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I'm learning it's a poor soap. I bought it because I was looking for a boar brush and I found a decent one on etsy. the same seller was offering a gift set for the same price (some sort of sale) that included shaving soap, so I figured why not. I won't be doing that again.
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It sounds like you're getting there. In my limited experience mixing cream and soap doesn't often improve a poor soap. You may now have a solution with the cream you're using. If not, I'd buy a cream that others tell you works (I can recommend Truefitt and Hill Trafalgar, Speick, Body Shop Macca Root and Musgo Real).
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Congrats on your first few shaves as of late. As you've experienced, it gets better and better every time. Keep at it!
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Suggestion. You may be doing this already but.. Shaving is a two handed thing. Once you use the brush to lather and you make your 1st pass you still have soap or cream on your face. I find that , if right handed, just dip the fingers of your left hand in your bowl of shave water and re wet your face lightly. There's a lot of lubrication still there for a short pass or serve as a damp base for your next brush application. I find that it helps.