Pretty weak lather.... In fact, I don't even see it.
I haven't had any problems lathering MW soap. I use a homemade 2 band badger and load with a drier brush. It likes water but later in the lathering process after the brush is well loaded. Try a couple of nickle size drops of water on the soap before you start loading. Good luck, it's a fine soap, IMO, with excellent skin care.
It also took me about double the usual time to make lather with this soap. Where I thought it really excelled was in post shave skin care. My face felt really great after the shave.
I don't care about the cost...I overload all my soaps anyway because I like thick lather and plenty of it...usually spend about 2 minutes on the puck for most soaps. This one took about 4 minutes of loading/swirling to make what I consider a decent lather.
i'd just hate to have a product like this, only last 2wks of use, if i have to use so much more product then other soaps
Glad to know I'm not the only one. I imagine the post-shave feel is quite nice because of the lotion texture. However, I think it would be hard for this to top something like MdC or Tabula Rasa or Calani in terms of post-shave feel, all of which lather more easily. We'll see when I test it out for an actual shave.
I've got 17 shaves on what I'd guess started as a 1 oz sample (test sample, not a sold sample) and I bet I have at least 5 more to go. That's at least 88 shaves on a 4 oz puck. I go 3+ passes each shave and have always had more lather than I can use. .
The test samples that I sent out were about .75 ounce.