Thread: Problematic lathering

How do you go lathering other soaps? How many have you worked with?
I find that as a soap gets used it gets moister and easier to lather, so possibly the soap is just a bit dry. Try more water, loading up your brush (try varying amounts of time and therefore product) and working it in a different bowl or you will just be adding more product rather than refining the end product of what you have.

There, now you have a weeks worth of things to try. If you can go see her then take your usual soap and compare in front of her. She may not know or she is yanking your lanyard .

Also bear in mind that you can lather for the sake of lathering and just ditch the lather. Probably doing it a few times in a row with mild tweaks will tell you a lot.

Yeah, I've been basically just trying different ways to get it to lather proper. I can't imagine it's because of being too dry, but maybe. I'm going to try a long bloom tomorrow but at the end of the day is not a big loss. Of that doesn't work I'll move on and keep it to the rivers I know. I've actually been thinking about trying my hand at main my own tallow base shave soap. Then again I can think of 75 things I'd rather spend my money on right now, like a 30mm Silvertip and the srp logo str8......mmmmmmmmmm

The way I see it you either have some incompatibility with your water, your brush is not compatible with the soap or the soap is just not good.
I for example can't get good lather from LPL no matter what brush I use and since lots of people love it it has to be my water.
You can try lathering with distilled water do see if your water is the culprit.

Originally Posted by Firefighter2

Your water might be too hard, and/or too warm. This seems to affect my tallow based soaps.

I'm seconding this. My experience is that hard water and or heat can destroy certain soaps.