Thread: To bowl lathering - Don't we all FACE LATHER anyway??

I'm not sure what I do. I just swish the brush around until I think there is enough soap on it, and rub it into my beard. I don't build up a lot of lather in the bowl because it will just get poured down the drain, and waste my soap. Is that face lathering?

Originally Posted by Gigmaster

I'm not sure what I do. I just swish the brush around until I think there is enough soap on it, and rub it into my beard. I don't build up a lot of lather in the bowl because it will just get poured down the drain, and waste my soap. Is that face lathering?

Yeap...I think you are face lathering

I'm all about time efficiency. If I lathered in a bowl, I'd end up spending twice as long to do the exact same thing!!!

For some of us building lather in a bowl is just part of the experience. Shaving is more than a chore at that point so we don't mind taking the extra time. We're having fun.

Also, my technique is a little different since I'm female. Legs are big and have a lot of surface area to shave. If I try to lather all at once toward the end the quality of the lather starts to drop. I lather a little and shave a little and then lather a little more and shave a little more as I work my way around. I'm more about quality than speed. A bowl is a handy storage place for the lather I haven't used yet.

Lori

I have a nice ribbed pewter soap dish that rests nicely in my off hand, and enjoy the ritual of making lather in that. Plus, I'm messing around with a bunch of different soaps and it gives me a closer view of how each one behaves.

Once on the face, I don't know how much more the lather develops. I suspect it breaks down and re-develops as I manhandle it into the stubble. If I do a second pass, then I'm just spreading the bowl lather.

Im about half and half

I tend to bowl lather creams and face lather soaps. I enjoy doing both for different reasons but I usually bowl lather to heat up the lather and enjoy the experience.

I do both, but I do it on purpose.
For soaps, I face lather only. I'll start with a wet brush and swirl and load the soap right on the puck. If it's a stick, I go directly to my face with the stick then a slightly drier brush.

I use a bowl for creams, and i'm not so much making lather as loading my brush. I'll take a wrung out wet brush, swirl a few times to get some soap, and then start to load the brush in a small bowl. Once I start to see lather form, I take a look and judge how wet it is and start applying the brush to my face and adding water as I go.

If I'm doing uber lather (current favorite is MWF and T&H Rose). I'll typically use a larger bowl and in that case I'll load the brush on the soap and add a snurdle of lather directly into the bowl and start my mixing there. Then complete on my face.
Although my favorite way to make my favorite uber lather is to use my self made MWF shave stick, and then start the cream lather as I normally would and then mix directly on my mug =).

Scuttles are nice, but I don't have room for them on my sink.

Just my 2 cents..

FWIW: I mug lather. I lather in the mug til it looks just right, then I lather on my mug.


Once the lather spreads out on my face it's got too much surface area and dries/evaporates/disappears too quickly and too easily. If I work it in my Old Spice mug I can get the moisture and consistency right and have a nice shave. When I've tried face lathering, it just ends up being a fight and that's not enjoyable.

some of us build lather on our hands and then slap it on like aftershave. we who do this are not closet face latherers; we are closet palm latherers. and we will not be pressured to come out of that closet for all your facial temptations