steelwindmachine
12-23-2011, 07:45 AM
Let me put my situation in perspective before I write my remarks on my first experience with the MdC.
I am on my 35th DE shave. I have used CE Bigelow cream, GFT Coconut soap and Bullfrog Coconut Lime soap over the course of my wet-shaving endeavors. Of those, I wound up getting the best lather out of the Bigelow cream, but it mostly came down to developing more of a sense of how to correct a crap lather.
So, I was shaving the other night, or I should say, trying to shave. I was using my Tech with a 1-shave old Wilkie blade. I whipped up some of the Bullfrog soap, but it was just continually drying out and going on thin and airy. I should have added more water and kept working it, but it was a free sample and I just wanted to get my shave done rather than futz with the stuff. So, I decided to break out a sample of my MdC soap (I also have a new 170g jar, but am waiting to crack it open).
I took the little balled up sample and flattened it into my 4oz Calibowl and then dribbled a few drops of water onto it and let it sit for a few minutes. My Omega Pro 49 brush was already wet from the first round. I put the brush on the soap disc and swirled it with moderate force exactly four times around.
I then put the brush to my face and started to swirl. Literally within a few seconds a creamy lather exploded out of the brush and covered my skin like a heavy whipped cream. I said, "wow" as this happened and my fiancee', who was in the living room heard me and was like, "what's going on in there?". I said, "this frenchie soap is incredible!".
Not only did it lather blazing fast compared to anything else I have used up to this point, but the quality of the lather for the amount of work was above and beyond anything else that I had to stir up for 30secs -1.5 minutes.
My shave went really well and I did actually enjoy the scent. It makes me glad to have another 170g of it and that it will last me a long, long time.
I'm not exactly anxious to try anything else, but I will eventually try a Cella, MWF, Klar Kabinett, Dr. Dittmar's shave soap and a TABAC. I'm not sure how the performance could get any better short of someone waving a wand and the perfect lather appearing on my face. Then again, that practically happened, the wand was just a Omega brush :)
I am on my 35th DE shave. I have used CE Bigelow cream, GFT Coconut soap and Bullfrog Coconut Lime soap over the course of my wet-shaving endeavors. Of those, I wound up getting the best lather out of the Bigelow cream, but it mostly came down to developing more of a sense of how to correct a crap lather.
So, I was shaving the other night, or I should say, trying to shave. I was using my Tech with a 1-shave old Wilkie blade. I whipped up some of the Bullfrog soap, but it was just continually drying out and going on thin and airy. I should have added more water and kept working it, but it was a free sample and I just wanted to get my shave done rather than futz with the stuff. So, I decided to break out a sample of my MdC soap (I also have a new 170g jar, but am waiting to crack it open).
I took the little balled up sample and flattened it into my 4oz Calibowl and then dribbled a few drops of water onto it and let it sit for a few minutes. My Omega Pro 49 brush was already wet from the first round. I put the brush on the soap disc and swirled it with moderate force exactly four times around.
I then put the brush to my face and started to swirl. Literally within a few seconds a creamy lather exploded out of the brush and covered my skin like a heavy whipped cream. I said, "wow" as this happened and my fiancee', who was in the living room heard me and was like, "what's going on in there?". I said, "this frenchie soap is incredible!".
Not only did it lather blazing fast compared to anything else I have used up to this point, but the quality of the lather for the amount of work was above and beyond anything else that I had to stir up for 30secs -1.5 minutes.
My shave went really well and I did actually enjoy the scent. It makes me glad to have another 170g of it and that it will last me a long, long time.
I'm not exactly anxious to try anything else, but I will eventually try a Cella, MWF, Klar Kabinett, Dr. Dittmar's shave soap and a TABAC. I'm not sure how the performance could get any better short of someone waving a wand and the perfect lather appearing on my face. Then again, that practically happened, the wand was just a Omega brush :)