If I would do it all over again, I would have started by getting most of Mike's shaving soaps samples right off the bat. And I say most as I wish I would have just added Barbershop and a couple others to my original sample order. They smell amazing and even from the first use, lather nicely and have improved with a couple tweaks of technique. I have one sample in the bottom of a mug thinking it's going to give me a fair number of shaves.