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I'm certainly believing so myself, if I can find a better performing hard soap, I'll be surprised.The best shaving soap. Fact.
Hard water, soft water, no difference ... in my tests, I actually found hard water preferable as it keeps at bay the initial risk of an overly foamy lather when using too much water.
The post has been lost in the second upgrade, but I pitched a puck of MWF using soft water against a new puck using hard water. Results were great lather with both.
Could be lanolin sensitivity?I can get a great lather with it, plentiful and super slick but it dries my skin out for some reason. By the end of the second pass, my face starts to heat up and by finishing time it's sore and red. Technique always plays a part but not after three years of DE shaving. I'll have to save up and get Palmolive sticks instead......
The best shaving soap. Fact.
I shall take it on my travels whenever I go to try and find the difficult parts. Perhaps we could produce a map of the UK that shows where lathering is successful and where it is not...It is good value for money, I grant that. However, as anyone who has travelled around with the stuff (and i'm not talking about just going from one side of the pennines t'other) will tell you, one day it may work like a dream, but move on to somewhere else and it might as well be made of plastic. Any contender for best soap in the world would have to be epic everywhere, but the point is mute - if we found a universally accepted 'best soap in the world' - there'd be nowt else to buy and have one less thing to debate.
I agree, there are probably more variables than just the water we need to consider...brush type, load time, lather method, bloomed v non bloomed.I do believe next door neighbours might have opposite views. As it isn't the water, it must be the shavers, surely?
Could be lanolin sensitivity?
Fair playDon't think so as there's probably more lanolin in Ingram than MWF as it's higher up the ingredients list. There's also a fair bit of it in Astral cream and I whack that on my coupon fairly regularly. It's a fabulous soap no doubt, it just doesn't seem to agree with me is all.
The biggest variable no doubt, is as Carl says, the end user. God it hurts to admit he's right (again)....
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