Thread: First Straight Razor shave was ok...

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.

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).

Congrats on your first few shaves as of late. As you've experienced, it gets better and better every time. Keep at it!

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.