Anyone used? Care to comment on quality?
Kent Shaving Soap?
- Thread starter Zenas
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I have it. It's a solid soap. My understanding is it is rebranded Mitchell's Wool Fat, which you will hear a lot about on these forums.
Great soap! Repackaged Mitchell's Wool Fat. Excellent lather (for me) and the lanolin does wonders for the skin! Like MWF though, some have trouble with the lather.
MWF is a top notch tallow soap loaded with lanolin.
Another big fan of Kent/MWF, there is a learning curve when it comes to lathering but once you get the hang of it, there will be only one soap in your rotation.
+1
I went through trying many, many soaps and at one stage had a rotation of 14 different soaps. Now I have just 4 soaps and MWF gets 90% of use with the other 3 providing the occassional change.
The best soap that I have ever used. It produces a very slick lather and it will leave your face feeling great. Some people have a difficult time lathering it, but I got it down by my second shave with it. du212 did a great lathering tutorial which should be very helpful.
Where do you guys buy Kent?
Im not sure why I would buy MWF if the knockoff is readily avaialbe.
Im not sure why I would buy MWF if the knockoff is readily avaialbe.
Kent is more expensive - £5.50 in John Lewis' compared to £4.50 for MWF direct from the factory.
Direct from kentbrushes which is Kent's own eBay store. It's £7.95 including p&p in a wooden bowl.
I keep its "twin", Mitchell's Wool Fat, in my rotation because it's a great soap!
+1. Great soap, nice wooden bowl. And, if you poke around that eBay store, you'll find some great brushes -- shaving, military-style hair brushes and clothes brushes -- for great prices. Kent calls these brushes "seconds," but my hair brush was perfect as far as I can tell, and the clothes brush I ordered had one tiny rough mark that sanded right down.
agreed, they do have some good deals on their ebay site.
The clothes brushes are superb. I can't say anything about the hair brushes as I shave my head.
