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AimlessWanderer
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Just shaved. Best shave yet with this soap.
Brush started slightly wetter than normal, though not intentionally. Loaded heavy, not to Wes proportions, but about double what I normally would. Maybe a little more. Face lathered, and got the usual mediocre first pass lather. I tried face lathering longer, and the lather of the face barely improved ... but ... the bristle in the brush got stiff! Eureka! I pulled the knot through my fist, and there was a dollop of the good third pass stuff. I collected that back up with the brush, and started working that into the preliminary lather. It looked quite good!
I reached across for the razor, and that's when I saw it was still in three pieces from having discarded the blade at the last shave. Oops! Forgot about that. I reached down for the little tupperware blade pot that I keep in the bathroom, and it wasn't there! Into the bedroom I went trying to find it. It wasn't in the drawer with soaps and blades, nor was it in the drawer I keep razors and travel stuff in. There was a blade in the Razorine shavette though, so I nicked that blade instead. (I since found the tub - I'd put it somewhere stupid)
I was probably away from the sink for somewhere around 90 seconds, and the sheen had faded of the lather, and when I took the brush to the face, sure enough, it needed a little more moisture. It didn't take much to correct it, and with assembled and loaded razor, I went to work. Brilliant. Third pass performance on the first pass. Second pass was good too, although I did need to add a little more moisture again. By the third pass, I had to pull the knot through my hand again to rescue the lather hiding within. Again, very comfortable, but with sufficient feel and awareness.
Closeness was slightly impaired, as the lather had the dreaded cushion which made the razor float a little. There was plenty of residual slickness to go back and fine tune things though. It's not the best soap for my mild Jagger razor, but would probably work well with my IKon SBS. I'll try that when we get to the Mahogany sample.
Overall, very nice shave indeed. Great comfort, scent, glide, residual slickness, and of course post shave feel. Closeness I have already addressed, and the only other thing lacking on the lather in this shave was flow! I said on my very first shave with this stuff, that it's sticky. That stickiness is causing the best part of the lather to cling within the bristles, and it needs manually fetching from the knot. It can get stuck back in there again too.
Maybe it was lathering till the bristles got stiff, then excavating the good stuff from the knot that made the difference, or maybe it was just leaving it to dwell a while on the face. Either way, I feel a lot better about this soap after this shave.
Brush started slightly wetter than normal, though not intentionally. Loaded heavy, not to Wes proportions, but about double what I normally would. Maybe a little more. Face lathered, and got the usual mediocre first pass lather. I tried face lathering longer, and the lather of the face barely improved ... but ... the bristle in the brush got stiff! Eureka! I pulled the knot through my fist, and there was a dollop of the good third pass stuff. I collected that back up with the brush, and started working that into the preliminary lather. It looked quite good!
I reached across for the razor, and that's when I saw it was still in three pieces from having discarded the blade at the last shave. Oops! Forgot about that. I reached down for the little tupperware blade pot that I keep in the bathroom, and it wasn't there! Into the bedroom I went trying to find it. It wasn't in the drawer with soaps and blades, nor was it in the drawer I keep razors and travel stuff in. There was a blade in the Razorine shavette though, so I nicked that blade instead. (I since found the tub - I'd put it somewhere stupid)
I was probably away from the sink for somewhere around 90 seconds, and the sheen had faded of the lather, and when I took the brush to the face, sure enough, it needed a little more moisture. It didn't take much to correct it, and with assembled and loaded razor, I went to work. Brilliant. Third pass performance on the first pass. Second pass was good too, although I did need to add a little more moisture again. By the third pass, I had to pull the knot through my hand again to rescue the lather hiding within. Again, very comfortable, but with sufficient feel and awareness.
Closeness was slightly impaired, as the lather had the dreaded cushion which made the razor float a little. There was plenty of residual slickness to go back and fine tune things though. It's not the best soap for my mild Jagger razor, but would probably work well with my IKon SBS. I'll try that when we get to the Mahogany sample.
Overall, very nice shave indeed. Great comfort, scent, glide, residual slickness, and of course post shave feel. Closeness I have already addressed, and the only other thing lacking on the lather in this shave was flow! I said on my very first shave with this stuff, that it's sticky. That stickiness is causing the best part of the lather to cling within the bristles, and it needs manually fetching from the knot. It can get stuck back in there again too.
Maybe it was lathering till the bristles got stiff, then excavating the good stuff from the knot that made the difference, or maybe it was just leaving it to dwell a while on the face. Either way, I feel a lot better about this soap after this shave.
lol.
That's why I will occasionally palm lather though, to open the brush right up, without bending the bristles backwards, like the bowl would if I used it heavy in that.
No Al.
