Thread: your techniques

I am sure this has been asked some time in the past, but since there are obviously new members with possibly new answers... FOR SOAP USERS (I have posted an identical thread for Creme users)

How do you build your lather? Do you load your brush from a puck in a bowl and then lather in a mug? Do you keep your puck in a mug and lather in the same mug on top of the puck? How do you, personally, prefer to build your lather?

I use Mama Bears' soaps, which come in a nice plastic canister. I load up my brush directly from that, add a squirt of glycerine into my mug (we have really hard water here in SLC), then whip up the lather in the mug. Pretty simple.

Hello all,

When I use soaps I soak my brush for five minutes in a mug and at the same time I boil a small amount of water in a kettle.

I shake the brush and load soap from the dish onto the brush using the three finger grip. Then I build the lather in a small metal bowl that came with my brush stand. I add water from the mug in small amounts as needed and build the lather.

When I have built up my lather I dump the water from the mug and add a small amount of the boiled water from the kettle to the bottom of the mug and then sit the metal bowl inside the mug on top of the water. The metal bowl doesn't float it just sits as far down as it can go with the steaming water underneath. I put the brush in the metal bowl

I then hot towel soak my face and when I'm ready to apply the lather I whirl the brush around a couple times and I have nice warm lather for all three passes!

Stultsy

For soaps, I soak my brush in warm/hot water for a little while, and put a little water on top of the soap I'm going to use. When I get ready to lather up, I squeeze, or shake the brush out, dump the water off the soap, and then load the brush using the upside down method. Then lather the soap directly to my face. If it seems a little dry, I'll either dip the tips of the brush in some water, or stick it under the faucet for about half a second.

i use bandman's method.. except i'm to lazy to lift the soap up.. so i just load the brush with the puck face up.

For me, I like to use a moist (not wet) brush and load the brush for ~20 sec, transfer the load into the bowl, reload (with moist tips), transfer again. The amount of loading will depend on the soap and how much (and how thick, cushiony) lather you like. You get amazing amounts of lather. As I eluded to in your creme section, I uber my lather...so, cremes, soaps, glycerin all get mixed.