Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - December 06, 2023
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 11 months agoYes, in both Ishtar and Marduk - and that’s why they changed most of their soaps to hard soap, with the rest going into glass containers (which are outrageously priced)
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Thanks, I had no idea and this is good to know. I’m lucky then that my Don Josè is still fine. Maybe I should play it safe and switch to bowl lathering it to avoid feeding the reaction with moisture.
The hard soap is actually quite nice, I enjoy the Verbena Toscana one a lot.
I only bowl lathered, and still got the reaction (I thought it was stronger with Marduk, but maybe only because it is white, and it is more visible.
It’s probably the clay reacting with the aluminium. The older soaps don’t have clay iirc, so they wouldn’t have that issue.
For Ishtar,. maybe, but there doesn’t seem to be clay in Marduk. And if it was an issue with clay, O don’t know why they would have changed most of their soaps to a hard soap recipe.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 11 months ago
Oh damn, you weren’t kidding about outrageous prices!
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RIP AYLM Thrill
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 11 months ago
To be fair, they increased also the tub size (from 150 to 200ml) - but they matched the 33% increase in size with a 50% increase in price.
As much as I want to like their Babylonian gate themed soaps (they released a new one, Urash, recently), between issues of evaporated scent, latherability and €€€, it’s become hard to be a AYLM fanboy
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 11 months ago
Isn’t it more like a 100% increase? I have some memory of passing less than €30 for a tin a year or so so.
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PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 11 months ago
That depends on the soap - Marduk & Ishtar were always more expensive, but not on that level (I believe I paid 35 for Ishtar and 38 for Marduk in the glorious days before inflation)