Thread: Building Lather on the Soap?

In my humble experience, it only takes 10-15 swirl strokes on the soap to load a brush - but 100 subsequent strokes in a bowl to produce the creamiest lather.
If you did 100 strokes on your soap puck, you would have way too much soap - just a mess.
Quit face lathering when I found out how much better bowl lather is.

True That IR1. I'm guilty of using too much soap making lather on the puck, that is the way my Old Dad did it, now I can stop doing that and lather in the bowl or even the face.

I like lather from a puck to feel like a cream, dense, slick. I don't need airy volume and never worry about having leftovers. I puck foof. On face I make circles followed by painting strokes. I'm thinking several paths yield acceptable results.

Water hardness changes everything. It is a bloody gigantic variable.

I've tailored my soaps to my water. Another way to say it, the non water friendly soaps whispered to me, 'don't you have something better to do?'

Originally Posted by spoken36

Water hardness changes everything. It is a bloody gigantic variable.

This x's 1000 here in middle Tennessee it might as well be rocks flowing through the faucet.

I'm a big advocate of palm lathering until you find out what works for a particular soap/cream. I like to feel my lather.

So I got this salsa bowl at Wal-Mart for a buck. TC shared this with us. It was pretty good at making lather. However, I thought with just a little more roughness in the bowl, it would create a more creamy and thick lather. I took gorilla glue and put dots in the bottom inside and halfway up. Then when I put water on it, it expanded and I got to tell you it made lather way beyond my expectation. I used the Williams cake soap. With just about 15 swirls on the soap and then with a touch of water into the bowl... Rich lather and lots of it!

Originally Posted by sumothong

This x's 1000 here in middle Tennessee it might as well be rocks flowing through the faucet.

I'm a big advocate of palm lathering until you find out what works for a particular hsoap/cream. I like to feel my lather.

Isn't it funny how water changes in such a short distance, here in west Tennessee we have artisan well water that is sweet and soft, lather explodes from it, Tc

oh I can't take credit for the glue dots in the bowl, I can't remember who suggested it, maybe Geezer, but it works, I still have the bowl just in case I want to take a break from face lathering. Tc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Isn't it funny how water changes in such a short distance, here in west Tennessee we have artisan well water that is sweet and soft, lather explodes from it, Tc

oh I can't take credit for the glue dots in the bowl, I can't remember who suggested it, maybe Geezer, but it works, I still have the bowl just in case I want to take a break from face lathering. Tc

Razorfeld was quite the advocate of modifying plain bowls with glue/ epoxy.

Originally Posted by Thomptd65

Thanks! I really want to try a scuttle. Mostly for the opportunity to try out new equipment. I like the idea of a hot lather. I think I need to experiment a little with technique and see what works best. Appreciate the input, Troy

You can make a scuttle with a deep bowl (fill part way with hot water) and a shallow bowl that will sit in the deep bowl but resting on the lip so it doesnt fall right in.
A soup bowl in a noodle bowl works and is a cheap experiment.