My First Shaves with Valobra

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Ouchmychin
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My First Shaves with Valobra

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A couple days ago I put my cake of Art of Shaving Valobra into a nice wooden bowl. I wet my brush and started rubbing the surface. Kept going for 48 circles. When I tried to build lather, it was thin and nowhere near as rich as I had been getting with an ARKO shave stick rubbed on my wet face. The soap was just too hard milled. Yesterday I measured two teaspoons of the hottest water from the tap and poured them on top of the cake. Today I tried again. Voila! That wonderful creaminess I was expecting. I should have expected that because I had to soak the ARKO stick before it became soft enough. Nice shave of head and beard. I used a Razorock Monster and a new Gillette Guard and got to a perfect bbs with no irritation.
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Re: My First Shaves with Valobra

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It's one of my favorite soaps, Pete. I normally grate up a Valobra Shave Stick or half of an AoS cake and mash it into a one-cup Pyrex dish. I strongly suspect that grating it up like that also makes it dissolve more readily. Interestingly enough, it isn't a triple-milled soap. Valobra's bath soaps are much harder.

- Murray
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