I am trying to gather information to help my soon to be husbend get started with his first straight razer. So far i have gotten him a shaving set; that came with a mug, brush and soap; and a razer. i know i still need to get a strop, but entill then he is useing the shaving set with a double edge razor. The problem is, we dont know the first step of how to really use it properly. I got a link about lather in the chat room but it kinda confused me.

Do you need a lather mug and a seperate container for the soap or can you just drop the entire thing of soap into the mug, and use it that way?

Where do we start to get this kind of information? I got "Lynn Abrams World of straight Razor Shaving" for him but it dosent really cover this area.

CAN ANYONE HELP US PLEASE!!