Thread: Lather always dries out...Help!

I'm still working on getting real thick lather but I solved my drying out problem a while
ago. For me, I wasn't hydrating my face enough before I applied the lather (so I guess my skin was sucking up some of the moisture from my lather causing the lather to dry out). Ever since I started making sure I throughly soaked my skin I haven't had the drying lather issue (I figured this out because I noticed that I never had the drying issue when I shaved directly after a shower). But I haven't mastered the perfect lather yet.

I was having lather problems, as well. I am about 3 months into shaving and my lathers were quite inconsistent. I recently started face lathering and the very first lather showed a remarkable difference. It was probably the best lather I had had at that point. Now I get excellent lathers. Im not sure if my mug technique is just bad or the one I was using is not not a proper design. I think that anyone having issues should try out different methods and dont be afraid to add a little more water.

When I started I would lather sections of my face at a time. As my technique improves I have been lathering my whole face, then just add more lather if it starts to dry in some areas.

Russell

Originally Posted by Krusty01

When I started I would lather sections of my face at a time. As my technique improves I have been lathering my whole face, then just add more lather if it starts to dry in some areas.

Russell

Words of wisdom ^^^

Also helps keep your face from drying up from the soap.

Try this approach. Use too much water. Make a wet, thin lather. Apply the wet thin lather to your face. Then, hold the brush upside down, bristles up, and squeeze the base of the bristles. Slide your tightened fingers upward a little. The heavy water runs down, the cream remains. Return to swirling.

You now have the wettest possible cream instead of the the driest possible cream.

Lather again.

Cream remains wet for up to an hour.

Good advise! Also, too hot lather dries quickly. Try warm water, or even cooler. As you learn to shave more proficiently, you will learn to dab the brush in water and wet the stuff up on occasion, eventually not needing to as you will shave a bit faster!

I treated myself to a new ceramic shaving bowl rather than using one of the kids plastic ones, I found that it retained too much heat and dried my lather out to the extent I had snow coming off one side of my face and I hadn't finished the first side. Pre-heating the bowl and using very hot water in an attempt to have better lather had a negative effect, I'm now using warm water and it makes all the difference staying creamy to the end of the shave.

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

Try this approach. Use too much water. Make a wet, thin lather. Apply the wet thin lather to your face. Then, hold the brush upside down, bristles up, and squeeze the base of the bristles. Slide your tightened fingers upward a little. The heavy water runs down, the cream remains. Return to swirling.

You now have the wettest possible cream instead of the the driest possible cream.

Lather again.

Cream remains wet for up to an hour.

Really a great tip, AFDavis. Tried it just now with some Crabtree & Evelyn Sandalwood which just an hour ago, when I was shaving, was snow-flaking off my face towards the end of the first pass. I tried your method, applied it to my wet forearm, and the lather stayed moist and didn't flake for what seemed like forever! You learn something new every day ;-) Thanks again for the neat tip. Going to use your method from now on.

Take care,

Kenny

'bruseth'

You're welcome.

Hope this doesn't sound too stupid but I notice that if I dont have a good layer of pre shave something down my face will suck all the water right out of the lather. Now I didn't read all the posts only the first few so I dont know for sure what your using but maybe your focussing TOO much on your lather and the problem could be elsewhere. Preshave, environment (I know you mention this a bit) etc.