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    Senior Member blabbermouth niftyshaving's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wortmanb View Post
    I did. It's on Al's front page too.

    My brush is really too short for my mug and I can't whip up lather without destroying my fingers. That said, I think my water-to-cream ratio was off. Plenty of samples to try again!
    Consider filling the bottom of your shallow mug
    with a puck of Williams or just melt some common
    glycerin face soap when it gets empty. If the puck
    of Williams is too much grate it down a bit....

    My favorite mug, like yours is too deep and this
    works for me. Since my mug is wide I put some glycerin
    soap in it warmed it up to melt in the microwave
    and then pushed a puck of Williams into the molten
    glycerin soap and let it all cool.

    When it cooled I dropped in a puck of higher end mug
    soap with just enough water to let them glue together
    after drying.

    Right now I have a puck of Cyril R Salter Shaving Soap
    on top and am loving it.

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    that's a good idea..

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    I'm going to ask my wife to help me shoot a video this arvo and see if it turns up any mistakes in my technique.

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    The only advice this poor Noob is, ''Badger and Blade" look up their technique for whipping up great lather from a puck of shaving soap, worked wonders for me when I started out having the same kind of problems with the basics, still do from time to time, not my training any more, just those inevetible bad day's.

    Keep up the good work, and always remember,

    The Journeys the Thing, tinkersd.

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    Cool

    I think I figured it out.

    Tonight I took a glass bowl a bit larger than my usual SRD mug and gave it another go. I left more water in the bowl than I had intended and lo and behold, it started lathering that great dense stuff. I added a few sprinkles of water on two later occasions and ended up with a nice batch of lather, enough for three passes. With leftovers.

    It really is amazing cream, and I can imagine it only gets better with practice and possibly even more water next time.

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    the thing with al's products is.. out of the box it doesn't have the consistency of a dense product.. but the more you whip and the more water you introduce.. it just explodes like an atom bomb!

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    I recently purchased the sample pack from Al's Shaving. Wow, what a lather!! I wasn't being aggressive with the brush at all during my first attempt and I still got a decent shave. I read some posts on building a lather, grabbed my brush with some intensity and forcefully generated way too much!

    I was trying the Saigon scent, very nice and soothing. I am nothing but impressed so far with Al's. I used the mountain of left overs to wash my face after shaving and found it left my skin very hydrated. Thanks Al, great product.

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    Exclamation als cream

    i just found out knockout shaving cream...it uses al's as a base and they have their own scents.

    coupon code KOnobuyjuly gets 13% discount too

    http://www.knockoutshave.com/

    seems to work best with internet explorer browser though
    Last edited by jmsodpc; 07-13-2014 at 12:33 AM.

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