Thread: Question about lather

You will love the GP scuttle just got one about a month or so ago. Best purchase yet. I love the feeling of hot lather. You will also be able to get a real good lather with your soap. Just load up your brush and you will be fine!

The ridiculous amounts of lather you see in the lather porn pictures is superfluous. If you're getting great shaves and have enough lather for all of your passes, then that's all you need. Any more is just wasting soap.

If you insist on having that much lather, you just need to overload your brush with soap. If you normally load for 15-20 seconds, load for a full minute. And then work it up in a bowl, adding water until it maintains peaks and starts exploding out of the bowl. Certain lathers will create much more than others. SRD and mama bear are two that explode out of the bowl if you overload the brush with them.

If you're still having trouble getting the lather to explode into gobs of lather when heavily loading the brush, it's either a case of not working it up enough (need to whip it up longer), or not adding enough water and having it be too dense.

Here's my alternative to an expensive scuttle. Warm the outside of your mug or bowl with hot tap water. Take it to the kithen and brew your morning pot of coffee. Place the mug on the top of the coffe maker as it brews (assuming you're using a modern drip coffee maker.) Shower. By the time you're ready to lather up, the mug and the soap should be nice and warm from the steam of the coffee as it brews. I used to use this method until I decided I didn't really need hot lather.

Ok I finally got this figured out. What helped was putting the wam water on top of the soap before I went into the shower than using that water to make my lather. I got more lather than needed and here is what is left after 3 shaves. Im using TGQ bay rum soap and I even added a few drops of Ogallalla Bay Rum AS to my lather while I was mixing it up.

This is the most lather I have ever made so far and I had it layed on thick on my face, normally I get a very thin layer.