My little short descript on a 5 min lathering exercise ! Comon, you do not need decades in a bathroom to get a rich and slick Santa Claus beard actually. Now there are several variants to picking up soap and lathering, this is just one of a common bathroom workflow! Subsequently if you find u can do better with ur toes .. oh well. send me a pic

Weapon of choice.. today I shall demonstrate with my Edwin jagger brush. Not that you cannot do as competently with the boar brush But i wanted something a little more cushy and soft on the face today.

Soak the brush in a bowl of hot water to .. sterilise .. but mainly warm up the brush and soften up the hair a little !

Wet the soap puck with a few drops of warm/hot water (Actually non heated tap water doesn really matter ) . In this case I am illustrating with my Taylor of Old Bond Street Lavendar soap in a wooden bowl. Go spend some time showering while the rest of your stuffs are indulging in their own soaking! Give your preshaved face nice warm rub or a good warm towel press.  Supposedly helps to open up the pores.. I dunno but feels pretty comfortable

I flick my brush dry ( no dripping for me! ) and start working the warm hair on the semi wet soap surface in a swirling motion to pick up soap and load the brush. For a thicker pickup and a thicker lather, swirl a little longer with few more drops of water over the puck.

Ta-da! And a nicely loaded brush! All ready for the lathering!

Now with the bowl of hot water, I discard most of it except less than a small teaspoon residue. The amount of water you would wanna mix in lathering is of course dependent on the thick creaminess of the lather you intend to produce, and also the amount you want to generate, and finally varies with the characteristics of each soap. You can probably start with a few tiny parts of water and sprinkle more water as you lather if necessary ( than to overload with water and make a watered down voluminous lather.

You can also get a shaving scuttle which retains abit more heat to keep the lather warm. But I am pretty lulled by the comfort of my current salad bowl actually. Scuttles ain’t too easy to find locally ( maybe i did not try hard enough ), but you can get one easily from overseas shaving forums, or ebay for instance.

And a quick succession of nice sustained wrist swirling action for a minute or two , working the loaded brush in the bowl. Reminds me of my mum beating up eggs. This part probably needs abit more practice on your soap before you become a proficient master class bathroom latherer!

Yea! Lathering +1, Canned goo -1

* Oh did i mention, the excess foams you can always use it to wash the face. With a stiffer brush such as a boar brush or a synthetic brush, you can probably do a neat  exfoliative little dermabrasion on the face !

Lathering 2, Canned goo -2..

Finished off with the following today

- Regular Superspeed , Gillette 7 oclock blade, Swiss Pitralon AS splash, and abit of Body Shop Of A Man AS balm

Ryan

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