Thread: Big Lather

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

David --
Good on ya, cobber! Way to go eh! "All right, Youngblood!" "Do you believe in miracles?!?"
Seriously, that's cool beans. Do you perchance have well H20?
I guess the next step in your journey might be to try distilled H20.
If you really want to lather up big-time, try using lye soap. Any cuts will be instantly disinfected!

LOL - yeah not sure I want to go that far!

No well water here - but the water is so hard here, that folks out here know better than to put tap water in things like coffee machines. Done in a year.

Maybe in the name of uh, science, I'll give some of my other mainstay creams a go with the bottled water and see if it was fluke or not.

My well H20 in B.C. has so many minerals it tastes like blood. it gives weird ideas when brushing my teeth! My well H20 on Lake Michigan, by contrast, is quite sweet and makes for pleasant shaving.
Replicate your first discovery with the same materials, then replicate w/variation on soaps. Are you planning on using a one-way design (ANOVA) or a 2-tailed t-test?

Ha ha - been looking at your old stats texts have you lol. Regression is my thing MLA, as getting the data points is where all the fun is at lol... and then I can do all the two tails I like!

You know, every house I have ever had that used well water - the first thing I did was run out and get a water softener. I have no idea why I don't do that here...

Nah, those texts were tossed years ago. Just rambling off the top of my head.

Originally Posted by earcutter

Ha ha - been looking at your old stats texts have you lol. Regression is my thing MLA

So, developmentally speaking, are you on par with your ankle-biters yet? J/K! I LOVE messing around w/parents!

Dude my "ankle-biters" can regurgitate like no other!! I can't even remember if it was Vietnamese or Hungarian that I had for lunch! If they can keep it up - they are off to Harvard!

In the mean time - I got to clean up my potty mouth LOL

What creme were you using today?

Originally Posted by earcutter

If you.....want to save some money by using less cream; if you have hard water... try using bottled water

So wouldn't you end up burning your savings by buying bottled water?