Just wondering what your go to Überlather is? Still looking for combos, and suggestions. Thinking about making a "budget lather", maybe VDH and something else. Or a burt's bees cream and col conk. Have to experiment. Floor is open, enjoy!!!
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Just wondering what your go to Überlather is? Still looking for combos, and suggestions. Thinking about making a "budget lather", maybe VDH and something else. Or a burt's bees cream and col conk. Have to experiment. Floor is open, enjoy!!!
MWF does it all for me. No need to combine anything.
Personally I think the uberlather thing goes a little too far. Any decent shaving soap will cleanse well and, if properly lathered up, will hold moisture for the skin and hairs. I think with uber lather you are putting in 10 times the effort for a 1% difference. Some guys like to go all out and get every last bit of moisture out of their lather, and thats fine.
My 2 cents anyway.
Hmmmm
Best Uber, for shaving is still the "Lanolin Overload" Musgo Real cream + MWF soap + 5 drops of glycerin for me anyway
Good Budget Uber, is just about any Glycerin based soap + Kiss My Face (any scent or no scent) cream + 3-5 drops of glycerin
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Originally Posted by markevens
I would totally agree with you, IF we all had good soft water to lather with... hehehe, and that my freind is a big if...
Hadn't thought of kiss my face. That'd work perfect. If I come up with any real winners I'll make sure I tell you guys.Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
Any other nice go-to's ?... Doesn't have to be budget
My two favorites as of late have been:
Proraso cream + Mama Bear's Awakenings soap + 5 drops glycerin
Truefitt & Hill 1805 cream + D.R. Harris Marlborough soap + 5 drops glycerin
Mark
I have a few other Favs now that you said a budget doesn't matter
Mambo Italiano - Velobra Almond soft soap + Poraso Red cream + 5 drops
Mambo Menthol - Velobra Menthol soft soap + Poraso Green + 5 drops
English Garden - TOBS Lavender soap = Castle Forbes Lavender cream + 5 drops
Sandals - Honey Bee Spas Sandalwood soap + Crab Tree & Evelyn Sandalwood cream + 5 drops
Sandalwood Rum - Prairie Creations Bay Rum Tallow + AOS Sandalwood Cream + 5 drops
Tabac Slam - Tabac soap + Tabac cream + 5 drops
Incense & Peppermints - SRD Frankincense Soap + Old Spice Musk creme + 5 drops
Rose Garden - SRD Bulgarian Rose Soap + Salter Wild Rose cream + 5 drops
And Yes, I make up stupid names for these if they become favorites and are repeatable
I really like Castle Forbes and Nancy Boy shave creams. I add a few drops of glycerin and I get a really nice lather.
Load the brush with MWF and some Tebac cream in the scuttle with 5 drops and im a happy guy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glen, I'd buy some of those just based on name alone. You could make some pretty funny covers to go with the soap combos. They sound like they smell good too. Are you a fan of the Überlather? Or is it a special occasion type thing?
I have extremely hard Idaho well water, there are very few products that work GREAT here by themselves, many work good,,
Uberlather became an obsession rather quickly for me, I think if I were still living in suburbia in Colorado like I used too, it would be more just for fun...
I can tell you that when I am on Vacation I do don't really mess with Uberlather because I can make serious lather with just that nice soft water and any quality product... So I guess then it would be more of an option or a luxury... But honestly making up Uber's is kinda fun all in itself
I sometimes uberlather and I sometimes don't. I have found that I like using each product alone most of the time to enjoy it for what it is. Some soaps have great scents. Some are very, very slick but don't smell as good. Some are great for cushion, but do not moisturize. Whatever their characteristics, I like to change up based on my mood.
I have to agree with Glen though, for me, the ultimate uberlather is Mitchell's Wool Fat + Musgo Real Cream. That is the slickest, most moisturizing lather you will get.
Since I've tried that, I usually uberlather with my soap of choice with a little Musgo cream. Musgo is a great cream for the price and the fragrance usually plays nice with others.
I don't make Uberlather for every shave. But when I do, usually it's
SRD Bulgarian Rose
C.O. Bigelow
Glycerin
I really enjoy going through the whole process of making the stuff and shaving with it, but if I did it everyday it might become everyday.
I used to make uberlather, but found out over the course of a year of straight razor shaving that I could make superlather every bit as moist and rich as uberlather.
I think another component to the hard water situation that Glen already mentioned is what the heck does your skin like.
I have tried many soaps and creams by themselves and combined. But my skin just likes uberlather. I get consistently great and comfortable shaves with uberlather, while it's hit or miss with soaps and creams by themselves. That's just the way it is for my skin.
Having said that, I currently love CarrieM's cream and pre de provence soap with 5 or 6 drops of glycerine.
I use Williams soap, Trader Joe's unscented shave cream and 3-5 drops glycerine. Cant get more inexpensive that that. I mix it all up in my Home Depot Red Neck Scuttle, I use it every time I shave unless I am pressed for time.
I have yet to get myself to try the more expensive shave creams or soap. I have been putting the money in razors and strops.
I get a very rich, thick lather with Ogallala Bay Rum soap. No need for anything else.
Hmmmm - I think many are missing the intent of the OP. He asked what is your go-to ublerlather, not who uses uberlather or the merits of using uberlather or why don't you use umberlather.
I think there have been some other posts dealing with that topic.
I like MWF with 2 small pumps of glycerin and a bit of Trumper's GFT cream, although I change it up from time to time.
I have a couple of combinations that work great:
Proraso white soap+ Proraso cream+ 5 drop of glycerine
Muhle buckthorn soap + Trumper's GFT cream+ 5 drop glycerine
Ogallala bay rum soap+ AOS sandalwood cream+ glycerine
I like them all, it depends of how I feel it in the morning... But the proraso is really the bang for the bucks. There's so many great combo's it's ridiculous!
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...?
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by zib
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 !:)
I enjoy cooking... so I think experimenting with different combinations of soaps and creams probably appeals to that same part of me.Quote:
Originally Posted by zib
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.
I fully understand adding cream to soap: I myself add glycerin and aqueous cream to any soapbar, if I run out of Droyt's. But I don't really get the reverse: adding soap to cream. Is it to cut the cream's cushion, and get the blade closer? Or to stretch the cream further and wisely keep your money in your pocket?