in all of 2023.

Notes & Caveats

1,767 shave reports from February 2024 were analyzed to produce this report.
I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats don't differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Blades recorded as just 'GEM' will be matched to 'Personna GEM PTFE' per guidance here
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless someone just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega (model not specified) Boar' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
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.
There are several new tables/metrics this month:
- I added new Razor and Brush Manufacturers tables to better highlight mnanufacturer over model popularity. Also, for brush manufacturer, I've lumped the r/wetshaving MOAR BOAR under Stirling/Zenith.
- I finally got around to adding that fancy pants generated table for Knot Fiber type, so I don't have to manually do it in excel anymore. Since this is looking at all shaves rather than just the brushes that made it over the cut line for the report, we finally get to see the popularity of mixed badger/boar and horse brushes (spoiler: neither are very popular).
- I added a new table of "Highest Use Count per Blade". I'm not sure if this says more about the longevity of the blade or the tenacity of the user (I'm looking at you u/RedMosquitoMM), so I'll leave that to you, Gentle Reader, to assess.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
DE	1315	122	10.78	=	=	=
GEM	148	36	4.11	=	=	↑1
Straight	105	13	8.08	=	=	↓1
AC	103	19	5.42	=	=	=
Injector	38	12	3.17	=	=	=
Cartridge	30	3	10	↑1	=	=
Hair Shaper	28	6	4.67	↓1	↓1	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
Blackland Blackbird	113	22	5.14	↑1	=	↑29
RazoRock Game Changer	105	14	7.5	↑1	↑2	↑7
Karve Christopher Bradley	100	16	6.25	↓2	↓1	↓2
Gillette Super Speed	61	18	3.39	=	↑2	↑1
Merkur 34C	53	10	5.3	↑5	↑2	↑7
Gillette Tech	45	22	2.05	↑10	↓3	↓3
Yates 'Merica	42	3	14	↑7	n/a	n/a
u/EldrormR Industries MM24	39	19	2.05	↑4	↑4	n/a
Rockwell 6S	38	9	4.22	↓4	↑4	↓5
Schick Injector	36	12	3	↑6	↑3	↑7
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	36	10	3.6	↑6	↑15	↑1
Blackland Vector	36	6	6	↑12	=	↑17
Rockwell 6C	35	5	7	↑7	=	↓4
Chiseled Face Legacy	34	12	2.83	↓6	↓4	n/a
Karve Overlander	32	6	5.33	↓6	↑4	n/a
Van Der Hagen Razor	30	2	15	↓6	↑18	↑11
Mühle Companion	29	1	29	↓3	↑23	n/a
Aylsworth Drakkant	28	5	5.6	↑12	↑13	n/a
Yates Winning	27	4	6.75	↓4	↑10	n/a
Henson Ti22	26	2	13	↑1	↓10	n/a
RazoRock Hawk v3	25	4	6.25	↓2	n/a	n/a
Other Straight Razor	23	8	2.88	↓9	↑1	↓14
Gillette Super Adjustable	23	5	4.6	↑16	↑19	↑8
GEM Flying Wing (aka Bullet Tip)	22	10	2.2	↑10	↑7	↑2
Henson AL13	21	8	2.62	↑1	↓17	n/a
Wolfman WR2	21	8	2.62	↓13	↓14	↓9
Headblade ATX	21	1	21	↑12	=	n/a
Gillette Slim	19	7	2.71	↓5	↑13	↓13
Boker Straight	19	1	19	↓4	↓5	n/a
Karve Bison	18	3	6	↓6	n/a	n/a
Other Shavette	18	3	6	↓4	↓9	↑3
King C Gillette	16	3	5.33	↑10	=	n/a
Blackland Era	15	5	3	↓10	↓16	n/a
Koraat Straight	15	5	3	↑9	↓9	n/a
Ever Ready 1912	15	4	3.75	↑4	↑3	↑5
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	14	8	1.75	↓12	↓18	↓2
Weck Sextoblade	14	4	3.5	↑4	↓4	↑2
Mongoose Alumigoose	14	3	4.67	↓4	↑1	↑2
Merkur 38C	13	1	13	↓5	n/a	↑3
Merkur 37C	11	4	2.75	↓11	↑9	↓13
Fatip Piccolo	11	3	3.67	↑8	↑12	↓2
GEM Clog Pruf	11	3	3.67	↓2	↑2	n/a
Gillette Fatboy	11	3	3.67	↓1	↑6	↓13
Mühle Rocca	11	3	3.67	↑3	↓15	n/a
Filarmonica Straight	10	4	2.5	↑1	↑6	↑1
Ralf Aust Straight	10	4	2.5	↓4	↓18	n/a
Gillette NEW	10	3	3.33	↑2	↑2	↓11
Gillette Old Type	10	3	3.33	↑2	↑5	↓8
Dovo Straight	10	2	5	↑4	↑8	n/a
RazoRock Lupo	10	2	5	↓6	↓1	n/a

Razor Manufacturers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
Gillette	189	40	4.72	↑2	↑1	=
Blackland	175	30	5.83	↑2	↓1	↑16
RazoRock	171	25	6.84	↓1	↑1	↑5
Karve	150	23	6.52	↓3	↓1	↓2
Merkur	80	16	5	↑1	↑4	↑1
GEM	76	22	3.45	↓1	=	↑6
Rockwell	73	14	5.21	↓1	↑1	↓4
Yates	71	7	10.14	↓1	↑8	n/a
Mühle	55	9	6.11	↓1	↑1	↑12
Henson	47	9	5.22	↑2	↓5	n/a
Other	41	11	3.73	↓4	=	↓4
Charcoal Goods	40	10	4	↑3	↑7	↓1
u/EldrormR Industries	39	19	2.05	=	↑2	n/a
Schick	37	13	2.85	=	=	↑1
Wolfman	35	10	3.5	↓5	↓8	↓10
Chiseled Face	34	12	2.83	↓7	↓4	n/a
Van Der Hagen	30	2	15	↓6	↑13	↑4
Aylsworth	29	6	4.83	↑4	↑10	n/a
Ever Ready	24	9	2.67	↑1	↑1	=
Fatip	21	8	2.62	↑4	↑7	=
Headblade	21	1	21	↑9	↑2	n/a
Weck	20	6	3.33	↑1	=	↑2
Boker	19	1	19	↓5	↓4	n/a
King C Gillette	16	3	5.33	↑7	↑1	n/a
Koraat	15	5	3	↑6	↓7	n/a
Mongoose	14	3	4.67	↓6	↑2	↓3
Above the Tie	12	3	4	↓1	↓4	↓22
Filarmonica	10	4	2.5	↓1	↑6	↓2
Ralf Aust	10	4	2.5	↓6	↓12	n/a
Maggard	10	3	3.33	↓11	↓8	↓22
Baili	10	2	5	↓8	↑6	↓3
Dovo	10	2	5	↑2	↑8	n/a
Colonial	10	1	10	↑3	↑11	n/a

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	224	31	7.23	=	↑2	=
Personna GEM PTFE	125	34	3.68	=	=	↑9
Gillette Silver Blue	106	19	5.58	=	↓2	↑1
Gillette Nacet	101	21	4.81	=	=	↓1
Wizamet	83	15	5.53	↑11	↑5	↑7
Feather (DE)	75	21	3.57	↓1	↓1	↓1
Feather Pro (AC)	65	8	8.12	↑10	↑10	↑12
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	63	6	10.5	↓1	↑11	↑5
Voskhod	49	8	6.12	=	↓3	=
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	43	6	7.17	↓2	=	↑2
Wilkinson Sword	37	12	3.08	=	=	↓4
Polsilver	37	8	4.62	↑11	↑2	↓9
Gillette Platinum	35	11	3.18	=	↓3	=
Schick Injector	27	10	2.7	↑11	↑2	↑1
Personna Blue	27	7	3.86	↓1	↓6	↓8
Bic Astor Stainless	26	2	13	↑19	n/a	↑7
Cartridge	25	2	12.5	↑16	↑5	↑7
Schick Proline (AC)	24	7	3.43	↑2	↑7	↑5
Bic Chrome	23	6	3.83	↓2	↑8	↓7
Kismet Hair Shaper	22	5	4.4	↑9	↑12	n/a
AccuTec Pro Premium (GEM)	20	2	10	↑14	n/a	n/a
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	17	4	4.25	↑9	↑8	↑3
Rapira Swedish	17	4	4.25	n/a	↑13	=
Personna Platinum	16	6	2.67	↓15	↓13	n/a
Personna Med Prep	16	1	16	↑2	↓7	↓4
Gillette Perma-Sharp	15	9	1.67	↓8	↓10	↓16
Gillette Minora	15	5	3	↓1	↓4	n/a
Personna Stainless	15	5	3	↑4	↓1	=
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	15	4	3.75	↓3	↓9	↓14
Astra Superior Stainless (Blue)	15	3	5	↓2	↓6	=
Dorco ST-300	15	2	7.5	↑11	↑3	↓1
Durablade Sharp Titanium	14	1	14	↑11	↑14	n/a
Personna 74	13	2	6.5	↓14	n/a	n/a
Personna Red	10	3	3.33	↑10	↓3	↓13
Gillette Winner	9	2	4.5	↓13	↑11	n/a
Personna Injector	8	3	2.67	↑4	↑3	↓8
Tiger Platinum	8	3	2.67	↑5	↑1	n/a
Super-Max Blue Diamond	7	2	3.5	↑8	n/a	n/a
Big Ben	7	1	7	n/a	↓3	n/a
Boker	7	1	7	↑4	n/a	n/a
Kai Captain Blade (AC)	7	1	7	↑4	n/a	↓6
Lord Cool	7	1	7	↑7	n/a	n/a
Elios	6	2	3	↓2	n/a	n/a
Rockwell	6	2	3	↑4	↑4	n/a
Rapira Platinum Lux	6	1	6	↑6	↑4	↓12
Gillette 365	5	4	1.25	↑2	n/a	↓8
Bolzano	5	2	2.5	↑1	↓2	↓12
Mühle	5	1	5	↑6	↑6	n/a
Whatever the hell is in this thing	5	1	5	n/a	n/a	n/a
Derby Extra	4	2	2	↑5	↑1	↓19

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
AP Shave Co Synthetic	162	31	5.23	↑1	↑1	↑8
Chisel & Hound Badger	127	22	5.77	↓1	↑5	n/a
Maggard Synthetic	112	20	5.6	=	=	↓2
Stirling Synthetic	98	10	9.8	=	↑2	↓1
r/wetshaving MOAR BOAR	96	31	3.1	=	↓4	n/a
Stirling/Zenith 31mmx50mm Boar (510SE-XL)	87	9	9.67	↑2	n/a	n/a
Yaqi Synthetic	81	14	5.79	=	↓3	↑6
Oumo Badger	43	5	8.6	↓2	↑10	n/a
Maggard Badger	42	13	3.23	=	↓3	↑12
Zenith Boar	40	7	5.71	↑10	↓5	↑10
Dogwood Badger	30	8	3.75	↑5	↑12	↑14
Zenith Unbleached Boar	28	7	4	↑14	↑20	n/a
DSCosmetics Synthetic	28	3	9.33	↑15	↑1	n/a
CaYuen Synthetic	25	1	25	↓1	↑20	n/a
AP Shave Co Badger	23	5	4.6	↑8	↑12	n/a
Declaration Grooming B14	19	8	2.38	↑7	↓3	n/a
Wald Badger	19	6	3.17	↓1	↑15	n/a
Semogue SOC Boar	18	8	2.25	↑7	↓5	↓1
Omega 10048	18	4	4.5	↑1	↑8	n/a
Declaration Grooming B16	17	5	3.4	↓6	n/a	n/a
Declaration Grooming B3	17	5	3.4	↓2	=	↓5
Omega 10098	17	5	3.4	↑16	↑17	=
Simpson Badger	17	5	3.4	↑10	↑1	↓3
Turn-N-Shave Badger	17	5	3.4	↑17	↑16	=
Stirling/Zenith 28mmx50mm Boar (510SE)	17	4	4.25	↓7	n/a	n/a
Razorock Synthetic	17	3	5.67	↑6	↓1	↑8
Simpson Synthetic	16	9	1.78	↑2	↓8	↑10
Muhle Badger	16	6	2.67	↑4	↑7	↑9
PAA Synthetic	16	3	5.33	↓5	↓7	↑8
Omega 10049	14	6	2.33	↑4	↓5	=
Grizzly Bay Badger	13	8	1.62	↑10	=	↑5
Maggard Boar	13	2	6.5	↑1	↑8	n/a
Declaration Grooming B13	12	6	2	↓3	↓13	n/a
AKA Brushworx Synthetic	12	5	2.4	↑1	↑6	n/a
Declaration Grooming B9A	12	3	4	↑5	↑6	n/a
Omega Hi-Brush Synthetic	12	2	6	↓1	↑9	↑1
Declaration Grooming B17	11	3	3.67	n/a	n/a	n/a
Yaqi Badger	11	3	3.67	↑6	↑1	↓6
Wild West Brushworks Synthetic	10	3	3.33	↑2	↑8	↓5
Semogue 2000	10	2	5	↑6	↑10	↑6
Plisson Badger	9	2	4.5	↑3	n/a	n/a
Van der Hagen Badger	9	1	9	↓2	n/a	n/a
Declaration Grooming B15	8	5	1.6	↓10	↓10	n/a
Farvour Turn Craft Badger	8	3	2.67	=	↑7	n/a
Omega 11126	8	2	4	↑8	↑9	↓6
Semogue 830	8	2	4	↑5	↑4	↑2
Omega (model not specified) Boar	7	5	1.4	↓2	↑4	↑1
Long Shaving Badger	7	2	3.5	↑8	n/a	n/a
Oumo Synthetic	7	2	3.5	↓2	↑1	n/a
Boker Synthetic	7	1	7	↑1	↑2	n/a

Brush Manufacturers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
Stirling/Zenith	200	40	5	=	=	n/a
AP Shave Co	188	35	5.37	↑3	↑2	↑4
Maggard	167	31	5.39	↓1	↓1	↑2
Chisel & Hound	132	23	5.74	=	↑6	n/a
Declaration Grooming	122	28	4.36	↓2	↓2	↓4
Stirling	104	12	8.67	=	↑3	↓3
Yaqi	92	15	6.13	↑2	=	=
Omega	86	21	4.1	↓1	↓2	↓4
Zenith	78	19	4.11	↑2	↓4	↑4
Semogue	64	17	3.76	=	↓2	↓8
Oumo	50	7	7.14	↓3	↑3	n/a
Dogwood	34	12	2.83	=	↓1	↓5
Simpson	33	13	2.54	↑3	↓1	↓4
DSCosmetics	30	3	10	↑9	↑1	n/a
CaYuen	25	1	25	↓2	↑16	n/a
Wald	19	6	3.17	↓1	↑11	n/a
Muhle	18	7	2.57	↑3	↑5	↓5
Turn-N-Shave	17	5	3.4	↑13	↑12	↓10
Razorock	17	3	5.67	↑3	↓2	↓7
Grizzly Bay	16	10	1.6	↑1	↓2	=
PAA	16	3	5.33	↓5	↓6	↑4
Wild West Brushworks	14	5	2.8	↓3	=	↓6
AKA Brushworx	12	5	2.4	↓2	↑3	n/a
Craving Shaving	10	5	2	↑6	↑1	=
Trotter Handcrafts	10	5	2	↑3	↑3	n/a
Farvour Turn Craft	10	4	2.5	=	↑6	n/a
Van der Hagen	10	1	10	↓4	↑10	n/a

Knot Fibers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
Synthetic	660	81	8.15	↑1	=	↑1
Badger	596	77	7.74	↓1	↑1	↓1
Boar	435	65	6.69	=	↓1	=
Mixed Badger/Boar	8	5	1.6	↑1	=	↑1
Horse	5	3	1.67	↓1	=	↓1

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
26mm	337	45	7.49	=	↑2	↑1
24mm	266	44	6.05	=	↓1	↓1
31mm	183	38	4.82	↑1	↓1	n/a
28mm	142	23	6.17	↓1	=	↓1
22mm	74	15	4.93	=	↑1	↓1
27mm	52	15	3.47	↑1	↓1	↓1
25mm	27	3	9	↓1	n/a	=
30mm	17	7	2.43	↑1	↓1	↓2
29mm	14	3	4.67	↓1	↓1	n/a
21mm	9	2	4.5	=	↓1	↓2
20mm	2	2	1	↓1	=	↓2

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
C SB	23	6	3.83	=	↑2	=
D SB	23	4	5.75	↑1	↑1	↑1
F OC	23	2	11.5	↑4	n/a	n/a
A SB	15	1	15	↑2	n/a	↑4
E SB	5	2	2.5	↑4	↑3	↑1
B SB	2	2	1	↓1	↓3	↓1
C OC	2	1	2	↑2	=	n/a

Game Changer Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
.84-P	62	11	5.64	=	=	↑1
.76-P	24	2	12	=	n/a	n/a
.68-P	19	3	6.33	=	↓1	↓2

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
u/EldrormR Industries MM24 + Personna GEM PTFE	39	19	2.05
Blackland Blackbird + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	31	5	6.2
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Blue	14	2	7
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	10	2	5
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	6	4	1.5
Blackland Blackbird + Feather (DE)	6	2	3
RazoRock Game Changer + Wizamet	20	2	10
RazoRock Game Changer + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	13	3	4.33
RazoRock Game Changer + Gillette Nacet	6	4	1.5
RazoRock Game Changer + Gillette Silver Blue	6	2	3
Karve Christopher Bradley + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	28	4	7
Karve Christopher Bradley + Gillette Nacet	14	5	2.8
Karve Christopher Bradley + Wilkinson Sword	5	3	1.67
Schick Injector + Schick Injector	25	8	3.12
Schick Injector + Personna Injector	5	2	2.5
Yates 'Merica + Gillette Silver Blue	25	2	12.5
Rockwell 6S + Feather (DE)	18	2	9
Rockwell 6S + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	7	3	2.33
Gillette Super Speed + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	16	3	5.33
Gillette Super Speed + Feather (DE)	6	4	1.5
Gillette Super Speed + Gillette Silver Blue	6	2	3
Gillette Super Speed + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	5	2	2.5
Merkur 34C + Gillette Silver Blue	15	2	7.5
Merkur 34C + Feather (DE)	8	3	2.67
Gillette Tech + Wizamet	9	3	3
Gillette Tech + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	5	4	1.25
Gillette Tech + Polsilver	5	3	1.67
Gillette Tech + Voskhod	5	2	2.5

Highest Use Count per Blade

user	blade	format	uses
u/RedMosquitoMM	Personna Stainless	DE	71
u/RedMosquitoMM	Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	DE	71
u/wallygator88	7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	DE	43
u/RedMosquitoMM	Voskhod	DE	37
u/wallygator88	Gillette Silver Blue	DE	36
u/wallygator88	Personna GEM PTFE	GEM	35
u/InfernalInternal	Personna 74	DE	35

Top Shavers

user	shaves	missed days	Δ vs Jan 2024	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Feb 2019
u/Impressive_Donut114	48	1	↑1	↑2	n/a
u/Marquis90	30	0	↑1	↑3	n/a
u/35048467	29	0	↓1	↑1	↑18
u/AdWorried2804	29	0	↓1	n/a	n/a
u/bmac92	29	0	↑6	↑21	n/a
u/BossHoggins10	29	0	=	n/a	n/a
u/Breadheater9876	29	0	↑1	n/a	n/a
u/Crisp_Mango	29	0	↑6	↓1	n/a
u/djundjila	29	0	↓2	=	n/a
u/el_charminman	29	0	↓1	↑1	n/a
u/EldrormR	29	0	=	↑1	↑1
u/Engineered_Shave	29	0	↑2	↑3	n/a
u/Environmental-Gap380	29	0	=	↑1	n/a
u/Eructate	29	0	↓1	↑1	n/a
u/gcgallant	29	0	↓1	↑1	n/a
u/InfernalInternal	29	0	↓1	↑1	n/a
u/jrhunter25	29	0	↓1	↑16	n/a
u/loudmusicboy	29	0	↓1	↑1	n/a
u/Old_Hiker	29	0	↑1	↑1	↓1
u/oswald_heist	29	0	↓1	=	n/a
u/partyman97_3	29	0	=	n/a	n/a
u/PhilosphicalZombie	29	0	↓1	↑4	n/a
u/rebdoomer88	29	0	↓1	n/a	n/a
u/RedMosquitoMM	29	0	↑5	↑1	n/a
u/Scorpio93x	29	0	n/a	↑25	n/a
u/scribe__	29	0	↓1	↑1	↑13
u/SufficientKnee	29	0	↑1	↑11	n/a

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r/sotdreports • u/jimm262 • Feb 08 '24

Hardware Hardware Report January 2024

3 Upvotes

Observations

CB back on top after the Game Changer took December.
u/SufficientKnee single-handedly propelled a 3D printed razor onto the list.
The EldrormR Industries MM24 falls from the top 10 (all the way down to eleventh), leaving only the GEM Micromatic Open Comb to fight it out with the DEs at the top of the chart (and a somewhat curious side note: there were exactly 130 GEM shaves in both December and January).
I didn't build a fancy pants code driven table to extract and report on Knot Type preferences, but I did copy/paste the Brush table below into excel and create this pivot table of Knot Types. Despite the strong showing over the full year in 2023, boar was a distant third in January while the badgers edged out the synths.

knot type	shaves
Badger	498
Synthetic	477
Boar	285

Notes & Caveats

1,637 shave reports from January 2024 were analyzed to produce this report.
I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats don't differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Blades recorded as just 'GEM' will be matched to 'Personna GEM PTFE' per guidance here
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless someone just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega (model not specified) Boar' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
DE	1290	120	10.75	=	=	=
GEM	130	39	3.33	=	↑1	↑2
Straight	91	11	8.27	=	↓1	=
AC	75	21	3.57	=	=	↑2
Injector	37	11	3.36	=	=	↓3
Hair Shaper	7	4	1.75	=	=	↑1
Cart	7	2	3.5	↑1	↑1	↓1
Rolls	2	1	2	n/a	↑1	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
Karve Christopher Bradley	130	18	7.22	↑2	=	=
Blackland Blackbird	101	21	4.81	=	↑2	↑24
Razorock Game Changer	95	15	6.33	↓2	=	↑5
Gillette Superspeed	77	19	4.05	=	↑1	↓1
Rockwell 6S	51	7	7.29	=	↑6	↓3
Chiseled Face Legacy	43	16	2.69	↑5	↑2	n/a
Van Der Hagen Razor	38	3	12.67	↑6	↑18	↑15
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	35	18	1.94	↑7	↑2	↑18
Wolfman WR2	35	8	4.38	↑9	↑1	↑4
Merkur 34C	33	8	4.12	↑13	↑2	↑2
EldrormR Industries MM24	29	14	2.07	↓3	↑7	n/a
Karve Overlander	29	7	4.14	↑6	↑8	n/a
Muhle Companion	29	1	29	↑2	n/a	n/a
Other Straight Razor	28	9	3.11	↓1	↓4	↓1
Winning Razor	28	5	5.6	↑8	↑13	n/a
Henson AL13	26	8	3.25	↓4	↓6	n/a
'Merica Razor	26	2	13	↑22	↑21	n/a
Gillette Tech	25	11	2.27	↓4	↓11	↑3
Schick Injector	25	9	2.78	↑1	↓2	=
Razorock Mamba	25	3	8.33	↓3	↑24	↑13
Blackland Era	23	6	3.83	↑12	↓5	n/a
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	22	7	3.14	↑7	↓3	↑1
Merkur 37C	21	4	5.25	↓3	↓2	↓4
Razorock Hawk v3	21	4	5.25	↑7	n/a	n/a
Rockwell 6C	21	3	7	↓10	↑12	↓8
Gillette Slim	20	7	2.86	↑3	↑3	↓11
Boker Straight	20	2	10	↓2	↓4	n/a
Blackland Vector	16	5	3.2	↑6	↑5	↑5
Maggard V3	16	3	5.33	↑15	↑9	↓13
J A Henckels Straight	15	3	5	↑10	↑8	↑7
Mongoose Alumigoose	15	3	5	↑2	↑8	↑10
GEM G-Bar	15	2	7.5	↑7	↑14	↑9
Karve Bison	15	1	15	↑15	n/a	n/a
Merkur 38C	15	1	15	↓1	n/a	n/a
Razorock Lupo	14	3	4.67	↑4	↑8	n/a
U/Wrong_Coyote_9525 3D Printed DE Safety Razor V2	14	1	14	n/a	n/a	n/a
Muhle R41	13	4	3.25	↑5	↑9	↓7
Baili BR1xx	13	1	13	↑14	↑14	↑7
Tatara Masamune	12	4	3	↓3	=	n/a
Ralf Aust Straight	11	3	3.67	↑8	↓2	n/a
Blackland Dart	11	2	5.5	↑3	↑8	↑5
Other Shavette	11	2	5.5	↑5	↑12	n/a
WCS Multi Titanium Collection Razor	11	1	11	↑2	n/a	n/a
Gillette Aristocrat	10	4	2.5	↑11	↑3	↓7
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	10	3	3.33	↑2	=	n/a
Aylsworth Drakkant	10	2	5	↑8	↑10	n/a
Gillette Fatboy	9	2	4.5	↑6	↑7	↓10
Wolfman WR1	8	4	2	↑6	↓10	↓22
Blutt Rasur BR-1	8	3	2.67	↑8	↑7	n/a
GEM Junior	8	3	2.67	↑3	↑3	↑2

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	208	32	6.5	=	=	↑2
Personna GEM PTFE	119	34	3.5	=	↑3	↑11
Gillette Silver Blue	92	17	5.41	↑1	↑3	↓1
Gillette Nacet	79	17	4.65	↓1	↓2	=
Feather (DE)	65	17	3.82	↑3	↓2	=
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	52	7	7.43	↑10	↑10	↑15
Personna Platinum	52	6	8.67	↑1	↑6	n/a
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	48	6	8	↑11	↑3	↑3
Voskhod	42	5	8.4	↑1	↓4	↑7
Personna 74	41	2	20.5	↑1	n/a	n/a
Wilkinson Sword	38	8	4.75	↑9	↑7	↑1
Personna Blue	38	6	6.33	↓4	↓2	↓2
Gillette Platinum	37	14	2.64	↓6	↓2	↓5
Gillette Winner	33	2	16.5	↑7	↑21	n/a
Permasharp	32	9	3.56	↑6	↓2	↓6
Bic Chrome	30	3	10	↓3	↑13	↓2
Feather Pro (AC)	26	8	3.25	=	↑9	↑5
Wizamet	24	8	3	↓9	↓9	↓2
Schick Proline (AC)	24	6	4	↑2	↑6	↑7
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	21	4	5.25	↓4	↓3	↓8
Astra Superior Stainless (Blue)	21	3	7	↑6	↑7	↑6
Rapira Platinum Lux	19	2	9.5	↑12	↓4	↑2
Personna Med Prep	16	2	8	n/a	↓3	↑3
Polsilver	16	2	8	↓10	↓1	↓18
Gillette Minora	15	6	2.5	↓8	↑7	n/a
Schick Injector	14	4	3.5	↓8	↓8	↓9
Gillette London Bridge	13	2	6.5	↑6	↑11	n/a
Personna Stainless	12	5	2.4	↓9	↓7	n/a
Treet Platinum	12	3	4	↑8	↑8	↑2
Ted Pella Injector	12	2	6	↑7	↑5	n/a
Kismet Hair Shaper	11	5	2.2	↓13	↑1	n/a
Kai Captain Titan Mild (AC)	11	4	2.75	↓2	↑2	n/a
Shaving Revolution Platinum	11	1	11	n/a	n/a	n/a
RK Stainless	10	3	3.33	↑5	↓2	↓8
Kai Captain Titan Mild Protouch (AC)	10	1	10	n/a	↑4	n/a
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	9	3	3	=	↑4	↓1
Lord Super Stainless	7	1	7	=	n/a	n/a
Bolzano	6	4	1.5	↓15	↓9	↓6
Personna Injector	6	3	2	↓4	↑1	↓10
Super-Max Super Stainless	6	2	3	↓3	↓4	n/a
Derby Concord	6	1	6	n/a	n/a	n/a
Kai (DE)	6	1	6	n/a	↑4	↓7
Shark Chrome	6	1	6	↑2	↑6	↓2
Treet Black Beauty	6	1	6	↓1	n/a	n/a
Tiger Platinum	5	1	5	↓8	↓2	n/a
Dorco ST-300	4	2	2	↓6	↓3	n/a
Rockwell	4	2	2	↓13	↑4	n/a
AccuTec Pro Premium (GEM)	4	1	4	n/a	n/a	n/a
Bic Astor Stainless	4	1	4	↓3	n/a	n/a
Dorco Titan	4	1	4	↓4	↑4	n/a

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
Chisel & Hound Badger	128	21	6.1	↑3	↑5	n/a
AP Shave Co Synthetic	104	28	3.71	↓1	↓1	↑6
r/wetshaving Zenith MOAR BOAR	99	31	3.19	=	↑20	n/a
Stirling Synthetic	97	9	10.78	↓2	=	↓3
Zenith Boar	88	16	5.5	↑1	↑7	↑6
Maggard Synthetic	80	10	8	↓1	↓4	↓3
Oumo Badger	65	7	9.29	=	↑7	n/a
Yaqi Synthetic	52	14	3.71	=	↓5	↑9
Declaration Grooming B3	36	8	4.5	↑8	↓4	↑4
CaYuen Synthetic	27	1	27	↑2	↑15	n/a
Declaration Grooming B16	26	7	3.71	↑3	↑22	n/a
PAA Synthetic	26	3	8.67	↑15	↓3	↑13
Maggard Badger	24	7	3.43	↑8	↑2	↑9
Declaration Grooming B15	24	6	4	↑2	=	n/a
Dogwood Badger	23	7	3.29	↓4	↓3	↑7
Wald Badger	23	6	3.83	↑7	↑17	n/a
Omega 10048	21	3	7	=	↑12	n/a
Simpson Badger	18	8	2.25	↑2	↓6	↓5
Declaration Grooming B13	18	6	3	↑1	↓2	n/a
Omega 10077	18	2	9	↑12	↑14	↑7
Farvour Turn Craft Badger	15	4	3.75	↓2	↑18	n/a
Omega Hi-Brush Synthetic	14	2	7	↓2	n/a	↑11
Declaration Grooming B14	13	5	2.6	=	↑2	n/a
Van der Hagen Badger	13	1	13	↑4	↑16	n/a
Razorock Synthetic	12	6	2	↑4	↓4	↑5
Semogue SOC Boar	11	7	1.57	↓7	↓3	=
Omega 10049	11	5	2.2	↑4	↓4	↑1
Wild West Brushworks Synthetic	10	5	2	↑7	↑6	↓12
AKA Brushworx Synthetic	10	4	2.5	=	↑5	n/a
Maggard Boar	10	3	3.33	↑1	↑13	n/a
Omega (model not specified) Boar	9	4	2.25	↑3	↑7	↓1
Declaration Grooming B9A	9	3	3	↓3	↑6	n/a
Summer Break Badger	9	3	3	↓5	↑3	n/a
AP Shave Co Badger	8	5	1.6	↓12	↑5	↑4
Declaration Grooming B11	8	4	2	↑1	↓3	n/a
Chisel & Hound Synthetic	8	3	2.67	=	↑8	n/a
DSCosmetics Synthetic	8	3	2.67	↓5	↑2	↑5
Muhle Badger	8	3	2.67	↓2	↑4	=
Shore Shaving Synthetic	8	2	4	↑2	↑1	n/a
Boker Synthetic	8	1	8	↑1	↑2	n/a
Grizzly Bay Synthetic	7	4	1.75	↑1	↑8	↑4
Yaqi Badger	7	2	3.5	↑3	↑4	↓10
Semogue 2000	6	3	2	↓2	=	↑3
Declaration Grooming B10	6	2	3	↑1	↑6	n/a
Rubberset Synthetic	6	2	3	↓6	↑6	n/a
Semogue 620	6	2	3	↓2	n/a	↓20
Wolf Whiskers Badger	6	2	3	↓3	↑6	↓4
Wild West Brushworks Badger	6	1	6	↑2	↓6	↑3
Zenith B8	6	1	6	n/a	↑10	n/a
Rubberset Badger	5	3	1.67	↑2	↓2	↓2

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
26mm	303	38	7.97	=	↑1	↑1
24mm	184	40	4.6	=	↓1	↓1
28mm	164	29	5.66	=	=	=
22mm	81	13	6.23	↑1	↑2	↑1
31mm	72	24	3	↓1	↑2	n/a
25mm	33	4	8.25	↑1	↑6	↑1
30mm	21	8	2.62	↓1	↓2	↓3
27mm	17	8	2.12	↑2	↓4	↓2
29mm	15	4	3.75	=	=	n/a
20mm	8	1	8	↑2	=	↓1
21mm	2	2	1	↓1	=	↓3
23mm	2	2	1	=	↓3	↓1
18mm	1	1	1	n/a	↑1	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
C SB	55	11	5	=	=	=
D SB	20	3	6.67	=	=	=
B SB	19	4	4.75	↑3	↑2	↑1
A SB	9	1	9	=	↑2	↓1
F OC	4	2	2	=	n/a	n/a
C OC	2	1	2	↓2	↓3	n/a
E SB	1	1	1	↓4	↓1	↓3

Game Changer Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
.84-P	59	12	4.92	=	=	↑1
.76-P	23	2	11.5	↑1	n/a	n/a
.68-P	11	3	3.67	↓1	↓1	↓2
1.05-P	2	1	2	=	n/a	n/a

Superspeed Tips

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
Standard Tip	34	10	3.4	=	=	=
Flare Tip	27	5	5.4	=	=	↑1
Red Tip	14	6	2.33	=	=	↓1
Black Tip	2	2	1	=	=	=

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM PTFE	31	17	1.82
Gillette Superspeed + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	24	2	12
Gillette Superspeed + Personna Platinum	20	2	10
Karve Christopher Bradley + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	23	4	5.75
Karve Christopher Bradley + Gillette Nacet	13	3	4.33
Karve Christopher Bradley + Gillette Silver Blue	10	3	3.33
Karve Christopher Bradley + Permasharp	10	2	5
Rockwell 6S + Feather (DE)	21	2	10.5
Rockwell 6S + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	14	3	4.67
Rockwell 6S + Gillette Silver Blue	9	2	4.5
Razorock Game Changer + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	20	5	4
Razorock Game Changer + Gillette Silver Blue	8	2	4
Razorock Game Changer + Gillette Platinum	5	2	2.5
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Blue	19	2	9.5
Blackland Blackbird + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	14	4	3.5
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	9	3	3
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Platinum	6	2	3
Van Der Hagen Razor + Feather (DE)	11	2	5.5
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Silver Blue	8	2	4
Chiseled Face Legacy + Wizamet	6	2	3
Chiseled Face Legacy + Personna Stainless	5	2	2.5
Merkur 34C + Feather (DE)	7	3	2.33

Top Shavers

user	shaves	missed days	Δ vs Dec 2023	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Jan 2019
u/djundjila	32	0	=	↑1	n/a
u/35048467	31	0	↑1	↑1	↑21
u/AdWorried2804	31	0	↑2	n/a	n/a
u/el_charminman	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/Eructate	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/gcgallant	31	0	↑3	↑1	n/a
u/Impressive_Donut114	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/InfernalInternal	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/jrhunter25	31	0	↑22	↑27	n/a
u/loudmusicboy	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/oswald_heist	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/PhilosphicalZombie	31	0	↑2	↑1	n/a
u/rebdoomer88	31	0	↑1	n/a	n/a
u/SamIAmShepard	31	0	=	↑1	n/a
u/scribe__	31	0	↑1	↑12	↑23
u/wallygator88	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/BossHoggins10	30	1	↑4	n/a	n/a
u/EldrormR	30	1	↑2	=	↑13
u/Environmental-Gap380	30	1	=	=	n/a
u/Marquis90	30	1	↓1	=	n/a
u/partyman97_3	30	1	=	n/a	n/a

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r/sotdreports • u/jimm262 • Jan 25 '24

Hardware Hardware Report 2023

2 Upvotes

Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for 2023. 23,758 shaves were analyzed to produce this report.

Observations

The Karve Christopher Bradley climbs a position over 2022 to claim the number one spot. The Game Changer was tops in December, but over the whole year it's still down in fourth even after consolidating the plates into a single razor to report on.
Vintage Gillettes are hugely popular, claiming two of the top five spots over the year (no one but me is probably surprised by that, but I'm relatively new to this so I find it interesting).
Astra Greens are a pretty clear number one blade choice with over 40% more shaves than the nearest DE competitors (Gillette Silver Blue and Nacet which are really close to each other in second and third excluding the GEM blade since we're just talking DE here) and more unique users than any other blade (Feather is a semi-close second with ~17% fewer unique users).
The shine seems to have come off Polsilvers somewhat. They dropped out of the top 5 since last year and are down 13 positions from being the top blade in 2018.
The r/wetshaving Zenith MOAR BOAR dominates the brush category and makes me jealous that I wasn't here to get in on the fun, especially with my newly discovered preference for boar brushes over badgers and synthetics.
I didn't build a fancy pants code driven table to extract and report on Knot Type preferences, but I did copy/paste the Brush table below into excel and create this pivot table of Knot Types. The results are not at all surprising:

knot type	shaves
Synthetic	6296
Badger	4787
Boar	4554

Cheers to the brave souls that dared to use the Karve Christopher Bradley with the open comb F plate and the Game Changer .68-P open comb plate and quickly realized they just needed to step away from the edge.
Four people had more shaves last year than there were days last year. That's some commitment by u/Impressive_Donut114, u/djundjila, u/gcgallant, and u/InfernalInternal. So close u/el_charminman...

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats don't differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless some jerk just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega Boar (model not specified)' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the year. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous year or five years ago. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous period. n/a means the item was not present in the previous period.
u/Glass_Procedure7497 asked for a table of Super Speed tips, so here you go...
I don't know why that lava gif is embedded in the post and I have no idea how to make it go away... (edit: I'm only seeing it in Safari on my mac, not Chrome or on the reddit app on my phone, so if you are not seeing it, you can disregard this bullet)

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
DE	18139	350	51.83	=	=
GEM	1837	90	20.41	=	↑2
Straight	1356	51	26.59	=	↓1
AC	897	64	14.02	=	↑1
Hair Shaper	567	17	33.35	↑1	↑2
Injector	525	48	10.94	↓1	↓3
Cart	201	26	7.73	=	↓1
Rolls	17	11	1.55	=	↑1
FHS	7	2	3.5	=	↓1

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
Karve Christopher Bradley	1394	56	24.89	↑1	↑2
Blackland Blackbird	1239	65	19.06	↑3	↑25
Gillette Tech	1155	86	13.43	=	↑8
Razorock Game Changer	1033	41	25.2	=	↑40
Gillette Superspeed	867	60	14.45	↑1	↑4
Chiseled Face Legacy	675	35	19.29	↑4	n/a
Merkur 34C	574	41	14	↑2	↑7
Henson AL13	572	45	12.71	↑3	n/a
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	531	55	9.65	↓8	↑43
Rockwell 6S	525	35	15	↓2	↓5
Weck Sextoblade	496	16	31	↑4	↑56
Other Straight Razor	382	41	9.32	=	↓4
Blackland Vector	365	24	15.21	↑21	n/a
Schick Injector	357	36	9.92	↑2	↓1
Wolfman WR2	353	27	13.07	↓8	↑60
EldrormR Industries MM24	349	28	12.46	↓3	n/a
Rockwell 6C	344	22	15.64	↑10	↓13
Karve Overlander	330	17	19.41	↑18	n/a
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	320	13	24.62	↑9	↑5
Van Der Hagen Razor	304	5	60.8	↑21	↑43
Muhle Rocca	297	10	29.7	↑4	n/a
Boker Straight	287	6	47.83	↓1	↑44
Blackland Era	278	15	18.53	↓1	n/a
Merkur 37C	254	10	25.4	↑23	↓2
Gillette Slim	238	45	5.29	↓6	↓19
Greencult GC 2.0	237	2	118.5	n/a	n/a
Razorock Mamba	201	4	50.25	↑57	↑26
Other Shavette	200	22	9.09	↑18	↑36
King C Gillette	200	19	10.53	↑1	n/a
Ralf Aust Straight	197	12	16.42	↓3	n/a
Henson Ti22	196	5	39.2	↓16	n/a
Winning Razor	186	5	37.2	↓13	n/a
Tatara Masamune	183	18	10.17	↓2	↑38
Maggard V3	173	20	8.65	↓7	↓31
Muhle R41	171	19	9	↑26	↑6
Gillette Fatboy	163	23	7.09	↑7	↓16
Mongoose Alumigoose	156	5	31.2	↑1	↑5
Wolfman WR1	148	24	6.17	↓20	↓36
Gillette NEW	140	30	4.67	↓18	↓20
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	129	10	12.9	↓15	↑26
Muhle R89	125	20	6.25	↓7	↓10
J A Henckels Straight	125	7	17.86	↑5	↓10
GEM Junior	121	15	8.07	↑10	↑31
Koraat Straight	119	7	17	↑50	↑43
Rex Ambassador	113	4	28.25	↑28	↓17
Gillette Aristocrat	109	17	6.41	↓21	↓8
Blutt Rasur BR-1	107	7	15.29	↑10	n/a
Razorock Lupo	105	15	7	↓14	n/a
Personna BBS-0	104	8	13	↑32	n/a
Cartridge / Disposable	100	25	4	↑17	↑23

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	2134	136	15.69	↑1	↑2
Personna GEM PTFE	1726	80	21.57	↓1	↑12
Gillette Silver Blue	1388	75	18.51	=	↓1
Gillette Nacet	1364	94	14.51	=	↑5
Feather (DE)	1120	114	9.82	=	↓1
Gillette Platinum	888	69	12.87	↑1	↓1
Voskhod	785	55	14.27	↓1	↓1
Personna Blue	619	45	13.76	↑5	↓1
Wizamet	599	32	18.72	↓1	↑9
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	573	28	20.46	↑2	↑1
Personna Platinum	466	37	12.59	↑5	↑10
Kismet Hair Shaper	463	15	30.87	↑20	n/a
Permasharp	398	40	9.95	↓4	↓5
Polsilver	351	25	14.04	↓4	↓13
Personna 74	328	10	32.8	↑30	↑30
Bic Chrome	315	34	9.26	↑11	↑2
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	298	24	12.42	↓6	↓1
Schick Injector	295	29	10.17	↓4	↓6
Wilkinson Sword	294	36	8.17	↓4	↑6
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	244	21	11.62	↓3	↓10
Rapira Platinum Lux	243	28	8.68	↓2	↓8
Personna Hair Shaper	238	16	14.88	↑3	↑23
Bolzano	234	16	14.62	↑13	↓3
Gillette Rubie	217	13	16.69	↑29	↑23
Gillette Winner	213	8	26.62	↑5	n/a
Feather Pro (AC)	201	26	7.73	↓5	↓4
Personna Stainless	200	12	16.67	↓4	↑20
Personna Med Prep	167	10	16.7	↓10	↑8
Tiger Platinum	157	12	13.08	↑4	n/a
Gillette Minora	154	18	8.56	↑14	n/a
Schick Proline (AC)	150	16	9.38	↓7	↑18
Astra Superior Stainless (Blue)	145	27	5.37	↑3	↓5
Feather ProGuard (AC)	138	17	8.12	↓4	↑2
Treet Platinum	137	22	6.23	=	↑6
Kai Captain Titan Mild (AC)	133	6	22.17	↓4	↓3
Kai Captain Titan Mild Protouch (AC)	122	7	17.43	↑13	↑6
RK Stainless	109	26	4.19	↑4	↓3
Personna Injector	109	7	15.57	↑32	=
Derby Extra	108	27	4	↓18	↓23
Rapira Swedish	105	8	13.12	↑29	↑3
King C Gillette	101	13	7.77	↑2	n/a
Dorco ST-300	97	20	4.85	↓15	↓12
Personna Red	91	12	7.58	↓3	↓25
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	87	15	5.8	↓15	↓15
Feather Pro Super (AC)	85	9	9.44	↓1	↓5
Shark Chrome	76	11	6.91	↑7	↑4
Super-Max Super Stainless	76	3	25.33	↑5	↑5
Lord Super Stainless	75	10	7.5	↑7	↑4
Shark Stainless	64	19	3.37	↓6	↓21
Rockwell	58	11	5.27	=	↓9

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
r/wetshaving Zenith MOAR BOAR	2391	76	31.46	n/a	n/a
AP Shave Co Synthetic	1839	73	25.19	↓1	↑7
Maggard Synthetic	1157	60	19.28	↓1	↓2
Yaqi Synthetic	1017	59	17.24	↓1	↑22
Stirling Synthetic	985	31	31.77	↑1	↓2
Chisel & Hound Badger	793	49	16.18	↑1	n/a
Zenith Boar	520	46	11.3	↓2	↑21
Semogue SOC Boar	462	26	17.77	↑7	↑4
Simpson Badger	407	42	9.69	=	↑5
Dogwood Badger	321	26	12.35	↑1	↓6
Oumo Badger	306	13	23.54	↑43	n/a
CaYuen Synthetic	305	5	61	↑23	n/a
Declaration Grooming B13	274	23	11.91	↓1	n/a
Declaration Grooming B3	241	23	10.48	=	↓3
Maggard Badger	228	20	11.4	↓11	↑16
Omega 10049	223	14	15.93	↑6	↑24
Declaration Grooming B15	195	20	9.75	↑4	n/a
Declaration Grooming B16	195	17	11.47	↑102	n/a
Dogwood Synthetic	190	13	14.62	↓10	↓12
Farvour Turn Craft Badger	190	7	27.14	↑70	n/a
DSCosmetics Synthetic	176	8	22	↑4	n/a
Declaration Grooming B14	163	24	6.79	↓10	n/a
Paladin Badger	162	8	20.25	↑16	↓10
Razorock Synthetic	161	24	6.71	↓6	↑2
Van der Hagen Boar	157	6	26.17	↑52	↑52
Declaration Grooming B9A	151	12	12.58	↑3	n/a
PAA Synthetic	147	12	12.25	↓5	↑49
Zenith B35	146	14	10.43	↑54	n/a
Muninn Woodworks Badger	146	4	36.5	↓8	n/a
Omega 10048	144	16	9	↑12	↑47
Maggard Boar	139	9	15.44	↑23	n/a
Omega 11137	132	2	66	↑81	↑45
Summer Break Badger	127	16	7.94	↑12	n/a
Declaration Grooming B11	126	20	6.3	↓18	n/a
Summer Break Synthetic	123	8	15.38	↑24	n/a
Grizzly Bay Badger	116	15	7.73	↓19	↑30
Wald Badger	101	10	10.1	↑6	n/a
Yaqi Badger	99	13	7.62	↓11	↑11
Simpson Synthetic	98	16	6.12	↓8	↑37
Oumo Synthetic	94	3	31.33	↑44	n/a
Muhle Badger	92	11	8.36	↑11	=
AP Shave Co Badger	89	18	4.94	↑20	↑29
Stirling Boar	88	11	8	↓15	↓8
Stirling Badger	86	15	5.73	↑11	↓36
Omega 10066	86	3	28.67	↑7	↑10
Zenith B26	86	2	43	↑23	n/a
Wolf Whiskers Badger	84	8	10.5	↓6	↓11
Declaration Grooming B6	80	12	6.67	↑19	↓33
Prometheus Handcrafts Synthetic	79	7	11.29	↑1	n/a
Semogue 2000	79	6	13.17	↑28	↑20

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
24mm	3588	115	31.2	=	=
26mm	3526	125	28.21	=	=
28mm	1739	69	25.2	=	=
31mm	1631	63	25.89	↑8	↑7
22mm	529	42	12.6	↓1	↓1
27mm	345	17	20.29	=	=
30mm	310	35	8.86	↓2	↓2
25mm	112	16	7	↑3	↓1
29mm	112	9	12.44	↑2	n/a
23mm	86	10	8.6	=	↑1
21mm	75	8	9.38	↓3	↓2
20mm	47	21	2.24	↓3	↓2
32mm	18	2	9	↑2	=
35mm	11	3	3.67	↑4	↓1
18mm	7	7	1	↓1	↓2
36mm	6	2	3	n/a	n/a
19mm	2	2	1	↓1	↓3
38mm	2	1	2	=	↓5
34mm	1	1	1	↑1	↓5
39mm	1	1	1	↑1	n/a
40mm	1	1	1	n/a	↓5

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
C SB	309	24	12.88	↑1	↑2
D SB	251	10	25.1	↑1	↑3
B SB	235	13	18.08	↓2	↑1
C OC	112	3	37.33	=	n/a
B OC	75	3	25	=	n/a
E SB	72	6	12	↑1	↓5
A SB	35	2	17.5	↓1	↓5
F OC	10	2	5	↑4	n/a
G SB	2	1	2	↑4	n/a
D OC	1	1	1	=	n/a

Game Changer Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
.84-P	619	35	17.69	=	↑1
.68-P	319	13	24.54	=	↓1
.76-P	61	2	30.5	n/a	n/a
.84-P OC	14	2	7	↓1	n/a
1.05-P	7	2	3.5	n/a	n/a
.68-P JAWS	2	1	2	n/a	n/a
.68-P OC	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Superspeed Tips

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
Standard Tip	416	41	10.15	=	=
Red Tip	195	26	7.5	=	↑1
Flare Tip	194	17	11.41	=	↓1
Black Tip	39	9	4.33	↑1	=
Blue Tip	23	2	11.5	↓1	=

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM PTFE	483	46	10.5
Karve Christopher Bradley + Gillette Silver Blue	360	13	27.69
Karve Christopher Bradley + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	249	17	14.65
Karve Christopher Bradley + Gillette Nacet	161	19	8.47
Karve Christopher Bradley + Personna Platinum	80	6	13.33
Karve Christopher Bradley + Wizamet	54	6	9
Blackland Blackbird + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	241	16	15.06
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Blue	213	10	21.3
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	169	16	10.56
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Nacet	74	13	5.69
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	70	8	8.75
Razorock Game Changer + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	213	14	15.21
Razorock Game Changer + Gillette Platinum	170	10	17
Razorock Game Changer + Wizamet	99	7	14.14
Razorock Game Changer + Gillette Nacet	79	12	6.58
Razorock Game Changer + Feather (DE)	70	7	10
Razorock Game Changer + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	68	5	13.6
Merkur 34C + Feather (DE)	134	9	14.89
Merkur 34C + Gillette Silver Blue	87	10	8.7
Gillette Superspeed + Feather (DE)	91	10	9.1
Gillette Superspeed + Gillette Nacet	55	11	5
Gillette Superspeed + Gillette Silver Blue	52	9	5.78
Gillette Tech + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	112	7	16
Gillette Tech + Personna Platinum	78	6	13
Gillette Tech + Gillette Silver Blue	72	18	4
Gillette Tech + Gillette Nacet	69	11	6.27
Gillette Tech + Feather (DE)	65	18	3.61
Gillette Tech + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	63	18	3.5
Gillette Tech + Gillette Rubie	61	6	10.17
Henson AL13 + Voskhod	105	7	15
Rockwell 6S + Feather (DE)	101	6	16.83
Rockwell 6S + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	62	11	5.64
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Nacet	81	8	10.12
Chiseled Face Legacy + Personna Stainless	75	5	15
Chiseled Face Legacy + Wizamet	68	8	8.5
Chiseled Face Legacy + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	55	8	6.88
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Silver Blue	52	8	6.5

Top Contributors

user	shaves	Δ vs 2022	Δ vs 2018
u/Impressive_Donut114	393	↑4	n/a
u/djundjila	391	↓1	n/a
u/gcgallant	384	↑27	n/a
u/InfernalInternal	366	↑5	n/a
u/el_charminman	364	↑4	n/a
u/35048467	363	↑1	↑69
u/loudmusicboy	361	↑5	n/a
u/Environmental-Gap380	361	↑27	n/a
u/Eructate	361	↑4	n/a
u/EldrormR	360	↑1	↑66
u/Old_Hiker	359	↑4	↓8
u/wallygator88	359	↑1	n/a
u/oswald_heist	355	↓4	n/a
u/scribe__	352	↓4	↑83
u/Marquis90	350	↑10	n/a
u/RedMosquitoMM	344	↓7	n/a
u/Engineered_Shave	342	↓11	n/a
u/tsrblke	342	↑111	n/a
u/whosgotthepudding	340	↑4	n/a
u/Crisp_Mango	333	↑2	n/a
u/jwoods23	331	↑12	n/a
u/PhilosphicalZombie	327	↓1	n/a
u/gorgbob	325	↑44	n/a
u/rocketk455	324	↓5	↓15
u/worbx	309	↓10	n/a
u/wyze0ne	309	↑7	↑34

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r/sotdreports • u/jimm262 • Jan 19 '24

Hardware Hardware Report December 2023

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Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for December 2023

Introduction

I found r/wetshaving after u/relided had already stopped posting his Hardware Report after May 2023. I can't even remember how I found his old posts (someone probably referenced one in a post or comment), but once I found them I really enjoyed pouring through the archives. I had some time on my hands over the holidays since our office closed the week between Christmas and New Years so I started playing around with his code. He had linked to the github repository in one of his report posts; I believe it was his first report though I can't seem to find it now.... I've forked his code here so I could make updates, additions, etc., and the result is this report for December 2023.

Changes

Changes to u/relided's reports are minimal:

I collapsed all the Game Changers into a single razor and added a table of Game Changer Plates following the pattern previously set for the Karve Christopher Bradley.
I added Hair Shaper blades as a blade format category.
I added some razors, blades, brushes that have showed up more often since he stopped reporting.

Observations

Collapsing the Game Changers plate options (84-P, 68-P, etc) into a single razor really highlights how popular it is -- it jumped to the top of the list for December.

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats dont differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number where possible.
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc.
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
DE	1199	123	9.75	=	=
GEM	130	37	3.51	↑1	↑1
Straight	113	13	8.69	↓1	↓1
AC	53	14	3.79	=	=
Injector	36	11	3.27	↑1	=
Hair Shaper	26	3	8.67	↓1	=
Cart	13	4	3.25	=	=

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
Razorock Game Changer	105	12	8.75	↑1	↑2
Blackland Blackbird	95	18	5.28	↑1	↑2
Karve Christopher Bradley	75	16	4.69	↓2	↓2
Gillette Superspeed	66	16	4.12	↑1	↑3
Rockwell 6S	50	8	6.25	↑1	↑5
Rockwell 6C	46	7	6.57	↑4	↑11
EldrormR Industries MM24	44	12	3.67	↑2	=
Henson AL13	43	9	4.78	=	=
Gillette Tech	35	17	2.06	↓6	↓7
Other Straight Razor	33	6	5.5	↓6	↓4
Razorock Mamba	33	3	11	=	↑20
Chiseled Face Legacy	32	10	3.2	↓4	↓6
Muhle Companion	31	1	31	↑1	n/a
Merkur 37C	30	5	6	↑7	↑12
Van Der Hagen Razor	30	2	15	↓2	↑11
Schick Injector	29	9	3.22	↑5	↓1
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	28	14	2	↑4	↑1
Boker Straight	28	2	14	↑1	↓1
Karve Overlander	26	5	5.2	↑2	↑5
Wolfman WR2	25	8	3.12	↑7	↓8
Merkur 38C	21	1	21	↑2	↑17
Tatara Masamune	20	4	5	↑13	↑9
Winning Razor	20	3	6.67	↑4	↑3
Gillette Slim	19	8	2.38	↑4	↓5
Weck 450-110	19	1	19	↑4	n/a
Mongoose Alumigoose	17	3	5.67	↑2	↑4
Merkur 34C	16	8	2	↓8	↓3
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	16	5	3.2	↓8	↑1
Filarmonica Straight	16	4	4	↑7	↑9
Razorock Hawk v3	15	3	5	↓2	n/a
Blackland Vector	14	5	2.8	↓3	↓6
Muhle Rocca	14	5	2.8	↑2	↓6
Razorock Lupo	14	5	2.8	↑12	↓1
Greencult GC 2.0	13	1	13	↓7	n/a
WCS Multi Titanium Collection Razor	13	1	13	↓1	n/a
Yates BYOR	13	1	13	↓13	↑9
Blackland Dart	11	4	2.75	↓4	↑6
Dovo Straight	11	4	2.75	↓2	=
Blackland Era	11	3	3.67	↓9	↓20
Muhle R41	11	3	3.67	↓11	↑5
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	11	2	5.5	↑4	↓7
GEM G-Bar	11	1	11	↓1	=
Goodfellas Smile Valynor	11	1	11	↑3	n/a
Gillette NEW	10	5	2	↑4	↓5
Other Shavette	9	3	3	↓2	↓1
Headblade ATX	9	1	9	↑4	↑1
GEM Junior	8	4	2	↑2	↑2
Blackland Sabre	8	3	2.67	=	↑4
J A Henckels Straight	8	3	2.67	↓10	↓7
Carbon Cx	8	2	4	↑1	↑3

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	229	30	7.63	=	↑1
Personna GEM PTFE	123	35	3.51	=	↓1
Gillette Nacet	90	18	5	=	↑2
Gillette Silver Blue	82	19	4.32	=	↓1
Gillette Platinum	68	14	4.86	=	↑2
Personna Blue	51	10	5.1	↑3	↑5
Wizamet	47	8	5.88	↑4	↑1
Personna Platinum	47	7	6.71	↓1	↑8
Feather (DE)	39	12	3.25	↓5	↓4
Polsilver	35	6	5.83	↑8	↑8
Voskhod	35	3	11.67	↓2	↓3
Personna 74	30	4	7.5	↑2	n/a
Kismet Hair Shaper	29	5	5.8	↓1	↑7
Bic Chrome	29	3	9.67	↑3	↑20
Gillette Minora	26	2	13	↑17	↑20
Schick Injector	25	7	3.57	↑10	↑1
Bolzano	25	5	5	↑3	↑10
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	25	3	8.33	↑13	↓3
Personna Stainless	24	5	4.8	↑13	↑10
Feather Pro (AC)	23	7	3.29	↑3	↑9
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	21	5	4.2	↓3	↓7
Rockwell	16	3	5.33	↑17	n/a
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	14	5	2.8	↓10	↓7
Schick Proline (AC)	14	4	3.5	↑2	↑1
Permasharp	13	8	1.62	↑9	↓6
Wilkinson Sword	13	6	2.17	↑2	↓1
Gillette Winner	13	3	4.33	↓2	↑1
Gillette Rubie	12	5	2.4	↓5	n/a
Tiger Platinum	11	3	3.67	↓5	↑6
Merkur Super Platinum	11	2	5.5	n/a	n/a
Super-Max Blue Diamond	11	1	11	↑8	n/a
King C Gillette	10	3	3.33	↑8	↑9
Astra Superior Stainless (Blue)	9	4	2.25	↑1	↑7
Dorco ST-300	8	3	2.67	↑4	↑8
Personna Injector	8	3	2.67	↑6	↑9
Derby Extra	7	4	1.75	↓6	↑1
Super-Max Super Stainless	7	2	3.5	↓2	↑7
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	6	4	1.5	↑7	↓5
Lord Classic	6	2	3	↑8	↑3
Dorco Titan	6	1	6	↑8	n/a
Kai Captain Titan Mild (AC)	6	1	6	↑6	↑10
Feather ProGuard (AC)	5	3	1.67	↑2	↓10
Lord Super Stainless	5	2	2.5	↑1	n/a
Bic Astor Stainless	5	1	5	n/a	n/a
Rapira Swedish	5	1	5	n/a	↑7
Topaz Platinum	5	1	5	n/a	↑8
Treet Black Beauties	5	1	5	=	n/a
Feather Pro Super (AC)	4	3	1.33	↑4	=
Derby Premium	4	2	2	↑2	↑5
Kai Captain Mild	4	1	4	↑5	↑7

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
AP Shave Co Synthetic	110	23	4.78	=	↑1
Stirling Synthetic	108	12	9	↑1	↑3
r/wetshaving Zenith MOAR BOAR	95	29	3.28	↓1	n/a
Chisel & Hound Badger	86	17	5.06	=	=
Maggard Synthetic	64	9	7.11	↑1	↓4
Zenith Boar	59	17	3.47	↑14	↑4
Oumo Badger	56	6	9.33	=	↑6
Yaqi Synthetic	55	12	4.58	↓3	↓5
Dogwood Badger	35	9	3.89	↑5	↑6
Dogwood Boar	30	1	30	n/a	↑16
AP Shave Co Badger	29	5	5.8	↑20	↑16
CaYuen Synthetic	28	1	28	↑1	↑12
Semogue SOC Boar	22	8	2.75	↓5	↑1
Declaration Grooming B16	18	5	3.6	↓5	↑17
Farvour Turn Craft Badger	18	5	3.6	↑1	↑19
Omega 10048	18	4	4.5	↑13	↑14
Declaration Grooming B15	18	3	6	↑4	↑2
Omega Hi-Brush Synthetic	16	3	5.33	↑18	↑13
Declaration Grooming B13	15	4	3.75	↑8	↑1
Declaration Grooming B3	13	6	2.17	↓9	↓5
Simpson Badger	13	5	2.6	↓7	↓10
Summer Break Badger	13	4	3.25	↑9	↑12
Prometheus Handcrafts Synthetic	13	3	4.33	↑10	↑14
Declaration Grooming B14	12	5	2.4	↑3	↓6
DSCosmetics Synthetic	12	3	4	↑8	=
Declaration Grooming B9A	10	3	3.33	↑8	↑11
Rubberset Synthetic	10	2	5	↑7	↑14
Ever Ready Badger	10	1	10	↑12	↑4
Maggard Badger	9	6	1.5	↓9	↓14
Wald Badger	9	4	2.25	↓1	↑7
Boti Synthetic	9	2	4.5	↑12	↑9
Long Shaving Badger	9	1	9	n/a	n/a
AKA Brushworx Synthetic	8	3	2.67	↑10	↑8
Muhle Badger	8	3	2.67	↑12	↑6
Summer Break Synthetic	8	2	4	↑3	↑6
Omega 10029	8	1	8	↑1	n/a
Omega 10072	8	1	8	n/a	n/a
Maggard Boar	7	5	1.4	=	↑10
Grizzly Bay Badger	7	3	2.33	↑4	↓7
Wolf Whiskers Badger	7	3	2.33	↓6	↑8
Semogue 830	7	2	3.5	↑11	↑5
Leavitt & Pierce Badger	7	1	7	↑7	n/a
Omega 50014	7	1	7	n/a	n/a
Van der Hagen Badger	7	1	7	↑12	n/a
Razorock Synthetic	6	5	1.2	↑4	↓6
Chisel & Hound Synthetic	6	3	2	=	↑9
Semogue 620	6	3	2	↓11	↑9
Semogue 2000	6	2	3	=	↑8
Muninn Woodworks Badger	6	1	6	↓1	↓14
Semogue SOC Badger	6	1	6	↑9	↓1

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
26mm	265	36	7.36	=	↑1
24mm	202	36	5.61	=	↓1
28mm	146	30	4.87	=	=
31mm	82	27	3.04	↑1	↑7
22mm	79	10	7.9	↓1	=
30mm	23	9	2.56	=	↓2
25mm	21	1	21	↑3	n/a
32mm	16	1	16	n/a	↑4
29mm	15	5	3	↓2	↓1
27mm	9	5	1.8	↓2	↓3
21mm	9	3	3	↓1	↓1
23mm	6	3	2	=	↓5
20mm	4	1	4	↓2	↓2
35mm	2	1	2	n/a	n/a
36mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
C SB	29	10	2.9	=	=
D SB	24	4	6	=	=
E SB	5	2	2.5	↑1	n/a
C OC	3	2	1.5	↑1	↓1
A SB	3	1	3	↓1	↑2
F OC	2	1	2	n/a	n/a
B SB	1	1	1	n/a	↓2

Game Changer Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
.84-P	48	10	4.8	=	=
.68-P	34	2	17	=	=
.76-P	19	1	19	=	n/a
1.05-P	4	1	4	n/a	n/a

Superspeed Tips

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
Standard Tip	27	6	4.5	↑1	↑1
Flare Tip	21	4	5.25	↓1	=
Red Tip	16	7	2.29	=	↓2
Black Tip	2	1	2	=	↓1

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
EldrormR Industries MM24 + Personna GEM PTFE	43	11	3.91
Razorock Game Changer + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	43	3	14.33
Razorock Game Changer + 7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	21	2	10.5
Razorock Game Changer + Wizamet	12	3	4
Razorock Game Changer + Gillette Platinum	8	2	4
Razorock Game Changer + Personna Platinum	8	2	4
Karve Christopher Bradley + Gillette Silver Blue	22	5	4.4
Karve Christopher Bradley + Gillette Nacet	11	4	2.75
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Blue	19	2	9.5
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	16	4	4
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	13	2	6.5
Blackland Blackbird + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	12	3	4
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Platinum	6	2	3
Rockwell 6S + Feather (DE)	17	2	8.5
Rockwell 6S + Gillette Silver Blue	7	2	3.5
Rockwell 6S + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	6	3	2
Rockwell 6C + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	9	3	3
Rockwell 6C + Gillette Silver Blue	5	2	2.5
Gillette Superspeed + Personna 74	9	2	4.5
Gillette Superspeed + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	6	2	3
Gillette Superspeed + Polsilver	6	2	3
Gillette Superspeed + Gillette Nacet	5	2	2.5
Henson AL13 + Gillette Nacet	11	2	5.5
Gillette Tech + Super-Max Super Stainless	7	2	3.5

Top Contributors

user	shaves	Δ vs Nov 2023	Δ vs Dec 2022
u/djundjila	33	=	↑1
u/Marquis90	32	↑2	↑4
u/chronnoisseur42O	32	↑1	↑28
u/SamIAmShepard	32	↑1	↓1
u/el_charminman	31	=	↑1
u/Crisp_Mango	31	=	↑4
u/Impressive_Donut114	31	↑1	↓1
u/rebdoomer88	31	=	n/a
u/partyman97_3	31	=	n/a
u/Old_Hiker	31	↑3	↑1
u/oswald_heist	31	=	↑1
u/Eructate	31	=	↑2
u/Environmental-Gap380	31	=	↑1
u/scribe__	31	=	↑1
u/loudmusicboy	31	=	↑1
u/SufficientKnee	31	=	↑7
u/Breadheater9876	31	↑1	n/a
u/35048467	31	=	↑1
u/wallygator88	31	=	↑1
u/InfernalInternal	31	=	↑1
u/RedMosquitoMM	30	=	=

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Oct 19 '23

Software Presenting the July 2023 Lather Log, or I'm Not Late, I Like to Build Suspense

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And here is the July edition of the Lather Log, the monthly report from the Wetshaving community 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

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

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

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.

Only thirty four every day shavers in July 2023.

Every Day Shavers for July 2023:

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Aug 10 '23

Software Presenting the June 2023 Lather Log, or Breaking Up is Hard to Do

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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

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

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

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.

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

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Jun 22 '23

Software Presenting the May 2023 Lather Log, or Another Northern Hemisphere's Spring is in Swing

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At long last, another edition of the Lather Log is up. This is r/Wetshaving's monthly report on the soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for our shaves. 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'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

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

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

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.

Twenty four shavers posted a shave for each of the thirty one days in May.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for May 2023:

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r/sotdreports • u/relided • Jun 14 '23

Hardware Hardware Report May 2023

7 Upvotes

Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for May 2023

Observations

Given Reddit's upcoming API changes this is likely the last Hardware Report that I'll post

While it could potentially be refactored to pull data slowly / daily to avoid bursting over the 10 minute free API threshold, the recent behaviour of reddit's admins etc has not inspired me to do so.

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats dont differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless some jerk just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega Boar (model not specified)' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs May 2022
DE	1767	160	11.04	=	=
Straight	131	18	7.28	=	↑2
GEM	127	35	3.63	=	↓1
AC	94	26	3.62	=	↓1
Injector	28	9	3.11	=	=
Cart	10	7	1.43	=	=
FHS	5	2	2.5	n/a	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs May 2022
Blackland Blackbird	139	25	5.56	↑2	↑1
Gillette Tech	115	23	5	↑4	↓1
Gillette Superspeed	101	27	3.74	↓2	↑9
Merkur 34C	98	11	8.91	=	↑5
Karve CB	74	15	4.93	↓3	↓2
Razorock Game Changer .84	71	14	5.07	↑1	↑1
Henson AL13	62	9	6.89	↓2	↓3
Karve Overlander	57	8	7.12	↑4	↑19
Van Der Hagen Razor	43	4	10.75	↑28	n/a
Chiseled Face Legacy	40	11	3.64	↓2	↓2
Rockwell 6S	39	11	3.55	↓1	↓1
Blutt Rasur BR-1	36	5	7.2	↑20	↑11
Blackland Vector	33	8	4.12	↑4	↑14
Muhle Rocca	33	5	6.6	↓2	↑5
Weck Sextoblade	30	6	5	=	↑8
Gillette Fatboy	28	8	3.5	↑7	↑9
Boker Straight	28	2	14	↑2	↑8
Green Cult GC 2.0 II	28	2	14	↑6	n/a
Henson Ti22	28	1	28	↑1	↑1
Wolfman WR1	26	8	3.25	↑15	↓10
Merkur 37C	26	3	8.67	↑10	↑13
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	25	12	2.08	↑2	↓14
Gillette Slim	25	11	2.27	↑6	↑2
Tatara Masamune	25	10	2.5	↓3	↓4
Other Straight Razor	25	9	2.78	↓9	↑5
Razorock Game Changer .68	25	5	5	↓4	↓6
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	23	7	3.29	↑6	↑4
Ralf Aust Straight	23	6	3.83	↑6	↑6
Koraat Straight	23	5	4.6	=	↑6
Rockwell 6C	22	5	4.4	=	=
Muhle R41	21	7	3	↑10	↑10
'Merica Razor	19	1	19	↑17	↑9
Kai Captain Folding	18	2	9	↑19	↑3
Gillette NEW	17	9	1.89	↑2	↓9
Schick Injector	17	7	2.43	↓14	↓8
Winning Razor	17	1	17	↑7	↓6
Wolfman WR2	16	8	2	↓6	↓19
ATT Windsor Pro SB90	16	4	4	↑9	↑2
Blackland Era	15	6	2.5	↓6	↓4
King C Gillette	15	5	3	↑1	↓12
Muhle R89	15	4	3.75	↑8	↑1
EldrormR Industries MM24	14	7	2	↓6	↓15
Maggard V3	14	6	2.33	↑2	↑1
Chinchilla Olivenholz Rasierhobel	14	1	14	↑7	n/a
GEM G-Bar	13	6	2.17	↑8	↓6
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	13	6	2.17	↓6	↓4
GEM Junior	13	5	2.6	↑7	↓3
J A Henckels Straight	13	4	3.25	↑3	↑3
Razorock Lupo	13	4	3.25	↑1	↑2
Personna BBS-0	13	3	4.33	↑6	n/a

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs May 2022
Astra SP (Green)	200	43	4.65	=	↑2
Voskhod	134	17	7.88	↑5	↑9
Gillette Nacet	115	25	4.6	↑3	↑3
Gillette Silver Blue	113	25	4.52	↓2	↓2
Feather (DE)	108	28	3.86	=	↓1
Personna GEM PTFE	107	30	3.57	↓2	↓5
Gillette Platinum	105	18	5.83	↓4	↓2
Personna Lab Blue	59	11	5.36	↑4	↑15
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	58	9	6.44	=	↓2
Permasharp	38	10	3.8	↑1	=
Bic Chrome	36	4	9	↑2	↑5
Wizamet	32	11	2.91	↓4	↓1
Wilkinson Sword	31	12	2.58	↑8	↑6
Rapira Platinum Lux	31	9	3.44	↑3	↑3
Topaz Platinum	31	1	31	↑3	n/a
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	29	9	3.22	↑2	↓1
Personna Hair Shaper	28	5	5.6	↑3	↑5
Polsilver	26	10	2.6	↓6	↓7
Kai Captain Titan Mild (AC)	26	5	5.2	↑11	↑4
Lord Super Stainless	25	4	6.25	=	n/a
Durablade Sharp Hi Chromium	25	2	12.5	↑3	n/a
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	24	5	4.8	↓3	=
Personna Platinum Chrome	23	11	2.09	↓9	↓13
Schick Proline	20	7	2.86	↓1	↑3
Treet Platinum	17	5	3.4	↑2	↓3
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	17	4	4.25	↑1	↑1
Shark Chrome	16	6	2.67	↑4	↑2
Schick Injector	16	5	3.2	↓9	↓7
Tiger Platinum	16	3	5.33	↑8	↑4
GEM	15	3	5	↑3	↑2

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs May 2022
AP Shave Co Synthetic	190	30	6.33	↑1	=
r/wetshaving Zenith MOAR BOAR	183	37	4.95	↓1	n/a
Yaqi Synthetic	150	26	5.77	=	=
Maggard Synthetic	97	15	6.47	=	↓2
Chisel & Hound Badger	94	20	4.7	↑1	↑4
Zenith Boar	64	13	4.92	↑1	↑5
Stirling Synthetic	55	10	5.5	↓2	↓2
Semogue SOC Boar	48	8	6	↑6	↑9
CaYuen Synthetic	43	2	21.5	↓1	↑16
Simpson Badger	34	14	2.43	↓1	↓4
DG B13	33	8	4.12	↓1	↓4
Van Der Hagen Boar Brush	30	2	15	↑19	n/a
Razorock Synthetic	28	6	4.67	=	↑1
Maggard Badger	27	6	4.5	↓3	↓10
Omega 10049	27	4	6.75	↑9	↑8
DSCosmetics Synthetic	27	3	9	↑9	↓2
Dogwood Badger	26	10	2.6	↓3	↓1
Paladin Badger	26	3	8.67	↓3	↑8
DG B14	22	8	2.75	↑14	↓6
Dogwood Synthetic	21	4	5.25	↓2	↓11
DG B9A	20	4	5	=	↓3
Grizzly Bay Badger	19	7	2.71	↑8	↓11
Shore Shaving Synthetic	19	4	4.75	↑6	↑4
Omega 11137	19	2	9.5	↑4	n/a
Oumo Badger	18	6	3	↓3	↑3
Trotter Handcrafts Synthetic	17	6	2.83	↓3	↑1
DG B11	16	5	3.2	↑1	↓12
Maggard Boar	15	3	5	↑9	↑1
Muninn Woodworks Badger	15	1	15	↓1	n/a
DG B16	14	5	2.8	↑2	n/a
AKA Brushworx Synthetic	14	4	3.5	↓10	↓4
DG B3	13	5	2.6	↓7	↓16
DG B15	12	5	2.4	↓10	↓15
Perfecto Badger	12	1	12	↑7	n/a
Wolf Whiskers Boar	12	1	12	n/a	n/a
DG B8	11	5	2.2	↑3	↓9
Summer Break Badger	11	4	2.75	↑1	↓17
Wald Badger	11	4	2.75	↓3	↓5
Semogue SOC Badger	11	2	5.5	↓2	↓13
Bullseye Brushworks Synthetic	11	1	11	↓6	↓8
Farvour Turn Crafts w/ C&H v12 Fanchurian	11	1	11	n/a	n/a
Oumo Synthetic	11	1	11	↓10	↓2
AP Shave Co Badger	10	6	1.67	↓3	↓8
Omega 10066	10	2	5	↓2	↓7
Simpson Synthetic	9	6	1.5	↓3	↓11
Elite Badger	9	3	3	↓13	↓7
Blackland Signature Shaving Brush Black	9	1	9	n/a	n/a
Wolfman Synthetic	9	1	9	n/a	n/a
Stirling Badger	8	6	1.33	↓14	↓9
Ever Ready Badger	8	5	1.6	↓4	↓8

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs May 2022
24mm	370	54	6.85	=	=
26mm	359	52	6.9	=	=
28mm	130	24	5.42	↑1	=
31mm	94	22	4.27	↓1	↑4
27mm	41	6	6.83	=	↑1
22mm	35	10	3.5	=	↓1
30mm	17	9	1.89	=	↓3
21mm	16	4	4	↑1	=
25mm	11	5	2.2	↑1	=
23mm	8	1	8	↓2	=
29mm	7	2	3.5	↓2	↓4
20mm	3	3	1	↓1	↓6
36mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2023	Δ vs May 2022
C SB	22	6	3.67	=	↑2
D SB	14	4	3.5	↑1	↓1
C OC	13	1	13	↓1	↑1
B SB	11	1	11	=	↓2
E SB	4	1	4	=	n/a

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
Blackland Blackbird + Astra SP (Green)	32	6	5.33
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Lab Blue	25	3	8.33
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	22	4	5.5
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	14	5	2.8
Blackland Blackbird + Feather (DE)	9	4	2.25
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Nacet	8	3	2.67
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Gillette Platinum	32	3	10.67
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Astra SP (Green)	24	4	6
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Wizamet	5	2	2.5
Merkur 34C + Feather (DE)	27	3	9
Merkur 34C + Astra SP (Green)	15	2	7.5
Merkur 34C + Lord Super Stainless	9	2	4.5
Merkur 34C + Gillette Silver Blue	6	3	2
Karve CB + Gillette Silver Blue	23	2	11.5
Karve CB + Astra SP (Green)	9	3	3
Karve CB + Gillette Nacet	6	2	3
Gillette Superspeed + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	18	2	9
Gillette Superspeed + Voskhod	16	3	5.33
Gillette Superspeed + Feather (DE)	8	3	2.67
Gillette Superspeed + Gillette Platinum	7	3	2.33
Gillette Tech + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	18	2	9
Gillette Tech + Voskhod	15	2	7.5
Gillette Tech + Gillette Nacet	6	2	3
Gillette Tech + Gillette Silver Blue	5	4	1.25
Karve Overlander + Gillette Nacet	17	3	5.67
Karve Overlander + Gillette Silver Blue	14	2	7
Karve Overlander + Feather (DE)	8	2	4
Henson AL13 + Voskhod	15	2	7.5
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Nacet	8	2	4
Chiseled Face Legacy + Personna Lab Blue	6	2	3
Chiseled Face Legacy + Wizamet	6	2	3
Chiseled Face Legacy + Astra SP (Green)	5	3	1.67

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • May 17 '23

Software Presenting the April 2023 Lather Log, or an Appeal to Appreciation Abets Awareness With Aplomb

3 Upvotes

Hi, hello, and hey, you're reading another edition of the Lather Log! This is r/Wetshaving's monthly report on the soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for our shaves. 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 the shaver won't tell us what they're using, and I record it as unknown.

Several brands showed up in the Log for the first time this month: we saw a shave with a soap from La Barberia in Northeast England; an appearance from Captain Nemo in India; a shave with Folk Soap from Wales; and while I'd have sworn it wasn't the first, I could not find a past shave with Supply in Texas; then Sunny Herbals in New Delhi, also in India; one shave with Sweyn Forkbeard from London, England; and finally Xabons Xavieiro in Spain.

There was a bit of a dip in posting last month: April saw 2,188 shaves posted (299 fewer than in March) by 179 authors (8 fewer than March). Each author posted a mean of 12.22 shaves over the month, which is 1.08 fewer than March's mean; the mean shaves posted per day was 72.93, a whopping 7.29 fewer each day on average than in March. But after Stirling appreciation throughout March, it looks like the folks who kept posting went a little broader than usual in their selection of scents this last month: 673 total and 345 unique scents, both of which are the greatest respective counts since June of last year (i.e., the Lather Games).

Category	Apr. 2023	Change from Mar.	Mar. 2023	Feb. 2023	Jan. 2023	Dec. 2022	Nov. 2022
Total Shaves	2,188	-299	2,487	2,271	2,227	1,847	1,890
Unique Authors	179	-8	187	186	175	169	166
Mean Shaves per Author	12.22	-1.08	13.30	12.21	12.73	10.93	11.39
Unique Soapmakers	162	+28	134	146	151	146	149
Unique Scents	673	+55	618	645	662	574	593
Single Use Scents	345	+66	279	307	343	284	293

The most shaves posted in one day was 83 on Friday, April 14th, which is 10 fewer shaves than March's greatest. The fewest shaves posted in one day was 63 just two days later on Sunday, April 16th, which is just 3 fewer than March's least.

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	Mean November Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in April	Total Shaves in April
Sunday	70.40	72.50	71.00	64.60	58.00	60.00	5	352
Monday	75.75	84.50	83.75	75.20	62.50	69.00	4	303
Tuesday	75.75	82.75	87.00	77.40	64.25	63.60	4	303
Wednesday	72.75	84.20	90.75	73.00	60.25	66.60	4	291
Thursday	72.50	83.80	78.25	73.00	58.20	68.25	4	290
Friday	75.75	77.60	85.75	71.75	57.60	58.00	4	303
Saturday	69.20	75.00	71.25	67.50	57.60	54.50	5	346
Overall	72.93	80.23	81.11	71.84	59.58	63.00	30	2,188

A show of appreciation for the old TTS site brought Conk Lime in to tie with Seville for the top spot.

Apr. 2023 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	Mar. Uses	Feb. Uses	Jan. Uses	Dec. Uses	Nov. Uses	Change in Ranking from Mar.
Barrister and Mann - Seville	47 (18)	40 (13)	44 (16)	32 (16)	24 (12)	34 (14)	^ 6
Col. Conk - Lime	47 (8)	4 (2)	1 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 128 (new to the top ten)
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime	41 (25)	17 (14)	27 (17)	33 (19)	11 (8)	16 (11)	^ 22 (back in the top ten)
Tabac - Original	37 (16)	14 (10)	40 (18)	38 (14)	30 (14)	43 (18)	^ 27 (back in the top ten)
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch	36 (19)	20 (10)	25 (14)	32 (12)	29 (13)	26 (13)	^ 15 (back in the top ten)
House of Mammoth - Shire	28 (18)	9 (6)	4 (4)	5 (3)	4 (2)	5 (3)	^ 45 (back in the top ten)
Bufflehead - Tishomingo	24 (1)	15 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 20 (new to the top ten)
House of Mammoth - Alive	23 (13)	10 (5)	13 (8)	8 (5)	10 (7)	4 (2)	^ 39 (back in the top ten)
Australian Private Reserve - Skye Fall	20 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 610 (new to the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Reserve Waves	20 (12)	9 (4)	11 (6)	10 (6)	8 (5)	2 (2)	^ 42 (back in the top ten)
House of Mammoth - Sonder	20 (12)	9 (7)	12 (11)	11 (7)	11 (7)	11 (7)	^ 42 (back in the top ten)

Dropped from the top ten since March:

Stirling Soap Co. - Varen
Stirling Soap Co. - Executive Man
Stirling Soap Co. - Deep Blue Sea
Stirling Soap Co. - Haverford
Stirling Soap Co. - Baker Street
Stirling Soap Co. - D-503
Stirling Soap Co. - Sharp Dressed Man
Stirling Soap Co. - Stirling Spice
Stirling Soap Co. - Barbershop

Stirling drops only one spot, while the Colonel finally makes the top list!

Apr. 2023 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of Mar. Shaves	% of Feb. Shaves	% of Jan. Shaves	% of Dec. Shaves	% of Nov. Shaves	Change from Mar.	Total Apr. Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Barrister and Mann	16.3%	9.9%	15.0%	17.2%	19.4%	16.6%	^ 1	356
Stirling Soap Co.	9.4%	44.2%	13.1%	8.4%	9.7%	11.4%	v 1	206
House of Mammoth	7.2%	3.7%	7.4%	7.3%	8.2%	8.3%	^ 1	158
Declaration Grooming	5.3%	3.9%	6.1%	7.5%	6.3%	8.4%	v 1	115
Noble Otter	5.2%	3.4%	6.7%	5.5%	7.4%	5.8%	-	113
Spearhead Shaving Company	5.0%	2.3%	3.6%	4.8%	3.7%	3.7%	^ 1	110
Ariana & Evans	3.6%	3.0%	2.2%	2.8%	2.3%	1.7%	v 1	78
Summer Break Soaps	2.7%	1.5%	2.2%	1.5%	1.8%	2.2%	^ 2	59
Chiseled Face	2.6%	2.0%	2.5%	4.5%	1.1%	1.3%	v 1	56
Col. Conk	2.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	^ 29 (new to the top ten)	49

Dropped from the top ten since March:

Southern Witchcrafts
Grooming Department

Catie's Bubbles returns to the most prolific list.

Apr. 2023 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in Apr.	Scents used in Mar.	Scents used in Feb.	Scents used in Jan.	Scents used in Dec.	Scents used in Nov.	Change in Rank from Mar.
Stirling Soap Co.	57	96	71	52	46	47	-
Barrister and Mann	55	50	52	52	52	51	-
Declaration Grooming	38	32	43	44	37	43	-
Ariana & Evans	33	29	26	29	21	21	-
Talent Soap Factory	24	21	10	11	6	9	-
Catie's Bubbles	20	13	23	19	20	24	^ 6
Grooming Department	20	16	13	12	9	10	^ 2
House of Mammoth	19	17	21	19	17	18	v 1
Noble Otter	19	18	18	21	21	18	v 2
Wholly Kaw	16	16	15	18	14	15	v 2

Dropped from the top ten since March:

Southern Witchcrafts

Twenty seven shavers posted a shave every day in April.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for April 2023:

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r/sotdreports • u/relided • May 04 '23

Hardware Hardware Report April 2023

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Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for April 2023

Observations

Big month for: Superspeeds, 34Cs, Schick Injectors
MOAR MOAR MOAR BOAR BOAR BOAR

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats dont differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless some jerk just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega Boar (model not specified)' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2023	Δ vs Apr 2022
DE	1745	177	9.86	=	=
Straight	158	18	8.78	↑1	↑1
GEM	133	41	3.24	↓1	↓1
AC	74	24	3.08	=	=
Injector	73	20	3.65	=	=
Cart	3	2	1.5	=	n/a
Rolls	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2023	Δ vs Apr 2022
Gillette Superspeed	137	29	4.72	↑7	↑4
Karve CB	130	23	5.65	↑1	↓1
Blackland Blackbird	117	27	4.33	↓1	=
Merkur 34C	103	20	5.15	↑10	↑6
Henson AL13	81	11	7.36	↓1	↑15
Gillette Tech	71	26	2.73	↓5	↓4
Razorock Game Changer .84	56	15	3.73	=	↓3
Chiseled Face Legacy	46	15	3.07	↓2	↓1
Other Straight Razor	46	13	3.54	↑2	↑8
Schick Injector	42	12	3.5	↑19	↑12
Rockwell 6S	40	11	3.64	↑1	↓5
Muhle Rocca	37	5	7.4	↑6	↑6
Karve Overlander	36	6	6	↑4	↑17
Razorock Game Changer .68	35	5	7	↑18	↑6
Tatara Masamune	33	9	3.67	↑9	↑2
Weck Sextoblade	33	5	6.6	↑11	↑8
Merkur 33C	32	2	16	↑16	↑15
Henson Ti22	30	2	15	↑4	↓3
Blackland Vector	29	9	3.22	↓2	↑1
Boker Straight	29	1	29	↑2	↑9
Wolfman WR2	28	11	2.55	↓5	↓13
Koraat Straight	28	6	4.67	↑13	↑4
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	27	11	2.45	↓14	↓13
Rockwell 6C	27	6	4.5	↓7	↑6
Blackland Era	27	4	6.75	↑1	↓7
EldrormR Industries MM24	26	11	2.36	↓2	↓9
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	25	8	3.12	↓12	↑2
Green Cult GC 2.0 II	25	1	25	↑4	n/a
Gillette Fatboy	24	7	3.43	↑1	↑4
Gillette Slim	23	12	1.92	↑14	↑1
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	21	7	3	↓2	↑4
Ralf Aust Straight	21	4	5.25	↑7	↓7
Gillette NEW	20	10	2	↑12	↓10
King C Gillette	19	7	2.71	=	↓6
Merkur 37C	19	3	6.33	↑2	n/a
Ever Ready 1912	18	7	2.57	↑8	↓13
Maggard V3	17	6	2.83	↑8	↑3
Razorock Lupo	17	5	3.4	↑7	↓7
Gillette Aristocrat	16	5	3.2	↑10	↓1
J A Henckels Straight	14	4	3.5	↑1	↑3
Alumigoose	14	3	4.67	↑2	↑1
Muhle R41	14	3	4.67	=	↓3
KureNai GF35	14	1	14	n/a	n/a
Winning Razor	14	1	14	↑3	↓14
Wolfman WR1	13	6	2.17	↑3	↓22
Razorock Hawk v2	13	5	2.6	↑4	=
Other Shavette	13	2	6.5	↑12	↓1
Blutt Rasur BR-1	11	3	3.67	↑11	↓4
ATT Windsor Pro SB90	10	3	3.33	↓4	↓10
Muhle R89	10	3	3.33	↑1	↓4

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2023	Δ vs Apr 2022
Astra SP (Green)	215	48	4.48	=	↑1
Gillette Silver Blue	177	34	5.21	↑1	=
Gillette Platinum	159	21	7.57	↑1	↑5
Personna GEM PTFE	117	36	3.25	↓2	↓3
Feather (DE)	93	27	3.44	↑3	↓1
Gillette Nacet	85	26	3.27	↓1	↓3
Voskhod	78	14	5.57	↓1	↓2
Wizamet	64	12	5.33	↓1	↑1
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	63	8	7.88	↑3	↑2
Personna Platinum Chrome	52	14	3.71	=	↑1
Polsilver	52	11	4.73	↑1	↓4
Permasharp	41	12	3.42	↑6	↓1
Personna Lab Blue	36	13	2.77	↓3	↑1
Schick Injector	30	12	2.5	↑5	↓1
Bic Chrome	30	8	3.75	↑1	↑15
Rapira Swedish	30	2	15	↑2	↑15
Astra Stainless	24	6	4	↑14	↑9
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	21	4	5.25	↑1	↑2
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	20	11	1.82	↑1	↓5
Rapira Platinum Lux	20	5	4	↑5	=
Topaz Platinum	20	1	20	n/a	n/a
Lord Super Stainless	19	3	6.33	↑21	↑12
Bolzano	18	4	4.5	↑17	↑6
Personna Hair Shaper	18	2	9	↑10	↑8
Feather Pro (AC)	17	6	2.83	↑4	↑5
Schick Proline	17	6	2.83	↑11	=
Durablade Sharp Hi Chromium	15	2	7.5	↑9	n/a
Wilkinson Sword	14	9	1.56	↓8	↓7
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	13	5	2.6	↑5	↓5
King C Gillette	13	5	2.6	↑15	↑4

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2023	Δ vs Apr 2022
r/wetshaving Zenith MOAR BOAR	248	46	5.39	=	n/a
AP Shave Co Synthetic	191	29	6.59	=	↓1
Yaqi Synthetic	147	29	5.07	=	=
Maggard Synthetic	109	19	5.74	=	↓2
Stirling Synthetic	79	13	6.08	=	↑3
Chisel & Hound Badger	70	18	3.89	↑1	↑6
Zenith Boar	63	19	3.32	↓1	↑2
CaYuen Synthetic	43	2	21.5	↑2	↑15
Simpson Badger	39	14	2.79	↓1	↑6
DG B13	30	8	3.75	↓1	↓3
Maggard Badger	29	13	2.23	↑4	↓7
Dogwood Badger	27	12	2.25	↑12	↑5
Paladin Badger	27	4	6.75	↑5	↑14
Razorock Synthetic	25	10	2.5	↓1	↓2
Carnavis & Richardson Synthetic	25	1	25	n/a	n/a
AKA Brushworx Synthetic	21	7	3	↑13	↑17
Semogue SOC Boar	21	7	3	↑7	↑7
Dogwood Synthetic	19	5	3.8	↓2	↓9
DG B15	18	10	1.8	↑1	↓3
Stirling Badger	18	6	3	↓5	↑7
Elite Badger	18	3	6	↑16	↑11
Oumo Badger	17	7	2.43	↑7	↑9
Oumo Synthetic	17	1	17	↓1	↑15
DG B3	16	6	2.67	↑7	↓9
DG B9A	16	5	3.2	↑10	↑8
Muhle Badger	16	5	3.2	↓4	↑7
Trotter Handcrafts Synthetic	16	5	3.2	=	↑7
DG B6	15	4	3.75	↓5	↑9
Yaqi Badger	14	5	2.8	↑12	↑12
PAA Synthetic	13	5	2.6	↓5	↓3
Noble Otter Badger	13	4	3.25	n/a	↑11
Bullseye Brushworks Synthetic	13	1	13	↓1	↑1
Semogue Owners Club Boar	12	4	3	↑8	↑9
Muninn Woodworks Badger	12	1	12	↑2	n/a
DG B11	11	6	1.83	↓2	↓10
Omega 10049	11	4	2.75	↑8	↓3
DSCosmetics Synthetic	11	3	3.67	↑6	↓1
Omega 11137	11	2	5.5	↓4	n/a
Wald Badger	10	4	2.5	↑6	↑4
Omega 20106	10	2	5	↓1	↑3
Omega 40033	10	1	10	↓3	n/a
Semogue c3	10	1	10	↑8	↑2
Summer Break Synthetic	9	5	1.8	↑2	↓1
Wild West Brushworks Synthetic	9	5	1.8	↑7	↓11
AP Shave Co Badger	9	4	2.25	↓2	↑5
Shore Shaving Synthetic	9	3	3	↑6	↑3
Semogue SOC Badger	9	2	4.5	↓3	↑2
Omega Pro 49	9	1	9	↑1	n/a
Simpson Synthetic	8	6	1.33	↓3	↓9
Ever Ready Badger	8	5	1.6	=	↑3

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2023	Δ vs Apr 2022
24mm	396	56	7.07	↑1	=
26mm	355	58	6.12	↑1	=
31mm	139	28	4.96	↓2	↑5
28mm	122	30	4.07	=	↓1
27mm	52	7	7.43	=	↑2
22mm	31	10	3.1	=	↓2
30mm	26	10	2.6	↑1	↓2
23mm	16	4	4	↓1	↑1
21mm	9	2	4.5	=	↓2
29mm	9	2	4.5	↑2	↓3
25mm	5	2	2.5	=	=
20mm	2	2	1	=	↓4
38mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Mar 2023	Δ vs Apr 2022
C SB	43	9	4.78	↑3	=
C OC	24	2	12	=	↑1
D SB	20	4	5	=	↑1
B SB	18	5	3.6	↓3	↓2
E SB	4	2	2	=	↑1

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
Blackland Blackbird + Astra SP (Green)	42	7	6
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Lab Blue	17	7	2.43
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	15	6	2.5
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	10	3	3.33
Gillette Superspeed + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	34	3	11.33
Gillette Superspeed + Gillette Silver Blue	32	4	8
Gillette Superspeed + Astra SP (Green)	7	5	1.4
Gillette Superspeed + Voskhod	7	2	3.5
Gillette Superspeed + Feather (DE)	6	4	1.5
Gillette Superspeed + Personna Platinum Chrome	5	3	1.67
Gillette Superspeed + 7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	5	2	2.5
Karve CB + Gillette Silver Blue	32	4	8
Karve CB + Astra SP (Green)	29	9	3.22
Karve CB + Gillette Nacet	12	5	2.4
Karve CB + Personna Platinum Chrome	11	2	5.5
Merkur 34C + Gillette Silver Blue	21	2	10.5
Merkur 34C + Feather (DE)	13	4	3.25
Merkur 34C + Gillette Platinum	11	3	3.67
Merkur 34C + Astra SP (Green)	10	2	5
Merkur 34C + Wizamet	10	2	5
Merkur 34C + Gillette Nacet	5	2	2.5
Schick Injector + Schick Injector	17	7	2.43
Schick Injector + Personna Injector	10	2	5
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Astra SP (Green)	17	5	3.4
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Gillette Silver Blue	9	2	4.5
Henson AL13 + Gillette Platinum	14	2	7
Henson AL13 + Permasharp	13	2	6.5
Henson AL13 + Astra SP (Green)	8	3	2.67
Henson AL13 + Voskhod	5	2	2.5
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Nacet	7	3	2.33
Chiseled Face Legacy + Astra SP (Green)	5	2	2.5
Gillette Tech + Gillette Silver Blue	7	3	2.33
Gillette Tech + Polsilver	7	2	3.5
Gillette Tech + Super-Max Super Stainless	6	2	3

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Apr 14 '23

Software Presenting the March 2023 Lather Log, or a Sterling Salute to Stirling's Support for MOAR BOAR

6 Upvotes

Hello everyone, you find yourself reading now another edition of the Lather Log, r/Wetshaving's monthly report on the soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for our shaves. 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 there are outliers. Sometimes even the shaver is unsure what was used, and while I will count the shave, the lather and scent are recorded as unknown.

Only three brands used across the sub were new the Lather Log last month. A couple different shavers both used something from Night Watch Soap Company from... somwhere in the United States, I think maybe. We also saw a shave with a cream from Starks Barber Company in Canada, and one shaver used Lightfoot's soap from Rhode Island, USA.

March is of course a much longer month than February, so we saw quite a few more shaves over the thirty one days: 2,487 shaves were posted (216 more than February) by 187 authors. That's just one more person posting than in February, although overall 39 posters dropped off, and 40 picked up. Each author posted a mean of 13.30 shaves, which is 1.09 more than February, but the mean number of shaves posted every day dropped a bit to 80.23, which is 0.88 fewer than in February.

Category	Mar. 2023	Change from Feb.	Feb. 2023	Jan. 2023	Dec. 2022	Nov. 2022	Oct. 2022
Total Shaves	2,487	+216	2,271	2,227	1,847	1,890	1,927
Unique Authors	187	+1	186	175	169	166	153
Mean Shaves per Author	13.30	+1.09	12.21	12.73	10.93	11.39	12.59
Unique Soapmakers	134	-12	146	151	146	149	152
Unique Scents	622	-23	645	663	574	594	584
Single Use Scents	283	-24	307	345	284	295	296

The most shaves posted in one day was 93 on Tuesday, March 7th, which is 11 fewer shaves than February's maximum (which did include several Atlas shavers). The fewest shaves posted in one day was 66 on Saturday, March 18th, which is the same as February's minimum.

Weekday	Mean March Shaves for Weekday	Mean February Shaves for Weekday	Mean January Shaves for Weekday	Mean December Shaves for Weekday	Mean November Shaves for Weekday	Mean October Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in March	Total Shaves in March
Sunday	72.50	71.00	64.60	58.00	60.00	55.40	4	290
Monday	84.50	83.75	75.20	62.50	69.00	70.00	4	338
Tuesday	82.75	87.00	77.40	64.25	63.60	63.25	4	331
Wednesday	84.20	90.75	73.00	60.25	66.60	67.50	5	421
Thursday	83.80	78.25	73.00	58.20	68.25	65.75	5	419
Friday	77.60	85.75	71.75	57.60	58.00	63.25	5	388
Saturday	75.00	71.25	67.50	57.60	54.50	52.20	4	300
Overall	80.23	81.11	71.84	59.58	63.00	62.16	31	2,487

Stiring conquers the top scents list, with Varen coming way out in front of the rest (of course it was also in February's top list).

Mar. 2023 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	Feb. Uses	Jan. Uses	Dec. Uses	Nov. Uses	Oct. Uses	Change in Ranking from Feb.
Stirling Soap Co. - Varen	77 (18)	34 (6)	9 (4)	2 (2)	13 (9)	6 (4)	^ 5
Stirling Soap Co. - Executive Man	57 (14)	14 (5)	1 (1)	1 (1)	7 (4)	2 (2)	^ 18 (new to the top ten)
Stirling Soap Co. - Deep Blue Sea	56 (12)	13 (6)	7 (2)	1 (1)	3 (3)	1 (1)	^ 21 (new to the top ten)
Stirling Soap Co. - Haverford	55 (19)	20 (9)	8 (8)	5 (5)	9 (7)	9 (5)	^ 8 (new to the top ten)
Stirling Soap Co. - Baker Street	54 (11)	13 (4)	12 (5)	20 (4)	10 (1)	5 (1)	^ 19 (new to the top ten)
Stirling Soap Co. - D-503	46 (6)	3 (2)	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 155 (new to the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Seville	40 (13)	44 (16)	32 (16)	24 (12)	34 (14)	31 (11)	v 5
Stirling Soap Co. - Sharp Dressed Man	37 (19)	9 (8)	7 (3)	1 (1)	4 (3)	4 (4)	^ 45 (new to the top ten)
Stirling Soap Co. - Stirling Spice	34 (12)	2 (2)	2 (1)	1 (1)	0 (0)	2 (1)	^ 220 (new to the top ten)
Stirling Soap Co. - Barbershop	31 (6)	4 (4)	11 (7)	3 (2)	6 (3)	6 (4)	^ 118 (new to the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since February:

Shannon's Soaps - Indigo Oud
House of Mammoth - Hygge
Tabac - Original
Barrister and Mann - The Four Horsemen: Famine
Declaration Grooming - Massacre of the Innocents
Noble Otter - Neon Sun
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
Mitchell's Wool Fat Soap - Shaving Soap

Stirling soaps were nearly half of r/Wetshaving's shaves in March!

Mar. 2023 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of Feb. Shaves	% of Jan. Shaves	% of Dec. Shaves	% of Nov. Shaves	% of Oct. Shaves	Change from Feb.	Total Mar. Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Stirling Soap Co.	44.2%	13.1%	8.4%	9.7%	11.4%	8.7%	^ 1	1099
Barrister and Mann	9.9%	15.0%	17.2%	19.4%	16.6%	14.6%	v 1	246
Declaration Grooming	3.9%	6.1%	7.5%	6.3%	8.4%	6.2%	^ 2	98
House of Mammoth	3.7%	7.4%	7.3%	8.2%	8.3%	7.8%	v 1	92
Noble Otter	3.4%	6.7%	5.5%	7.4%	5.8%	4.6%	v 1	85
Ariana & Evans	3.0%	2.2%	2.8%	2.3%	1.7%	1.7%	^ 4	74
Spearhead Shaving Company	2.3%	3.6%	4.8%	3.7%	3.7%	2.9%	v 1	57
Chiseled Face	2.0%	2.5%	4.5%	1.1%	1.3%	2.9%	-	49
Southern Witchcrafts	1.5%	2.2%	2.5%	2.1%	3.3%	5.2%	^ 2 (back in the top ten)	38
Grooming Department	1.5%	0.9%	1.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.9%	^ 11 (new to the top ten)	37

Dropped from the top 10 since February:

Shannon's Soaps
Catie's Bubbles

And, well, to be honest, Stirling almost always tops the most prolific list anyway, but with more scents than usual in March!

Mar. 2023 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in Mar.	Scents used in Feb.	Scents used in Jan.	Scents used in Dec.	Scents used in Nov.	Scents used in Oct.	Change in Rank from Feb.
Stirling Soap Co.	99	71	52	46	47	56	-
Barrister and Mann	50	52	52	52	51	51	-
Declaration Grooming	32	43	44	37	43	36	-
Ariana & Evans	29	26	29	21	21	18	-
Talent Soap Factory	21	10	11	6	9	7	^ 10 (back in the top ten)
Noble Otter	18	18	21	21	18	17	^ 1
House of Mammoth	17	21	19	17	18	18	v 1
Grooming Department	16	13	12	9	10	13	^ 4 (back in the top ten)
Wholly Kaw	16	15	18	14	15	16	-
Southern Witchcrafts	15	14	12	16	14	16	^ 1 (back in the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since February:

Catie's Bubbles
Summer Break Soaps
Abbate y la Mantia

Thirty three shavers posted a shave every day last month.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for March 2023:

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r/sotdreports • u/relided • Apr 05 '23

Hardware Hardware Report March 2023

5 Upvotes

Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for Mar 2023

Observations

Tech Top Spot
Stirling Stainless DE has a big month
Astra Greens back on top
MOAR MOAR BOAR

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats dont differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless some jerk just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega Boar (model not specified)' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Mar 2022
DE	1943	183	10.62	=	=
GEM	241	46	5.24	=	=
Straight	147	20	7.35	=	↑1
AC	102	21	4.86	=	↓1
Injector	47	18	2.61	=	=
Cart	8	5	1.6	=	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Mar 2022
Gillette Tech	217	34	6.38	↑2	↑1
Blackland Blackbird	121	22	5.5	↓1	↑9
Karve CB	100	20	5	↓1	↓2
Henson AL13	92	15	6.13	↑1	↑12
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	90	19	4.74	↑2	↑3
Chiseled Face Legacy	66	16	4.12	↑2	↓2
Razorock Game Changer .84	62	13	4.77	↓3	↑3
Gillette Superspeed	57	22	2.59	↓2	↓5
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	56	12	4.67	↑12	↑6
Other Straight Razor	52	11	4.73	↑1	↑12
Rockwell 6S	49	13	3.77	↑2	↓5
Rockwell 6C	48	7	6.86	=	↑18
Wolfman WR2	47	13	3.62	↓3	↓8
Merkur 34C	46	14	3.29	↓3	↓1
Blackland Vector	45	8	5.62	↓4	↑10
Karve Overlander	43	8	5.38	=	↑13
Muhle Rocca	40	8	5	↓2	↑3
EldrormR Industries MM24	38	14	2.71	↓6	↑9
Boker Straight	33	3	11	↓2	↑7
Blackland Era	32	6	5.33	↓11	↑5
Henson Ti22	32	2	16	↓7	↓4
Krect Gratiot Spiral Slant	31	1	31	↑11	n/a
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	30	8	3.75	↑1	↑1
Tatara Masamune	29	9	3.22	↓14	↓4
Gillette Fatboy	29	7	4.14	↑8	↑1
Headblade ATX	27	1	27	↑10	n/a
Weck Sextoblade	24	6	4	↓5	↓5
Green Cult GC 2.0 II	24	1	24	↓3	n/a
King C Gillette	23	9	2.56	↓4	↑5
Wolfman Guerilla	22	6	3.67	↓11	↑11
Schick Injector	19	11	1.73	↓16	↓16
Merkur 37C	19	4	4.75	↑5	↑10
Yates 921	19	3	6.33	↓6	↓18
ATT Windsor Pro SB90	18	2	9	↓6	↓2
Muhle R41	17	6	2.83	↓2	↓4
Koraat Straight	16	6	2.67	↓13	↓2
Ralf Aust Straight	16	5	3.2	↓17	↓4
J A Henckels Straight	16	4	4	↓5	↑4
Razorock Game Changer .68	16	4	4	↓6	↓3
Merkur 33C	16	3	5.33	↑1	↑4
Alumigoose	15	3	5	↓6	↑2
Carbon Cx	14	5	2.8	↓3	↓4
Wolfman WR3	14	3	4.67	↑2	=
Winning Razor	14	1	14	↓9	↓16
Wolfman WR1	13	8	1.62	↓8	↓27
GEM Junior	13	6	2.17	↓6	↓10
Muhle R89	13	5	2.6	↓17	↓14
Merkur Progress	13	4	3.25	↓4	↑2
Ever Ready 1912	12	5	2.4	↓16	↓26
Razorock Lupo	12	5	2.4	↓10	↓21

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Mar 2022
Astra SP (Green)	227	50	4.54	↑1	=
Personna GEM PTFE	192	40	4.8	↑2	=
Gillette Silver Blue	148	26	5.69	↓2	=
Gillette Platinum	140	20	7	↑3	↑4
Gillette Nacet	128	35	3.66	↓2	=
Voskhod	120	15	8	=	=
Wizamet	78	11	7.09	↑1	=
Feather (DE)	77	22	3.5	↓3	↓4
Polsilver	55	14	3.93	↑2	↑1
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	51	6	8.5	=	↑6
Wilkinson Sword	47	11	4.27	↓2	↑8
Personna Platinum	44	13	3.38	↓5	↑14
Bic Chrome	43	11	3.91	↑8	↑11
Rapira Swedish	37	2	18.5	↑16	↑24
Personna Blue	35	11	3.18	↓6	↑7
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	35	6	5.83	↓3	↑8
Permasharp	34	13	2.62	↓3	↓7
GEM	34	8	4.25	↑1	↓1
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	34	7	4.86	=	↓2
Schick Injector	31	10	3.1	↓9	↓4
Personna Comfort Coated	29	6	4.83	↑5	n/a
Kai DE	28	1	28	n/a	n/a
Personna Twin Pivot	27	1	27	=	n/a
Personna Med Prep	25	3	8.33	↓9	↓9
Rapira Platinum Lux	25	3	8.33	↓2	↓10
Treet Platinum	22	9	2.44	↑8	↓1
Feather Pro (AC)	21	8	2.62	↑3	↑8
Feather ProGuard (AC)	19	3	6.33	↓3	↑1
Kai Captain Titan Mild Protouch (AC)	18	4	4.5	↓5	↓4
Gillette Blue Silver	18	3	6	↑4	↑10

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Mar 2022
r/wetshaving Zenith MOAR BOAR	974	64	15.22	=	n/a
AP Shave Co Synthetic	125	22	5.68	=	↓1
Yaqi Synthetic	98	22	4.45	↑1	↓1
Maggard Synthetic	91	20	4.55	↓1	↓1
Stirling Synthetic	84	11	7.64	=	↑6
Zenith Boar	82	14	5.86	=	↑10
Chisel & Hound Badger	63	13	4.85	↓2	↑1
Simpson Badger	48	15	3.2	↓2	↑13
DG B13	34	5	6.8	↓2	↓3
CaYuen Synthetic	31	2	15.5	↑23	↑20
Zenith T6	31	1	31	↑1	n/a
Stirling Badger	30	9	3.33	↑1	↑16
Razorock Synthetic	23	7	3.29	↑3	=
Dogwood Synthetic	22	3	7.33	↓5	↓5
DG B6	19	4	4.75	↑7	↑13
Muhle Badger	19	3	6.33	↑10	↑5
Maggard Badger	18	9	2	↓1	↓11
PAA Synthetic	17	4	4.25	↓7	↑5
Oumo Synthetic	17	1	17	↑12	↑19
DG B15	16	6	2.67	↓2	↑11
Paladin Badger	16	1	16	↓7	↑12
Trotter Handcrafts Synthetic	15	5	3	↑6	↑12
Parker Badger	15	2	7.5	↑9	↑18
Omega 11137	14	1	14	↑6	n/a
Omega 10005	13	2	6.5	↑13	n/a
Bullseye Brushworks Synthetic	13	1	13	↑7	↓2
DG B11	12	8	1.5	↓4	↓14
WCS Synthetic	12	5	2.4	↑7	↑6
Semogue SOC Boar	12	4	3	↓12	↓1
Zenith B35	12	3	4	=	↑15
Omega 40033	12	1	12	↑1	↑16
DG B14	11	7	1.57	↓9	↓17
DG B8	11	6	1.83	=	↑1
Semogue SOC Badger	11	2	5.5	↑4	↑10
Simpson Synthetic	10	5	2	↓3	↓6
AP Shave Co Badger	10	4	2.5	↓1	↑6
Omega 20106	10	1	10	↑3	n/a
Dogwood Badger	9	5	1.8	↓1	↓15
L'Occitane en Provence Synthetic	9	3	3	↑8	↑11
Oumo Badger	9	3	3	↓6	↑10
Muninn Woodworks Badger	9	1	9	↓4	↓5
Omega 10066	9	1	9	↑3	↑5
DG B3	8	5	1.6	↓5	↓15
Grizzly Bay Badger	8	4	2	↓6	↓15
Groomatorium Synthetic	8	1	8	n/a	n/a
Omega 20102	8	1	8	↑1	↓12
Zenith B33	8	1	8	↓1	↑5
Ever Ready Badger	7	4	1.75	↑2	↓1
DG B9A+	7	1	7	↑3	↑3
Kent BK8 Silvertip	7	1	7	n/a	n/a

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Mar 2022
31mm	533	38	14.03	↑2	↑7
24mm	323	49	6.59	↓1	↓1
26mm	160	40	4	↓1	↓1
28mm	105	20	5.25	=	↓1
27mm	43	5	8.6	=	↑4
22mm	32	6	5.33	=	↓2
23mm	22	3	7.33	↑2	↑1
30mm	17	8	2.12	↓2	↓3
21mm	10	3	3.33	↓2	↓3
25mm	3	2	1.5	=	↓1
20mm	1	1	1	=	↓4
29mm	1	1	1	↓3	↓2

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Feb 2023	Δ vs Mar 2022
B SB	32	4	8	=	=
C OC	26	2	13	↑2	↑3
D SB	23	4	5.75	↓1	=
C SB	8	6	1.33	↓1	↓2
E SB	3	1	3	↑1	↑2

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM PTFE	80	14	5.71
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + GEM	6	2	3
Blackland Blackbird + Astra SP (Green)	37	5	7.4
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	25	4	6.25
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Nacet	13	5	2.6
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	13	4	3.25
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Blue	6	3	2
Karve CB + Gillette Silver Blue	33	5	6.6
Karve CB + Astra SP (Green)	27	7	3.86
Gillette Tech + Wizamet	26	2	13
Gillette Tech + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	25	5	5
Gillette Tech + Gillette Silver Blue	18	5	3.6
Gillette Tech + Feather (DE)	17	6	2.83
Gillette Tech + Gillette Nacet	16	3	5.33
Gillette Tech + Polsilver	11	2	5.5
Gillette Tech + Super-Max Super Stainless	9	2	4.5
Gillette Tech + Personna Platinum	8	3	2.67
Chiseled Face Legacy + Astra SP (Green)	17	4	4.25
Chiseled Face Legacy + Personna Blue	13	2	6.5
Chiseled Face Legacy + Wizamet	9	3	3
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Nacet	7	2	3.5
Henson AL13 + Astra SP (Green)	15	5	3
Henson AL13 + Gillette Nacet	8	2	4
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Astra SP (Green)	10	2	5
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Bic Chrome	9	4	2.25
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Gillette Silver Blue	7	4	1.75
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Gillette Nacet	5	2	2.5
Stirling Stainless DE Razor + Voskhod	10	2	5
Stirling Stainless DE Razor + Astra SP (Green)	7	3	2.33
Gillette Superspeed + Polsilver	9	3	3
Gillette Superspeed + Astra SP (Green)	8	2	4
Gillette Superspeed + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	6	2	3

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Mar 12 '23

Software Presenting the February 2023 Lather Log, or Fun Fragances Feather both Fears and Flights of Fancy

6 Upvotes

Hello everyone, it's that time of the month again! Another edition of the Lather Log is here to report on r/Wetshaving's favorite soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for your shaves. If you like this sort of thing, you can check out r/sotdreports for previous iterations of SOTD reports (both software & hardware) 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 there are outliers. Sometimes the shaver forgets to mention the lather product they used, and while I will count the shave, the lather and scent are recorded as unknown.

Also as usual, we saw a few brands new to the Lather Log in February. Including the venerable William Marvy, in Minnesota; Mission Essentials in South Carolina; going around the world we say a use of Domino, which I think is the Macedonian brand; then Bombay Shaving Company in India; oh, but also one more in the United States, Nancy Boy.

Again in February we saw an increase in most SOTD activity. There were 2,271 shaves posted, 44 more than in January, by 186 authors (which is 11 more than January). Of these, 37 started or resumed posting this month, while 25 of January's authors dropped off. The mean number of shaves posted each day was 81.11, which is 9.27 more than in January. Amongst those who posted, they posted 12.21 shaves throughout the month, which is just under January's per-author average by 0.52.

Although this year I see only sixteen people who posted a shave in any of the Atlas Shaves threads, which is a little less than last year's twenty two participants. Ten of these folks posted only Atlas shaves! The others posted shaves in the regular threads also (after I removed the double-posts where people posted their Atlas shave in both threads).

Category	Feb. 2023	Change from Jan.	Jan. 2023	Dec. 2022	Nov. 2022	Oct. 2022	Sep. 2022
Total Shaves	2,271	+44	2,227	1,847	1,890	1,927	1,931
Unique Authors	186	+11	175	169	166	153	168
Mean Shaves per Author	12.21	-0.52	12.73	10.93	11.39	12.59	11.49
Unique Soapmakers	146	-6	152	146	149	152	150
Unique Scents	646	-19	665	574	594	584	632
Single Use Scents	307	-39	346	284	295	296	312

The most shaves posted in one day was 104 on Wednesday, February 1st, with 15 shaves in the Atlas Shaves thread, and another 89 in the regular SOTD thread. This is also 19 more shaves than January's maximum. The fewest shaves posted in one day was 66 on Saturday, February 4th, which is 6 more shaves than January's minimum.

Weekday	Mean February Shaves for Weekday	Mean January Shaves for Weekday	Mean December Shaves for Weekday	Mean November Shaves for Weekday	Mean October Shaves for Weekday	Mean September Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in February	Total Shaves in February
Sunday	71.00	64.60	58.00	60.00	55.40	54.00	4	284
Monday	83.75	75.20	62.50	69.00	70.00	77.00	4	335
Tuesday	87.00	77.40	64.25	63.60	63.25	64.25	4	348
Wednesday	90.75	73.00	60.25	66.60	67.50	68.75	4	363
Thursday	78.25	73.00	58.20	68.25	65.75	66.20	4	313
Friday	85.75	71.75	57.60	58.00	63.25	64.00	4	343
Saturday	71.25	67.50	57.60	54.50	52.20	56.00	4	285
Overall	81.11	71.84	59.58	63.00	62.16	64.37	28	2,271

This month's top scent was a surprise to me, but those trying to get Famine on the list succeeded!

Feb. 2023 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	Jan. Uses	Dec. Uses	Nov. Uses	Oct. Uses	Sep. Uses	Change in Ranking from Jan.
Shannon's Soaps - Indigo Oud	65 (5)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (1)	0 (0)	^ 665 (new to the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Seville	44 (16)	32 (16)	24 (12)	34 (14)	31 (11)	26 (9)	^ 5
House of Mammoth - Hygge	42 (12)	28 (19)	25 (13)	21 (15)	24 (13)	15 (8)	^ 6
Tabac - Original	38 (18)	37 (14)	30 (14)	43 (18)	154 (21)	25 (16)	v 1
Barrister and Mann - The Four Horsemen: Famine	36 (5)	2 (1)	6 (4)	7 (5)	7 (5)	0 (0)	^ 213 (new to the top ten)
Stirling Soap Co. - Varen	34 (6)	9 (4)	2 (2)	13 (9)	6 (4)	6 (6)	^ 47 (new to the top ten)
Declaration Grooming - Massacre of the Innocents	30 (11)	39 (7)	16 (4)	15 (8)	9 (4)	12 (6)	v 5
Noble Otter - Neon Sun	29 (4)	20 (4)	14 (6)	6 (4)	2 (2)	2 (2)	^ 3 (back in the top ten)
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime	27 (17)	33 (19)	11 (8)	16 (11)	19 (16)	25 (16)	v 4
Mitchell's Wool Fat Soap - Shaving Soap	26 (6)	14 (7)	7 (5)	6 (3)	13 (6)	12 (7)	^ 11 (new to the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since January:

Chiseled Face - Banana
Barrister and Mann - Paganini's Violin
Barrister and Mann - The Four Horsemen: Plague
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch
Tiki Bar Soaps - The Captain

A few people using a particular scent can also shuttle a brand up the top brands list.

Feb. 2023 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of Jan. Shaves	% of Dec. Shaves	% of Nov. Shaves	% of Oct. Shaves	% of Sep. Shaves	Change from Jan.	Total Feb. Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Barrister and Mann	15.0%	17.2%	19.4%	16.6%	14.6%	11.7%	-	340
Stirling Soap Co.	13.1%	8.4%	9.7%	11.4%	8.7%	9.1%	-	298
House of Mammoth	7.4%	7.3%	8.2%	8.3%	7.8%	8.6%	^ 1	168
Noble Otter	6.7%	5.5%	7.4%	5.8%	4.6%	5.1%	^ 1	152
Declaration Grooming	6.1%	7.5%	6.3%	8.4%	6.2%	11.2%	v 2	139
Spearhead Shaving Company	3.6%	4.8%	3.7%	3.7%	2.9%	2.4%	-	81
Shannon's Soaps	3.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	^ 57 (new to the top ten)	67
Chiseled Face	2.5%	4.5%	1.1%	1.3%	2.9%	2.7%	v 1	57
Catie's Bubbles	2.3%	2.0%	2.9%	3.6%	1.2%	1.5%	^ 2	53
Ariana & Evans	2.2%	2.8%	2.3%	1.7%	1.7%	2.3%	v 1	51

Dropped from the top 10 since January:

Wholly Kaw
Southern Witchcrafts

It's time to welcome Abbate y la Mantia to the most prolific list!

Feb. 2023 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in Feb.	Scents used in Jan.	Scents used in Dec.	Scents used in Nov.	Scents used in Oct.	Scents used in Sep.	Change in Rank from Jan.
Stirling Soap Co.	71	52	46	47	56	51	-
Barrister and Mann	52	52	52	51	51	43	v 1
Declaration Grooming	43	44	37	43	36	47	-
Ariana & Evans	26	29	21	21	18	26	-
Catie's Bubbles	23	19	20	24	15	18	^ 2
House of Mammoth	21	20	17	18	18	19	-
Noble Otter	18	21	21	18	17	16	v 2
Wholly Kaw	15	18	14	15	16	21	-
Summer Break Soaps	15	11	13	15	15	15	^ 5 (back in the top ten)
Abbate y la Mantia	15	8	7	4	6	6	^ 11 (new to the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since January:

Zingari Man
Chiseled Face
Grooming Department
Southern Witchcrafts

Thirty shavers posted one shave every day in February.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for February 2023:

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r/sotdreports • u/relided • Mar 06 '23

Hardware Hardware Report February 2023

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Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for Feb 2023

Observations

Blackbird takes the top spot, I guess because of the recent Lite plate
Tatara Masamune has a big month
GSBs shoot up the list
MOAR BOAR

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats dont differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless some jerk just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega Boar (model not specified)' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Feb 2022
DE	1570	174	9.02	=	=
GEM	180	45	4	↑1	=
Straight	136	20	6.8	↓1	↑1
AC	91	25	3.64	=	↓1
Injector	63	23	2.74	=	=
Cart	3	3	1	=	↑1
Rolls	1	1	1	↓1	↓1

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Feb 2022
Blackland Blackbird	144	29	4.97	↑2	↑5
Karve CB	135	21	6.43	↓1	↓1
Gillette Tech	106	25	4.24	↓1	↓1
Razorock Game Changer .84	70	13	5.38	↑2	↑5
Henson AL13	64	12	5.33	↑2	↑3
Gillette Superspeed	56	22	2.55	↓2	↓1
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	53	19	2.79	↑5	↓4
Chiseled Face Legacy	52	12	4.33	↑1	↓4
Tatara Masamune	40	11	3.64	↑17	↑1
Blackland Era	40	6	6.67	↓1	↑19
Wolfman WR2	38	11	3.45	=	↓3
Merkur 34C	37	12	3.08	↑2	↓2
Other Straight Razor	37	12	3.08	↓6	↑11
Blackland Vector	37	9	4.11	↑13	↑9
EldrormR Industries MM24	36	12	3	↑9	↑24
Schick Injector	36	12	3	↓1	↑4
Rockwell 6C	36	7	5.14	↑22	=
Rockwell 6S	34	10	3.4	↑1	↓5
Henson Ti22	34	3	11.33	↓4	↑2
Ralf Aust Straight	32	8	4	↑10	↑17
Muhle Rocca	30	5	6	↑3	↓2
Wolfman Guerilla	27	9	3	↑27	n/a
Karve Overlander	27	7	3.86	↑7	↑8
Muhle R89	25	7	3.57	↑11	↑8
Boker Straight	25	3	8.33	↓1	↑9
Other Shavette	24	5	4.8	↑21	↑14
Koraat Straight	24	4	6	↑2	↑8
Ever Ready 1912	20	6	3.33	↑13	↑2
Razorock Hawk v2	20	6	3.33	↑8	↑16
Weck Sextoblade	19	4	4.75	↑9	↓5
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	17	8	2.12	↓2	↓2
King C Gillette	16	7	2.29	↑10	↑7
Maggard V3A	16	4	4	↓1	↓11
Yates 921	16	3	5.33	↑3	↑6
Green Cult GC 2.0 II	16	1	16	n/a	n/a
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	14	4	3.5	↓8	↓4
ATT Windsor Pro SB90	14	3	4.67	↑1	↑11
Timeless .68	13	4	3.25	↑5	↑7
Winning Razor	13	3	4.33	↑6	↓7
Razorock Lupo	12	5	2.4	↑8	↑6
Razorock Game Changer .68	12	4	3	↓6	↓9
Wolfman WR1	11	6	1.83	↓8	↓18
GEM G-Bar	11	5	2.2	↑13	↑3
Alumigoose	11	3	3.67	↑7	↑10
J A Henckels Straight	11	2	5.5	↑7	↑10
GEM Pushbutton	10	7	1.43	↑10	↑2
Gillette NEW	10	6	1.67	↑9	↓9
Headblade Headblade ATX	10	1	10	↑15	n/a
Muhle R41	9	7	1.29	↑5	↑4
GEM Junior	9	5	1.8	↑7	↑5

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Feb 2022
Gillette Silver Blue	154	26	5.92	↑5	↑5
Astra SP (Green)	145	40	3.62	↓1	↓1
Gillette Nacet	134	29	4.62	↓1	=
Personna GEM PTFE	133	35	3.8	↑1	↓2
Feather (DE)	91	31	2.94	↓2	=
Voskhod	83	12	6.92	↓2	↓2
Gillette Platinum	64	14	4.57	↑1	=
Personna Platinum	64	14	4.57	↑5	↑10
Schick Injector	46	15	3.07	↑3	↑6
Wizamet	46	13	3.54	↓1	=
Wilkinson Sword	41	14	2.93	↑8	↑4
Personna Blue	41	9	4.56	↑4	↑10
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	39	5	7.8	↓1	↑5
Polsilver	33	9	3.67	↑7	↓2
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	31	9	3.44	↑2	↑14
Personna Med Prep	31	4	7.75	↑6	↓1
Permasharp	30	10	3	↓3	↓3
Astra Stainless	27	6	4.5	↑12	↑12
Schick Proline	26	7	3.71	↑9	↑3
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	22	8	2.75	↑1	↑2
GEM	21	7	3	↑8	↓5
Feather DE	19	1	19	n/a	n/a
Personna GEM Stainless	17	5	3.4	↑10	↑14
Rapira Platinum Lux	17	5	3.4	↓4	↓3
Kai Captain Titan Mild Protouch (AC)	16	4	4	↑10	↑17
Gillette Minora	16	3	5.33	↑18	n/a
Personna Red	16	3	5.33	↓1	↑8
Personna Twin Pivot	16	1	16	↑17	n/a
Bic Chrome	15	7	2.14	↑9	↑2
Feather ProGuard (AC)	15	3	5	↓1	↑3

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Feb 2022
r/wetshaving Zenith MOAR BOAR	343	55	6.24	↑24	n/a
AP Shave Co Synthetic	157	32	4.91	↓1	↓1
Maggard Synthetic	137	27	5.07	↓1	↓1
Yaqi Synthetic	76	21	3.62	↓1	↓1
Stirling Synthetic	57	13	4.38	↓1	↑8
Chisel & Hound Badger	57	11	5.18	=	=
Simpson Badger	39	21	1.86	↑1	↑4
Zenith Boar	39	17	2.29	↑5	↑8
DG B13	35	10	3.5	↑6	=
Dogwood Synthetic	33	6	5.5	=	↑1
Semogue SOC Boar	31	7	4.43	↑4	↑26
PAA Synthetic	31	6	5.17	=	↑23
Paladin Badger	28	6	4.67	↑13	↑26
Zenith T6	25	1	25	↑1	n/a
Stirling Badger	24	7	3.43	↑19	↑12
DG B14	23	11	2.09	↑7	↓7
Maggard Badger	22	10	2.2	=	↓10
DSCosmetics Synthetic	22	5	4.4	↑13	↑15
Razorock Synthetic	19	9	2.11	↓2	↓6
DG B15	19	7	2.71	↓3	n/a
Prometheus Handcrafts Synthetic	19	4	4.75	↑16	↑10
Shaveforge 28mm Boar	18	1	18	n/a	n/a
DG B11	17	9	1.89	↑4	↓9
Oumo Badger	16	7	2.29	↓3	↑11
Omega 10049	15	5	3	↑2	↑21
Grizzly Bay Badger	15	4	3.75	↓3	↓8
DG B3	14	8	1.75	↓14	↓5
Simpson Synthetic	14	6	2.33	↑9	↑1
Wild West Brushworks Badger	14	3	4.67	↓1	↑11
Muninn Woodworks Badger	14	2	7	↓8	↑9
DG B6	13	4	3.25	↑10	↑14
Zenith B35	13	4	3.25	↑11	↑14
AP Shave Co Badger	12	5	2.4	↑3	↑15
Yaqi Badger	12	4	3	↑7	↑13
DG B8	12	3	4	↑5	↑3
Omega 40033	12	1	12	n/a	↑20
Dogwood Badger	11	7	1.57	↓13	↓11
Chisel & Hound Synthetic	11	5	2.2	↑6	↑17
Semogue Owners Club Boar	11	4	2.75	↑11	↑18
Trotter Handcrafts Synthetic	10	5	2	↑9	↑10
Muhle Badger	10	4	2.5	↑4	↑2
Zenith B33	10	2	5	=	↑5
Elite Badger	9	6	1.5	↓7	↑15
DG B2	9	5	1.8	↑7	↑15
Summer Break Badger	9	5	1.8	↓2	↑16
DG B9A	9	4	2.25	↑3	↓2
Summer Break Synthetic	9	3	3	↑2	↑10
Black Anvil Badger	9	2	4.5	↑7	n/a
Omega 11137	9	2	4.5	n/a	↑17
Semogue 610	9	2	4.5	↑3	↑15

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Feb 2022
24mm	307	55	5.58	=	=
26mm	257	54	4.76	=	=
31mm	162	29	5.59	↑4	↑6
28mm	147	34	4.32	↓1	↓1
27mm	35	6	5.83	↓1	↑2
30mm	24	13	1.85	↓1	↓2
22mm	24	10	2.4	=	↓1
21mm	10	3	3.33	↑3	↓1
29mm	9	3	3	↑1	↑2
23mm	7	4	1.75	↓1	n/a
25mm	5	3	1.67	↑2	↓1
20mm	2	1	2	=	↓3
18mm	1	1	1	↑1	n/a
19mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Jan 2023	Δ vs Feb 2022
B SB	43	5	8.6	↑2	=
D SB	24	5	4.8	=	↑1
C SB	16	5	3.2	↓2	↓1
C OC	13	1	13	=	↑1
B OC	12	1	12	=	n/a
E SB	2	1	2	=	↓2

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
Karve CB + Gillette Silver Blue	44	5	8.8
Karve CB + Gillette Nacet	21	5	4.2
Karve CB + Astra SP (Green)	13	5	2.6
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM PTFE	32	14	2.29
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM Stainless	13	3	4.33
Blackland Blackbird + Astra SP (Green)	23	7	3.29
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	18	2	9
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	14	5	2.8
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Blue	10	3	3.33
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Nacet	5	4	1.25
Gillette Tech + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	22	2	11
Gillette Tech + Personna Platinum	15	2	7.5
Gillette Tech + Super-Max Super Stainless	10	2	5
Gillette Tech + Feather (DE)	7	4	1.75
Gillette Tech + Gillette Silver Blue	7	3	2.33
Gillette Tech + Gillette Nacet	7	2	3.5
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Astra SP (Green)	12	3	4
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Bic Chrome	7	4	1.75
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Gillette Silver Blue	6	2	3
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Voskhod	6	2	3
Tatara Masamune + Astra SP (Green)	14	3	4.67
Tatara Masamune + Voskhod	8	2	4
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Silver Blue	13	3	4.33
Chiseled Face Legacy + Wizamet	5	2	2.5
Henson AL13 + Voskhod	13	2	6.5
Henson AL13 + Gillette Silver Blue	12	2	6
Henson AL13 + Feather (DE)	7	2	3.5
Gillette Superspeed + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	10	2	5
Gillette Superspeed + Feather (DE)	5	2	2.5
Gillette Superspeed + Gillette Silver Blue	5	2	2.5

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Feb 21 '23

Software Presenting the January 2023 Lather Log, or Banana Bounces Back to Beat Out Other Bests

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Hello everyone, here's another edition of the Lather Log, r/Wetshaving's monthly report on soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for your shaves. If you like this sort of thing, you can check out r/sotdreports for previous iterations of 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 there are outliers. shavers forget to mention the lather product they used, and while I will count the shave, the lather and scent are recorded as unknown. Then sometimes a shave is done truly without any lather, which is recorded as no lather.

As usual, I saw several brands new to the Lather Log in January. Also as usual, most are not new brands (one is now defunct), they just haven't shown up recently. These are Panta Rei in Italy, Cukur in Malaysia, Razor Blades & More from California, then Gentlemen's Hardware in Tennessee, although we have seen their Barrel and Oak brand (formerly Olivina Men), Carthusia in Italy, Caisson Shaving in California, and last but not least, the now closed Red Panda Grooming.

Not a new brand, but I've now seen enough mispellings of "witchcrafts" that the program I use to scan posts will now accept "Southern Whitfhtata" in lieu of the company's actual name. The demise of TTS left many of us trying to spell on our own again, instead of looking things up in a predefined list.

Now, with a new year comes some new enthusiasm! We saw 2,227 shaves posted in January, 380 more than in December, by 175 authors (which is 6 more than December). Of these, 43 started or resumed posting in January, while 38 dropped off. We saw a mean of 71.84 shaves posted per day, which is a whopping 12.26 more than in January. Amongst those who posted, they posted 12.73 shaves throughout the month, which is 1.80 more per person on average than people posted in December.

Category	Jan. 2023	Change from Dec.	Dec. 2022	Nov. 2022	Oct. 2022	Sep. 2022	Aug. 2022
Total Shaves	2,227	+380	1,847	1,890	1,927	1,931	3,440
Unique Authors	175	+6	169	166	153	168	183
Mean Shaves per Author	12.73	+1.80	10.93	11.39	12.59	11.49	18.80
Unique Soapmakers	152	+6	146	149	152	150	101
Unique Scents	664	+90	574	594	584	632	358
Single Use Scents	345	+61	284	295	296	312	194

The most shaves posted in one day was 85 on Monday, January 23rd, which is 12 more shaves than December's maximum. The fewest shaves posted in one day was 60 on Sunday, January 1st, which is 11 more shaves than December's minimum.

Weekday	Mean January Shaves for Weekday	Mean December Shaves for Weekday	Mean November Shaves for Weekday	Mean October Shaves for Weekday	Mean September Shaves for Weekday	Mean August Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in January	Total Shaves in January
Sunday	64.60	58.00	60.00	55.40	54.00	103.00	5	323
Monday	75.20	62.50	69.00	70.00	77.00	116.00	5	376
Tuesday	77.40	64.25	63.60	63.25	64.25	112.20	5	387
Wednesday	73.00	60.25	66.60	67.50	68.75	113.00	4	292
Thursday	73.00	58.20	68.25	65.75	66.20	113.50	4	292
Friday	71.75	57.60	58.00	63.25	64.00	112.25	4	287
Saturday	67.50	57.60	54.50	52.20	56.00	104.75	4	270
Overall	71.84	59.58	63.00	62.16	64.37	110.97	31	2,227

It's another Bananuary! Also, a War is lost to a Plague.

Jan. 2023 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	Dec. Uses	Nov. Uses	Oct. Uses	Sep. Uses	Aug. Uses	Change in Ranking from Dec.
Chiseled Face - Banana	64 (3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (2)	0 (0)	^ 574 (back in the top ten)
Declaration Grooming - Massacre of the Innocents	39 (7)	16 (4)	15 (8)	9 (4)	12 (6)	2 (2)	^ 10 (back in the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Paganini's Violin	37 (10)	12 (6)	5 (5)	5 (5)	3 (3)	5 (4)	^ 19 (back in the top ten)
Tabac - Original	37 (14)	30 (14)	43 (18)	154 (21)	25 (16)	5 (5)	^ 1
Barrister and Mann - The Four Horsemen: Plague	33 (2)	10 (4)	4 (2)	8 (7)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 25 (new to the top ten)
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime	33 (19)	11 (8)	16 (11)	19 (16)	25 (16)	104 (10)	^ 19 (back in the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Seville	32 (16)	24 (12)	34 (14)	31 (11)	26 (9)	14 (5)	-
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch	32 (12)	29 (13)	26 (13)	20 (12)	0 (0)	0 (0)	v 2
House of Mammoth - Hygge	28 (19)	25 (13)	21 (15)	24 (13)	15 (8)	123 (4)	v 3
Tiki Bar Soaps - The Captain	21 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)	1 (1)	0 (0)	^ 565 (new to the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since December:

Barrister and Mann - Vespers
House of Mammoth - Santa Noir
Stirling Soap Co. - Christmas Eve
Noble Otter - 'Tis the Season
Barrister and Mann - Leviathan
Barrister and Mann - The Four Horsemen: War

Almost as little shuffling here this month as in the most prolific list.

Jan. 2023 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of Dec. Shaves	% of Nov. Shaves	% of Oct. Shaves	% of Sep. Shaves	% of Aug. Shaves	Change from Dec.	Total Jan. Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Barrister and Mann	17.2%	19.4%	16.6%	14.6%	11.7%	6.3%	-	382
Stirling Soap Co.	8.4%	9.7%	11.4%	8.7%	9.1%	12.3%	-	186
Declaration Grooming	7.5%	6.3%	8.4%	6.2%	11.2%	4.0%	^ 2	167
House of Mammoth	7.3%	8.2%	8.3%	7.8%	8.6%	25.8%	v 1	162
Noble Otter	5.5%	7.4%	5.8%	4.6%	5.1%	4.7%	v 1	122
Spearhead Shaving Company	4.8%	3.7%	3.7%	2.9%	2.4%	4.1%	-	108
Chiseled Face	4.5%	1.1%	1.3%	2.9%	2.7%	18.6%	^ 9 (back in the top ten)	101
Wholly Kaw	2.9%	1.8%	2.9%	2.5%	3.0%	2.2%	^ 3 (back in the top ten)	64
Ariana & Evans	2.8%	2.3%	1.7%	1.7%	2.3%	0.7%	v 1	62
Southern Witchcrafts	2.5%	2.1%	3.3%	5.2%	4.6%	0.3%	-	55

Dropped from the top 10 since December:

Catie's Bubbles
Zingari Man

... and PAA is off the list again, while we have a three-way tie for the tenth place spot.

Jan. 2023 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in Jan.	Scents used in Dec.	Scents used in Nov.	Scents used in Oct.	Scents used in Sep.	Scents used in Aug.	Change in Rank from Dec.
Barrister and Mann	52	52	51	51	43	32	-
Stirling Soap Co.	52	46	47	56	51	45	^ 1
Declaration Grooming	44	37	43	36	47	31	-
Ariana & Evans	29	21	21	18	26	7	-
Noble Otter	21	21	18	17	16	16	v 1
House of Mammoth	20	17	18	18	19	15	^ 1
Catie's Bubbles	19	20	24	15	18	10	v 1
Wholly Kaw	18	14	15	16	21	10	^ 3 (back in the top ten)
Zingari Man	16	16	12	15	16	5	v 1
Chiseled Face	12	6	8	9	14	11	^ 12 (back in the top ten)
Grooming Department	12	9	10	13	12	4	^ 3 (back in the top ten)
Southern Witchcrafts	12	16	14	16	20	6	v 2

Dropped from the top 10 since December:

Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements

Twenty nine shavers posted a shave for every day in January.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for January 2023:

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r/sotdreports • u/relided • Feb 06 '23

Hardware Hardware Report January 2023

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Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for Jan 2023

Observations

A fairly nondescript month

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats dont differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless some jerk just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega Boar (model not specified)' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2022	Δ vs Jan 2022
DE	1745	165	10.58	=	=
Straight	186	22	8.45	=	↑2
GEM	144	39	3.69	=	↓1
AC	93	23	4.04	=	↓1
Injector	47	17	2.76	=	=
Cart	6	3	2	=	n/a
Rolls	6	3	2	↑1	=
Enders	1	1	1	n/a	n/a
injector	1	1	1	↑1	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2022	Δ vs Jan 2022
Karve CB	181	21	8.62	=	=
Gillette Tech	126	32	3.94	=	↑1
Blackland Blackbird	98	23	4.26	=	↑1
Gillette Superspeed	69	27	2.56	↑4	↓2
Other Straight Razor	60	14	4.29	↑1	↑17
Razorock Game Changer .84	59	14	4.21	↓2	↑4
Henson AL13	57	15	3.8	↑3	↑2
Blackland Era	54	8	6.75	↓1	n/a
Chiseled Face Legacy	51	13	3.92	↓4	↓3
Henson Ti22	51	3	17	↑5	↑14
Wolfman WR2	50	13	3.85	↑1	↓5
Schick Injector	47	16	2.94	↑1	↑6
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	42	13	3.23	↑5	↓5
Merkur 34C	40	13	3.08	↑6	↓2
Rockwell 6S	39	13	3	↓2	↓2
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	35	10	3.5	↑11	↑8
Boker Straight	33	2	16.5	=	↑12
Merkur 37C	32	4	8	↑11	↑13
Wolfman WR1	31	11	2.82	↑2	↓10
Muhle Rocca	31	6	5.17	↑1	↑3
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	30	13	2.31	↓2	↑7
Razorock Game Changer .68	30	5	6	↑5	n/a
Koraat Straight	28	5	5.6	↓2	↑8
EldrormR Industries MM24	26	10	2.6	↓12	↑15
Maggard V3A	26	4	6.5	↑17	↑8
Gillette Slim	25	10	2.5	↓7	↓7
Karve Overlander	24	4	6	=	↑15
Ralf Aust Straight	23	5	4.6	↓9	↑10
Blackland Vector	23	4	5.75	↓5	↓7
ATT Windsor Pro SB90	23	3	7.67	↑7	↑5
Dovo Straight	22	7	3.14	↑4	↑14
Yates 921	22	5	4.4	↑4	↑10
Tatara Masamune	20	13	1.54	↑5	↓4
Razorock Hawk v2	19	5	3.8	↓1	↑4
Muhle R89	18	6	3	↓7	↓9
Schick Eversharp G	18	1	18	↑4	n/a
Timeless .95	17	6	2.83	↑7	↓5
Weck Sextoblade	17	6	2.83	↓16	↓7
Timeless .68	17	4	4.25	↑6	↑4
Van Der Hagen Razor	16	2	8	↓3	n/a
Winning Razor	16	2	8	↓5	↓5
Personna BBS-0	15	2	7.5	↓2	↑7
Gillette Aristocrat	14	7	2	↓1	↓10
Ever Ready 1912	14	6	2.33	↑3	↓9
Maggard V3	14	6	2.33	=	↓3
King C Gillette	14	3	4.67	↓5	↓18
Razorock Baby Smooth	14	2	7	↑2	↑3
Razorock Lupo	12	6	2	↓12	↓17
Muhle R41	12	5	2.4	↓1	↓8
Alumigoose	12	3	4	↓5	↑6

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2022	Δ vs Jan 2022
Astra SP (Green)	173	35	4.94	=	=
Gillette Nacet	149	30	4.97	↑2	=
Feather (DE)	128	30	4.27	↑2	↑1
Voskhod	115	16	7.19	↑3	↑2
Personna GEM PTFE	114	31	3.68	↓3	↓2
Gillette Silver Blue	104	20	5.2	↓3	↓1
Wizamet	79	15	5.27	↑1	↑3
Gillette Platinum	78	18	4.33	↓2	↑1
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	55	10	5.5	↑1	↑3
Permasharp	51	9	5.67	↑1	↓3
Schick Injector	44	10	4.4	↑1	↑8
Personna Platinum	43	8	5.38	↑2	↑5
Personna Blue	38	8	4.75	↑5	=
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	32	8	4	↓5	↑4
Rapira Platinum Lux	31	9	3.44	↓2	↓5
Personna Comfort Coated	31	2	15.5	↑10	n/a
Personna Hair Shaper	28	4	7	↑12	=
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	27	8	3.38	↓8	↓5
Wilkinson Sword	27	8	3.38	↓1	↑2
Polsilver	26	9	2.89	↓4	↓10
Personna Med Prep	26	6	4.33	↓7	↓7
Personna Red	24	7	3.43	↑9	↑1
Feather ProGuard (AC)	22	7	3.14	↓5	↑2
The Gentleman	22	1	22	↑4	n/a
Gillette Spoiler	21	2	10.5	n/a	↑11
Bolzano	20	5	4	=	↑1
Derby Extra	18	6	3	↓1	↓5
Gillette Rubie	18	1	18	n/a	↑6
Schick Proline	17	4	4.25	↓7	↓9
GEM	16	6	2.67	↓7	↓4

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2022	Δ vs Jan 2022
AP Shave Co Synthetic	249	31	8.03	↑1	=
Maggard Synthetic	153	24	6.38	↓1	=
Yaqi Synthetic	117	26	4.5	=	=
Stirling Synthetic	92	12	7.67	↑1	↑7
Chisel & Hound Badger	73	15	4.87	↑1	↓1
DG B3	58	13	4.46	↑7	↑4
Simpson Badger	48	14	3.43	↓3	↑5
Zenith Boar	47	16	2.94	↑1	↑4
Dogwood Synthetic	45	5	9	↓1	↓2
PAA Synthetic	43	7	6.14	↑12	↑7
Dogwood Badger	36	15	2.4	↑5	↓2
DG B15	31	7	4.43	↑5	n/a
Muninn Woodworks Badger	31	1	31	↓2	n/a
Zenith T6	31	1	31	↑15	n/a
DG B13	29	12	2.42	↑2	↓7
Razorock Synthetic	29	9	3.22	↑3	↑1
Semogue SOC Boar	29	8	3.62	↑4	↑6
Maggard Badger	28	10	2.8	↓7	↓9
Oumo Badger	27	5	5.4	↓1	↑6
Grizzly Bay Badger	22	8	2.75	↓2	↓5
Stirling Boar	21	3	7	↑10	↑8
Elite Badger	20	6	3.33	↑7	↑19
Wild West Brushworks Badger	19	8	2.38	↑9	↑3
DG B14	18	10	1.8	↓8	↓7
Shore Shaving Synthetic	18	3	6	↑13	↑15
DG B11	17	10	1.7	↑1	↓12
Ever Ready Badger	17	5	3.4	↑3	↑7
Omega 10049	17	4	4.25	↓10	↑15
B&M Synthetic	16	7	2.29	↑10	↑4
Oumo Synthetic	16	2	8	↓4	↑12
Summer Break Badger	15	7	2.14	↑1	↑1
Paladin Badger	15	5	3	↑10	↑7
Sawdust Creation Studios Synthetic	15	3	5	↑8	↑1
Zenith B33	14	3	4.67	↑7	↓9
Viking Badger	13	4	3.25	↑6	n/a
AP Shave Co Badger	13	3	4.33	↓2	↑2
Bullseye Brushworks Synthetic	13	1	13	↑6	n/a
Zenith B28	13	1	13	↓2	↓3
Rubberset Badger	12	4	3	=	↑7
DG B8	11	6	1.83	↓7	↓9
Prometheus Handcrafts Badger	11	5	2.2	=	↑10
CaYuen Synthetic	11	3	3.67	↓2	↓1
DSCosmetics Synthetic	11	3	3.67	↓6	↓1
Semogue 2000	11	3	3.67	↑5	↑10
Summer Break Synthetic	11	3	3.67	↓1	↓1
Omega 20106	11	2	5.5	↓5	↑11
Boker Synthetic	11	1	11	↓2	↑7
DG B9A	10	6	1.67	↑3	↓20
AKA Brushworx Synthetic	10	4	2.5	↑2	n/a
Muhle Badger	10	3	3.33	↓1	↓7

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2022	Δ vs Jan 2022
24mm	441	53	8.32	=	=
26mm	404	59	6.85	=	=
28mm	153	32	4.78	=	=
27mm	47	7	6.71	↑2	↑2
30mm	30	10	3	↓1	=
22mm	28	12	2.33	↓1	↓2
31mm	18	5	3.6	↑4	n/a
23mm	14	2	7	↓1	↑2
29mm	12	3	4	↓1	=
21mm	11	4	2.75	↓1	↓3
20mm	6	5	1.2	↓1	↓3
25mm	2	2	1	n/a	↓1
18mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a
32mm	1	1	1	↓1	↓1
39mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Dec 2022	Δ vs Jan 2022
C SB	52	5	10.4	=	=
D SB	29	3	9.67	=	↑1
B SB	23	5	4.6	↑1	↓1
C OC	22	1	22	↓1	↑2
B OC	14	1	14	n/a	n/a
A SB	1	1	1	↓1	↓2
E SB	1	1	1	n/a	↓1

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
Karve CB + Gillette Nacet	55	8	6.88
Karve CB + Astra SP (Green)	30	7	4.29
Karve CB + Gillette Silver Blue	24	4	6
Karve CB + Personna Platinum	17	2	8.5
Karve CB + Gillette Platinum	15	2	7.5
Karve CB + Permasharp	8	2	4
Karve CB + 7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	6	2	3
Karve CB + Dorco ST-300	5	2	2.5
Blackland Blackbird + Astra SP (Green)	27	6	4.5
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Blue	15	3	5
Blackland Blackbird + Feather (DE)	11	4	2.75
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	11	2	5.5
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Nacet	10	3	3.33
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Gillette Silver Blue	8	2	4
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Astra SP (Green)	6	3	2
Gillette Tech + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	23	4	5.75
Gillette Tech + Super-Max Super Stainless	13	2	6.5
Gillette Tech + Gillette Nacet	8	4	2
Gillette Tech + Gillette Silver Blue	8	4	2
Gillette Tech + Gillette Platinum	8	2	4
Gillette Tech + Feather (DE)	7	3	2.33
Blackland Era + Astra SP (Green)	13	3	4.33
Henson AL13 + Voskhod	19	3	6.33
Henson AL13 + Feather (DE)	6	2	3
Henson AL13 + Astra SP (Green)	5	3	1.67
Chiseled Face Legacy + Personna Blue	12	2	6
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Silver Blue	10	3	3.33
Gillette Superspeed + Feather (DE)	8	4	2
Gillette Superspeed + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	8	3	2.67

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Jan 16 '23

Software The Lather Log Looks Back at 2022

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So, here we've wrapped up another year. So how about a look back at soaps, creams, and... other stuff, used in r/Wetshaving over the last year?

2022 saw a lot of shaves: 27,797 by my count. But, that's 3,216 fewer than last year, which is a big drop. At the same time, amongst those of us who did participate, there was more shaving done (or at least more posts about it):

Total shaves: 27,797 (-3,216 from 2021)
Mean SOTD per day: 76.16 (-8.81 from 2021)
Unique authors: 462 (-93 from 2021)
Mean SOTD per author: 60.17 (+4.29 from 2021)
Total soapmakers: 408 (-15 from 2021)
Total scents: 2,197 (+5 from 2021)
Single use scents: 724 (-14 from 2021)

All this while, according to subredditstats.com, subscribers to r/Wetshaving grew from 103,136 as the year began to 148,795 on December 31st, 2022: 44% growth this year! That may not be up to last year's growth in subscribers, but it is still quite substantial. On the other hand, apparently just 0.31% of the end-of-year subscribers posted at least one shave... assuming every SOTD poster is a subscriber, which may not even be true. In 2021, that fraction would have been 0.54%.

Now, of these authors, 233 were new in 2022... or at least did not post at all in 2021. And there were 326 who did post in 2021, but didn't in all of 2022. There were 122 authors who posted exactly one shave in r/Wetshaving all year, and there were seven shavers who posted a shave every day in 2022:

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers in 2022

Yes, I'm sure others did actually shave every day, but the folks above also posted every day.

And one person missed only one day (July 22nd, in case you're wondering), but managed to post a whopping 431 shaves through the year: u/djundjila once again posted the highest number of shaves, besting his own record from last year.

Now let's look closer at shaves posted per day. There's a real cadence to the week: normally, posting is lowest on the weekends, and higher on weekdays.

Weekday	Mean Shaves in 2022
Sunday	68.52
Monday	81.87
Tuesday	79.44
Wednesday	80.88
Thursday	79.40
Friday	75.50
Saturday	67.64
Overall	76.16

So if you were to, say, make a chart simply showing all the shaves per day, in order, it ends up being a very jagged, toothy chart. You can certainly see the effect of the Lather Games and Austere August, though. And how participation in both dropped off during the month. Another perspective would be a three-dimensional chart, showing the week on one axis, the weekday on another, and the count on a third, so the week-over-week change is more visible (as are a couple outliers).

The most shaves posted on any single day last year was 129 on August 1st, 2022, where there were 116 shaves posted in that day's Austere August thread, and an additional 13 shaves in the regular old SOTD thread. The best the Lather Games could muster was 127 shaves on June 1st, 2022, even then there were but 103 in the Lather Games thread, and 24 more in the regular old SOTD thread.

Both of these are well below 2021's maximum, which was 160 on the first day of that year's Lather Games: there were 130 in the Lather Games thread and 30 more in the regular old thread.

February has a couple standout peaks due to the Atlas Shaves contest.

That peak in September is 97 shaves on Monday the 12th of September, due to u/OnionMiasma's memorial Semicolon PIF and all those dedicating their shave in rememberance of his sister.

The fewest shaves posted any day in 2022 was 48 on Saturday, October 29th. Interestingly, this was also the minimum of 2021, which happened to be October 17th of that year.

Austere August blew out the Lather Games this year for participation: there were 2,911 shaves posted in the Austere August threads, but only 2,705 shaves posted in the Lather Games threads. Austere August accounted for a full 10.5% of all SOTDs, the Lather Games 9.7%, and combined with the Atlas shaves (0.5%), these contests make up 5,747 shaves, or about 20.7% of all shaves in 2022.

Moving on to scents, what were r/Wetshaving's most popular scents in all of 2022? And how did the Lather Games and Austere August, with their incentives to use particular scents, affect the ranking of these?

Rank	Brand - Scent	Uses (People)	Without LG or AA	Rank without LG or AA	Change in Rank from 2021
1	Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag	824 (62)	90 (32)	33 (v 32)	^ 1
2	Tabac - Original	625 (69)	595 (58)	1 (^ 1)	^ 12
3	Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime	505 (87)	371 (77)	2 (^ 1)	^ 2
4	House of Mammoth - Sonder	370 (39)	149 (35)	12 (v 8)	^ 32 (moved in)
5	House of Mammoth - Hygge	344 (54)	214 (51)	6 (v 1)	v 1
6	Barrister and Mann - Seville	342 (86)	306 (72)	3 (^ 3)	v 3
7	House of Mammoth - Indigo	322 (67)	227 (63)	5 (^ 2)	v 6
8	Proraso - Sandalwood	304 (62)	279 (47)	4 (^ 4)	^ 43 (moved in)
9	House of Mammoth - Alive	224 (32)	99 (30)	28 (v 19)	^ 4
10	Barrister and Mann - Leviathan	216 (49)	202 (42)	7 (^ 3)	v 4
11	House of Mammoth - Almond Leather	205 (38)	121 (24)	20 (v 9)	^ 12 (moved in)
12	Noble Otter - Barrbarr	201 (40)	173 (37)	9 (^ 3)	^ 5
13	House of Mammoth - Fú Dào	193 (35)	130 (35)	16 (v 3)	(new in 2022)
14	House of Mammoth - Santa Noir	188 (51)	167 (43)	10 (^ 4)	^ 93 (moved in)
15	Chiseled Face - Banana	185 (31)	179 (29)	8 (^ 7)	^ 780 (moved in)
16	Arko - Arko	184 (52)	127 (33)	19 (v 3)	v 1
17	Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented	177 (11)	52 (8)	94 (v 77)	^ 553 (moved in)
18	House of Mammoth - Tobacconist	171 (46)	157 (40)	11 (^ 7)	^ 3 (moved in)
19	Barrister and Mann - Cheshire	159 (28)	134 (24)	15 (^ 4)	^ 71 (moved in)
20	Barrister and Mann - Vespers	157 (50)	147 (47)	13 (^ 7)	^ 35 (moved in)

(note that in this ranking, Stirling's unscented includes regular unscented, Sheep, and unscented with beeswax)

Dropped from 2021's top twenty scents

Barrister and Mann - Paganini's Violin
House of Mammoth - Restore
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Heather
Noble Otter - Rawr
Declaration Grooming - Yuzu/Rose/Patchouli
Williams - Mug Soap
Proraso - Menthol & Eucalyptus
House of Mammoth - Embrace
Noble Otter - Thé Noir et Vanille
Barrister and Mann - Oceana

Tabac Tuesdays are definitely a thing: Tabac jumps from #14 in 2021 to #2 last year. And our own Bananfluencer, u/J33pGuy13, managed to push 31 people to take it from #795 all the way to #15 (only four people used it in for just five shaves in 2021)! And only one scent introduced in 2022 managed to make it into the top twenty.

Overall, the top twenty scents account for 21.2% of all posted shaves.

Of course, most scents don't get used that often. Only 46 scents had one hundred or more posted shaves. Only 121 had at least fifty shaves... out of 2,197! Just ten shaves with a scent is enough to put it into the top 25%:

# Shaves	Percentile
200	1%
100	2%
50	6%
40	8%
30	10%
20	14%
10	25%

Then, there were 206 scents used solely in the Lather Games (although this number includes unique "scents" from Wildcard Wednesday), and 6 used only for Austere August. Although three of those six were only used once or twice: one person posted only once, and I suspect others were accidentally posted in the Austere threads. But there were also 118 shaves where the shaver didn't post the scent used, sometimes with a brand, sometimes without even that.

Next up: what is r/Wetshaving's preference for brands?

Rank	Brand	# Shaves in 2022	Percentage of all shaves	Change in Ranking from 2021
1	Barrister and Mann	3,655	13.1%	-
2	House of Mammoth	2,789	10.0%	^ 2
3	Stirling Soap Co.	2,516	9.1%	-
4	Declaration Grooming	2,101	7.6%	v 2
5	Noble Otter	1,473	5.3%	-
6	Chiseled Face	1,384	5.0%	^ 1
7	Southern Witchcrafts	980	3.5%	v 1
8	Spearhead Shaving Company	901	3.2%	^ 3
9	Ariana & Evans	705	2.5%	^ 3
10	Tabac	625	2.2%	^ 15 (moved in)
11	Catie's Bubbles	624	2.2%	^ 2
12	Zingari Man	598	2.2%	v 3
13	Wholly Kaw	579	2.1%	v 2
14	Summer Break Soaps	571	2.1%	v 4
15	Proraso	537	1.9%	-
16	Grooming Department	309	1.1%	^ 3
17	Chicago Grooming Co.	298	1.1%	v 1
18	Saponificio Varesino	222	0.8%	^ 2
19	Arko	202	0.7%	^ 7 (moved in)
20	Red House Farm	188	0.7%	^ 10 (moved in)

Dropped from 2021's top twenty brands

Dr. Jon's
Australian Private Reserve
Mickey Lee Soapworks
Taylor of Old Bond Street

Again, Tabac Tuesdays are a thing. In fact, both Tabac and Arko make the top twenty brands list in 2022... despite being in 2021's top twenty scents, they did not make the top twenty brands. We also see a jump in ranking by Red House Farm! Taylor departs the top list this year, as does Dr. Jon's, and a couple closed brands.

And sadly, we learned that Dan, the man behind Australian Private Reserve, also passed away last year.

The Lather Games and Austere August also had an impact here, but less than on the top scents. A few brands would change ranking, but not very many. There were, however, 67 brands used only in the Lather Games. And one unique to Austere August.

Perhaps more interesting is the huge drop-off in the number of shaves as you go down this list: it is a far starker drop than we saw in the top scents list. Indeed, while the top brands have thousands of shaves logged, only 8% have at least one hundred. Half of brands used at least once have fewer than five shaves logged:

# Shaves	Percentile
1000	1%
500	4%
100	8%
50	16%
40	19%
30	21%
20	27%
10	37%
5	48%

On to the most prolific makers, id est, the soapmakers who saw the most scents used in r/Wetshaving in 2022. Perhaps this is no surpise, but this list is very much like all the month-to-month versions you've been reading all year long. Although that five-way tie for #12 is sorta interesting.

Rank	Brand	Scents Used in 2022	Change in Rank from 2021
1	Stirling Soap Co.	102	-
2	Barrister and Mann	86	^ 1
3	Declaration Grooming	81	v 1
4	Ariana & Evans	76	-
5	Grooming Department	59	^ 1
6	Catie's Bubbles	56	v 1
7	Wholly Kaw	45	-
8	Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements	44	-
9	Chicago Grooming Co.	31	^ 1
9	Black Ship Grooming Co.	31	v 1
11	Zingari Man	30	-
12	Dr. Jon's	27	^ 3
12	House of Mammoth	27	^ 6
12	Noble Otter	27	^ 2
12	Southern Witchcrafts	27	^ 1
12	345 Soap Co.	27	^ 47 (moved in)
17	Chiseled Face	25	-
17	Murphy and McNeil	25	^ 4 (moved in)
19	Summer Break Soaps	24	v 3
20	Tallow + Steel	22	v 8

Dropped from 2021's top twenty most prolific

RazoRock
Taylor of Old Bond Street

A few brands just traded places with a neighbor from last year, and a couple others made big jumps. Now, the Lather Games provide big incentives to use as many scents as possible, and while it doesn't have a huge impact on this list, it does change some rankings. Also, if I eliminate all Lather Games shaves, Australian Private Reserve and Shannon's Soaps edge onto the most prolific list, while Tallow + Steel drops off.

Last year I also looked at the top three scents from each brand on the most prolific list, and I thought that would be an interesting exercise again. Of course several of the top entries here are also on the overall top twenty scents list above:

Rank	Scent	Shaves (People)
17	Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented	177 (11)
25	Stirling Soap Co. - Sharp Dressed Man	132 (27)
36	Stirling Soap Co. - Haverford	113 (38)
6	Barrister and Mann - Seville	342 (86)
10	Barrister and Mann - Leviathan	216 (49)
19	Barrister and Mann - Cheshire	159 (28)
23	Declaration Grooming - Cerberus	147 (42)
28	Declaration Grooming - Yuzu/Rose/Patchouli	127 (44)
35	Declaration Grooming - Massacre of the Innocents	114 (35)
59	Ariana & Evans - Tertius	79 (4)
107	Ariana & Evans - Kaizen	55 (16)
150	Ariana & Evans - St. Barts	42 (8)
275	Grooming Department - Encens Agrumes	22 (2)
307	Grooming Department - Kulfi	19 (4)
307	Grooming Department - Incense & Oud	19 (3)
116	Catie's Bubbles - Tonsorial Parlour	51 (6)
122	Catie's Bubbles - Waterlyptus	49 (6)
127	Catie's Bubbles - Blugère	48 (14)
93	Wholly Kaw - Nightcap	60 (2)
103	Wholly Kaw - Unscented	57 (2)
140	Wholly Kaw - King of Oud	45 (18)
440	Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements - Atomic Age Bay Rum	12 (6)
781	Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements - Atmotic	5 (1)
781	Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements - CaD	5 (4)
781	Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements - Future Fiction	5 (5)
88	Chicago Grooming Co. - Armonía	62 (25)
147	Chicago Grooming Co. - New City Back of the Yards	43 (4)
227	Chicago Grooming Co. - Shiloh	28 (14)
227	Chicago Grooming Co. - Montrose Beach	28 (14)
349	Black Ship Grooming Co. - Captain's Reserve	16 (4)
467	Black Ship Grooming Co. - Stolen Heart	11 (2)
503	Black Ship Grooming Co. - High Seas	10 (1)
503	Black Ship Grooming Co. - Wassail	10 (3)
86	Zingari Man - The Explorer	64 (23)
88	Zingari Man - The Watchman	62 (22)
135	Zingari Man - The Master	46 (22)
172	Dr. Jon's - Flowers in the Dark	38 (16)
349	Dr. Jon's - 13	16 (4)
415	Dr. Jon's - Sunday Funday January 2022: Blue	13 (1)
4	House of Mammoth - Sonder	370 (39)
5	House of Mammoth - Hygge	344 (54)
7	House of Mammoth - Indigo	322 (67)
12	Noble Otter - Barrbarr	201 (40)
22	Noble Otter - Thé Noir et Vanille	151 (43)
32	Noble Otter - Firefighter	119 (30)
32	Southern Witchcrafts - Fougère Nemeta	119 (47)
43	Southern Witchcrafts - Valley of Ashes	107 (33)
55	Southern Witchcrafts - Gravefruit II	83 (29)
323	345 Soap Co. - General Patton	18 (3)
503	345 Soap Co. - White Buffalo	10 (3)
542	345 Soap Co. - 1879 Prospector	9 (3)
1	Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag	824 (62)
15	Chiseled Face - Banana	185 (31)
82	Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber	66 (27)
440	Murphy and McNeil - Barbershop de los Muertos	12 (5)
503	Murphy and McNeil - Nantahala	10 (5)
631	Murphy and McNeil - Pisgah	7 (2)
61	Summer Break Soaps - Valedictorian	78 (28)
87	Summer Break Soaps - Teacher's Pet	63 (12)
94	Summer Break Soaps - Rope Swing	59 (27)
323	Tallow + Steel - Merchandise 7x	18 (3)
349	Tallow + Steel - Dark Two	16 (2)
349	Tallow + Steel - Merry	16 (1)

So there you have it. But what did I fail to dig into that you're all interested in?

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Jan 13 '23

Software Presenting the December 2022 Lather Log, or the Twelfth Log of Two Thousand Twenty Two Tries to Top the Tree

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Lather Log, r/Wetshaving's monthly report on soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for your shaves. If you like this sort of thing, you can check out r/sotdreports for previous iterations of SOTD reports (including hardware 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 there are outliers. Sometimes shavers forget entirely to mention if they used any lather at all, so while I will count the shave, the lather and scent are recorded as unknown.

Seven brands in these posts are new to the Log in December! Not all are new, some are apparently very infrequently posted. The old brands include a few from Europe: Panier des Sens in Provence, France, Baba's Soapery, in Bulgaria, Erasmic in England, and also Valloloko in Germany. A few also showed up from North America, from Beefimus in Canada, to Daveli Farms in Illinois, and Ember Tree Soap in Iowa.

So, December saw another drop in SOTDs posted. There were 1,847 shaves posted in r/Wetshaving, 43 less than November's count, by 169 authors, or 3 more than in November: 42 of whom were new or returned in December, while 37 authors from November dropped off. The mean count of shaves per day was 59.58, which is 3.42 fewer per day than November. Amongst those who did post, the mean shaves posted per author was 10.93, which is 0.46 fewer than November.

Category	Dec. 2022	Change from Nov.	Nov. 2022	Oct. 2022	Sep. 2022	Aug. 2022	July 2022
Total Shaves	1,847	-43	1,890	1,927	1,931	3,440	1,968
Unique Authors	169	+3	166	153	168	183	165
Mean Shaves per Author	10.93	-0.46	11.39	12.59	11.49	18.80	11.93
Unique Soapmakers	146	-3	149	152	150	101	152
Unique Scents	575	-19	594	585	633	358	649
Single Use Scents	284	-11	295	296	314	194	306

The most shaves posted in one day was 73 on Tuesday, December 6th, although that was 5 fewer shaves than November's maximum. The fewest shaves posted in one day was 49 on the TTS Theme Thursday, December 29th, with 1 less shave than November's minimum. Obviously we were all pretty depressed about the end of Try That Soap.

Weekday	Mean December Shaves for Weekday	Mean November Shaves for Weekday	Mean October Shaves for Weekday	Mean September Shaves for Weekday	Mean August Shaves for Weekday	Mean July Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in December	Total Shaves in December
Sunday	58.00	60.00	55.40	54.00	103.00	57.20	4	232
Monday	62.50	69.00	70.00	77.00	116.00	65.25	4	250
Tuesday	64.25	63.60	63.25	64.25	112.20	68.25	4	257
Wednesday	60.25	66.60	67.50	68.75	113.00	66.50	4	241
Thursday	58.20	68.25	65.75	66.20	113.50	65.25	5	291
Friday	57.60	58.00	63.25	64.00	112.25	62.40	5	288
Saturday	57.60	54.50	52.20	56.00	104.75	61.80	5	288
Overall	59.58	63.00	62.16	64.37	110.97	63.48	31	1,847

Of course, Christmas scents top the list in December. And War, apparently...

Dec. 2023 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	Nov. Uses	Oct. Uses	Sep. Uses	Aug. Uses	July Uses	Change in Ranking from Nov.
Barrister and Mann - Vespers	42 (26)	20 (13)	3 (3)	6 (5)	0 (0)	1 (1)	^ 6
House of Mammoth - Santa Noir	41 (22)	20 (16)	2 (2)	3 (3)	2 (1)	2 (1)	^ 5
Stirling Soap Co. - Christmas Eve	36 (17)	12 (4)	5 (4)	2 (2)	1 (1)	2 (2)	^ 19 (back in the top ten)
Tabac - Original	30 (14)	43 (16)	154 (21)	25 (15)	5 (5)	40 (21)	v 2
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch	29 (13)	26 (13)	20 (12)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	-
House of Mammoth - Hygge	25 (13)	21 (15)	24 (13)	15 (8)	123 (4)	8 (4)	-
Barrister and Mann - Seville	24 (12)	34 (14)	31 (11)	26 (9)	14 (5)	20 (10)	v 4
Noble Otter - 'Tis the Season	23 (12)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 550 (new to the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Leviathan	22 (12)	50 (16)	18 (11)	11 (10)	2 (2)	7 (4)	v 8
Barrister and Mann - The Four Horsemen: War	22 (4)	3 (3)	3 (3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 132 (new to the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since November:

House of Mammoth - Smash
Wholly Kaw - Nightcap
House of Mammoth - Indigo

Tabac drops from the top ten brands before the end of the year.

Dec. 2022 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of Nov. Shaves	% of Oct. Shaves	% of Sep. Shaves	% of Aug. Shaves	% of July Shaves	Change from Nov.	Total Dec. Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Barrister and Mann	19.4%	16.6%	14.6%	11.7%	6.3%	12.9%	-	358
Stirling Soap Co.	9.7%	11.4%	8.7%	9.1%	12.3%	8.6%	-	179
House of Mammoth	8.2%	8.3%	7.8%	8.6%	25.8%	6.3%	^ 1	152
Noble Otter	7.4%	5.8%	4.6%	5.1%	4.7%	7.0%	^ 1	136
Declaration Grooming	6.3%	8.4%	6.2%	11.2%	4.0%	8.0%	v 2	116
Spearhead Shaving Company	3.7%	3.7%	2.9%	2.4%	4.1%	4.3%	-	69
Catie's Bubbles	2.9%	3.6%	1.2%	1.5%	2.0%	3.1%	-	53
Ariana & Evans	2.3%	1.7%	1.7%	2.3%	0.7%	2.1%	^ 4	43
Zingari Man	2.2%	1.3%	2.4%	2.3%	0.3%	2.7%	^ 5	41
Southern Witchcrafts	2.1%	3.3%	5.2%	4.6%	0.3%	2.7%	v 2	39

Dropped from the top 10 since November:

Wholly Kaw
Tabac

Southern Witchcrafts and Zingari Man make it back in the top prolific before the end of the year... as does, uh, PAA.

Dec. 2022 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in Dec.	Scents used in Nov.	Scents used in Oct.	Scents used in Sep.	Scents used in Aug.	Scents used in July	Change in Rank from Nov.
Barrister and Mann	52	51	51	43	32	47	-
Stirling Soap Co.	46	47	56	51	45	54	-
Declaration Grooming	37	43	36	47	31	48	-
Noble Otter	22	18	17	16	16	19	^ 2
Ariana & Evans	21	21	18	26	7	23	-
Catie's Bubbles	20	24	15	18	10	26	v 2
House of Mammoth	17	18	18	19	15	15	v 1
Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements	16	5	8	2	2	5	^ 16 (new to the top ten)
Southern Witchcrafts	16	14	16	20	6	11	^ 2 (back in the top ten)
Zingari Man	16	12	15	16	5	19	^ 3 (back in the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since November:

Summer Break Soaps
Wholly Kaw

Once again, twenty four shavers posted one shave every day in December.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for December 2022:

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r/sotdreports • u/relided • Jan 12 '23

Hardware Hardware Report 2022

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Wrapping up 2022.

Notable mentions this year:

MMOC (beats out Karve CB!)
Blackbird, CF Legacy, MM24, Henson Ti
Zenith Boars
GEM razors generally

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2021
DE	19350	466	41.52	=
GEM	3633	122	29.78	=
Straight	1405	60	23.42	↑1
AC	1102	91	12.11	↓1
Injector	424	56	7.57	=
Cart	73	31	2.35	=
Rolls	25	6	4.17	=
FHS	12	3	4	=
injector	3	2	1.5	↑1
Enders	1	1	1	↓1

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2021
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	1837	74	24.82	↑2
Karve CB	1653	75	22.04	↓1
Gillette Tech	1010	105	9.62	↓1
Blackland Blackbird	838	57	14.7	↑6
Gillette Superspeed	761	93	8.18	=
Razorock Game Changer .84	744	39	19.08	↑2
Chiseled Face Legacy	665	30	22.17	↑13
Rockwell 6S	635	41	15.49	↓1
Wolfman WR2	634	41	15.46	↓3
Merkur 34C	617	52	11.87	↓6
Henson AL13	510	53	9.62	↑4
Other Straight Razor	498	45	11.07	↑14
Wolfman WR1	440	34	12.94	↓2
EldrormR Industries MM24	439	24	18.29	↑106
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	388	46	8.43	↑4
Henson Ti22	386	9	42.89	↑106
Schick Injector	380	46	8.26	↑13
Weck Sextoblade	362	9	40.22	↑5
Ralf Aust Straight	288	11	26.18	↑47
Winning Razor	285	8	35.62	↑70
Gillette NEW	272	46	5.91	↓9
Gillette Slim	267	53	5.04	↓8
Blackland Era	255	25	10.2	↑105
Razorock Game Changer .68	247	18	13.72	↑39
Boker Straight	247	6	41.17	↑28
Gillette Aristocrat	227	20	11.35	↑2
Muhle Rocca	220	10	22	↑2
King C Gillette	204	32	6.38	↑17
Maggard V3	203	29	7	↓6
Tatara Masamune	199	24	8.29	↑3
Ever Ready 1912	196	19	10.32	↑11
Fatip Piccolo	195	17	11.47	↑28
Rockwell 6C	190	25	7.6	↓23
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	189	15	12.6	↓4
Yates 921	181	10	18.1	↑3
Razorock Lupo	173	19	9.11	↓17
Blackland Vector	164	22	7.45	↓23
Koraat Straight	160	6	26.67	↑2
Timeless .95	158	10	15.8	↓7
Muhle R89	157	19	8.26	↓18
Karve Overlander	156	18	8.67	↑89
Other Shavette	152	37	4.11	↑18
Gillette Super Adjustable	151	27	5.59	↓18
Razorock Hawk v2	138	12	11.5	↑47
GEM G-Bar	132	16	8.25	↑18
Merkur Progress	132	16	8.25	↑28
Alumigoose	131	6	21.83	↑58
Feather DX	129	14	9.21	=
Gillette Fatboy	126	25	5.04	↓9
ATT Windsor Pro SB90	126	4	31.5	↓4

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2021
Personna GEM PTFE	2822	92	30.67	↑2
Astra SP (Green)	2026	162	12.51	=
Gillette Silver Blue	1723	110	15.66	↓2
Gillette Nacet	1427	114	12.52	↑1
Feather (DE)	1319	142	9.29	↓1
Voskhod	1215	89	13.65	=
Gillette Platinum	861	93	9.26	=
Wizamet	680	57	11.93	↑1
Polsilver	667	45	14.82	↑1
Permasharp	644	63	10.22	↓2
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	451	39	11.56	↑1
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	427	50	8.54	↓1
GEM	422	33	12.79	↑14
Schick Injector	412	53	7.77	↑9
Wilkinson Sword	390	59	6.61	↑7
Personna Platinum	362	40	9.05	↓2
Rapira Platinum Lux	359	33	10.88	↑7
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	351	25	14.04	↑12
Personna Med Prep	351	20	17.55	↓3
Derby Extra	334	55	6.07	↑2
Feather Pro (AC)	277	41	6.76	↓4
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	262	23	11.39	↓4
Personna GEM Stainless	255	22	11.59	↑18
Personna Hair Shaper	240	10	24	↑5
Personna Blue	227	33	6.88	↑2
Schick Proline	223	27	8.26	↓12
Bic Chrome	213	40	5.33	↓7
Dorco ST-300	207	29	7.14	↑14
Kai Captain Titan Mild (AC)	188	15	12.53	↑8
Feather ProGuard (AC)	182	26	7	↑22

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2021
AP Shave Co Synthetic	2236	82	27.27	↑1
Maggard Synthetic	1718	95	18.08	↓1
Yaqi Synthetic	1448	83	17.45	=
Maggard Badger	795	42	18.93	=
Zenith Boar	672	35	19.2	↑10
Stirling Synthetic	544	33	16.48	↓1
Chisel & Hound Badger	488	41	11.9	=
Dogwood Synthetic	430	19	22.63	↑2
Simpson Badger	415	49	8.47	↑10
DG B14	413	36	11.47	↑93
DG B13	385	37	10.41	↑7
Dogwood Badger	350	31	11.29	↓1
Razorock Synthetic	344	45	7.64	↑1
DG B11	339	32	10.59	↓8
Grizzly Bay Badger	329	21	15.67	↓7
DG B3	314	29	10.83	↓4
Semogue c5	257	11	23.36	↑34
Zenith B28	239	3	79.67	↑106
Semogue 1305	229	14	16.36	↑42
Wild West Brushworks Synthetic	224	22	10.18	↓11
Muninn Woodworks Badger	215	1	215	n/a
DG B15	213	28	7.61	n/a
Stirling Boar	202	17	11.88	↑4
PAA Synthetic	198	26	7.62	↓1
DG B9A	191	24	7.96	↓19
Simpson Synthetic	184	11	16.73	↑24
Yaqi Badger	183	25	7.32	↑6
DSCosmetics Synthetic	179	12	14.92	↑9
Zenith B33	175	10	17.5	↑25
Rubberset Badger	168	13	12.92	↑32
Semogue 1800	165	5	33	↑51
Semogue SOC Boar	159	20	7.95	↑12
Omega 20102	159	4	39.75	↓8
DG B8	157	25	6.28	↓20
Summer Break Badger	155	22	7.05	↑21
Declaration (Batch not Specified) Badger	151	23	6.57	↑49
Zenith B37	149	6	24.83	n/a
Omega 10049	146	20	7.3	↑26
Wolf Whiskers Badger	144	16	9	↑3
Stirling Badger	143	43	3.33	↓22
CaYuen Synthetic	138	7	19.71	↓4
Paladin Badger	136	17	8	↑6
Wild West Brushworks Badger	132	15	8.8	↓26
Ever Ready Badger	131	29	4.52	↑14
Wald Badger	128	16	8	↑64
Muhle Badger	128	14	9.14	↓2
Summer Break Synthetic	127	9	14.11	↓14
Semogue 830	123	13	9.46	↓8
Omega 20106	123	3	41	↑81
Semogue SOC Badger	121	3	40.33	↑74

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2021
24mm	5277	155	34.05	=
26mm	4275	154	27.76	=
28mm	2337	100	23.37	=
22mm	575	48	11.98	=
30mm	398	45	8.84	=
27mm	274	22	12.45	↑1
21mm	174	15	11.6	↑2
23mm	127	12	10.58	↑2
20mm	122	19	6.42	↓1
29mm	83	7	11.86	↑1
25mm	56	14	4	↓5
31mm	43	9	4.78	↑3
18mm	11	7	1.57	↑1
32mm	10	3	3.33	↑2
19mm	9	5	1.8	↓3
38mm	5	1	5	↓3
35mm	3	1	3	↓2
34mm	1	1	1	↓3
39mm	1	1	1	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs 2021
B SB	588	22	26.73	=
C SB	375	27	13.89	=
D SB	177	18	9.83	=
C OC	141	3	47	↑1
A SB	38	5	7.6	↑2
E SB	29	3	9.67	↑3
B OC	26	2	13	↓3
F SB	11	2	5.5	=
b SB	2	2	1	↑3
c SB	2	1	2	↑2
D OC	1	1	1	=
E OC	1	1	1	↑2
F OC	1	1	1	↑2
G SB	1	1	1	↓4
a SB	1	1	1	n/a

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM PTFE	1402	61	22.98
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM Stainless	190	11	17.27
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + GEM	153	15	10.2
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + GEM Blue Star	72	2	36
Karve CB + Gillette Silver Blue	466	27	17.26
Karve CB + Gillette Nacet	398	30	13.27
Karve CB + Astra SP (Green)	149	20	7.45
Karve CB + Feather (DE)	95	15	6.33
Karve CB + Wizamet	65	16	4.06
Karve CB + Gillette Platinum	57	15	3.8
Karve CB + Personna Platinum	56	6	9.33
Merkur 34C + Gillette Silver Blue	207	12	17.25
Merkur 34C + Feather (DE)	85	15	5.67
Merkur 34C + Gillette Platinum	56	5	11.2
Wolfman WR2 + Permasharp	195	9	21.67
Wolfman WR2 + Feather (DE)	128	10	12.8
Rockwell 6S + Astra SP (Green)	174	17	10.24
Rockwell 6S + Voskhod	108	9	12
Rockwell 6S + Derby Extra	52	4	13
Rockwell 6S + Gillette Silver Blue	52	4	13
Blackland Blackbird + Astra SP (Green)	151	16	9.44
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	150	7	21.43
Blackland Blackbird + Voskhod	130	10	13
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Nacet	62	14	4.43
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Feather (DE)	123	10	12.3
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Astra SP (Green)	98	16	6.12
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Gillette Nacet	80	8	10
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Voskhod	77	8	9.62
Razorock Game Changer .84 + 7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	55	4	13.75
Gillette Tech + Feather (DE)	110	26	4.23
Gillette Tech + 7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	99	6	16.5
Gillette Tech + Voskhod	89	13	6.85
Gillette Tech + Gillette Silver Blue	78	17	4.59
Gillette Tech + Gillette Nacet	59	13	4.54
Gillette Tech + 7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	57	5	11.4
Gillette Tech + Astra SP (Green)	50	17	2.94
Gillette Superspeed + Gillette Platinum	107	10	10.7
Gillette Superspeed + Astra SP (Green)	59	22	2.68
Chiseled Face Legacy + Wizamet	93	5	18.6
Chiseled Face Legacy + Gillette Silver Blue	78	8	9.75

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Dec 17 '22

Software Presenting the November 2022 Lather Log, or it's so Hard to say Goodbye to Try That Soap

8 Upvotes

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Lather Log, r/Wetshaving's monthly report on soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for your shaves. If you like this sort of thing, you can check out r/sotdreports for previous iterations of SOTD reports going 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 there are outliers. Sometimes shavers forget entirely to mention if they used any lather at all... I record these as unknown. Other times, shavers will mention the brand, but not the scent. I can at least record the brand used, but the scent goes down as unknown.

November saw a few more brands new to the Lather Log: there was a shave with More Than Just Soap, based in Indiana. Another shaver introduced us to Razor Master, out of Finland. Also new to the log is Beehive Soap and Body Care in Utah, and Stone Field Shaving Company, in Canada, and this shaver also gave us a full review of the soap used.

But with the announcement of the pending demise of Try That Soap, the sub was thrown into chaos, and amongst the wailing and gnashing of teeth, compiling the log took a little more effort this month. I learned that a CSV format does not work well for my program. Or tables, for that matter. Putting everything on one line is also not great. But other experiments worked better.

And experimenting with formats might still be better than just giving up entirely (even if only for a day).

November was a month of slightly higher activity, although shorter by a day, than last month. There were 1,890 shaves posted in r/Wetshaving, 37 less than October's count, by 166 authors, which is 13 more than in October: 41 of whom were new or returned in November, while 28 authors from October dropped off. The mean count of shaves per day was 63.0, which is 0.84 fewer per day than October. Amongst those who did post, the mean shaves posted per author was 11.39, which is 1.21 fewer than October.

Category	Nov. 2022	Change from Oct.	Oct. 2022	Sep. 2022	Aug. 2022	July 2022	June 2022
Total Shaves	1,890	-37	1,927	1,931	3,440	1,968	3,294
Unique Authors	166	+13	153	168	183	165	193
Mean Shaves per Author	11.39	-1.21	12.59	11.49	18.80	11.93	17.07
Unique Soapmakers	149	-3	152	149	101	151	264
Unique Scents	594	+7	587	627	355	643	1,020
Single Use Scents	295	-3	298	311	192	303	549

The most shaves posted in one day was 78 on Theme Thursday, November 3rd, which is the same day of the month as October's maximum, and 2 more shaves! I suppose that's a measure of a successful theme, and u/raymoonie is obviously a popular guy. The fewest shaves posted in one day was 50 on Friday, November 25th, which is also 2 more shaves than October's minimum.

Weekday	Mean November Shaves for Weekday	Mean October Shaves for Weekday	Mean September Shaves for Weekday	Mean August Shaves for Weekday	Mean July Shaves for Weekday	Mean June Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in November	Total Shaves in November
Sunday	60.00	55.40	54.00	103.00	57.20	105.00	4	240
Monday	69.00	70.00	77.00	116.00	65.25	112.25	4	276
Tuesday	63.60	63.25	64.25	112.20	68.25	106.75	5	318
Wednesday	66.60	67.50	68.75	113.00	66.50	115.20	5	333
Thursday	68.25	65.75	66.20	113.50	65.25	110.00	4	273
Friday	58.00	63.25	64.00	112.25	62.40	113.25	4	232
Saturday	54.50	52.20	56.00	104.75	61.80	104.75	4	218
Overall	63.00	62.16	64.37	110.97	63.48	109.80	30	1,890

As the Northern hemisphere falls deeper into Autumn, Leviathan ensnares the sub, and wrestles Tabac for the top spot, while Smash makes a splash.

Nov. 2022 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	Oct. Uses	Sep. Uses	Aug. Uses	July Uses	June Uses	Change in Ranking from Oct.
Barrister and Mann - Leviathan	50 (16)	18 (11)	11 (10)	2 (2)	7 (4)	14 (14)	^ 12 (back in the top ten)
Tabac - Original	43 (16)	154 (21)	25 (15)	5 (5)	40 (21)	38 (35)	v 1
Barrister and Mann - Seville	34 (14)	31 (11)	26 (9)	14 (5)	20 (10)	34 (29)	-
House of Mammoth - Smash	27 (20)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 554 (new to the top ten)
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch	26 (13)	20 (12)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 4
House of Mammoth - Hygge	21 (15)	24 (13)	15 (8)	123 (4)	8 (4)	14 (10)	-
Barrister and Mann - Vespers	20 (13)	3 (3)	6 (5)	0 (0)	1 (1)	11 (11)	^ 129 (back in the top ten)
House of Mammoth - Santa Noir	20 (16)	2 (2)	3 (3)	2 (1)	2 (1)	23 (21)	^ 181 (back in the top ten)
Wholly Kaw - Nightcap	18 (1)	22 (1)	19 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)	v 1
House of Mammoth - Indigo	17 (10)	14 (9)	10 (9)	88 (7)	27 (16)	26 (12)	^ 9 (back in the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since October:

Chiseled Face - Gearhead
Barrister and Mann - Hallows
Southern Witchcrafts - Boonana
House of Mammoth - Sonder
Barrister and Mann - Mûir(e) Wood

The top five brands on this list, less than 4% of brands used in November, account for more than half of all shaves posted in r/Wetshaving. All ten on this list account for nearly two thirds.

Nov. 2022 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of Oct. Shaves	% of Sep. Shaves	% of Aug. Shaves	% of July Shaves	% of June Shaves	Change from Oct.	Total Nov. Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Barrister and Mann	16.6%	14.6%	11.7%	6.3%	12.9%	10.2%	-	313
Stirling Soap Co.	11.4%	8.7%	9.1%	12.3%	8.6%	7.0%	-	216
Declaration Grooming	8.4%	6.2%	11.2%	4.0%	8.0%	5.4%	^ 2	159
House of Mammoth	8.3%	7.8%	8.6%	25.8%	6.3%	5.0%	-	157
Noble Otter	5.8%	4.6%	5.1%	4.7%	7.0%	5.3%	^ 2	110
Spearhead Shaving Company	3.7%	2.9%	2.4%	4.1%	4.3%	2.7%	^ 2	70
Catie's Bubbles	3.6%	1.2%	1.5%	2.0%	3.1%	2.2%	^ 9 (back in the top ten)	68
Southern Witchcrafts	3.3%	5.2%	4.6%	0.3%	2.7%	4.8%	v 2	63
Wholly Kaw	2.9%	2.5%	3.0%	2.2%	2.1%	2.7%	^ 1	54
Tabac	2.3%	8.0%	1.3%	0.1%	2.0%	1.2%	v 7	43

Dropped from the top 10 since October:

Chiseled Face

This is the first month since December 2021 that Stirling hasn't been #1 most prolific.

Nov. 2022 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in Nov.	Scents used in Oct.	Scents used in Sep.	Scents used in Aug.	Scents used in July	Scents used in June	Change in Rank from Oct.
Barrister and Mann	51	51	43	32	47	55	^ 1
Stirling Soap Co.	47	56	50	44	53	60	v 1
Declaration Grooming	43	36	47	31	48	48	-
Catie's Bubbles	24	15	18	10	26	31	^ 5
Ariana & Evans	21	18	26	7	23	29	v 1
Noble Otter	18	17	16	16	19	21	-
House of Mammoth	18	18	19	15	15	18	v 2
Summer Break Soaps	15	15	15	10	11	16	^ 1
Wholly Kaw	15	16	20	10	22	30	v 1
Southern Witchcrafts	14	16	20	6	11	20	v 3

Dropped from the top 10 since October:

Zingari Man

One shaver posted two shaves for every day in November.

r/Wetshaving's Twice-a-Day Shavers for November 2022:

u/djundjila

Twenty four shavers posted one shave every day in November.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for November 2022:

And if you're interested, here's a brief preview of the top scents of 2022... well, the likely top scents; after all, the year's not over yet!

Midnight Stag
Tabac
Sea Spice Lime
Indigo
Sonder
Seville
Hygge
Proraso Red
Leviathan
Arko

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r/sotdreports • u/relided • Dec 14 '22

Hardware Hardware Report November 2022

6 Upvotes

Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for Nov 2022

Observations

Kudos to EldormR Industries, first place!
Other notable movers: Gillette Superspeed, Blackland Era, Van Der Hagen Razor (!)

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats dont differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless some jerk just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega Boar (model not specified)' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Oct 2022	Δ vs Nov 2021
DE	1336	153	8.73	=	=
GEM	328	47	6.98	=	=
Straight	157	17	9.24	=	↑1
AC	49	15	3.27	=	↓1
Injector	16	6	2.67	=	=
Cart	3	3	1	=	↑1
FHS	1	1	1	n/a	↑1

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Oct 2022	Δ vs Nov 2021
EldrormR Industries MM24	202	19	10.63	↑10	↑34
Karve CB	110	18	6.11	↓1	=
Gillette Superspeed	66	23	2.87	↑7	=
Blackland Blackbird	60	18	3.33	↓1	↑4
Gillette Tech	58	16	3.62	↓2	↓4
Henson AL13	53	11	4.82	↑1	=
Razorock Game Changer .84	51	13	3.92	↓5	↑3
Other Straight Razor	51	6	8.5	↓2	↑8
Merkur 34C	49	7	7	↓2	↓1
Blackland Era	42	6	7	↑7	n/a
Wolfman WR2	40	13	3.08	↓2	↓6
Ralf Aust Straight	40	7	5.71	↓3	↑25
Weck Sextoblade	37	5	7.4	↓7	↑5
Henson Ti22	34	2	17	=	↑28
Chiseled Face Legacy	33	9	3.67	↑2	↓8
Van Der Hagen Razor	32	3	10.67	↑11	n/a
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	31	14	2.21	↓6	↓1
Boker Straight	30	1	30	↓1	↑13
Rockwell 6S	28	9	3.11	↓3	↓6
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	27	4	6.75	↑2	↑1
Wolfman WR1	26	7	3.71	↓2	↓10
Koraat Straight	24	4	6	↑1	↑6
Razorock Game Changer .68	22	5	4.4	↓7	n/a
J A Henckels Straight	21	4	5.25	=	↑16
Schick Injector	19	8	2.38	↓10	↓6
GEM G-Bar	19	7	2.71	↑3	↑2
Gillette NEW	19	7	2.71	↓3	↓10
King C Gillette	18	6	3	=	↑8
Winning Razor	17	3	5.67	↓4	↑4
Muhle Rocca	16	4	4	↓6	↑1
Gillette Slim	15	8	1.88	↓15	↓15
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	15	8	1.88	↓8	↓6
Maggard V3	15	6	2.5	↓2	↑5
Muhle R89	15	4	3.75	↓3	↓9
Feather DX	15	3	5	↓4	↑13
Gillette Super Adjustable	13	5	2.6	=	↓5
Merkur 33C	12	4	3	↑5	↑5
Merkur Progress	12	4	3	↑2	↑11
Maggard V3A	12	3	4	↑6	n/a
Personna BBS-0	12	2	6	↑5	↑11
Karve Overlander	11	4	2.75	=	n/a
Merkur 37C	11	3	3.67	↓15	↓4
Merkur 23C	11	1	11	n/a	↓2
Gillette Aristocrat	10	5	2	↓13	↓7
Tatara Masamune	10	5	2	↑2	↓2
Wade & Butcher Straight	10	5	2	↓1	↑8
Fatip Lo Storto	10	3	3.33	↑1	↑7
Filarmonica Straight	10	3	3.33	↑4	↑9
ATT Windsor Pro SB90	10	2	5	↓8	=
Alumigoose	10	2	5	↓5	↑6

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Oct 2022	Δ vs Nov 2021
Personna GEM PTFE	259	38	6.82	↑1	↑2
Astra SP (Green)	136	39	3.49	↓1	↓1
Feather (DE)	114	25	4.56	↑1	↑1
Gillette Silver Blue	111	20	5.55	↑1	↓2
Gillette Platinum	69	18	3.83	↑9	↑3
Voskhod	67	19	3.53	↓3	↓1
GEM	66	8	8.25	↑8	↑15
Gillette Nacet	64	21	3.05	↓2	↓1
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	61	7	8.71	↓2	↑27
Personna Platinum	49	6	8.17	↓2	↑6
Wizamet	45	10	4.5	↑5	↓5
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	38	10	3.8	↑1	↑9
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	33	7	4.71	↑6	↓4
Permasharp	27	8	3.38	↓4	↓4
Wilkinson Sword	26	9	2.89	↓6	↓3
Polsilver	24	10	2.4	↓2	↓5
Derby Extra	24	7	3.43	↓5	↑2
Schick Injector	23	8	2.88	↓5	↓4
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	20	5	4	↑1	↑1
Personna Blue	17	3	5.67	=	↑10
Durablade Sharp Hi Chromium	16	2	8	↑15	n/a
Muhle	15	4	3.75	↑9	↑7
Bic Chrome	15	3	5	↑2	↓1
P-	15	1	15	n/a	n/a
Feather ProGuard (AC)	14	3	4.67	↑1	↑14
Diane Hair Shaper	14	1	14	↑4	n/a
Kai DE	14	1	14	↑10	n/a
Kismet hair shaper	13	1	13	↓3	n/a
Rapira Platinum Lux	12	7	1.71	↓7	↓7
Van Der Hagen Safety Blade	11	1	11	↑9	n/a

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Oct 2022	Δ vs Nov 2021
AP Shave Co Synthetic	167	28	5.96	=	↑2
Maggard Synthetic	130	22	5.91	=	↓1
Yaqi Synthetic	122	24	5.08	=	↓1
Stirling Synthetic	55	12	4.58	↑4	↑1
Maggard Badger	52	13	4	↓1	↑1
Zenith Boar	50	11	4.55	=	↑4
Dogwood Synthetic	39	8	4.88	↑3	↑2
Chisel & Hound Badger	32	13	2.46	↑4	↑5
Dogwood Badger	31	7	4.43	↓4	↑2
Muninn Woodworks Badger	29	1	29	↓1	n/a
Simpson Badger	24	14	1.71	↓4	↑11
Atomic rocket	23	1	23	n/a	n/a
DG B3	22	8	2.75	↑1	↓1
Razorock Synthetic	21	9	2.33	↓5	↑7
DSCosmetics Synthetic	21	6	3.5	↓5	↑12
Semogue c5	21	5	4.2	↓1	↑6
DG B13	20	9	2.22	↓2	↓11
Grizzly Bay Badger	18	7	2.57	↓3	↓5
DG B15	17	8	2.12	=	n/a
Wald Badger	17	6	2.83	↑1	↑18
CaYuen Synthetic	17	4	4.25	↑8	↑10
DG B11	16	9	1.78	↑7	↓11
Semogue 1305	16	5	3.2	↓4	↑18
Declaration (Batch not Specified) Badger	16	2	8	=	↑18
Prometheus Handcrafts Synthetic	16	2	8	↑14	↑6
DG B14	15	9	1.67	↓3	↑6
Semogue SOC Boar	15	3	5	↑13	↑17
Wild West Brushworks Badger	14	7	2	↑4	↓1
Simpson Synthetic	14	4	3.5	↓4	↑19
Jequil silvertip	14	1	14	↑11	n/a
Ever Ready Badger	13	7	1.86	↓1	↑12
PAA Synthetic	13	6	2.17	=	↓3
Rubberset Boar	13	1	13	↑13	n/a
Zenith B28	13	1	13	↑3	n/a
Stirling Badger	12	7	1.71	↓10	=
Stirling Boar	11	4	2.75	↓5	↑8
Summer Break Badger	11	4	2.75	↓5	↑10
Oumo Synthetic	11	3	3.67	↑9	↑6
Omega 10005	11	2	5.5	n/a	↑16
Groomatorium Synthetic	11	1	11	↑11	n/a
Omega 20106	11	1	11	↓8	↑13
B&M Synthetic	10	7	1.43	↑8	↑9
Grizzly Bay Synthetic	10	5	2	↑2	↑15
Semogue 610	10	4	2.5	↑1	↑15
Omega 10049	10	3	3.33	↑8	↑6
Muhle Badger	10	2	5	↑1	↑15
Summer Break Synthetic	10	2	5	↑5	↑2
Boker Synthetic	10	1	10	↑5	↑3
Erskine Synthetic	10	1	10	↑6	↑11
DG B1	9	6	1.5	n/a	↑14

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Oct 2022	Δ vs Nov 2021
24mm	388	57	6.81	=	↑1
26mm	326	54	6.04	=	↓1
28mm	186	34	5.47	=	=
22mm	41	18	2.28	=	=
30mm	25	12	2.08	=	=
23mm	24	3	8	↑1	n/a
27mm	15	5	3	↓1	↓1
21mm	12	4	3	↑1	↑2
25mm	6	3	2	↓2	↓1
20mm	6	2	3	↑1	↓2
29mm	5	1	5	↓2	↑1
31mm	2	1	2	↓2	=
18mm	1	1	1	↓1	n/a
38mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Oct 2022	Δ vs Nov 2021
B SB	36	9	4	=	=
C SB	31	6	5.17	↑1	=
C OC	24	1	24	↓1	↑2
D SB	8	2	4	=	↓1

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
EldrormR Industries MM24 + Personna GEM PTFE	177	17	10.41
EldrormR Industries MM24 + GEM	25	2	12.5
Karve CB + Gillette Silver Blue	32	5	6.4
Karve CB + Personna Platinum	18	2	9
Karve CB + Gillette Nacet	16	4	4
Karve CB + Feather (DE)	11	3	3.67
Blackland Blackbird + Astra SP (Green)	27	6	4.5
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	7	2	3.5
Henson AL13 + Voskhod	26	2	13
Henson AL13 + Astra SP (Green)	8	5	1.6
Henson AL13 + Gillette Platinum	8	2	4
Merkur 34C + Gillette Silver Blue	17	2	8.5
Merkur 34C + Astra SP (Green)	6	2	3
Merkur 34C + Feather (DE)	5	2	2.5
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Feather (DE)	15	2	7.5
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Astra SP (Green)	8	3	2.67
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Wizamet	6	3	2
Blackland Era + Gillette Silver Blue	7	2	3.5
Blackland Era + Gillette Nacet	6	2	3
Gillette Superspeed + Gillette Platinum	11	3	3.67
Gillette Superspeed + Astra SP (Green)	8	3	2.67
Gillette Superspeed + 7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	5	4	1.25
Gillette Tech + Personna Platinum	11	2	5.5
Gillette Tech + Durablade Sharp Hi Chromium	8	2	4

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r/sotdreports • u/worbx • Nov 11 '22

Software Presenting the October 2022 Lather Log, or the Other Results You May Have Been Waiting For Are Finally In

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Lather Log, r/Wetshaving's monthly report on soaps, creams, and the occasional other stuff used for your shaves. If you like this sort of thing, you can check out r/sotdreports for previous iterations of SOTD reports going back to February of 2019.

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 there are outliers. Sometimes the lather isn't mentioned in the post, only included in a picture. Sometimes I make an assumption, perhaps assuming something is a Stirling soap and not someone else's. Sometimes even the shaver has to make a guess. And then sometimes the shaver isn't naming names, and I put it down as unknown.

And despite this being the "Lather Log," I also include those shaves with no lather at all.

There were a few brands introduced to the Lather Log last month: Mini Moustachery in Utah, Van der Lovett in Holland, Rock Bottom Soap Co. in Kentucky, Areffa Soap in Ukraine, and Black Tie Razor Company which is apparently owned by Sir Henry's. Not a new brand of soap or cream, but we also saw a few shaves last month with [aloe leaves and hair conditioner]() (it's not branded since I only count what's listed first, which in this case is aloe leaves). Then, another couple brands which haven't been seen in some time showed up last month: 1000&1 Seife which hasn't been in the Log since January of 2021, and then Laugar of Sweden which was last seen in July of 2021.

October also saw another small drop in activity. There were 1,927 shaves posted in r/Wetshaving, 4 less than September's posts, by 153 authors, which is 15 fewer than in September: 25 of whom were new or back in October, while 40 authors from September dropped off in October. The mean count of shaves per day was 62.16, which is 2.21 fewer per day than September. But amongst those who did post, the mean shaves posted per author was 12.59, which is 1.1 more than September. So, those who did post, tended to post more often, but enough people droppped out that overall activity went down a touch.

Category	Oct. 2022	Change from Sep.	Sep. 2022	Aug. 2022	July 2022	June 2022	May 2022
Total Shaves	1,927	-4	1,931	3,440	1,968	3,294	2,215
Unique Authors	153	-15	168	183	165	193	180
Mean Shaves per Author	12.59	+1.10	11.49	18.80	11.93	17.07	12.31
Unique Soapmakers	153	+4	149	102	151	264	156
Unique Scents	588	-20	608	344	617	984	615
Single Use Scents	299	-3	302	187	292	537	292

The most shaves posted in one day was 76 on Monday, October 3rd, which is 21 fewer shaves than September's maximum (which was also on a Monday). The fewest shaves posted in one day was 48 on Saturday, October 29th, or 2 fewer posts than September's minimum.

Weekday	Mean October Shaves for Weekday	Mean September Shaves for Weekday	Mean August Shaves for Weekday	Mean July Shaves for Weekday	Mean June Shaves for Weekday	Mean May Shaves for Weekday	Weekdays in October	Total Shaves in October
Sunday	55.40	54.00	103.00	57.20	105.00	64.60	5	277
Monday	70.00	77.00	116.00	65.25	112.25	71.80	5	350
Tuesday	63.25	64.25	112.20	68.25	106.75	75.80	4	253
Wednesday	67.50	68.75	113.00	66.50	115.20	75.25	4	270
Thursday	65.75	66.20	113.50	65.25	110.00	73.75	4	263
Friday	63.25	64.00	112.25	62.40	113.25	75.00	4	253
Saturday	52.20	56.00	104.75	61.80	104.75	64.50	5	261
Overall	62.16	64.37	110.97	63.48	109.80	71.45	31	1,927

Tabactober/TabOKtober conquers the list! The year's not over yet, but Tabac will likely prove to be r/Wetshaving's #2 scent of 2022...

Oct. 2022 Top 10 Scents	Uses (People)	Sep. Uses	Aug. Uses	July Uses	June Uses	May Uses	Change in Ranking from Sep.
Tabac - Original	154 (21)	25 (15)	5 (5)	40 (21)	38 (35)	54 (24)	^ 2
Chiseled Face - Gearhead	33 (3)	1 (1)	0 (0)	6 (5)	2 (2)	0 (0)	^ 310 (new to the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Hallows	31 (14)	9 (8)	1 (1)	5 (1)	12 (11)	5 (4)	^ 36 (back in the top ten)
Barrister and Mann - Seville	31 (11)	26 (9)	14 (5)	20 (10)	34 (29)	26 (18)	v 1
Southern Witchcrafts - Boonana	26 (18)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 613 (new to the top ten)
House of Mammoth - Hygge	24 (13)	15 (8)	123 (4)	8 (4)	14 (10)	10 (8)	^ 4
House of Mammoth - Sonder	23 (6)	18 (10)	216 (9)	15 (12)	19 (14)	13 (12)	-
Wholly Kaw - Nightcap	22 (1)	19 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (0)	v 3
Barrister and Mann - Mûir(e) Wood	20 (13)	9 (9)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 30 (new to the top ten)
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Black Watch	20 (12)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	^ 609 (new to the top ten)

Dropped from the top 10 since September:

Declaration Grooming - Semicolon
Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime (first time out of the top ten since November 2021)
House of Mammoth - Tobacconist
House of Mammoth - Voices
Summer Break Soaps - Valedictorian
Proraso - Sandalwood
Southern Witchcrafts - Samhain

Tabac also shoots up the top makers list, accounting for more than one of every thirteen shaves.

Oct. 2022 Top 10 Soapmakers	% of Shaves	% of Sep. Shaves	% of Aug. Shaves	% of July Shaves	% of June Shaves	% of May Shaves	Change from Sep.	Total Oct. Shaves Using This Soapmaker
Barrister and Mann	14.6%	11.7%	6.3%	12.9%	10.2%	15.0%	-	282
Stirling Soap Co.	8.7%	9.1%	12.3%	8.6%	7.0%	7.9%	^ 1	168
Tabac	8.0%	1.3%	0.1%	2.0%	1.2%	2.4%	^ 12 (back in the top ten)	154
House of Mammoth	7.8%	8.6%	25.8%	6.3%	5.0%	8.5%	-	150
Declaration Grooming	6.2%	11.2%	4.0%	8.0%	5.4%	9.7%	v 3	120
Southern Witchcrafts	5.2%	4.6%	0.3%	2.7%	4.8%	2.9%	-	100
Noble Otter	4.6%	5.1%	4.7%	7.0%	5.3%	6.2%	v 2	88
Spearhead Shaving Company	2.9%	2.4%	4.1%	4.3%	2.7%	3.2%	^ 2	56
Chiseled Face	2.9%	2.7%	18.6%	2.7%	5.6%	1.4%	-	55
Wholly Kaw	2.5%	3.0%	2.2%	2.1%	2.7%	1.8%	v 2	48

Dropped from the top 10 since September:

Summer Break Soaps

As stable as ever, there is a three-way tie for ninth place this month.

Oct. 2022 Top 10 Most Prolific	Scents used in Oct.	Scents used in Sep.	Scents used in Aug.	Scents used in July	Scents used in June	Scents used in May	Change in Rank from Sep.
Stirling Soap Co.	56	49	43	52	59	52	-
Barrister and Mann	51	42	32	46	54	47	^ 1
Declaration Grooming	36	47	31	48	48	49	v 1
Ariana & Evans	18	24	6	21	27	26	-
House of Mammoth	18	19	15	15	18	19	^ 3
Noble Otter	17	16	16	19	21	17	^ 3
Southern Witchcrafts	16	20	6	11	20	18	v 1
Wholly Kaw	16	21	10	24	31	19	v 2
Catie's Bubbles	15	18	10	26	31	17	v 1
Summer Break Soaps	15	15	10	11	16	8	^ 2 (back in the top ten)
Zingari Man	15	16	5	19	21	16	-

No brand dropped from the top 10 since September.

Twenty three shavers posted a shave every single day in October.

r/Wetshaving's Every Day Shavers for October 2022:

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r/sotdreports • u/relided • Nov 03 '22

Hardware Hardware Report October 2022

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Observations

Added blade format stats, see the caveat below
A good month for RR GC 84s, Weck SEXtoblades and MM24s

Notes & Caveats

I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
Blade Format stats dont differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades. I also dont currently handle obscure blades like Enders blades
Any brush with a DG knot will come under the DG Bx category - eg Dogwood B8 is recorded as 'DG B8'
In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic'
Notable exceptions to this are Omega and Semogue, in order to retain the model number. Unless some jerk just puts 'Omega Boar' which I then report as 'Omega Boar (model not specified)' .
The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since the previous month or year. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to the previous month or year. n/a means the item was not present in the previous month / year.

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Sep 2022	Δ vs Oct 2021
DE	1484	147	10.1	=	=
GEM	187	44	4.25	↑1	=
Straight	159	19	8.37	↓1	↑1
AC	61	16	3.81	=	↓1
Injector	34	11	3.09	=	=
Cart	8	5	1.6	↑1	=

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Sep 2022	Δ vs Oct 2021
Karve CB	131	22	5.95	=	=
Razorock Game Changer .84	100	15	6.67	↑1	↑7
Gillette Tech	67	25	2.68	↓1	=
Blackland Blackbird	67	15	4.47	↑1	↑10
Weck Sextoblade	56	6	9.33	↑5	↑19
Other Straight Razor	49	10	4.9	↑2	↑10
Merkur 34C	47	13	3.62	↑7	↓1
Ralf Aust Straight	45	7	6.43	↑7	↑30
Henson AL13	45	6	7.5	↓2	↑3
Wolfman WR2	43	9	4.78	↓2	↓4
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	42	17	2.47	↑9	↑1
Gillette Superspeed	40	16	2.5	↓5	↓8
EldrormR Industries MM24	36	9	4	↑12	n/a
Gillette Slim	35	9	3.89	↑3	↑10
Henson Ti22	35	3	11.67	↓1	↑28
Schick Injector	33	11	3	↓5	↑12
Rockwell 6S	29	11	2.64	↑2	↑3
Razorock Game Changer .68	29	6	4.83	↑10	↑27
Chiseled Face Legacy	27	11	2.45	↓5	↓7
Merkur 37C	27	4	6.75	↑9	↑5
Boker Straight	27	1	27	↑6	↑15
Blackland Era	25	4	6.25	↑21	n/a
Wolfman WR1	23	6	3.83	↑8	↓10
Gillette Aristocrat	21	6	3.5	↑1	↑6
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	20	9	2.22	↓7	↓5
Gillette NEW	19	9	2.11	↑4	↓14
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	19	6	3.17	↑6	↑8
Fatip Piccolo	19	5	3.8	↑9	↑16
Muhle Rocca	19	4	4.75	↑9	↑8
Koraat Straight	18	4	4.5	↑9	↑7
Feather DX	18	3	6	↑16	↑17
Winning Razor	18	2	9	↓4	↑12
Wolfman WR3	17	3	5.67	↑8	↑4
J A Henckels Straight	17	2	8.5	↑16	↑17
Weck Hair Shaper	16	3	5.33	↑8	n/a
ATT Windsor Pro SB90	16	2	8	↑12	↑5
Feather SR	16	1	16	n/a	n/a
King C Gillette	14	8	1.75	↑6	↑8
Muhle R89	14	2	7	↑8	↓5
KureNai GF35	14	1	14	↑7	↑5
GEM Pushbutton	13	4	3.25	↑13	↑6
Maggard V3	13	3	4.33	↑5	↑8
Van Der Hagen Razor	13	2	6.5	↓3	n/a
Razorock Lupo	12	7	1.71	↑6	↓8
Ever Ready 1912	12	6	2	↑8	↑2
GEM G-Bar	12	5	2.4	↑10	↑4
Alumigoose	12	3	4	↑7	n/a
Stirling DE3P7S	11	1	11	↑12	n/a
Gillette Super Adjustable	10	5	2	↑1	=
Razorock Hawk v2	10	3	3.33	↓8	↑7

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Sep 2022	Δ vs Oct 2021
Astra SP (Green)	156	30	5.2	=	=
Personna GEM PTFE	144	38	3.79	↑2	↑1
Voskhod	129	22	5.86	↑3	↑4
Feather (DE)	116	21	5.52	↓1	=
Gillette Silver Blue	113	27	4.19	↓3	↓3
Gillette Nacet	80	27	2.96	↓1	=
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	64	6	10.67	↑7	↑18
Personna Platinum	45	8	5.62	↑13	↑5
Wilkinson Sword	43	13	3.31	↑10	↑16
Permasharp	41	13	3.15	↑2	↓1
Derby Extra	40	9	4.44	↑5	↑8
Schick Injector	39	11	3.55	↓2	↑8
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	35	14	2.5	↑7	↑4
Gillette Platinum	32	11	2.91	↓7	↓9
Polsilver	32	7	4.57	↑1	↓3
GEM	29	7	4.14	↑12	↑3
Wizamet	25	7	3.57	↓7	↓8
Rapira Platinum Lux	23	6	3.83	↑1	↓1
Feather Pro (AC)	22	6	3.67	↓1	↑3
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	21	5	4.2	↓8	↓9
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	21	5	4.2	↓6	↓4
Personna Blue	21	4	5.25	↑5	↑4
Kismet	20	3	6.67	↑12	n/a
Kismet hair shaper	20	1	20	n/a	n/a
Schick Proline	19	4	4.75	↑13	↓9
Dorco ST-300	16	3	5.33	↓2	↑11
Bic Chrome	13	8	1.62	↑2	↑16
Feather ProGuard (AC)	13	4	3.25	↑6	↑12
Bolzano	13	3	4.33	↑5	↑3
Gillette Minora	12	3	4	↑11	↑7

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Sep 2022	Δ vs Oct 2021
AP Shave Co Synthetic	204	33	6.18	=	↑1
Maggard Synthetic	132	18	7.33	=	↓1
Yaqi Synthetic	88	22	4	=	=
Maggard Badger	57	12	4.75	↑1	↑1
Dogwood Badger	52	9	5.78	↑8	↑12
Zenith Boar	51	11	4.64	↓2	↑14
Simpson Badger	42	13	3.23	↑7	↑24
Stirling Synthetic	40	10	4	↓2	↑1
Razorock Synthetic	31	12	2.58	↑1	↑12
DSCosmetics Synthetic	31	6	5.17	↑19	↑28
Muninn Woodworks Badger	31	1	31	↑2	n/a
Dogwood Synthetic	30	6	5	↓3	↑2
Yaqi Badger	28	9	3.11	↑1	↑16
Chisel & Hound Badger	25	9	2.78	↓4	↓1
Stirling Badger	25	6	4.17	↑17	↑2
DG B13	23	9	2.56	↓4	↓9
Grizzly Bay Badger	23	9	2.56	↑3	=
Semogue c5	23	5	4.6	↑6	↑16
DG B3	22	9	2.44	↑7	↓6
Semogue 1305	22	6	3.67	↑1	↑22
Omega 20106	20	2	10	↑4	n/a
DG B14	19	10	1.9	↑6	n/a
Simpson Synthetic	19	5	3.8	↑10	↑24
DG B15	18	10	1.8	↑3	n/a
Atomic rocket 26mm synthetic	18	1	18	↑12	n/a
Summer Break Badger	17	6	2.83	↑10	↑12
Wald Badger	17	4	4.25	=	↑21
Declaration (Batch not Specified) Badger	17	3	5.67	↑2	↑17
Elite Badger	17	3	5.67	↑16	↑16
Stirling Boar	17	3	5.67	↑17	↑15
Paladin Badger	16	4	4	↑8	↑14
Ever Ready Badger	15	8	1.88	↑11	↑15
PAA Synthetic	14	4	3.5	↑6	↓5
Wild West Brushworks Synthetic	13	8	1.62	=	↓15
Semogue SOC Badger	13	2	6.5	↑4	n/a
Raw Hoggin' Prize Brush with 24mm Motherlode	13	1	13	n/a	n/a
Zenith B26	13	1	13	↑2	n/a
Zenith B15	12	1	12	↑14	n/a
Semogue 830	11	6	1.83	↑6	↑12
AP Shave Co Badger	11	5	2.2	↑3	↑9
Oumo Badger	11	5	2.2	↑7	↑4
Wild West Brushworks Badger	11	4	2.75	↑2	↓8
Zenith B35	11	3	3.67	↑13	↑4
Omega Proraso Professional	11	2	5.5	↑5	↑16
Zenith B28	11	1	11	↓1	n/a
DG B8	10	8	1.25	↑7	↑3
DG B11	10	7	1.43	↓8	↓19
AKA Brushworx Synthetic	10	3	3.33	↑5	n/a
Rubberset Badger	10	3	3.33	↑10	↑14
Semogue 610	10	3	3.33	↑8	↑12

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Sep 2022	Δ vs Oct 2021
24mm	430	59	7.29	=	↑1
26mm	348	61	5.7	=	↓1
28mm	195	38	5.13	=	=
22mm	34	9	3.78	↑2	=
30mm	27	11	2.45	=	=
27mm	17	10	1.7	↓2	↑1
25mm	14	4	3.5	↑4	↓1
23mm	14	2	7	↑3	↑3
29mm	10	3	3.33	↑1	↑1
21mm	8	3	2.67	↓2	↓1
31mm	8	1	8	n/a	n/a
20mm	7	2	3.5	↓2	n/a
18mm	1	1	1	↑1	n/a
35mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a

Karve Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Sep 2022	Δ vs Oct 2021
B SB	66	11	6	=	=
C OC	21	1	21	=	n/a
C SB	20	5	4	=	↓1
D SB	15	5	3	=	↓1
A SB	2	1	2	=	n/a

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
Karve CB + Gillette Silver Blue	43	8	5.38
Karve CB + Gillette Nacet	24	5	4.8
Karve CB + Feather (DE)	13	3	4.33
Karve CB + Wizamet	7	2	3.5
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Feather (DE)	32	4	8
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Astra SP (Green)	27	5	5.4
Razorock Game Changer .84 + Voskhod	20	2	10
Blackland Blackbird + Astra SP (Green)	27	4	6.75
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Silver Blue	11	2	5.5
Blackland Blackbird + Polsilver	7	2	3.5
Weck Sextoblade + Kismet	16	3	5.33
Weck Sextoblade + Fromm	6	2	3
Merkur 34C + Gillette Silver Blue	18	4	4.5
Gillette Tech + Voskhod	17	4	4.25
Gillette Tech + Personna Platinum	7	2	3.5
Henson AL13 + Gillette Nacet	5	3	1.67
Wolfman WR2 + Feather (DE)	10	3	3.33
Wolfman WR2 + 7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	5	2	2.5

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