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The idea is to shave with Mitchell's Wool Fat Shaving Soap on Friday. Show your pictures.
The idea is to shave with Mitchell's Wool Fat Shaving Soap on Friday. Show your pictures.
Get the Mitchell's Wool Fat bath soap instead. Threw a few bars into a recent Connaught order that it's the slickest soap I've every used. Pure tallow bomb well formulated for bathing vs. shaving (saponified with sodium hydroxide, no potassium hydroxide as in the shaving soap). Even test lathered with my shaving brush and while the lather was thinner/dissipated faster than the MWF shaving soap it was very slick. Could shave with it if needed though I would prefer to use the actual MWF shaving soap.I've been thinking of using The Fat as a bath soap.
Yeah, I've already got the bath soap. It is pretty slick and it doesn't smell bad, either. I like how the shaving soap smells better, but the bath soap isn't bad. When I first got it, the first bath left me feeling dry. However, every successive bath was a pure delight. It was like for some reason the lanolin and tallow weren't present on the outer layer, but once that was washed away, the soap showed its true nature.Get the Mitchell's Wool Fat bath soap instead. Threw a few bars into a recent Connaught order that it's the slickest soap I've every used. Pure tallow bomb well formulated for bathing vs. shaving (saponified with sodium hydroxide, no potassium hydroxide as in the shaving soap). Even test lathered with my shaving brush and while the lather was thinner/dissipated faster than the MWF shaving soap it was very slick. Could shave with it if needed though I would prefer to use the actual MWF shaving soap.
On Connaught's site it's 3 GBP for a 150 gram bar vs 6.25 GBP for the 125 gram shaving soap. Given the slickness I'm saving one bar to replace the 1 - 2 ounces of Ivory I add to my custom blends.
Yeah, I've already got the bath soap. It is pretty slick and it doesn't smell bad, either. I like how the shaving soap smells better, but the bath soap isn't bad. When I first got it, the first bath left me feeling dry. However, every successive bath was a pure delight. It was like for some reason the lanolin and tallow weren't present on the outer layer, but once that was washed away, the soap showed its true nature.
I have dry skin and it is easily irritated. I found that the MWF bath bar (original) didn't dry my skin and didn't irritate it. The first use or two did, but once I was actually into the bar, that ceased and I get a nice moisturized bath from it. I like the smell okay, too.I suspect the skin ramped up production of oils/sebum to counter the drying effect of the soap.
I find MWF bath soap very drying and can only use it in hot/humid weather.
It's difficult to imagine the soap not being homogenized given MWF is a milled soap, which requires large machinery to produce.