Thread: no soap luck!

MWF online can be found for around $13 a puck delivered. by far one of the best and luxiourious soaps out there imo.

ok ill check them out , i just dont want to get a collection of unused soaps. thats not going to help me save money by not buying mach 3 blades. lol

Ok good soaps that are worth the money and last a while
1) Mitchell's wool fat 13$ lasts a year plus and easily my favorite soap
2) Mamma bears 8-13$ easy to lather slick good scent selection
3) Cella 9$ smells like sweet almonds and very sturdy slick lather
4) Proraso green 10$ phenomenal on a hot day tub lasts quite a while, idiot proof lather

So those are my top four readily available soaps that are worth every penny IMHO
Hope you find one you like!

yea it seems like that mitchells wool fat sounds really good. seems silly to some but heres my layout for straight razor shaving, besides saving me money i love the old skool side of it. its almost lost art that is coming back . but i still love the very traditional smelling soaps and aftershaves. deff wont want any wierd fruity kinda soaps. i know mama bears stuff comes highly recomended but she only makes like 150 diff kinds so not exactly easy to know which are good and which are not. i think i need to get some of the mwf i think i would like it alot. the vdb that im using smells good and does ok i just think im lacking in the experiance department for building a really good lather which i dont get. hell after 7 shaves you would think i would be an old pro! lol jk thanks for all the great advice.

Go here: Turkish Music, Turkish Food, Evil Eye Jewelry, Movies, Grocery Shopping & Books - Tulumba.com and do a site search for Arko. The shave stick is under $2 and is one of the better soaps out there,IMO. The Arko creams are nice as well with the regular having a classic talc scent and the others having more modern, aquatic scents. The Arko AS creams are good as well.

so i just got done shaving and my vdb lathers up good for me but it almost seems to get really dry like powder on my face and razor sticks really bad. is my lather to dry , cold, or what make it really tricky to not cut my self when razor wont glide over my skin smoothly. i want to order some mwf but until then gotta figure this out.

This is what I have found threw trial and error not only for myself but for my boys too. soak the brush in warm water if 5 min. are not doing for you try 10, then remove the excess water so that the brush is just left damp, mix brush on soap till it is loaded and starts to foam. then move to the bowl and add water as needed, to me vdb seams to use more water then others. it is fairly cheep and if you have spare time you could just mix it up for practice, that's what I did. I found it to be a good soap and gave a fine shave.

IMO a good soap lathers nice and thick with almost no added water, then doesn't dry out too easily.

Try adding no more water than whats in the brush after a light shake. Load on the soap until a thick, low volume lather forms. Then face lather on a damp face. If you still wind up w foamy, sudsy, fast drying; then it's time to try a new soap or brush.

Michael