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AimlessWanderer
Remember to forget me!
My best shave to date with the Mixed Midget and London Oatcake combo.
Remembering back to my last disappointment with it, I decided to treat the Oatcake as a cream, rather than a soap. By this, I mean starting with a controlled amount of product, rather than running the brush on the soap till it looks loaded enough.
Knowing that this is a product that needs using heavily, I scooped out about 1ml, and put that in the lather bowl. For those not familiar with post 18th century units of measurement, imagine a 3/8" cube. I then squeezed out the excess water from the drowning Midget, and just as I do with cream, bowl lathered/loaded, just long enough for the brush to collect all the product and coat the bristles.
When I started to face lather, I could tell I barely had enough product, despite using such a diminutive brush. In comparison, if I'm using Erasmic or St James of London cream, half that amount will give me a three pass shave. I just managed to get a two pass shave from it today, but it was a very pleasant shave. Better performance than my previous shave with the Goodfellas Smile Italian Lemon.
London Oatcake can give very good shaves, but it is not a product that I consider good value for money, due to how much product you need.
This was the first time I've used the product in this way, and wish I'd done it sooner. It takes all the guesswork out, and lets you tweak things for future if needed. As to the scritch, just like the last shave, it is still there, but doesn't feel like the whole brush. It feels like there's soft bristles, and scritchy bristles. Based on how few shaves this brush has done, I am assuming that the oils in this soap are, as planned, helping to soften the brush.
I'll certainly be continuing to use the soap as a cream, by serving up the quantity needed for that shave. This means that I won't bother serving it up into the pewter soap dish first. I'll just leave the original container in the bathroom, just like I do with other creams, and serve up 1ml stright into the lather bowl. That doesn't change anything just yet, but it does mean that I won't be putting more Oatcake into the bathroom until the tube of Erasmic is finished. Once empty, the pewter dish will be refilled with another soap - a soap I load the brush on directly.
I haven't applied a post shave yet, but I will. As the lather was so lean, I don't feel my skin feels as nourished as it can be when loading that soap heavier. I'll be using Bulldog Original moisturiser, as the oakmoss in that goes well with the scent of Oatcake Overgrowth.
Remembering back to my last disappointment with it, I decided to treat the Oatcake as a cream, rather than a soap. By this, I mean starting with a controlled amount of product, rather than running the brush on the soap till it looks loaded enough.
Knowing that this is a product that needs using heavily, I scooped out about 1ml, and put that in the lather bowl. For those not familiar with post 18th century units of measurement, imagine a 3/8" cube. I then squeezed out the excess water from the drowning Midget, and just as I do with cream, bowl lathered/loaded, just long enough for the brush to collect all the product and coat the bristles.
When I started to face lather, I could tell I barely had enough product, despite using such a diminutive brush. In comparison, if I'm using Erasmic or St James of London cream, half that amount will give me a three pass shave. I just managed to get a two pass shave from it today, but it was a very pleasant shave. Better performance than my previous shave with the Goodfellas Smile Italian Lemon.
London Oatcake can give very good shaves, but it is not a product that I consider good value for money, due to how much product you need.
This was the first time I've used the product in this way, and wish I'd done it sooner. It takes all the guesswork out, and lets you tweak things for future if needed. As to the scritch, just like the last shave, it is still there, but doesn't feel like the whole brush. It feels like there's soft bristles, and scritchy bristles. Based on how few shaves this brush has done, I am assuming that the oils in this soap are, as planned, helping to soften the brush.
I'll certainly be continuing to use the soap as a cream, by serving up the quantity needed for that shave. This means that I won't bother serving it up into the pewter soap dish first. I'll just leave the original container in the bathroom, just like I do with other creams, and serve up 1ml stright into the lather bowl. That doesn't change anything just yet, but it does mean that I won't be putting more Oatcake into the bathroom until the tube of Erasmic is finished. Once empty, the pewter dish will be refilled with another soap - a soap I load the brush on directly.
I haven't applied a post shave yet, but I will. As the lather was so lean, I don't feel my skin feels as nourished as it can be when loading that soap heavier. I'll be using Bulldog Original moisturiser, as the oakmoss in that goes well with the scent of Oatcake Overgrowth.
I hope the Mistura continues to give you happy shaves too.
