I've been trying to figure out how to get a good lather since I started using a brush and soap. I've watched many videos and read methods on B&B. Everything worked OK, but I watched this video by Geofatboy, and decided to mimic him. Although he used cream with the soap, I just used the soap.
He started with a rather wet brush (I had usually started with a mostly dry one and tried to add the right amount of water bit by bit). I decided to try the wetter brush like what I saw in Geo's video. I have MWF in the ceramic bowl, and I held it tilted over a lather bowl so that all the soap slobber would fall into it. After I loaded the brush, I swirled it in the lather bowl, and since there were lots of big bubbles, I pushed the brush up and down, too, thinking the bristles would pop the big bubbles. Anyway, I got a fantastic lather.
Next: shaving the neck. I know the direction my whiskers grow, and it's not north to south. It's a mixture like most peoples. But Geo had another video demonstrating shaving the neck. He goes north to south then south to north, and then shaves ATG in the various directions the whiskers grow. I tried it, and it worked well! Previously, I tried strictly following grain direction. Geo's method worked better. BTW, I started with a fresh Personna blade. That probably helped with going S to N and against the grain.
So, I'll try this method again and hope it continues to work for me.
He started with a rather wet brush (I had usually started with a mostly dry one and tried to add the right amount of water bit by bit). I decided to try the wetter brush like what I saw in Geo's video. I have MWF in the ceramic bowl, and I held it tilted over a lather bowl so that all the soap slobber would fall into it. After I loaded the brush, I swirled it in the lather bowl, and since there were lots of big bubbles, I pushed the brush up and down, too, thinking the bristles would pop the big bubbles. Anyway, I got a fantastic lather.
Next: shaving the neck. I know the direction my whiskers grow, and it's not north to south. It's a mixture like most peoples. But Geo had another video demonstrating shaving the neck. He goes north to south then south to north, and then shaves ATG in the various directions the whiskers grow. I tried it, and it worked well! Previously, I tried strictly following grain direction. Geo's method worked better. BTW, I started with a fresh Personna blade. That probably helped with going S to N and against the grain.
So, I'll try this method again and hope it continues to work for me.
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