You must have soft water! LOL ;)
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This is not for. Nothing that MWF is my favorite soap, to my opinion it’s a must for any wet shaver around.
How is the smell? My wife is sensitive to strong smells and strongly dislikes most of my shave creams/soaps. I've been looking for an unscented soap or cream that gives good results and I think that, if the smell is faint and fades away quickly, I could use it.
I would describe the smell as inoffensive, mild and kind of old fashioned.
It is not a perfumey smell. I lost my sense of smell with that zicam thing a few years ago. It has come back some but still not completely so I am not a great judge of scent. Even so I can smell strong scents. I just don't differentiate between them very well. Honestly Mitchell's doesn't smell like really anything to me.
Yeah, as others have said, MWF is kind of a light, powdery scent. In fact, as a fan of scented soaps, sometimes I'll put a drop or two each of, say patchouli and sweet orange EO's to jazz it up a bit before I lather up. I just got a new puck that will last me years with my large rotation of soaps-one of the all-time classics for sure, and a definite must try for any straight shaver. And an added bonus is the nice skin conditioning from the lanolin.
One pro tip for MWF I did with my last puck was to grate it with a cheese grater and smush it up into sort of a puck in my lather mug-leave a depression in the center. That and a spoonful or so of hot water on top before you get in the shower can make it easier to lather for those who have hard water. A stiff brush and maybe 45 seconds of vigorous scrubbing yields gobs of pillowy lather for me.
Milant, I buy a gallon of distilled water. I have an Old Spice cup into which I put a third of a cup of the distilled. I put that into the microwave on high for i minute then I put my brush of the day in the cup of hot distilled water while I strop. By doing that I sidestep any hard water problems.
What Tom said. Hard water isn’t holding you back. Just use bottled water. I lathered that stuff in New Mexico, it doesn’t get harder, even MDC needed the bottled water