Originally Posted by
dirkr
Hey Guys,
I've tried a few shaves now with my SR and I must say while it is very smooth ( even just WTG ) I'm still terrible at it :)
One thing however I've noticed is that I might be lathering wrong.
I bought some Edwin Jagger shaving soap and a badger brush.
I work up the lather in a simple bowl ( nothing fancy ) and I think I get some nice suds. ( although not very much )
As part of the exercise I'm just shaving my dominant hand side with the SR and finishing up with my old cartridge razor.
What I've noticed doing that is that the lather that I have on my face doesnt work with the cartridge razor, it just doesnt glide.
When I use the old "out of the can"-gel my old one glides like nothing.
I'm almost at the point that I wanna commit blasphemy and try shaving with a SR but with the canned shaving gel.
Anybody got an idea what I might be doing wrong? Bad soap? Bad "working up" technique? or something completely else?
Any help is welcome cause its annoying the crap out of me.. somehow I doubt my SR shave is as smooth as can be with a lather that doesn't really help it glide..