I actually find myself liking MWF more and more for my soap, for some reason I just cannot get a good lather that is creamy and offers good cushion/glide out of a cream.

I will likely be switching to all soaps in the near future.... but using the cream as a pre-shave,

So my current routine with the cream as prep is:

1) Fill scuttle with HOT tap water and soak brush
2) Take shower, first thing, wash face with Noxzema, rinse and rub in Pantene Conditioner into whiskers, let it sit whilst I take rest of shower
3) After getting out of shower, rub in cream and let it stay wet while I make lather
4) Rinse cream, apply first layer of lather, 1 hot towel for 20 - 30 seconds
5) Lather and shave 3 passes
6) One more layer of lather and hot towel
7) Alum
8) cold water rinse
9) Witch Hazel (Thayers aloe)
10) After shave (Usually Clubman Vanilla)
11) ASB

Seems to work for me lately, doesn't irritate my skin like Poraso did..... but I still want to try barbasol for preshave to see if the Stearic acid makes a difference