I cut it up and smash the soap into a wooden bowl with a lid that looks like this:
Make the lather in the bowl...tried the face lather, didn't work very well.
What are your preferences? Soap, blade, shaver?
I bought a Mekur 34C HD and a cheap Feather - like the heft of the Mekur much better. Bought a 100 pack of Personna Blue razor blades and still have quite a few left. I'll probably get a sample pack of various blades when I'm done with these.
I've tried Cella, Razorock, Henry Cavendish Himalaya and most recently Stirling shaving soaps - "croaps" actually, except for the Henry Cavendish which is a very hard puck. All lather fine once you play around with them a bit. So far, I'm partial to the scent of Cella, but I think the Cavendish has the best post-shave face-feel. Still working
through the Stirling samples, so we'll see. The Stirling soaps have great scents too.
Bought a couple of Omega boar brushes which I used for a few months, but bought a cheap Omega synthetic "S-Brush" on a lark and found that I like it better than the natural brushes.
BTW, that's a beautiful bowl you have there! I lather in a small ceramic bowl that I got from the local big-box for something like $1.34.
The croaps are in plastic containers and I micro-ed the Henry Cavendish into a second, matching bowl and covered it with a small piece of cardboard between shaves. I'll probably do what you do with the Arko when I get around to trying it.
Thanks for the info!
