Hello,

So I got my first razor a couple months back and have been consistently shaving with it. While I have slowly been getting better and better with the blade, I haven't gotten any better with my lather. I am currently using this brush and scuttle from Classic Edge Shaving. I have also been shaving with samplers of Taylor of Old Bond Street and Truefitt and Hill shaving creams.

Whenever I shave, I soak the brush in warm water and then shake it out. I then pour hot water into the scuttle and put an almond size worth of shaving cream into the scuttle and mix it up. I add a couple of dabs of water into the lather and apply it to my prepped face. Before I had problems with the lather drying out on my face, but have since switched to only lathering sections of my face as needed. I do three passes.

Now for the problems: In the bowl my lather usually dries out in between applications. I begin to add more water, but there is not even enough soap left to create new lather. On different occasions I have tried adding more soap (even lots of it), but the lather dries out again in a few minutes. I've tried adding more water to the brush (just little dabs) but this doesn't help either. If I add too much water then lather does begin to form, but it is much too runny to be used on my face for shaving. I thought maybe the water in the scuttle was too hot causing evaporation, but this still happens even when lukewarm water is used in the scuttle. At this point I have no clue what it is I am doing wrong. I can't seem to find a way to get nice, creamy, moist lather. Is my method of creating lather not correct? Could it be that my brush (which was pretty cheap) is not a good one and doesn't hold the soap properly?

If anyone has any suggestions or guesses as to what is going wrong here, I'd greatly appreciate them. As of now I've switched back to using normal canned shaving cream so I'll be able to shave, because I've had too many problems with lathering.