Thread: Face VS bowl lathering

Originally Posted by jodypress

Happy to share my shaving joys Pete. Have a look here if you want to know more about my visit to Mastro Livi: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...xperience.html

Shaving joys to say the least! I checked out the link you posted of your 40th birthday with Mastro Livi. What a wonderful documentation of what, for me, would be the trip of a lifetime. Wait a minute.... My next birthday is 60...Now you've got me thinking...hmmm!
Like I said, one can only dream. Thanks again for sharing. At least I felt like I was there.

Pete <:-}

Ok tried face lathering today, lather turned out a lot slicker but not as much volume. Saves time and feels good on my face and not as messy as I thought it would be. Might stay with it a while

Started out making lather in a pewter mug. Now I always face lather.

I used to whip up cream in a mug when I first started, but have advanced onto face lathering with soap. I think back then it was easier to get a good lather like that, mostly because I used cream instead of soap, and didn't know any better. Now the quality of the lather is better with face lathering, because it's easier to control the amount of water that goes into the soap when it's whipped up directly on my face.

Originally Posted by RedGladiator

Ok tried face lathering today, lather turned out a lot slicker but not as much volume. Saves time and feels good on my face and not as messy as I thought it would be. Might stay with it a while

Now that you mention the volume and slickness being different iirc the same with me when I bowl lathered. I think the tendency is for people to make the lather too airy when bowl lathering so you get a voluminous lather that kills the slickness a bit. At least you now have another option in lathering that works.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Now that you mention the volume and slickness being different iirc the same with me when I bowl lathered. I think the tendency is for people to make the lather too airy when bowl lathering so you get a voluminous lather that kills the slickness a bit. At least you now have another option in lathering that works.

Bob

Couldn't be more true.

I bowl lather only because I make such a mess when I face lather. If I face lather, I end up with lather on the mirror, wall, counter, heck I think I got it on the ceiling once.

Originally Posted by RedGladiator

My technique for bowl lathering is loading for 30s then whipping it in a mug as fast as I can go adding drops of water as I go. I can build loads of lather this way. Face lathering I can never seem to build as much lather which is probably due to technique as well as my brush, face lathering gets messy too. I build most of the lather in the mug but take time to really work it in to my face.

As my practicing is trying to evolve into skill, I have learned that spending an extra minute or two making lather and another extra moment lathering my face good and "heavy" has been making a better shave.

By "heavy" lather I mean working the lather onto my face and using my brush to try and work the lather "into" my skin.

Since I woke up to this my already good shaves have gotten better. I am still DE shaving but I think this will make my SR. experience better when I have what I need.

Thanks to the many posts/threads that have shared knowledge. My learning curve has been slow and that is on me but the source of knowledge and experience is assembled here. Thanks to all!!