What is your method of getting your soap to the brush?
Your Method of Loading Soap to Brush
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If it is in a container, and it is wide enough to fit the brush head when doing circular motions, then stick it in and have at it.
If it is a stick, smush it around on my face and then take the brush to that.
If it is cream, put some on my fingers and then rub it around my face like it was a stick.
I don't recall encountering shaving soap in any other format, so I think that covers it...
If it is a stick, smush it around on my face and then take the brush to that.
If it is cream, put some on my fingers and then rub it around my face like it was a stick.
I don't recall encountering shaving soap in any other format, so I think that covers it...
except when I use a stick, which I haven’t in quite a while, I load from the container.
Rub the soap on my face like a kid with a crayon, then lather it up with the brush.
If it can be scooped, I scoop it out and place it in a Timeless bowl, then build lather. Think anything from MdC and softer.
If it's a legit hard soap, I take the brush to the soap to gather soap and then move to the Timeless bowl to build the lather.
If it's a legit hard soap, I take the brush to the soap to gather soap and then move to the Timeless bowl to build the lather.
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I recently saw an old video from Nick Shaves where at 2:40 he adds a bit of TOBS cream to the brush before lathering. I hadn't seen that method before.
If using a stick, I rub it on my face then work up a lather.
If using a puck, I load it on my brush and then take it to my Timeless bowl and make lather.
If using a soft cream, I put a small amount of it in my Timeless bowl and make lather.
If using a puck, I load it on my brush and then take it to my Timeless bowl and make lather.
If using a soft cream, I put a small amount of it in my Timeless bowl and make lather.
Load damp brush from container.
Load face from loaded brush.
Build lather, adding a few drops of water to brush until I'm satisfied.
Shave feeling one of the following:
Load face from loaded brush.
Build lather, adding a few drops of water to brush until I'm satisfied.
Shave feeling one of the following:
- damn what a brilliant lather I've built (many days)
- confident approval (most days)
- what the hell have I done (they happen)
I've never considered this method thanks
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I face lather 100% now, so...
...with "hard" soap (Stirling, MdC, Razorock, PdP) I load the wet brush directly.
...with croap/cream (TOBS, Cella, Proraso, or anything in a tube) I scoop some with a small spoon and distribute the cream around my face with my fingertios, then lather with a damp brush.
...with sticks (Speick, La Toja, Derby) I rub the stick on my wet face and lather with a damp brush.
...with "hard" soap (Stirling, MdC, Razorock, PdP) I load the wet brush directly.
...with croap/cream (TOBS, Cella, Proraso, or anything in a tube) I scoop some with a small spoon and distribute the cream around my face with my fingertios, then lather with a damp brush.
...with sticks (Speick, La Toja, Derby) I rub the stick on my wet face and lather with a damp brush.
Same. Except I use my Captain’s Choice copper bowl. Also, for a cream in a large container such as AOS, I dip a wet brush into the container and take that to the bowl.
That’s what I do as well. Why complicate things more than it needs to beIf it is in a container, and it is wide enough to fit the brush head when doing circular motions, then stick it in and have at it.
If it is a stick, smush it around on my face and then take the brush to that.
If it is cream, put some on my fingers and then rub it around my face like it was a stick.
I don't recall encountering shaving soap in any other format, so I think that covers it...
With pucks I load from the container then face-lather.
Occasionally, and if traveling, I use a soap stick.
Occasionally, and if traveling, I use a soap stick.
Predominately I scoop and smear.
That is how I do it... or scrape and soak with a hard soap like Canada Shaving Soap. Face lathering exposed my skin to too much brush contact. It tells me... I don't like that!!!! So I try to listen.
I don't think I have any soaps I could scoop or smear.
If I did I would probably call it a cream.
I pick up soap with my brush off of the hard puck in a shaving mug.
If I did I would probably call it a cream.
I pick up soap with my brush off of the hard puck in a shaving mug.
Simply put
When at work I use shave sticks when home, load from container.
I load the brush from the container, then whip up the lather in my bowl.
A newbie here. So you have the brush bristles wet and the puck is dry before you put the brush to it.... correct?
I've only used Williams puck and on one of the main Williams threads they recommend soaking the puck while you shower which I have done to this point. But I'm about to try some other puck brands which are on the way so I'm guessing the soaking goes out the window and you just load the wet brush from the dry puck?
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