Thursday 13 Feb 2025
Late post, 2 family hospital visits today
1 Days growth
Soap = 
MWF today scored only a 0.5
Brush = Pura Setola
Bowl = face first >>>>>  then white plastic bowl
Razor = Gillette Slim set to 4
Blade = Personna (2)
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayer’s rose petal, Nivea Balm
ASL = Imperial Leather
Scent = English Leather
Score = decent shave but the Fat put up a brave fight today
Damage = minor nick over left sideburn skin lesion
After some recent successes with the Fat, today I decided to try a different brush. The Pura Setola is also a boar brush but unlike the 10049 (which is 28 mm knot and 65 mm loft) has a knot of only 24mm and loft of 55 mm. Lightly bloomed the MWF, soaked the brush in warm water for around 5 minutes, shook dry, squeezed dry, dried it in the towel and set to the Fat for 100 swirls. To the wet face and the initial lather started off OK, but then started thinning out and drying out halfway through the first pass. Hmmm....what gives?
Back to the puck to load more MWF, seemed OK initially, but more bubbly than I would like. Can’t be 
too much water because I hardly added any. So: maybe 
too little water, right?  Therefore: back to the Puck, in for a penny in for a pound, then into the shaving bowl and brutalized the fat while slowly adding up to 20 mls water. Fairly filled the bathroom with a miserably bubbly mess of Mitchell’s Wool Fat and kept on going for a total of 4 passes. The Alum stung, the shave was outstanding, the Fat provided good protection despite embarrassing itself by not being able to hold itself together and behave like a decent shaving soap should. So overall I can’t call the shave a total failure, but I could hear the other soaps in my Den having a bit of giggle
The Mystery of the MWF continues
Could it be 
that brush-dependent?
Could the water I soaked it in have been too warm?
Or am I just expecting too much from it?
Tomorrow: same setup and brush but back to the reliable Stirling
After that I will try the MWF again but with a synthetic brush, since others have claimed some success with this
MWF 0 + 0 + 1 +0.5 + 1 +1 + 0.5
Sterling 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
I guess this is turning out to be a Mini-Mitchell focus of sorts 
 
Not one to complain but it's getting close Lol!
	
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