Thread: Col. Conk soap and really hot water

I've posted my lathering routine a few times using Conk soap:

-Soak brush in hot water in one mug
-Drizzle about 1/4 teaspoon of hot water on Conk puck in another mug
-Shower, strop
-Squeeze out 90% of the water out of the brush (a lot more than I used to)
-Load brush with soap
-Lather on face
-Drizzle hot water on the base of the brush (near the handle) until I get the right water mix for a good lather

Anyway, I ran out of hot water today in the water heater, so I used a teapot to boil some water. I soaked the brush with boiling water, and used the near-boiling water to drizzle on the brush to add moisture. The lather was *incredibly* thick using boiling water vs. normal hot tap water.

Anybody else notice this?

-Chief

I like to use boiled kettle water to soak my brush and build lather. It seems to give me more consistent results than just using hot water from the tap. With the tap, sometimes I get good lather, other times its too thin and still other times it seems too thick and dries out too soon. I have no idea if this has anything to do with the actual temperature of the water I am using, or perhaps some of the impurities boil out in the kettle. Either way I have found for me, if I soak my brush with boiled water and use some of that water to build a lather I get consistent good results.

I have my hot water heater unnecessarily high. It's practically boiling out of the tap. I get great lathers with the really scalding stuff versus just standard "hot" or lukewarm. So, I suppose your statement is correct. Must have something to do with sort of "poaching" the soap.