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+1 on not enough hard soap.

None of us pickup an "almond" sized bit of hard soap
with our brush. A cream makes it easy to get an abundant
amount of product into the lathering process.

The...

There are multiple types of clay....

Bentonite clay is available from a lot of place.
You only need a little bit and that is the hard part.

Since you are in the midwest you might find a...

There are some creams that are not designed for use
with a brush. Do any of these rise to the top of the
shelf for any of you. Not the goo in a can ones... but
some of the fancy pants ones.

+1 it does lather quick and easy, astoundingly so.
It belongs on the short list of soaps to try sooner
not later. Too bad I only have one face to shave....

Interesting... the MWF smell while subtle is one of the things I love about it
and it lathers super once I learned how to work with it. It is one
of the soaps that I bought only the refill puck...