This is a simple, classic technique. Thanks for posting.
Awesome! I'll be trying this method tonight. I've only ever used Stirling soaps since I started shaving and have always gotten a good slick lather, but I have been having trouble with razor burn. I don't know if it's the razor (just got 2 new razors today) or my lather. I always soak my brush in hot water, lightly shake out excess, and build the lather directly over the soap I pressed into the bottom of the bowl. I don't think the lather was weak or anything, I'm just trying to get this burn taken care of.
Try a touch more water. Does it really build up into a whipped cream that can stand on your face or does it easily collapse on itself?
I believe it was too much water. I wasn't loading my brush at all. It was normally soaking in warm water for about 5 minutes, dripped off without shaking any excess water off, and straight to the bowl of non-softened soap. It was a really weak lather, in retrospect. I did try this method and built lather this way all weekend. I'm definitely going to be doing it this way from now on.
Still struggling with mine. I have a few different soaps, but all do worse lather for me than croaps or creams. To simplify things, I put aside the higher end soaps and am focusing exclusively on the basic VDH puck. If I can lather that properly, I will have a base for using the better soaps. But I still have the problem that even when I get a decent paste and add water slowly, the lather I get is either totally dry or too bubbly. It doesn't look bad, but doesn't have the yogurt like sheen or slickness of the most lazily produced lather from Razorock or Proraso.
Great tutorial. Been trying to create an elusive great lather over the last couple of months and now I can see one in my future. I wish my beard would grow quicker!
Great tutorial ! However i stay mixing in the tin rather a bowl, does anyone else do this ? do you feel the bowl would be better ?
Great tutorial ! However i stay mixing in the tin rather a bowl, does anyone else do this ? do you feel the bowl would be better ?