The final word on how to create a great lather with any soap - Guaranteed!

[MrMoJoe]

This is THE secret - at last!!!

When using a good badger brush, cover the puck with exactly 2 tablespoons of warm water, then let your brush soak for 5 minutes in hot water. Then give the brush two good shakes. Swirl the brush 30 times in a clockwise motion, then 30 times in a counter-clockwise motion, them pump up and down on the puck 10 times, followed by 10 more clockwise swirls then 10 more counter-clockwise swirls. If bowl lathering, place one teaspoon of water in a bowl, and swirls clockwise in the bowl 25 times, then 25 times counter-clockwise. Do this Monday thru Wednesday. Thursday thru Saturday, add 10 more counter-clockwise swirls. On Sunday, continue with the Thursday-Saturday routine, but add 10 more pumps up and down. Keep in mind this routine works best with tallow based soaps (except MWF) as well as Institute Karite and most Mama Bear's veggie soaps. When using a boar brush more water is required for the first 2 weeks; give the brush only one shake and soak the puck with 3 tablespoons of VERY HOT water. Also with veggie based soaps (except Provence Sante and most versions of QED), use double the amount of clockwise swirls while skipping the pumping motion altogether. With MWF, when using the upside-down approach, be sure not to confuse clockwise and counter-clockwise, as they will be reversed, whether using boar or badger; pumping will be the same. If face lathering, always double the number of swirls on the puck, unless the loading process is done upside down with a boar brush, which works best with cold water on Tuesdays and weekends. Once you've got all of that down, you can move on to more elaborate techniques, which will yield truly prodigious amounts of perfect lather. At this point once lathering swirls have become consistent, you can load your brush for time instead of swirls; so instead of 25 swirls, you might swirl for 30 seconds. This is highly advanced, so don't rush into it. When using Italian soft soaps or Arko, be sure to load the brush in indirect light, as bright, intense lighting can cause a chemical reaction which results in a thin, airy lather. If you shave in fluorescent light with a badger while wearing a purple wig, be sure to use only cold water to help avoid this effect.

Follow the above instructions to the letter. If that doesn't work, try something else.

[brucered]

Don't forget, the lather always turns out better if you are wearing Crocs, at least for me it does

[turbo tom]

With Williams, you need to use a boar brush and stand on your left leg. DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT WEAR CROCS WHILE USING WILLIAMS MUG SOAP.

[5savages]

Dang it! I was trying this method tonight and lost count on the 3rd series of anti-counter-clockwise swirls. Afraid that I had screwed it all up, I rinsed everything down the drain and will have to start all over again.

[syngent]

Dang it! I was trying this method tonight and lost count on the 3rd series of anti-counter-clockwise swirls. Afraid that I had screwed it all up, I rinsed everything down the drain and will have to start all over again.

dont forget to throw some asb over your left shoulder with your right hand when this happeneds

[BrookR1]

You owe me 3 minutes of my life back.

[7 O Menthol]

Someone has finally​ taken YMMV out of wet shaving. Wow.

[JCinPA]

This cracked me up! I want my last two weeks back! Trying to lather with a wet brush on a hygrophobic soap! never have I been more frustrated. This made me laugh out loud, though.

[squatzilla801]

Your Mileage Shall Not Vary!!!!!!!

[blader]

Hilarious!!

[vitalMyth]

oh wow roflmao

[barneykiller]

I thought he was serious.

[ThePatrician]

With Williams, you need to use a boar brush and stand on your left leg. DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT WEAR CROCS WHILE USING WILLIAMS MUG SOAP.

Or, you know, don't wear Crocs ever.

[elsmooth]

Crap...I always wear an orange wig! No wonder the lather kept breaking down...time for a trip to Party City...

[cryhavoc]

BRAVO