Thread: anyone elses soap drying up on them (dr harris)?

Originally Posted by OutlawSkinnyD

it doesnt take my long to shave at all.

i figured out what it is. more water, if i make it more bubbly than thick im good.

mwf i didnt have this problem. hahaha for a year before i came on here i used to shave with a disposable blade straight because my friend owns a barber shop...hhahaha dude i think it took me like 1/2 an hour to shave the very first time hahaha

I believe you are correct. You can keep adding water to the brush, little at a time, as you face lather. You should see the lather continue to build as you add water to the brush, into big happy mounds of lather goodness on your face that won't dry.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

With all triple milled soaps, MWF, Harris, Trumpers, I found leaving some water on top of the puck for 5 or 10 minutes, dumping some of that water into the lather bowl helps.

Big +1 to that. I've been doing that for years, and it's a big help for hard soaps. I would highly recommend to anyone having difficulty with soaps to try this method and you'll almost certainly have better results.

Adding a bit of water to sit on the top of MWF/DR Harris/Tabac soap pucks is another case of YMMV as I never do and still manage a nice lather. You gotta find what works for you.

Bob

Originally Posted by Ryan82

Big +1 to that. I've been doing that for years, and it's a big help for hard soaps. I would highly recommend to anyone having difficulty with soaps to try this method and you'll almost certainly have better results.

+1 for your +1 (I guess that's +2?).
Adding water that's sat on top of the puck to the lather bowl was really a game changer. Even as a newbie I noticed the difference immediately.

Mine is grated and pressed into a little pyrex dish. If I put water on top of the grated soap, it makes the brush pick up little pieces of soap when loading that don't mix up that well. I find wet brush on dry soap works better for grated. I swirl my brush on the soap until I have a thick cream, then transfer to the bowl and add some water.