In the interest of full disclosure, I don’t know if my numbers would be representative of a normal persons’ since I’m quite a heavy loader with both shave and bath soap. I typically load the poof for about 30 seconds, but this gives me a ridiculous amount of lather, one could probably get away with 15 or less. I give the back brush maybe 20 seconds worth. Again, probably only need about half that. I just like lots of thick lather and the fabulous scent. YMMV Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Cool Now I have a new experiment. How many strokes does it take to load the Stirling Bar Soap. For my experiment I will be using a Japanese Salux towel cut in half. I may end up cutting it into 4ths since it is so long but for now let us see how I get on with half. This is a time and motion study. In my mock presentation I counted 15 loading strokes in 10 seconds. So that is where I will begin. Will do 2 experiments: One for a normal full body shower and one for a hooker shower ( armpits, genitalia, butt and feet) Does anyone want to make a prediction?
It’s not apprehension, it’s that after somewhere in the ballpark of a thousand Stirling shaves, I have concluded that I like more soap in my brush than you do on yours. I also sort of reject swirl counting or set loading time. What size brush? What type of hair? How dense? Face lather or bowl? Straight or SE? What brand of soap? In a hurry Tuesday, or leisure Sunday? Too many variables. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
Also depends on how much pressure you put on the brush while loading. If you really splay the brush you can load as much soap in 10 seconds as someone who is loading with just the tips in a minute.
I dont splay the brush too hard with Stirling, the soap is so soft. Here are the results of todays bath bar experiment. I used half of a Salux towel and loaded 15 strokes (1 stroke means a full motion up and then a full motion back down like "sounds like: chick, chick" This gave me only enough soap to lather my upper body before I ran out of suds. Tomorrow I am going to try with only 25% of a Salux towel and will bump it up to 20 strokes. I have been using Stirling Bay Rum bath bar
Ironically I shaved with Barber Shop this morning. For me it is not one of my favorites from Stirling. I dont like the powder note (I have an aversion to Baby powder for some reason) and also I dont care for Vanilla and I can smell both of those notes strongly with Barber Shop soap from Stirling. I also do not like the Sharp Dressed man soap or the Agar.
I have not smelled Creed virgin island water, so no comparison there. However I have tried Silver mountain water, Aventus and GIT. I found all Stirling equivalents very close, so i assume it's a good imitation. Smells kind of like a Pina colada mixed with a fresh aquatic scent. I like it! Very tropical.
I received my shipping notification today so Island Man will be here in a week. This is the first I’ve read about it being another Creed homage. I really like Aventus and GIT, and my wife likes Silver Mtn, so now I’m really curious where Island Man fits into the scheme of things. As long as it doesn’t smell like mold!
If it helps, my fiance loves Executive man and said she likes Island Man. She says SDM smells clean and is okay. She does not like Mountain Man but doesn't hate it either. Shame as it's my favorite.
Thus seems about right for me too.... but I hardly count. I just load it like I hate it lol. But we all know how much I love Stirling Sent from my SM-G928T using Tapatalk
I'm currently auditioning some samples of Stirling Mountain Man and WSP Matterhorn (soap and AS). Both a nod to Creed Silver Mountain Water. One will be the next addition to my rotation. The Stirling performs excellent, as expected, but don't sleep on WSP soaps. Very solid results from Wet Shaving Products. I'm figuring I have 2-3 weeks or so on each sample, and will need all of that to determine a winner. And I'm squarely in the, "Love the scent!" camp for Mountain Man. I'm starting to see a cologne-based scent pattern with my soaps and AS.
Agree 100%. And when you Super Goop your lather, loading time sort of becomes irrelevant anyway. It’s ready when it’s ready.
