Thread: Mitchell's Wool Fat Soap

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.