My wife is already starting to crack down on the amount of soaps I have laying around, so as an experiment, I decided to grate up and mix a puck of Van Der Hagen Deluxe and Van Der Hagen Select. It only took about 3 minutes with an old cheese grater to do it, and I mashed it all up together in the bottom of a wide mouthed coffee cup (I like a little extra room to load with).
I used a Van Der Hagen Badger brush. And I have to say, I was pretty dumbfounded with the results.
I usually load up for about a minute on just my regular go-to puck of Van Der Hagen Deluxe. With this mixture of the Deluxe and Select, I stopped loading after about 40 seconds because I was accidentally starting to create a lather. So I went to town in my lathering bowl... and the lather just absolutely EXPLODED after about 20 seconds. I still lathered it for about a minute total, adding drops of water here and there to make it creamier, but it just absolutely exploded.
The results of the shave: It was the thickest, creamiest, cushiest lather I've experienced thus far in my short wet shaving career. It had a better-than-I'm-used-to slickness. And I had enough for probably a good five or six passes. I usually just do a standard WTG-ATG-XTG three pass shave, and I'm used to seeing a decent mound of lather, but this time I had more lather than I knew what to do with. It took some extra time to clean out the brush.
I'm very, very happy with the results. Van Der Hagen Delux + Select = a winning shave from this guy.
And yes, that is a Gem Micromatic that I used to shave with. I'm becoming one with the LOSER brotherhood very quickly.
I used a Van Der Hagen Badger brush. And I have to say, I was pretty dumbfounded with the results.
I usually load up for about a minute on just my regular go-to puck of Van Der Hagen Deluxe. With this mixture of the Deluxe and Select, I stopped loading after about 40 seconds because I was accidentally starting to create a lather. So I went to town in my lathering bowl... and the lather just absolutely EXPLODED after about 20 seconds. I still lathered it for about a minute total, adding drops of water here and there to make it creamier, but it just absolutely exploded.
The results of the shave: It was the thickest, creamiest, cushiest lather I've experienced thus far in my short wet shaving career. It had a better-than-I'm-used-to slickness. And I had enough for probably a good five or six passes. I usually just do a standard WTG-ATG-XTG three pass shave, and I'm used to seeing a decent mound of lather, but this time I had more lather than I knew what to do with. It took some extra time to clean out the brush.
I'm very, very happy with the results. Van Der Hagen Delux + Select = a winning shave from this guy.
And yes, that is a Gem Micromatic that I used to shave with. I'm becoming one with the LOSER brotherhood very quickly.
