Thread: Hot towels?

There is an extensive sticky on TSD all about hot towels, and beard softening in general, just click here. You should at least skim through the whole thing, although post #10 has the major bulk of the technique. However, there are lots of new things and modifications discovered in the past 9 months, posted after that, as recently as this week.

Hi

I use an enlarge hand towel about the size of a small shower carpet.
I will use hot towel twice, apply Proraso prep cream, let rest for 5 min, lather with hot brush and Proraso soap over the prep cream, put hot towel over prep and lather for a few minutes. Then I apply lather to shave and use hot towel before reappling lather for the next pass and so on.

After shaving I wipe my face with the towel, rince it in hot than cold water and apply the cold water with it.

Wash it with regular towel. My wife always like the sent it as after shaving.

Jacques

I prefer a thin towel to a thick plush one. For some reason the nicer quality towels annoy me. The white economy hand towels at walmart are my favorite.

I don't usually use towels because I shave straight(lol) out of the shower, but it's nice to do. Preps the beard every bit as good as a shower and feels wonderful. I towel, lather, towel, lather and sometimes towel and lather once more keeping the towel in place for 1-2 minutes. Any small hand towel like you'd find in a hotel will do the job.

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