Friday - 11.09.2015
I have very soft water, and have had very few problems lathering soaps in my short time as a DE shaver. However, there are exceptions and one of those is the soap from Mystic Waters.
The few times I have tried this soap in the past has yielded disappointed results, but it has been a few years since last time I waded into these mystic waters and it was time to get my feet wet again.
I have only samples, so I do not know what scent I picked out, but it smelled rather lovely. First I did a test build, and managed to get a pretty good looking lather. I left it in my mug, took a pretty moist shower (the best kind) and started the shave. The lather still looked pretty good, but as soon as it touched my face it started to dissipate. In fact it disappeared just as fast as the Joshua Tree shave soap, a soap I call the Houdini of Shave Soaps.
I rinsed out the lather and started anew, and after working the soap I got the same creamy result as last time. Lathered up my face and it looked better this time, far from great, but better. The first pass was ok and did what I supposed to do. The next pass looked and felt much better, while the third was somewhere in between. What I noticed was that the lather held its own better on a dry face. It is not much, but it might get me closer to conquering this soap.
The Blue Astra blade was ok. It is outperformed by its greener sibling, it is less sharp, less smooth, but does an ok job with mediocre lather. Maybe with better lather it will also perform better. Time will tell
Razor: Edwin Jagger de89
Blade: Astra Superior Stainless Blade
Brush: Semogue 1305
Soap: Mystic Water's Mysterious Soap with the Mysterious Lather
Aftershave: Lucido Aftershave
Aftershave Milk: The Shave Den
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