I grew to enjoy the Simpson Case on my trip, and so I bought it out from a shave with my now-vintage QED Special 218 shaving soap. QED’s soapmaker at the time like glycerin-based soaps, and those s/he made were really excellent, quickly producing a stable and excellent lather of good consistency and excellent fragrance. Those who learn about products from reading forums rather than from their own experience sometimes reach an erroneous judgment about shaving soaps: “Tallow = good, glycerin = bad,” but in my experience a good glycerin soap can be really excellent, and this is a good glycerin soap. (Also, I have found some tallow soaps that were iffy.(
I easily got a fine lather, with a fragrance of pine and cedar. 
The soap is quite dark (see photo at right), which I imagine is due to pine tar in the formula—just a guess.
Well lathered, I picked up the Baby Smooth and in three passes (with, of course, two additional latherings), I had a perfectly smooth face with no problems at all. In using (and actively enjoying) the Baby Smooth, one of which I gave to The Son on a recent visit, I was thinking of how Italian Barber/RazoRock have developed some really excellent razors. I have not only the Baby Smooth, but also the German 37 slant, the RazoRock Old Type, the RazoRock Stealth slant, and most recently the RazoRock stainless steel Mamba. The Black Mamba (aluminum) was also excellent, and The Nephew swears by the RazoRock Slab. Really a good run.
A good splash of one of my favorite aftershaves, Anthony Gold’s Red Cedar from The Copper Hat here in Victoria, and I’m ready for another day of getting well. The chest cold (viral) is very gradually departing and will be gone, I think, by Sunday: just about two weeks’ duration, typical of the illness. And my conjunctivitis (bacterial) is responding quickly to the antibiotic and will also I think be gone by Sunday. I’m very glad to be rid of them. I haven’t been ill for quite a while, and I find I don’t like it at all.