What soap/cream did you use today?

Sort of on a Vetiver kick lately and this one showed up in the box.  I really do enjoy the performance of Mystic Waters but the scents leave me a little flat.  Vetiver and oakmoss sounds like it ought to kick your chin but all the fangs have been pulled and replaced with a floral something or other.  It’s a milder scent and as stated performs well but dang!  Vetiver and Oakmoss ought to be able to leave a bruise!  (Ok, I took some poetic license there.  I don’t ACTUALLY want a shaving soap to beat me up.  Healing takes to long and I’m a lover not a fighter.  Just wish it was more wild rather than washed and scrubbed down for a trip to town with momma in the Buick.)

Barrister and Mann Hallows
Soft Heart Base

Vetiver and oakmoss sounds like it ought to kick your chin but all the fangs have been pulled and replaced with a floral something or other.  

That's my issue... I bought like 20 samples one time and EVERYTHING had a floral (candle shop, not natural) vibe. Too many other brands.
I wonder if that scent is due to being stored together.

Da da da.

Only a few of the MW don't smell like bed bath & beyond. My short list :

Marrakesh
Frankincense & Myrhh
Orange Vanilla
Bay Rum

Love the post, finicky to lather. Too many other bases and scent makers I prefer. ETHOS , omnibus, GD, WK, DG, SH, MdC, SV, WSP

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MWF: a week with the FAT

A list of the complaints garnered from the blogs/research:

Dissipating lather, hard to load, doesn't lather well if one has hard water, lanolin is an issue if your sensitive to it, must be bloomed, light-airy, plain fragrance, nothing special given its issues, requires heavy heavy brush work to get a good load, must bloom, hydrate/soak, or grate puck to get a good load, must use regularly per keeping it moist, requires slow hydration, requires lots of water, need to load with a stiff boar brush, foamy bubble ridden lather.

A list of positive attributes:

Great soapy scent, has lanolin resulting in a nice plump finish, easy to lather regardless of lathering style per wet/dry brush, bowl or face, slickness and residual slickness.

My Experience:

All of the above, Both good& bad - - but allow me to expand & elaborate. Isolated usage with a hard water resulted in a FOAMY, airy, bubble plagued dissipating lather. But I recognized the potential - SLICK. It was incredibly hard to get an ample brush load.

Tomorrow will be shave 9 in a row. A solution has been derived, using all of the well known suggestions-but I have to utilize them all to get a low profile, bubble free, top notch emulsion.

The approach:
1. Score one side of the puck in a lattice pattern. About 1/8 of an inch deep
2. Seat the puck in its container or a dish, immersing the scored side in Distilled water nightly for a week, or before usage. So a heavy bloom period aided by the puck scoring and Distilled water.
3. Heavy load with a moist [DW] not wet brush. I used boar, synthetic 3 ring& 2 sand to same affect. The loading was from the puck in my hand.
4. The first portion of the load is ALWAYS foamy. Discard it. Squeeze the brush and get it down the drain.
5. Hit the puck again, heavy load.
6. Take the puck to the face, like a shave stick. Nice thick soap layer of proto on the face now.
7. Squeeze the brush and rub the proto lather between the old mitts expelling the bubbles. This was the only way I could get a bubble free low profile proto lather.
8. Hand lather shortly to get the proto lather back in the brush. Use the old soap hands to rub the face, more MWF Pre-shave action.
9. Face lather with a few SPARTAN DW adds. About a 5ml per addition to loosen the proto lather and get a good build up.

Comment: seems horrendously involved but I got so fast at this, I had a 3 pass shave in 15 minutes this morning. The Fat loading issue is solved for me. I find the slickness and residual slickness to be the best in my den. Post only second to Mystic Water. I like the plump fatty stuff. My skin needs it. The MWF puck is resistant to quick loads. The guys that that get a quick load, easy usable lather - would like to see pics of it. Pretty sure it has to have significant air in it. That is fine, because the fat is so slick, one will get a nice shave with it. Extra effort gets a world class straight razor kind of lather. The Fat is a foamer, so the extra steps obviate that airy crap.

Lather pix tomorrow. I think MWF will be my weekly Fat Tuesday shave.

Solidly in my rotation with Sa°Tabac °urday.

Thanks to Danny & Face Scraper for suggestions.


C U ALL TOMORROW

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MWF: a week with the FAT

A list of the complaints garnered from  the blogs/research:

Dissipating lather, hard to load, doesn't lather well if one has hard water, lanolin is an issue if your sensitive to it, must be bloomed, light-airy, plain fragrance, nothing special given its issues, requires heavy heavy brush work to get a good load, must bloom, hydrate/soak, or grate puck to get a good load, must use regularly per keeping it moist, requires slow hydration, requires lots of water, need to load with a stiff boar brush, foamy bubble ridden lather.

A list of positive attributes:

Great soapy scent, has lanolin resulting in a nice plump finish,  easy to lather regardless of lathering style per wet/dry brush, bowl or face, slickness and residual slickness.

My Experience:

All of the above, Both  good& bad - - but allow me to expand & elaborate. Isolated usage with a hard water resulted in a FOAMY, airy, bubble plagued dissipating lather. But I recognized the potential - SLICK. It was incredibly hard to get an ample brush load.

Tomorrow will be shave 9 in a row. A solution has been derived,  using all of the well known suggestions-but I have to utilize them all to get a low profile, bubble free, top notch emulsion.

The approach:
1. Score one side of the puck in a lattice pattern. About 1/8 of an inch deep
2. Seat the puck in its container or a dish, immersing the scored side in Distilled water  nightly for a week, or before usage. So a heavy bloom period aided by the puck scoring and Distilled water.
3. Heavy load with a moist [DW] not wet brush. I used boar, synthetic 3 ring& 2 sand to same affect. The loading was from the puck in my hand.
4. The first portion of the load is ALWAYS foamy. Discard it. Squeeze the brush and get it down the drain.
5. Hit the puck again, heavy load.
6. Take the puck to the face, like a shave stick. Nice thick soap layer of proto on the face now.
7. Squeeze the brush and rub the proto lather between the old mitts expelling the bubbles. This was the only way I could get a bubble free low profile proto lather.
8. Hand lather shortly to get the proto lather back in the brush. Use the old soap hands to rub the face, more MWF Pre-shave action.
9. Face lather with a few SPARTAN DW  adds. About a 5ml per addition to loosen the proto lather and get a good build up.

Comment:  seems horrendously involved but I got so fast at this, I had a 3 pass shave in 15 minutes this morning. The Fat loading issue is solved for me. I find the slickness and residual slickness to be the best in my den. Post only second to Mystic Water. I like the plump fatty stuff. My skin needs it. The MWF puck is resistant to quick loads. The guys that that get a quick load, easy usable lather - would like to see pics of it. Pretty sure it has to have significant air in it. That is fine, because the fat is so slick, one will get a nice shave with it. Extra effort gets a world class straight razor kind of lather. The Fat is a foamer, so the extra steps obviate that airy crap.

Lather pix tomorrow. I think MWF will be my weekly Fat Tuesday shave.

Solidly in my rotation with Sa°Tabac °urday.


C U ALL TOMORROW

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Now that's dedication Tommy. Congrats

MWF: a week with the FAT

A list of the complaints garnered from the blogs/research:

Dissipating lather, hard to load, doesn't lather well if one has hard water, lanolin is an issue if your sensitive to it, must be bloomed, light-airy, plain fragrance, nothing special given its issues, requires heavy heavy brush work to get a good load, must bloom, hydrate/soak, or grate puck to get a good load, must use regularly per keeping it moist, requires slow hydration, requires lots of water, need to load with a stiff boar brush, foamy bubble ridden lather.

A list of positive attributes:

Great soapy scent, has lanolin resulting in a nice plump finish, easy to lather regardless of lathering style per wet/dry brush, bowl or face, slickness and residual slickness.

My Experience:

All of the above, Both good& bad - - but allow me to expand & elaborate. Isolated usage with a hard water resulted in a FOAMY, airy, bubble plagued dissipating lather. But I recognized the potential - SLICK. It was incredibly hard to get an ample brush load.

Tomorrow will be shave 9 in a row. A solution has been derived, using all of the well known suggestions-but I have to utilize them all to get a low profile, bubble free, top notch emulsion.

The approach:
1. Score one side of the puck in a lattice pattern. About 1/8 of an inch deep
2. Seat the puck in its container or a dish, immersing the scored side in Distilled water nightly for a week, or before usage. So a heavy bloom period aided by the puck scoring and Distilled water.
3. Heavy load with a moist [DW] not wet brush. I used boar, synthetic 3 ring& 2 sand to same affect. The loading was from the puck in my hand.
4. The first portion of the load is ALWAYS foamy. Discard it. Squeeze the brush and get it down the drain.
5. Hit the puck again, heavy load.
6. Take the puck to the face, like a shave stick. Nice thick soap layer of proto on the face now.
7. Squeeze the brush and rub the proto lather between the old mitts expelling the bubbles. This was the only way I could get a bubble free low profile proto lather.
8. Hand lather shortly to get the proto lather back in the brush. Use the old soap hands to rub the face, more MWF Pre-shave action.
9. Face lather with a few SPARTAN DW adds. About a 5ml per addition to loosen the proto lather and get a good build up.

Comment: seems horrendously involved but I got so fast at this, I had a 3 pass shave in 15 minutes this morning. The Fat loading issue is solved for me. I find the slickness and residual slickness to be the best in my den. Post only second to Mystic Water. I like the plump fatty stuff. My skin needs it. The MWF puck is resistant to quick loads. The guys that that get a quick load, easy usable lather - would like to see pics of it. Pretty sure it has to have significant air in it. That is fine, because the fat is so slick, one will get a nice shave with it. Extra effort gets a world class straight razor kind of lather. The Fat is a foamer, so the extra steps obviate that airy crap.

Lather pix tomorrow. I think MWF will be my weekly Fat Tuesday shave.

Solidly in my rotation with Sa°Tabac °urday.

Thanks to Danny & Face Scraper for suggestions.


C U ALL TOMORROW

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I love your passion but... way too complicated for a simple man like me. Hard pass.