Poll: How many of you wet your pucks before loading?

[Foyle]

So, do you wet your pucks before loading your brush or do you just swirl a wet brush on dry soap?

Me, I've been experimenting with both but for my first couple of months of using hard soap I just swirled a wet brush on a dry puck and got great lather. I'm going to try the wetter brush on a dry puck method again on each of my soaps and see what happens.

[DaveNJ74]

I soak the puck with the brush in the same bowl/mug and load from there after I pour out the water and wring out the brush.

[Angry__Panda]

Just use my hand to scoop a little water from my sink and let it sit on top for about 20-30 seconds. I use Marco's method cause it works with all my soaps (soft or hard).

[Scott0079]

I voted wet, but it depends on the particular soap.

[Luc]

I wet the puck and drop the water 1-2 seconds later.

[franz]

Depends on how much water you have in the brush. I like to soften the puck with a few tsp of water and load with a slightly drier brush. If you had a dry puck, you'd have to load with a wetter brush.

[otto76]

I drip a little hot water from my soaked brush on top of the puck, put my brush back in to soak and let them both sit while I shower, or for just a minute or so if I am only shaving. And then I do like Franz said and load with a pretty dry brush.

[axman]

Always wet the puck.

[bkfist]

If the puck need wetting, I'll get a different soap.... Although with soft water, I've never found one I've needed to wet.

Sitting water has too much of a risk of leaching active ingredients from the soap at different rates, thereby changing what I am actually getting from the soap.

[GianquiMan]

Wet....but I forget often.

[johsa]

Put a table spoon of water on the puck before I take my shower so I voted wet.

[oversaturn]

That depends on the soap. Some soaps work better if you wet them, while some others don't need that.

[Wolfman1]

Wet the puck with a little water for about a minute.

[echotron]

Using a boar brush that's been soaking, turn it upside down for a little bit, ... use on dry soap with good results.

[Slivovitz]

I haven't found any kind of soap that needs to be soaked before using, but that's just me. I do soak the brush while I shower, or just run the tap over it if I forget.

Whatever works, though. I've seen people very insistent that some particular soap needs to be soaked, and although that's not my experience, maybe there are differences in water-hardness or other factors I'm not thinking of.

[5 over]

I've done both, but I'm now using some Tabac and wetting while in the shower. The brush soaks at the same time. I get out, pour off the water from the puck and wring out the brush. Then fill the sink with water while lathering and proceed to shaving. I don't know if the wetting is absolutely necessary but it seems have become part of my routine. The soap puck is looking a little pebbly these days, though, so maybe I'll go back to dry. Ah, I'd better not vote.

Ford

[Kenno]

That depends on the soap. Some soaps work better if you wet them, while some others don't need that.

+1

[coyotewhisper]

The one area of my wet shaving I have working on is my lather building. I have experiment with both dry and wet pucks. A dab water on a puck seems to work the best for myself in building lather.

[Optometrist]

Soft soaps, absolutely not, but for hard, triple-milled soaps, always. And I use a "wet" brush in all circumstances, despite wetting..

[jpkunst]

In my experience wetting a soap puck is not necessary, and harmful for the consistency of the soap if you overdo it.