Originally Posted by
pjrage
I'm surprised you've had trouble with Mama Bear's soaps. Her soaps are fantastic IMO. It's likely that you weren't loading enough soap onto your brush.
Try this to create some good lather with her soap. First, start soaking your brush in warm water, and put a couple tsp of warm water on top of your soap while you are preparing everything else. Next, remove your brush from the water and squeeze and gently shake your brush dry and then try loading up by swirling, plunging and twisting around on the soap for 30 seconds. When you think you've loaded enough soap, go back at it for another 10-15 seconds and load even more. Then, take the brush straight to your face and start swirling it around. After you swirl a bit, dip your bristles in some warm water (not too much, maybe dip 1/8" deep), and go back to your face and swirl again. Repeat dipping your bristles and swirling on your face until you start to get some good lather forming, and it starts to glisten. Then, you're ready to go!
I have hard water too and this works for me. If you really want to see if hard water is your problem, though, you can purchase some distilled water at the grocery store, heat up a couple cups in the microwave (not too hot!!) and try soaking your brush and dipping your bristles in that to see if you notice a difference. Good luck!