Thread: How to waste as much soap as possible

Just skip ahead to 1:25. See if you notice anything that might be just a tad wasteful. I'm beginning to see why my soaps last for years while others go through it in a month or two.

I don't understand the fast use of soap either! I have been working on the same puck for at least 6 months and it still had months left to go.

Thanks for the helpful hint! i guess i have been adding way too little water to my soap.

I may be sitting on more soap and shaving cream than my life expectancy can support. Conserving shaving soap is low on my list of priorities.


Cheers,
Rob

Originally Posted by Donut

I may be sitting on more soap and shaving cream than my life expectancy can support. Conserving shaving soap is low on my list of priorities.


Cheers,
Rob

Yea, same here.

Bob

+1 Some literally go through in two days what lasts me a month.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Just skip ahead to 1:25. See if you notice anything that might be just a tad wasteful. I'm beginning to see why my soaps last for years while others go through it in a month or two.

i don't really see what you're referring too. MWF is a tricky soap to get lathered, and it is quite common for people to soak it prior to lathering. I was expecting to see a ridiculous amount of wasted lather at some point, but it didnt jump out at me. Personally i would rather make twice as much lather as i need, rather than try and save a small fraction of a penny just to have to add more soap and water to my brush mid shave.

I also have an enormous amount of soaps and creams, and I don't really cars about how much I use. Sometimes I have later for 6 passes, so what? Better have more than to start rationing during the shave

Originally Posted by prodigy

i don't really see what you're referring too. MWF is a tricky soap to get lathered, and it is quite common for people to soak it prior to lathering. I was expecting to see a ridiculous amount of wasted lather at some point, but it didnt jump out at me. Personally i would rather make twice as much lather as i need, rather than try and save a small fraction of a penny just to have to add more soap and water to my brush mid shave.

Seriously???
I don't see what the fuss is about MWF but I'll set that aside. Yes, I agree that it is quite common to soak soaps. I do that for all of my non-cream soaps, but I only soak mine in the amount of water needed to pour into the lathering bowl. The soapy water is retained and used in the lathering bowl to make the lather. It usually only amounts to about a tablespoonful, but it is more than sufficient to accomplish the task of wetting the surface of the soap.

Wetting the surface of the soap is all that is needed. Dissolving your puck submerged in a sink full of water is pointless other than to make soap vendors happy. As stated above though, some people don't care how much soap they use. For those people, this method is ideal for, as I said in the thread's title, wasting as much soap as possible

Originally Posted by jedi7

I also have an enormous amount of soaps and creams, and I don't really cars about how much I use. Sometimes I have later for 6 passes, so what? Better have more than to start rationing during the shave

Did you see the video? This had nothing to do with "rationing" lather. Most of that puck will go down the drain without ever being made into lather.