Pre-soaked alum

[jmercer]

I had an enjoyable experience with last two shaves. I started wetting my alum with hot water and let it sit while I shave. The idea was to get more alum action for close shaves. Before I would have to re-wet alum a time or two during application to keep it sliding on skin. It did sting more so I think I got a more concentrated alum application. Now here what took me by surprise was the wet alum was cold wet. It felt so good after a hot water rinsing off shave soap the feel of cold wet alum block. I realize running cold water on the alum will produce same results. I have only used hot water. Don't know why. Har!

Anybody do anything like this?