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That lather looks good. Simmering water seems much too hot to me: if the lather gets too hot, it tends to break down, something Moss Scuttle users find out if they try to use boiling water, for...

Aha. Well, it sounds as if you're doing it right. You do end up working the brush over the beard a lot---working the lather in and giving the beard time to soften---so it may well be that you end up...

You're welcome. I just dropped in to help a reader. I still haven't progressed to a straight-edge razor, though I do admire them.

If your brush is quite large (say, a Rooney Style 3, Size 3), you pretty much have to work up the lather in a bowl to work it well into the knot. (If you don't do a little mild pumping with a large...