Okay, so I just spent the last HOUR trying to work up a lather, and I can't. I've been working up lathers for the last several months, and now I've moved on to trying a new technique, hailed as the best, and I can't seem to get it to work. I am about ready to throw my TV out a window in frustration. What's going on here?
So previously, what I had always done was taken my brush, gravity-drained, and worked up a lather in the same mug as I kept my soap, which had held the water that my brush soaked in. It always took me about 3 or 4 minutes to work up the lather, in the small mug with a boar brush. But I learned that doing it that way was the reason my soap was disappearing so fast. I was told what I should do, is take a brush that has had as much water removed as I can, swirl it around in the mug with the soap in it, which has had just a little water in it removed prior to putting the brush in, until it starts to pull and I hear an audible difference. I never felt a pull or heard a difference in the audio despite swirling for a good 5 or 6 minutes, but the head looked charged with soap so I proceeded. I was told to put a little water into another mug, and then work up a lather in there. But here's my thing, I tried that 5 times, and each time, I could swirl that brush around for 15 minutes, add just a little extra water as many times as I could, but no matter what, all I could get was suds, instead of lather. It would be suds, with really, really, small bubbles, but suds nonetheless, and remain that way no matter how long I stirred, suds whose lubricating qualities would make canned foam fall down on the floor laughing. The only thing that's changed about my equipment is that I've had to replace my mugs with two small glass bowls becuase my mugs broke yesterday. Now I've wasted an hour of the last day I have to work on a paper, and I haven't learned anything about working up lather. And to add insult to the injury, I even went and tried to work up a lather my old way, and I still couldn't get anything but suds (which did used to happen, albeit maybe 1 in 20 times.)