Quote Originally Posted by yawdeuce View Post
Hello Everyone,

I have been shaving with a straight since January to some very satisfying results. I have been using tub creams until today. I got some TGQ shaving soap this weekend and decided to give it a spin. I put it in my "shaving bowl" (8oz Tupperware container) and filled it with hot water and my brush to soak during a shower. When I got around to soaping up I had a tough time with it. The bar kept sliding around and it took a long while to get a good foam. When it was all said and done it did produce a VERY good shave so I am not complaining. I am just curious what procedures people use? Do you soak it? Do you rinse out the mug after you are all done? Does your soap dance around? Do you find that you need more water for soap than you do for cream? Thank you very much.
The TGQ soap is a cold pour soap and should not be soaked as it melts very quickly vs the triple mill traditional hard english soaps (which also do not need soaking if you start with enough water in your brush).

I put my soaps in small no name branded tupperware like containers but they are small enough that the soaps wedges in place and pretty much stays put.

Soak your brush during the shower, not your soap..... let it drain by itself and then maybe one light flick of the wrist to remove a little bit more water but you do want the brush good and wet, it takes more water to use soaps than creams.

I don't rinse my soap after I'm done, I just leave the lid off and let it dry... why waste soap you've not used yet?!?! I do rinse out my brush very well after shaving.

As mentioned above, my containers are small enough to avoid having to chase the soap around. With the English triple milled soaps, they are shaped to fit the curved bottom of the wooden bowls they also offer, when using them in a flat bottomed bowl, simply invert the soap and let it stick to the bottom when it dries out...

Hope this helps,

Regards

Christian