Thread: What do you use for uberlather?

Cella+ Vulfix english rose+ 3 drops glycerine= wife
Proraso green tub + Vulfix sicilian lime + 3 drops glycerine= great shave on hot day
Proraso green tub + Speik+ 5 drops glycerine= very relaxing cool shave

Lots of good recipes already, I'll add my favorite. L'occitane soap with L'occitane cream and water. The lubrication on the face, the conditioning of the skin and the smell is just awesome IMO. It's my favorite smell and skin conditioner of any of the others premium soaps or creams I have ( tabac, Martin de Cadre, MWF, Castlle Forbe cream). The soap is lacking by itself, and the cream is a brushless cream, but together they are very good. I load the brush with soap (like normal), squeeze a peanut size cream from the tube to a mixing bowl (scuttle) add few drops of water with the hand and mix. Enjoy!

To be honest, I never quite saw the point in 'überlather', except in cases where you really love the scent of one product but find the performance lacking.

That is really the only reason I would consider good enough to mix, apart from "I really enjoy mixing stuff", which is fair enough as well, it's your shave. For me, if any product requires to be 'überlathered', there is something wrong with the product (for me anyway) and it's not going on my face.

But hey, whatever floats your boat.

I used MWF and Prorasso Red the other night and it was very nice!

Speick and Kiss My Face Cool Mint was a favorite mix of mine when I first started wet shaving with a DE. It was slick and fragrant. It seemed to help prevent skin irritation while I learned the proper razor technique.

I love the smell of Prorasso green but find the cold face effect from the menthol a little overpowering so I uberlather it with some Williams.

Something I've always wondered about uberlathers- so I understand adding pure glycerin, it adds more of the lathering ingredient into the lather, but if you add Proraso red and MWF or tabac and mama bears or X and Y, does it really increase the performance of the resulting lather? I'm not doubting... Would it increase the power of your lather if you mix a glycerin soap such as mama bear's and a tallow soap like mike's, do you end up with a, well, uh, uberlather?

These days I'm really enjoying Mike's Natural Pine and Cedarwood soap mixed with Tabac cream. Very very creamy...

Originally Posted by RMarsh

Something I've always wondered about uberlathers- so I understand adding pure glycerin, it adds more of the lathering ingredient into the lather, but if you add Proraso red and MWF or tabac and mama bears or X and Y, does it really increase the performance of the resulting lather? I'm not doubting... Would it increase the power of your lather if you mix a glycerin soap such as mama bear's and a tallow soap like mike's, do you end up with a, well, uh, uberlather?

When mixing products, you will mix ingredients and characteristics, just those of both products in a watered down version. It really all depends on what products you use.