Originally Posted by
Utopian
I've never understood the concept of taking something homogenous, like soap, and grating it into small flakes and then pressing it back into something homogenous, like soap. After a couple of times adding water to it, it's going to go right back into the state it was before it was grated. I know a lot of people recommend doing it, but it makes no sense to me.
For the people who are having trouble with this, or any other soap, do you try it and fail and then go on to another soap for the next shave? I have a hard time believing that relatively competent latherers would not be able to figure out MWF after a couple of successive days of attempts. If you just gradually keep adding water you should be able to come up with at least a pretty good lather.