Wow - a weird thing happened today.

I got a massive lather with very little work and no glycerin.

I soaked my brush and rigorously shook out as much water as I could so that I could really work the cream that I was using that had hardened quite a bit in my scuttle. I was drinking a bottle of water and just thought, why not - so I threw some in! Balm!! Massive lather!!

I knew my water was hard but... wow.

Moreover, the scuttle warmed the room temp water in no time.

I'll give it a try again tomorrow, but I have been doing what I did today with tap water for days in an effort to use up my ageing cream - so the only thing different was the bottled water... and the remarkable fluffy lather lol.

If you are a lather whore or want to save some money by using less cream; if you have hard water... try using bottled water