Mitchell Wool Fat shaving soap - my opinion

I know what you mean, however, this fact can be used to manipulate us. False scarcity creates excess demand or at least accelerates it. Everything is limited edition with the implication that if you don't act fast it won't be there and it might not be made again. Maybe. For example, I suspect that the maker of Polsilver blades never sold as many blades as when they said they would stop producing them. They should stop producing them more often. The answer may be to stock up on our favourites things or maybe it might be to ensure we have several favourite things so that we don't depend too much on any one of them. I'd like to go back to a world where vendors and artisans had to work for my business rather than the current situation where we often have to desperately try to compete for the honour of buying some item or other or go without. I guess I'll go without.

You show more patience than myself, after a few shaves it would be in the trash. I tend to find what works and stick with it for a long time without collecting a bunch of others. As it is now we make the saving soap I use here. When I want a new scent, or other characteristic all I need do is wait on the next batch.

New here, and haven't been very active in any of the shaving forums lately. Regarding the OP... Claus I've read you a lot on the nook, and so, yes I do respect you and your POV. You've certainly experienced more hardware and software in your time than I ever will... still, I love the fat. I get great results with it. Maybe it's the water. I dunno. It's the beauty of this hobby to have so many choices, and there's always something else, possibly better than the best we know of, down the line waiting to be tried.

I will never try MWF for a few reasons.
Reason 1: It's difficulty to lather as reported by many.
Reason 2: Scent, or lack thereof doesn't appeal to me.
Reason 3: I have heard that it is very similar to Haslinger, except Haslinger is extremely easy to lather.

Reason 3 above is the biggest reason I am not interested in trying MWF. Haslinger is easily one of the best soaps I have ever used, and it's easily a top 3 favorite in my den. If the two really are similar then I see no need to try MWF. The challenge of lathering it does interest me, but why bother. Who knows, maybe one day I will grab one from Connaught Shaving, but it's doubtful.

Once Haslinger introduced Schafmilch in 2012 it was clearly a superior soap (for me) in every way than MWF.
The Austrians took a great soap and made it much better.

I have not personally had difficulty with MWF but I do have a water softner so that may make the difference. It does have a light scent which I enjoy once in awhile. Personally I do not find it all that slick though.

I will one day try Haslinger. The thing I never know is most times posters just say Haslinger I never know if they are talking about Schafmilch only or the entire line itself as I believe all the other scents are the same formula with the exception of Schafmilch.

So is it only the Schafmilch that people are in love with or the entire lineup assuming the scent agrees with you.

MWF is the 1911A1 I carried in the military. We had to standardize on NATO ammo and went with Beretta 9MM and the doctrine of the now required 'double tap' sort of negated that large capacity magazine. Now we are upgrading to some 'weapon's platform for some ridiculous price. I knew a former Whermacht Soldaten. He told me, anecdotally they feared the .45 more than any other weapon in close combat and showed a curious scar in his scalp. He was in Arnhem. G.I. fired on him, round hit the inner rim of his coal scuttle helmet and wizzed around like a roulette wheel before falling spent on his chest.
To each their own with my blessings, viva la difference, it's your thing, do what you wanna do. MWF is also like PLAYDO- safe and happy memories. I haven't found a cologne to match that faint smell, but bet a lot of women would rip my shirt off if I did.

I will never try MWF for a few reasons.
Reason 1: It's difficulty to lather as reported by many.
Reason 2: Scent, or lack thereof doesn't appeal to me.
Reason 3: I have heard that it is very similar to Haslinger, except Haslinger is extremely easy to lather.

Reason 3 above is the biggest reason I am not interested in trying MWF. Haslinger is easily one of the best soaps I have ever used, and it's easily a top 3 favorite in my den. If the two really are similar then I see no need to try MWF. The challenge of lathering it does interest me, but why bother. Who knows, maybe one day I will grab one from Connaught Shaving, but it's doubtful.

Funny post. I have to comment, not challenge, but be gentlemanly provocative, so here goes...

Reason 1: How would You know what your own experience of lathering it might be if you've never tried it?
Reason 2: How would You know about your own perceptions of its fragrance if you've never smelled it?
Reason 3: May be true that it's similar to Haslinger, (I assume you mean the sheep's milk); Haslinger offers a number of shaving soap varieties.

Perception (as they say), is Reality. I believe this is true, but a perception based on one's own experience, not on hearsay - that's someone else's reality.

There is only one MWF. Think about that,

...and thank you for your post. My next soap purchase will be Haslinger Schafmilch. (It was on my radar anyway).  

-Rob

I will never try MWF for a few reasons.
Reason 1: It's difficulty to lather as reported by many.
Reason 2: Scent, or lack thereof doesn't appeal to me.
Reason 3: I have heard that it is very similar to Haslinger, except Haslinger is extremely easy to lather.

Reason 3 above is the biggest reason I am not interested in trying MWF. Haslinger is easily one of the best soaps I have ever used, and it's easily a top 3 favorite in my den. If the two really are similar then I see no need to try MWF. The challenge of lathering it does interest me, but why bother. Who knows, maybe one day I will grab one from Connaught Shaving, but it's doubtful.

Funny post. I have to comment, not challenge, but be gentlemanly provocative, so here goes...

Reason 1: How would You know what your own experience of lathering it might be if you've never tried it?
Reason 2: How would You know about your own perceptions of its fragrance if you've never smelled it?
Reason 3: May be true that it's similar to Haslinger, (I assume you mean the sheep's milk; Haslinger offers a number of shaving soap varieties.

Perception (as they say), is Reality. I believe this is true, but a perception based on one's own experience, not on hearsay - that's someone else's reality.

The is only one MWF. Think about that,

...and thank you for your post. My next soap purchase will be Haslinger Schafmilch. (It was on my radar anyway).  

-Rob

Every reason I listed was based entirely on what I've read and heard over the years. And yes, I was referring to Sheep Milk. I've read so many reviews on amazon and other places where people claim the two soaps are very similar, yet many prefer Haslinger for its ease of lathering. If the two are similar then I would enjoy MWF, but if the scent is simply a natural soap scent I wouldn't use it very often most likely.

MWF is so ridiculously cheap I may just pick up a puck after reading your comments. You make a compelling case for trying it. If the scent is not for me I'll just pass it on to someone else, and cut a piece off to try.

I will add one thing. What is the reason for reviews and discussion if we don't consider them before trying products? I'd love to try everything but that would cost a lot. Thus, I try to make an informed decision based on product description/ingredients, scent, and reviews. I do make one exception though, to try any soap that gets bashed on a forum for what seems like a personal issue. I've found a couple favorites that way. Lol.

So, in a puck throwing duel at a paced 100 merkurs ( a unit of measure based on the HD) do we go for the smaller Hash- slinger with velocity or the larger and denser MWF for sectional density and larger wound channel? I would love to buy a big roll of butcher's paper, tape it to a table and create a timeline via old posts and vendor websites WHEN every product left the parochial world of regional availability and general knowledge to the newly emerging wet shaving community. I believe MWF got here the 'firstist with the mostest' to quote Jeb Stuart. It has it's following because we are familiar with it's alleged quirks and nice pricepoint for volume along with that charming Downton Abbey ceramic container vendors hate shipping. I don't see any fancy Hash-Slinger Viennese containers in gold and royal blue with pink cherubs like those demitasse cups on EBAY my mother wants when we are running low on coffee for the month. If one has greater slickness or post conditioning I am at a loss. With the marketing of preshaves, post shaves is soap merely the intermediate? I should market shaving cups that proclaim 'REAL MEN USE SOAP AND TAP WATER' and find those old perfumed rubs the detectives and coroners applied before approaching a ripe corpse so the scent factor is also eliminated. Maybe then passions will cool along with a menthol aftershave--alcohol or witch hazel? There's another dozen eggs to crack on small or large ends.