When I started I got a free shave cream, and 2 cake soaps all free with purchase of my starter set. I had the hardest time getting the cake soaps to lather up good with either my badger brush or my boar brush and resulted in an inferrior shave the same with the cream but not as bad.

Now that I have used them up any suggestions on what to buy and from whom? I have a very tough beard and need to get a good cake soap or cream with lot's of lather!

I have been using a shave gel on the end of my brush and it works much better than the cake soaps and cream that I was given. The shave gel really lathers up and I get a nice close shave.