MWF with a boar brush
A winter morning—even just a Monterey winter morning—seems like a good time to use Mitchell’s Wool Fat shaving soap. I got a good lather with the Omega 49 boar brush, although I did have to return to the soap before each pass to refresh the lather.
My iKon did its usual superb and superemely comfortable job, and with a splash of Irisch Moos I’m ready for the day.
UPDATE: Gavin in the comments was exactly right: I did not spend enough time loading the brush with soap. This morning I used same brush and soap, but brushed the soap vigorously with the wet brush for 26 seconds, and I had plenty of lather for all three passes. I think on this shaving I must have loaded the brush for about 5 seconds: not nearly enough.
Odd that you had to return to the soap before each pass. I use an Omega 10005 and when I shave with MWF, I have more than enough lather for three passes.
Do you leave the brush quite wet when moving to the soap? I’ve found boars need to be dripping wet to work the best with soaps, especially MWF which is rather thirsty.
Gavin Groom
21 December 2010 at 11:40 am
I thought the brush was plenty wet, and I generate quite a bit of lather at the outset. But each time I returned to the brush, the lather had mostly died. I don’t have this problem with badger, either natural or artificial.
But I’ll continue to use the Omega 49 and see if I can master it.
LeisureGuy
21 December 2010 at 12:08 pm
I load on the soap for a good minute or so before moving to the face, dipping the tips every so often in water. I’ve found that this extended loading time on the puck makes for oodles of lather.
Gavin Groom
21 December 2010 at 1:03 pm
I’ll give that a go. Thanks for the tip.
LeisureGuy
21 December 2010 at 1:52 pm
I just had to point out that I love the color contrast of that Irisch Moos
J Dogg
21 December 2010 at 4:02 pm