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.