Thread: dedicating yourself to a single soap for an entire week.

Originally Posted by Pops!

i know certain members here have set aside an entire week at some point or another to really judge a soap.. lately it seems like whenever mitchell's shows up in the rotation i am getting less than steller results. perhaps my woolfat skills have been forgotten or something..

anyway.. i am going to use strictly mitchell's for a solid week and see if i can get back some skills.

who else ever does this and what is usually learned or observed?

You want some skills? Use some Berts Bees for a week and if you can get good lasting lather from the stuff you'll be a lathering fool and can lather anything.

Originally Posted by Str8Raz0r

Is there a trick to using MWF?

Stu

Check out Youtube, Mantic59. He has a video specifically for MWF. There are few tricks for that soap.

I will use a new soap / cream for about two weeks using it in different ways to see how it performes. But I just love the rotation, live in the moment!

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

You want some skills? Use some Berts Bees for a week and if you can get good lasting lather from the stuff you'll be a lathering fool and can lather anything.

i love the scent of burt's bees bay rum line.. i had used the soap with a vdh brush and a mach3 for many years before really picking up the wetshaving passion.. i'd probably buy another puck if i could find one for a reasonable price.. may have to uber it though.

Institut Kerite - Great French Soap.

I am a big fan of the three day rule for shave products.

It takes a couple days for the skin to react or not react to a product.

Hard soaps like Mitchell's do seem to like being used
a couple days in a row. Perhaps it is previous soaps
in the brush that take time to wash out or perhaps
it is the puck needs softening a bit for tomorrow....

I have also been fooled by the previous
soap or cream influencing a new soap.
When I switch from a cream to a hard
soap the first day gets a bit of uberlather
effect depending on how well I rinsed
out the brush. This can make a difficult
soap look easy...

I do put a small splash of water on my MWF
the day before if it has been sitting for a while.
Tabac just lathers... it does not care.

One hard milled shave soap that does care is the AOS
(art of shaving) hard soap. It is a stealthy soap but a good one once I got
serious about using it.

So many good and great shave soaps.... and only one face...

I have so many soaps and creams that at the beginning of this year I devoted my shaving to using just 1 product until finished.

It lets you get to know the soap well and also whether it is worth replacing when done. So far I've been through 2 pucks of soap, 1 tub of cream, and 1 shave stick. Speick stick is the only one of those 4 I'll replace.

I honestly don't really miss the huge rotation I had. Now it is more of a goal to finish that puck and move on to the next.

I tend to use one soap or cream till finished. Now it is a stick of Arko: best VFM ever IMHO. Still have quite a lot of Proraso on the shelf that will have to go before I'll buy something new.

Hi,

The link to Mantic59s' MWF video tiutorial :

YouTube - ‪How To Lather Mitchell's Wool Fat Shave Soap‬‏