Shaved with Mitchell wool fat for the first time oh my god its awesome, If it's not broken don't fix it gonna stick to this soap for now!!
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Shaved with Mitchell wool fat for the first time oh my god its awesome, If it's not broken don't fix it gonna stick to this soap for now!!
Yes, MWF is a good soap all right. And it lasts a long, long time. In fact it is almost a certainty that it will outlast your curiosity regarding other soaps and creams! :D
James.
I tried this soap a while ago, back when I only used a DE. I can't get past the pine tree scent. I wish they'd make it in other scents. Maybe in a couple years ill come back to it again when my nose has matured.
Pine tree? My MWF never smelled like pine tree.
James.
I'm in the same situation with another soap.
I bought a jar of 'Martin de Candre' as a birthday present to myself a couple months ago and now I've only used other stuff maybe once or twice, it's a pitty because some of the stuff I have is really great.
I enjoy the MWF when I shave in the shower with a DE. Very nice lather.
Gentlemen, Mitchell's Wool Fat is a way of life. It's part of the sacred right of passage into the wet shaving world. Except that this superb soap takes a permanent place in the luggage. I have used it for years, and will use it into the next century. No uberlather mixing with this. Nothing like that. No need for it. I take it straight and my Hollywood face loves me for it. I have a full soap dish and two replacement pucks. I think I need to buy a half a dozen more pucks just in case the world comes to an end.
Love the stuff. It has a permanent spot on my rotation.
Lathers quite easily for me, but my face couldn't agree with the lanolin content. A little bit is OK, but too much caused me some sensitivity...
I'll always have some in my den. Probably the slickest soap I've used.
Definitely no Pinetrees there... The soap smells only of...soap. It's easy to use and last long.
Other soaps I've tried, like the trumpers, smells great, but are difficult to lather up. And I've think they dry out the skin.
The mwf leaves the skin nice and moiety.
If your soap smells of pine trees it's properly not the real thing but a copy or something.
The MWF is my favourite :-)
I've mamged to avoid trying MWF for a long time. Today was my first go with it. I don't get the hype. I didn't care for the scent, didnt find it very slick, and found it very drying of my skin. I definitely needed some balm after today's shave since my skin was so dry after the shave. I didn't care much for the lather either. It was just, meh. I'll take DR Harris over it any day. I may give it another try, but Im not in a hurry. It's not exactly cheap either. I guess this is a classic YMMV thing.
Can't go wrong with MWF, it turned me into using soap pucks exclusively.
MWF is a Great soap, but you need to load the brush more then you normally do. You also need to use more water to get it right, but its Definitely worth a try more :-)
I love it so much I have the hand soap for the bathroom sink and liquid for the kitchen! Great stuff
ZeroCool- Good to know, I actually wasn't aware that it came in a hand soap formula.
Here is a trick I think works makes the soap so much easier to use, while in the shower soak ur Mwf and your shaving brush in a sink of warm water. When u get out of the shower remove soap and brush from sink and lather away..works awesome..How To Lather Mitchell's Wool Fat Shave Soap - YouTube
I have hard water, so it takes a bit of extra work, but MWF does make a good lather. I'd rank it on par with soaps like Tabac and DR Harris.
Late to the party but I just got a shipment of 5 different soaps in to try, MWF being one of them. They arrived too late for use this morning but I did test lather them all and all were easy to lather. I used an SOC 2 band badger brush dunked in cold water and shaken well out on a dry MWF puck. Loaded the brush for less than a minute and started face lathering on my cold water whetted face adding water as I went by dipping the tips of the brush in cold water. Easily created large amounts of thick rich slick feeling lather. Can't wait to see how it performs during a shave tomorrow morning.
Bob
i found some online for $13 shipped to united states from a u.s. vendor...got it in two days and it has been a permanent part of my rotation.
i narrowed down to 4 soaps and sold off the rest.
mdc,
mitchells,
mikes orange,
harris arlington.
those are all fantastic!
I couldn't get a good lather with MWF 'till I stumbled across this method: soak brush then shake out the bulk of the water, load brush letting excess drip into bowl...do this until you have about a ping pong ball size of lather in the bowl. Then load brush fully and go to the bowl and build lather. The entire process takes 60-90 seconds. This works especially well in a hot scuttle. For some reason the MWF really tightens up when it transforms from hot to cool. I've always heard that MWF doesn't like heat, but the opposite is true for me. As it cools off, it gets really tight and heavy, with an almost yogurt like density. It's all I want to use now..I love the "clean laundry" scent.
I love MWF, my only complaint is that there aren't a variety of scents to choose from.
My solution to the scent "problem". Don't like most scented pucks or creams because it is not heavy enough on the scent for my nose that doesn't smell things well. Buy any of your favorite soaps/creams in the unscented variety, buy a little bottle of essential oil in your favorite scent and when you start to build your lather add as many drops, up to seven, to your scuttle or mug. You will get your aroma through most of your shave. I also add a couple of drops of oil based Vit E to the mix. Over time your skin will thank you. Been doing that for a couple of weeks and my daughter in law (who lives next door) remarked that she thinks my face never looked as good as it has been. Bear in mind she's a licensed beautician and is always looking at people critically. Also bear in mind that I am 80 and skin starts to have a life of its own so it's doubly nice to be told that you have something under control in your life. That's my two cents and I'm sticking by it.
Used MWF for the second time today. I got a quarter of a puck sent to me and grated it into a little dish like I do with most of my soaps. Because of this, I have no issues loading the brush. Nice stuff.
I will always have MWF in my rotation, but for those who feel like there are better, less fickle options out there, I understand the sentiment. It is completely different for me if I am using hard vs soft water
I find this does tend to dry out if you don't get lathering right, some tallows suffer from this.
There is a definte knack I find when building a lather with this one, but once you have it down it's amongst the best out there.
There is no need to but I find when uberlathered with ingrams cream it is pure luxury.
Of course there is. The days you want to pamper yourself. The days when you feel you need extra cushioning. The days you feel it will lessen irritation. The days you feel it will give an extra close shave needed for a special occasion. ANd the most important of all, the days when its just for the hell of it because you can.
Just used MWF for the first time tonight, scent was very mild but pleasant, lathered well for me (let the water of a freshly dunked badger brush fall on the top of the puck before entering the shower). I got an unexpected amount of irritation though. Could be the razor, ill try it again soon with a razor I know has a good edge, or it may be the soap, time will tell.
Could be. Although last nights shave was far from average. I used a scritchy badger brush, I face lathered a little more aggressively than normal (testing the soap) and the Red Imp just was where it normally is. Lathering up before the second pass I got mild sting in certain areas, similar to what I get with Williams mug soap. I've always blamed the razor. I'm going to try cello, or Irisch moos tonight as I just got a big package in filled with my "want to try" soaps and go back to the MWF this weekend. Ill try and remember to update you folks with the results.
My MWF just arrived, going to give it a try in an hour or so.
Had a talk with the soap, said that it had better do a good job, that the PR it was getting was huge, and that it had a lot to live up to, and better not let me down, or the Italians in the others bowls would howl with laughter at it, flick their chins and call it a mangia-cake.
Only a shave will tell...as the piano player sang in that famous movie with Humphrey Bogart.
Phrank, my friend, if you have hard water, get some bottled water. Although MWF is fine by itself, and it might take a little extra swirling to get a good consistency, I add, to almost all the soaps/creams I use, 4 to 6 drops of glycerin and a couple drops of Vit E oil (your face will thank you after a week or two) and swirl to my hearts content. It is a little thin on your face at first but if you leave it on while you strop, remove it and swirl a little more and apply you will find a very nice , luxurious, cushion to go with a light pressure shave.