Thread: What's your go-to Überlather?

hate to bring it up again cause i know so many of you did not get good results with soaptopia products.. but i thoroughly enjoy soaptopia's clove soap with a squirt of kiss my face unscented, 3 drops of glycerin and a drop of clove essential oil..

the lather is amazing and i have yet to meet anyone who didn't love the way is smells.. i call the combo "panty dropper"

It's funny because I read a few, "I get great lather, yada, yada, yada, no need to uber it...Yeah, maybe, but it's fun anyway, I can get great lather as well, but I still like to play...I like Glen's MWF, Musgo, and 5 drops of Glycerin..it is a Lanolin overload, and fun. Also, any old soap, 5 drops of glycerin and kiss my face...Like Lynn say's "Have Fun"
So, didn't any of you like to Play "Mad scientist" when you were kids...?

Originally Posted by zib

So, didn't any of you like to Play "Mad scientist" when you were kids...?

I think that is the defining factor to the uberlather more than anything. Experimentation leads to different results, that's what so many people have such an affinity for. I really think you hit it on the head. There's a bit of mad scientist in us all. Great point!

I usually put some Proraso or some Taylor's Almold and mix it with Williams soap or some other inexpensive soap.

That probably doesn't count as Uberlather, but it's what I do for special shaves.

Favorites are Speick soap and cream, and Omega soap and cream, with a squirt not of glycerin but my homemade preshave oil. These never fail.

I can make excellent superlather out of any soap and Real Shaving Co. cream. The oil is optional.

I managed to leave my favourite Droyt's Shaving Soap and brush at a relative's last weekend, so have had to improvise.
Without the brush to whip a lather up on Monday morning, and unable to find even the pastry brush(!), I scraped some Wright's Coal Tar Soap with a lemon zester, and put it into a hot stoneware mug with a couple of drips of boiling water, and then blitzed it with the whisk attachment on a stick blender. Not bad. Then I added a drip of glycerin. Better. Then I added a cat's lick of aqueous cream from a tub. Really good!!
Feeling rather pleased with myself, this Tuesday morning I repeated the procedure...almost. Remembering that I had added a flick or two extra hot water to the final concoction, I put the soap, glycerin and aqueous cream in the mug with the increased boiling water, and switched the whisk on. My reward wasn't another batch of thick creamy lather, it was more like something from an out-of-control fire extinguisher: about a pint of very watery froth. Ah well, back to the drawing board. Thanks for reading.

Say what'cha want but I use Denver tap water and SRD West indies Bay sometimes mixed with a little SRD Lime shave soap and I can get it whipped up like stiff egg whites...it's a thang O beauty fer me !

Originally Posted by zib

So, didn't any of you like to Play "Mad scientist" when you were kids...?

I enjoy cooking... so I think experimenting with different combinations of soaps and creams probably appeals to that same part of me.

I like the scents to work together. MWF is a great soap base as the scent is neutral and I just bought some T&H unscented cream for the same reason. Go-to combinations are:

MWF + Penhaligon's blenheim / 1870
Tabac + Tabac
Proraso + Proraso
Penhaligon's english fern + T&H unscented
Trumpers coconut + T&H unscented

Personally, I can take or leave the extra glycerin.

Claude

The only ubering I do is Williams and Cremo, together they are pretty good, on their own they are are not.