Thread: Mitchell's Wool Fat Soap

I finally got my puck of MWF in the mail yesterday from SRD. Lightning fast shipping by the way.

Anyway, I built a lather with no problem and off I went. I'll just say that I am totally hooked! I can see what all the hype is about with this soap. The razor just slid over my skin with no biting at all.

I will say that my lather was drying on my face a little bit, so that could be my bad. I'll also say that my skin felt kind of dry after whereas mamabear's soaps leave my skin moist.

No matter, I can't see myself using another soap any time soon.

Originally Posted by Fbones24

I will say that my lather was drying on my face a little bit, so that could be my bad. I'll also say that my skin felt kind of dry after whereas mamabear's soaps leave my skin moist.

No matter, I can't see myself using another soap any time soon.

I've noticed that MWF works better for me with a bit more water than other soaps, as long as I add that water very gradually.

Now, here's where you'll all think I've gone crazy unless you're that sort of crazy, too - I normally, by reason of body mechanics or perhaps personal peculiarities, rotate the brush in a counter-clockwise direction because I hold the bowl low and the brush with the bristles sticking out the thumb side of a fist. If ... I find myself at the point that I seem to be creating fizzy froth, not lather, and I reverse rotation of the brush, the lather smooths out in a few circuits like magic. It works so well that if with any soap or cream I seem to be creating froth, I instinctively change direction of the "beating" regardless of which direction I'd started.

You know you're going to try it next time you shave, don't you?

Originally Posted by GastonD

I've noticed that MWF works better for me with a bit more water than other soaps, as long as I add that water very gradually.

A correction, wherein I quickly refute in toto my previous post:

I happened on a video narrated in Spanish (which I do not speak or understand past picking up some words occasionally, thankfully none of which words were used in the production of that video), and the demonstrator gently but firmly squeezed the brush nearly dry after soaking and proceeded to produce a lather deserving of praise. I tried it and found that he was right, and I dead wrong.

Suffice to say that a bit of tinkering with MWF can yield rewards exceeding the effort you expended. I'll still hold to the swirl/counterswirl being worth the effort, as it works with both methods. I'll be sending off an order to Connaught for several pucks of MWF, but first I must let my credit card rest as it's showing signs of fatigue. It's a wise man who considers the health of his servants as foremost.

Originally Posted by GastonD

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Suffice to say that a bit of tinkering with
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+1 on tinkering. Heck +101 on tinkering...

Just before tossing what seems like a second rate
soap tinker, tinker, tinker. Each time I do I learn something
and generally find that it is not second rate soap but that my
method was. This is not to say that all shave soaps
can rise to the heights of the best but all can be improved
and sometimes the old dog soap teaches me something that
makes a premium shave soap or cream work even better.

BTW:
I am looking for some spare Boddingtons to lather with.
If anyone has a couple ten cases to send my way please do.
I am sure that anything that foams up so well can improve
a lather. For some reason I never seem to have any
left over to tinker with.

If someone could come up with a soap that performs like MWF but actually smelled good it would be my wish come true. I realize that the appreciation of scent is highly subjective. To me it smells like the 60's. And not in a good way. Nevertheless, I use it at least a couple of times a week because it's just so darn nice to shave with. It Ubers nicely too.

Originally Posted by Ogershok

If someone could come up with a soap that performs like MWF but actually smelled good it would be my wish come true. I realize that the appreciation of scent is highly subjective. To me it smells like the 60's. And not in a good way. Nevertheless, I use it at least a couple of times a week because it's just so darn nice to shave with. It Ubers nicely too.

"Dove" comes to mind everytime I use it... My wife uses Dove and it's disconserting

Now that SRD has a wool fat soap to offer I may have to look that way... as long as it doesn't smell like Dove...

CAUTION: This post may be affected by Beer...

Originally Posted by niftyshaving

BTW:
I am looking for some spare Boddingtons to lather with.
If anyone has a couple ten cases to send my way please do.
I am sure that anything that foams up so well can improve
a lather. For some reason I never seem to have any
left over to tinker with.

want a flake with that?

Originally Posted by vthomlinson

want a flake with that?

"Do you want a flake in that, luv?"

No thank you luv.

I am thinking I need to buy a puck of MWF. I think I recall seeing somplace where one can get samples of it.

Don't bother with the sample of this one. Get the whole puck, you will not regret it.