Thread: Mitchell's Wool Fat shaving soap - first time user

Originally Posted by cau

I'm early into my first puck of Mitchell's. I did not grate it, like I do my Green Mountain's. Will I be happier if I grated it? I seem to load and load but always end up with marginal lather and have to go back to the puck for my second pass. Using a 26x52 3-band badger this month, cold water. Suggestions?

Grating it makes it easier to load, imo. I always grate MWF into a one cup Pyrex bowl, which I keep covered.