Originally Posted by
jbjohnson
Does anybody have any tricks up their sleeve with Williams mug shaving soap? I'm pretty new to wet shaving and straight razors and I tried working up a lather with my Edwin Jagger badger brush in a bowl and what I got was disappointing to say the least. The technique I used was letting the brush soak in hot water for a few minutes, shook the excess water out, ran the brush around on the puck of soap and then went to try working a lather up in my bowl. What I got was a pathetic, thin film, HARDLY anything that could be called a lather.