Maybe you haven't noticed yet- but straight razor shavers are tinkerers and experimenters. We are hands on all the way. We try all kinds of hones, strops, soaps, creams, scuttles, pre and post treatments and techniques involving them. We restore razors and customize scales using different buffing compounds and materials and techniques.
Uberlather and mixing scents is just in keeping with the hands on nature of the members here. With every experiment we move ourselves a little closer to perfection - which of course we will never achieve :)