Thread: Please help

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Let me add to the debate. One additional fact about lather making that we tend to overlook, other than it's different in different parts of the country, is the time of year. I'm an uber-lather geek and I get very unhappy when suddenly, on a morning, the lather does not go together as it has. Then comes the ah! moment. The season is changing and the ambient temperature and humidity level are changing. Maybe not radically, but it doesn't take much to change the way a lather reacts. My uber-lather went to hell last Spring till I realized I had to make adjustments. I did, and I am remembering to watch the lather quality as Fall deepens.

You may have a valid point there razorfeld. You live where the humidity can get quite high and I live in a dry climate even though it is not far from you. I just never get disappointed with ubelathers and that's about all I make anymore. Very seldom do I use a crème or soap by itself but I do at times. A Ubelather is so easy and rewarding, I just cant seem to like hard soaps anymore by themselves. This morning I used Le Pere Lucien soap and LaToja crème with a few drops of glycerin and the lather was to die for. It did tend to dry out a couple times so I added a few drops of water to the brush and face lathered it in. Some of the soaps dry easily when using a very hot scuttle and Le pere is one of them. Most of the Razorocks do not. I like my lather hot enough that when I put the brush to the face it is really hot.