Lately I’ve seen posts by frustrated shavers on the message boards complaining of weak, runny, bubbly, short-lived lather from some of the better known soaps out there. Particularly maligned lately have been one of my favorites, Mitchell’s Wool Fat, and venerable Williams Mug Shaving Soap. I’ve never had trouble lathering MWF, and I just finished [...]

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It’s nearing Christmas time, which means lots of TV advertising for electric shavers. When I was a kid, I used to like the commercial for Norelco featuring Santa riding one of their razors down a slope as though it were a sled. The brand name at the end would morph into the spelling “Noel co”. [...]

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I’ve mentioned that lots of guys get into wet shaving initially because they’re sick of paying through the nose for overpriced cartridge blade shaving systems, a la the Gillette Fusion. Yeah, you come for the money savings. Then, you get used to the sheer pleasure of warm lather being worked into your face with a [...]

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