Grooming Dept Amare 

Grooming Dept (www.groomingde...) continues to push the boundaries of lather performance and luxury lather. Mohammad is the owner/operator and is an absolute soap genius. He uses unique and innovative ingredients to arrive at luxurious lather qualities. In addition to purchasing direct from Grooming Dept, they can also be purchased from West Coast Shaving (www.westcoasts...) and Italian Barber (www.italianbar....
Amare is a tropical scent featuring notes of: Fruits, Coconut, Spices, Florals, Vetiver, Musk Ambrette, Sandalwood, Oakmoss, Woodsy notes, and vanilla. The overall fragrance opens mildly fruity and nutty before a smooth blend of earth tones brings a complexity and sophistication to the scent. Mrs. Ruds loves this scent for any occasion short of date night. She finds it appealing but short of sexy. Strength of scent is mid, both off the tub and once lathered. Try That Soap (trythatsoap.com/) recommends as a similar scent profile.
Amare is offered in the Karios tallow base. The listed ingredients are: Water, Stearic Acid, Beef Tallow, Castor Oil, Palmitic Acid, Avocado Oil, Glycerin, Cupuacu Butter, Shea Butter, Safflower Oil, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Betaine, IsoStearic Acid, Whey Protein, Goat Milk, Jojoba Oil, Lanolin, Colloidal Oatmeal, Mango Butter, Linoleic Acid, Coconut Milk, Ethylhexyl Olivate, Hydrogenated Olive Oil, Allantoin, Sodium Lactate, Sunflower Lecithin, Caprlyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Gluconate, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Tocopherols, Silk peptides. The soap base is mid firm and loads mindlessly easy into your brush of choice, regardless of fiber type. The base is thirsty, but not extremely thirsty. It is intuitive to dial in and work with. When dialed in, the resulting lather is similar in consistency to cold sour cream. Primary and residual slickness are elite, allowing the razor to glide along unimpeded. Post shave is where this base shines though, the post shave is elite and among the most luxurious and nourishing that I’ve come across. Given the pure luxury experience and metrics, Grooming Dept Karios tallow receives a ShaveScore of 102, the highest ShaveScore to date. For similar performance in a base, I suggest Ariana & Evans.
Disclosure: All reviews and impressions must state how the product was acquired, whether it be free, sponsored, promotional, purchased, or otherwise.
Soap - Grooming Dept Amare (promotional gift)
Brush - Lutin Brushworks (gift)
Razor - Wade & Butcher “Buffalo” (gift)
Post - Stirling Soap Co. South Padre (purchased)
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