Thread: MWF Lathering Tip??

4th Beat vigorously soap
We will use our boar brush to beat the soap in the bowl with rhythm, vigorously, the first lather that you can see is flabby,

but this has just started, in seconds it appears as a thick cream as meringue,.... you are at the doors of the nirvana of shaving lather ...

If you want you can remove the puck cleaning it with a brush to remove the precious lanolin rich cream. If you leave the puck the lather works fine, but if you decide to take it out, you should pass it through water and leave the soap drying before storing, the soap must be kept dry.

5th Add water if necessary
Adding water droplets must be done to, with your fingers to soften a bit the density of lather and do it more lightly, as you like, if you like it firm and thick you can skip this step.



6th face lathering
Once the lather has the desired look we are able to pass the brush over the face, in the case of MWF I recommend face lathering, the light exfoliating ability of the brush attached to the lubricating oils of the soap will help to soften the shave, as "soft" as scratch our skin with a sharp blade


NOTES: The water at room temperature MWF does not work well with hot water, some people's problems come from using a hot scuttle or preheated bowls brushes full of hot water. Apart from melt the lanolin (at 42 º C ), lather is worse, one of the keys is the temperature. Do not worry about the cold lather works well and if you want you can heat the cold lather in your scuttle once assembled

Compare the two lather brushes, it’s awesome, who doesn’t want to feel one of those brushes in the face?


Greetings from Spain, I hope it is useful. If you have progressed with the MWF by reading this Howto I will be satisfied.

Originally Posted by du212

And a how to in english, don't worry SRP staff, I am the author


Sorry for my bad english, I am not a native english speaker, I am trying to improve this point, I hope my future posts will be better

This manual is intended for those who wonder if Mitchells is a good soap, or if the lather is so amazing, but they get flabby lather, or take so long to get decent lather or ,...... the bullshit about hard water

Oh I don't know about that. I think you may have a fairly firm grasp of the english language...You'd fit in well enough in Australia anyway mate...


Mick

:lol: I don't think so, I am always learning, but I hope the text and videos can be useful here

I had often heard here at SRP that MWF was hard to lather, but I found just the opposite. IMHO it is one of the easiest shaving soaps to generate a great lather with--and I live in a notoriously hard water area.

As Jimmy noted, just place some water on the puck and let it sit for about 5 min. then generate lather with a damp shaving brush.

Thank you for posting the pictures, a very well done tutorial on lathering Mitchell's Wool Fat shave soap.

Great info! I will try using room temp water next time instead of the hot tap water.