Thread: no more lather. help

Go to town, about a 3 hour trip from were you say you are and buy your self a pitcher type water filter and use that just for your shaving cream. If you purshase enough filters you should be good through the rest of the winter.
bottled water is heavey and expensive, so I would not reccomend it.

Hope that gives you a glimer of hope for your problem.

Most Sincerely, tinkersd of SRP!

+1 to the above. Another thing that will help is to add a few drops of glycerine to the lather.

Boiling the water might help - if you boil a kettle and leave it to cool down to comfortable shaving temperature, and then pour enough into your mug/scuttle/bowl to make lather, some of the lime will have precipitated and settled out. Pour from the kettle gently to avoid stirring it up. That might be enough to make a difference. If not, boiling the same water a few times, letting the lime settle out between each boiling should work. (Pour from kettle -> container, leave to cool, and pour the settled water back into the kettle leaving the dregs with the lime.) A bit laborious though.

(Ah, found link: How to Soften Hard Water: 8 steps - wikiHow)

Our water here is just as hard as you describe....

However, I have no problems lathering stuff like Tabac soap or Martin de Candre. It goes to show that a quality soap is hard to beat!

Time to grow a grizzley mountain man beard methinks!

the move sounds really cool. I must say I kind of wanted to hear more about the new place rather than speak about the lather lol