Won this soap in a PIF (thanks Jeff!) and thought I'd give it a try this morning as I knew very little about the soap.
I promptly plopped it into one of the many tin cans I got from Stirling soap (as you can see the puck is a bit on the smaller side, at least diameter-wise.
Tools used was: generic badger brush, EJ DE89L w/a Voskhod blade and a $1.50 bowl from the local Daiso store.
(The bar of soap is a Stirling "Naked" unscented soap that has now become my daily face wash soap).
It started out great. Within 10 seconds I had lather filling the tin can and after working it some more it got to be rich and very slick I thought.
Applied it to my face and started face lathering.
My first reaction was that it did not feel as 'rich, slick and protective' as the feelings I get from using Mystic Water, Stirling - or even Arko. It felt 'thinner' in lack of a better word. I worked the soap some more. Tried more product on one side of the face, more water on the other but the result was pretty much the same.
Started shaving and it was actually a very smooth shave. I enjoyed it a lot.
I did notice that the lather started to almost dissipate on the other side of the face as I was shaving one side.
The lather didn't have a long staying-power it seemed. Maybe I had used too much water on that side, not sure.
Bottom line:
Well performing soap that gave a nice feeling, smooth and close shave.
Some concerns about the staying-power of the lather but am willing to put that down to my technique and maybe not getting the water-product ratio correct.
Not a bad soap.
I'll try it again in a few shaves time and see how it works out then and if the same lather issue comes back.
I promptly plopped it into one of the many tin cans I got from Stirling soap (as you can see the puck is a bit on the smaller side, at least diameter-wise.
Tools used was: generic badger brush, EJ DE89L w/a Voskhod blade and a $1.50 bowl from the local Daiso store.
(The bar of soap is a Stirling "Naked" unscented soap that has now become my daily face wash soap).
It started out great. Within 10 seconds I had lather filling the tin can and after working it some more it got to be rich and very slick I thought.
Applied it to my face and started face lathering.
My first reaction was that it did not feel as 'rich, slick and protective' as the feelings I get from using Mystic Water, Stirling - or even Arko. It felt 'thinner' in lack of a better word. I worked the soap some more. Tried more product on one side of the face, more water on the other but the result was pretty much the same.
Started shaving and it was actually a very smooth shave. I enjoyed it a lot.
I did notice that the lather started to almost dissipate on the other side of the face as I was shaving one side.
The lather didn't have a long staying-power it seemed. Maybe I had used too much water on that side, not sure.
Bottom line:
Well performing soap that gave a nice feeling, smooth and close shave.
Some concerns about the staying-power of the lather but am willing to put that down to my technique and maybe not getting the water-product ratio correct.
Not a bad soap.
I'll try it again in a few shaves time and see how it works out then and if the same lather issue comes back.
