Latherin.... it is a good thing.

I have the opinion that "Latherin" is central to a good shave.
This is what I am "Lathering" with this week. It happens to
be an inexpensive kit as well.

• The Brush is inexpensive: Omega 1098 Professional Boar shaving brush.
• The bowl was a couple bucks -- it is a plastic salsa bowl from the local market.
• The soap is Cella save soap.

No mater what kit you have, practice, experiment. It took a while before I learned
to pick up "a lot" of Cella soap then in the bowl build the lather adding warm water
dribble by dribble.

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As the weather shifts I expect to switch to a cream in a green tube
simply because I have it.

The bigger the brush the bigger the bowl you will want to lather in.
This salsa bowl was a find. Inexpensive, large enough for all my
brushes, smooth with slight dimpling inside and out and easy to
hold onto with wet hands. Plastic... it will not break easy.

Latherin.... it is a good thing and need not break the bank.

Recently picked up some Cella myself. Took a bit to figure out the incremental addition of water was the key to a good lather. BTW, the almond scent is great!

A good lather contributes no end towards achieving a smooth comfortable shave for sure.

Bob

Lathering is definitely one the best parts about shaving. I need to try Cella.... along with about 50 other kinds of shave soap/cream...

You aren't wrong, last night I made a new lathering breakthrough and am very happy. I have also relaxed in trying to get a really smooth multipass shave and instead going for an acceptably smooth comfortable shave.

Lither, lather,
Dither, dather,
Gotta lather
All the live long day and night.

I speak to truth, I am an addict - for soaps and creams. At the moment only a measly 12 different ones. With two more coming in the next few days. I'll try them straight and then start combining them with each other to see what I get. Couple that with the need to have a variety of cups, mugs, bowls scuttles and anything else I think you could build a good lather in including face lathering. Lots of so so results and an occasional spectacular foaming that might take over the bathroom. On the long view, where else can you have such fun at a relatively low cost. Lather away.

Same here Razorfeld; I have to admit that I'm a bit of a soap slut too. I have my "regular" eight soaps that I rotate but there are twice that many more that I use when the spirit moves and a dozen more in the drawer that I haven't tried yet. Then there's the bag of soaps that I tried but didn't like for one reason or another but I might try again "someday". Heh, I can't seem to throw anything away.

rs,
Tack

Edit: I take it back - I DID throw out a puck of Lightfoot pine soap a some years ago. That stuff is just awful - hard as a rock, very little scent, terrible lather. I swear, bacon makes better lather.

Crap, now I have to search the web for bacon scented soap!

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Originally Posted by Tack

Same here Razorfeld; I have to admit that I'm a bit of a soap slut too. I have my "regular" eight soaps that I rotate but there are twice that many more that I use when the spirit movesdozen more in a drawer that I haven't tried yet then there's the bag of soaps that I tried but didn't like for one reason or another but I might try again "someday". Heh, I can't seem to throw anything away.

rs,
Tack

Edit: I take it back - I DID throw out a puck of Lightfoot pine soap a some years ago. That stuff is just awful - hard as a rock, very little scent, terrible lather. I swear, bacon makes better lather.

Crap, now I have to search the web for bacon scented soap!

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The ones you might try again one day, probably won't get tried again one day. Just use them for hand washing. I recently dumped a tube of cream into my shower gel as I know I won't use it for shaving again, though as it didnt smell that great my shower gel doesn't smell great either, though it lathers better. I am developing a taste for shaving cream gathering, though only until I find the one or two I really like.

Tack

Here you go Shaving Soaps, bacon shave soap and it is in your neck of the woods.

Bob

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Tack

Here you go Shaving Soaps, bacon shave soap and it is in your neck of the woods.

Bob

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Great! I've tried their soaps before and liked them. It looks like they've added some new ones. I'll have to check out that bacon lard. :)


rs,
Tack

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Originally Posted by niftyshaving

[*]The soap is Cella save soap.

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Gotta love it when "save" is even written into the name of the product. :tu

I have indeed nicked myself because of poor lather that was too dry.

Ahhh, lather!
I have two soaps that I am working with:
1. SRD unscented (it came in the SRD kit and I get what I 'think' is a decent lather).
2. D.R. Harris Almond with the shave bowl.

I've been experimenting with creating lather every night before I hit the rack, and as the word experiment implies, with varying degrees of success. Like with each incremental step forward in SR shaving, I can't believe I thought yesterday's result was good after what I achieved today.

I really can't wait for tomorrows lather & shave!

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Originally Posted by ChopperStyle

I have indeed nicked myself because of poor lather that was too dry.

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Yep me too, nicks, razor "chatter", excess pull all are a result of dry lather from what I have seen. Obviously the pull can be caused by a few things, but I have found dry lather to be one of the culprits :)