Hello, I got a tub of the lime Castle Forbes last year and I have been holding out on posting this question until I could get more time with it. A lot of people here tout Forbes as an example of what shave soap/cream should be.

Every so often I will break it out and give it a go and I get the same issue every time. It gets sticky! No matter how I lather, a lot of water to very little, my razor just skips and sticks along my face. No problems with my first pass but as soon as I start X the grain it loses all slickness.

I know this is not any way to measure slickness but I can snap my fingers (loudly) with the lather. I can’t do that with any of my other shave soaps to include Nuavia, Martin de Candre, Barrister and Mann, Mitchell’s. I did have the same issue a number of years ago with a puck of Evylen & Crabtree but I just chalked that up to a lower end soap. Anyone else have these same issues with Forbes?