Thread: Mitchell's Wool Fat Soap

MWF is a great soap. However, I think it dries pretty fast and it is hard to get a tick lather.
I'm now using Dr. Harris soap and I like it better. In my opinion, it provides better lubrification and it produces ticker lather very fast.
The next one that I will try is Tabac soap.

... and there was me thinking that it only worked with local water

My favourite hard soap, regardless of Yorkshire chauvinism (whoever heard of such a thing, anyway)?

My fantasy is being marooned on a far away island inhabited by a race of beautiful Polynesian women that love clean shaven men..
The ship I was travelling on with all my razors was caught in a storm.. I was the sole male survivor.. In the ship's hold was a pallet of Mitchell's Wool Fat bound for sale in the States.. It washed up on the beach next to me in perfect condition... Enough for a lifetime of shaves to keep my co-inhabitors in a state of smooth shaven bliss for eternity.
The essential oils they squeeze from the leaves make a perfect after shave lotion... After the leaves have been used to fan me in my hammock.. of course!

One can dream... Can't one?

Originally Posted by BlacknTan

My fantasy is being marooned on a far away island inhabited by a race of beautiful Polynesian women that love clean shaven men..
The ship I was travelling on with all my razors was caught in a storm.. I was the sole male survivor.. In the ship's hold was a pallet of Mitchell's Wool Fat bound for sale in the States.. It washed up on the beach next to me in perfect condition... Enough for a lifetime of shaves to keep my co-inhabitors in a state of smooth shaven bliss for eternity.
The essential oils they squeeze from the leaves make a perfect after shave lotion... After the leaves have been used to fan me in my hammock.. of course!

One can dream... Can't one?

Hello, BlacknTan:

My, my, what a tasty imagination. I especially like the part about the hammock. Well, don't stop dreaming, my good man.

Regards,
Obie

I've heard great things about it but can't see springing for the price. Congratulations on the great purchase, Mark. (If it came with the Polynesian girls, I just might find the money somewhere).

Got mine in today and I have to say that this is the best soap I've tried to date! I don't understand how folks can have problems lathering the soap? I face lather and swirled the brush on the puck for about ten seconds and then went to the face...it just puffed right up thicker and heavier than anything else.

i used most creams and soaps mwf has to be my favourite and its all i use now

Yes the density of it's lather is definitely not one of its shortcomings.

Originally Posted by Scipio

I never use this by itself, but it will outshave anything when mixed with the creams that I have tried it with, such as AOS lavender, Pehaligon's Blenheim Bouquet, TOBS and I even tried it with the Bomb. Great with Castle Forbes Lime.

If you haven't tried it with a cream yet, do.

Try it with Musgo Real (Thanks Glen).

For me, MWF is simply The Mother Soap. It takes more effort to get a lather, but the lather is worth the trip. I've used many soaps over the past several years, and have slowly come to realize that I like none better than MWF. It's all I use. Tabac probably comes the next closest, and is far easier to lather. And the Speick shave stick is no slouch.

But MWF just has the most perfect combination of lather volume, density, glide, and scent of anything I've used. I don't even try to explain, defend, or justify it anymore, it just is. Same deal with my love for the hated big "floppy" (?) Kent shave brushes: "Let them hate...as long as they fear."

A few years back, I used to feel this way about Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet shaving soap. Then without warning or any rational justification to generations of loyal customers, they jacked with the formula to remove tallow, and upset the balance of a wonderful product.

So now I hoard unopened boxes of MWF soap, in sealed plastic bags. Just in case.