Shaving with soap rather than shaving cream?

Im a 16 year old and right now im using Gillette shaving cream, and im running low on it. I heard if you use soap and take your time, your gonna have like the best shave ever, so i was wondering do you just use any type of soap or is there a special type you use, and if there is were can you get it. And the brush you put it on with were can you get that.