I had my first shave with the vintage tallow Penhaligon's English Fern that I bought from Phil, and it was superb. The scent literally jumped out of the box when I opened it up. I found a good container for the soap, and rigged up a label for the lid from and old Pen's box that I had stowed away.
The soap lathered very easily with my Vulfix 2236S, which usually isn't my first choice for a soap brush. I was able to generate gobs of lather, more than enough for 3 passes plus touchup. I found that the soap was rather thirsty, not quite so much as, say, Mike's but it did need a fair bit of water to really blossom into superb lather.
The EF soap provided an excellent BBS shave that left my face feeling excellent. My only regret with buying this soap is that it's going to completely spoil me and make it almost impossible to back to go any veggie based soap.
The soap lathered very easily with my Vulfix 2236S, which usually isn't my first choice for a soap brush. I was able to generate gobs of lather, more than enough for 3 passes plus touchup. I found that the soap was rather thirsty, not quite so much as, say, Mike's but it did need a fair bit of water to really blossom into superb lather.
The EF soap provided an excellent BBS shave that left my face feeling excellent. My only regret with buying this soap is that it's going to completely spoil me and make it almost impossible to back to go any veggie based soap.
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