My short and sweet advice is have you tried blooming the soap in hot tap water for 5 minutes?..or you might have bought a dodgy tin?..this does happen with any mass-produced items, not just ones made in china..you always take a chance, and it could well be with the tin you bought was faulty, give my blooming method a try, if that doesn't work..put it down to a bad purchase and move on to a brand you can get good results with.What's the secret to getting the Blue's soap to perform? Try as I might, and I have tried several times, I just can't get a workable lather going with this stuff. All my attempts produce something offering no cushion or protection and dissipating really quickly. It's the only soap that I have never been able to shave with as every time it has been unusable. And it seems (to me) to have a kind of essence of industrial detergent aroma to it. Although I have read good reports about it elsewhere, (which is what prompted me to buy it in the first place) so I dunno, maybe I just got part of a bad batch? Any advice?
Thanks for the reply. Yes I tried blooming the soap, alas to no avail. Maybe it is just a dodgy tin? Perhaps best to call it quits with this one and move on as you suggest. After all, there are many other soaps that do work perfectly well.My short and sweet advice is have you tried blooming the soap in hot tap water for 5 minutes?..or you might have bought a dodgy tin?..this does happen with any mass-produced items, not just ones made in china..you always take a chance, and it could well be with the tin you bought was faulty, give my blooming method a try, if that doesn't work..put it down to a bad purchase and move on to a brand you can get good results with.
Take it easy. B