I’m been reading that some guys always rinse their soap jars after loading. When you load your brush directly from the original tub, do you rinse your tub of soap or croap afterwards?
Do you rinse soap
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I do not rinse my soaps. I leave them air dry for a bit.
Only if I’m passing that soap on to the next person will I do any cleanup on a tub of soap.
Only if I’m passing that soap on to the next person will I do any cleanup on a tub of soap.
I don't rinse soaps I just let them air dry
AimlessWanderer
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Creams:
No brush or water go in the tub. I scoop out what I need for one shave with a clean spatula. Or squeeze from a tube.
Tub soaps:
I serve up a heaped teaspoon of soft soaps into a separate lidded dish. That'll do me anywhere between 15 to 30 shaves, depending on the soap and just how heaped the spoon was. No need for special care, so no rinsing etc. I just put the lid back on. I only have two dishes in the bathroom to worry about, so it's not like it's going to be sat for weeks developing nasties.
Hard soaps:
If a cake/puck of hard soap goes into a soap dish, instead of a spoonful of soft soap, it's going to be in there for many months, and needs some extra care. Every month or so, I will tip the hard soap out, and give it a clean all over. For the most part, it's just like washing hands with a bar soap, but if the edges where it sits against the dish have gone a bit mushy or discoloured, I will clean off all the ugly bits with a scouring pad.
No brush or water go in the tub. I scoop out what I need for one shave with a clean spatula. Or squeeze from a tube.
Tub soaps:
I serve up a heaped teaspoon of soft soaps into a separate lidded dish. That'll do me anywhere between 15 to 30 shaves, depending on the soap and just how heaped the spoon was. No need for special care, so no rinsing etc. I just put the lid back on. I only have two dishes in the bathroom to worry about, so it's not like it's going to be sat for weeks developing nasties.
Hard soaps:
If a cake/puck of hard soap goes into a soap dish, instead of a spoonful of soft soap, it's going to be in there for many months, and needs some extra care. Every month or so, I will tip the hard soap out, and give it a clean all over. For the most part, it's just like washing hands with a bar soap, but if the edges where it sits against the dish have gone a bit mushy or discoloured, I will clean off all the ugly bits with a scouring pad.
It depends on the day. If the brush is exactly the right level of damp I don't have to rinse the puck. If it has a little too much water left in the brush I can easily get some soap over the edge onto the sides of the tub - and I rinse that off, generally getting a bit of water over the puck. I don't tend to load for a very long time, so I don't get a lot of lather on the puck, and what's on there doesn't bother me at all, but I don't want to pick up a slippery tub.
Hardsoaps: nope. I just put the lid on and let it try.
Creams: I only load my brush with the cream and make the lather in the bowl.
Creams: I only load my brush with the cream and make the lather in the bowl.
I usually load with a very wet brush, I am also often listening to music/podcast/audiobook so sometimes get distracted and have suds all over the tub.
It gets rinsed with cold water.
Jay
It gets rinsed with cold water.
Jay
I scoop Soap out off Soap container, into my Mug using a small spoon. If I need more Soap to make a lather I add a little more.
When I am done with Shaving I rinse out my DVI Lather Bowl.
Find my method works, OK for me.
When I am done with Shaving I rinse out my DVI Lather Bowl.
Find my method works, OK for me.
I face-lather, loading from the tub. When done, I hold the tub upside down under running water to rinse the outside of the tub, then wipe the outside with paper towel to dry. I used to leave the lid off and let soaps/creams dry for an hour, but now I don't bother. I don't see any difference.
I’ll rinse off the outside of the soap tub of any lather “overflows”. If I haven’t used it in a while, I just wet the soap top the night before.
Hard soaps: I load with a wet brush. When I’m done I rinse the soap with cold water and leave it to air dry by my dehumidifier. An hour or two later it’s bone dry.
I do rinse my soap... I'm not sure why. I've never really thought about it before now but, yeah, I do.
I always rinse hard soaps with cold water and air dry
I'm not a savage. I rinse my soap under running tap water.
See no point in washing clean soap. Just let whatever is in the mug dry for the next use. I do wait at least a few hours before putting the lid on so the soap has a chance to dry. So far so good.
Mike M
...but this one IS cracked.
I leave my soaps to air dry, unless I am trying to 3017 it in which case it gets washed, every little helps.
I load and leave it, then cap it after I'm done to maintain some moisture in it for hydration. Cella's the only soap I've ever had have an issue in a tub. but it didn't get a lot of use, and it didn't live in a fridge
With tubs I turn them over and rinse the outside, then set them upside down on the edge of the lid to dry.
Pucks in shaving mugs are just placed back on the shelf.
Pucks in shaving mugs are just placed back on the shelf.
I leave the leftover lather in the bowl for next time.
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