Thread: Need help, DR Harris cream problem

It has been a while since I used a cream so I just did to make sure what I was saying actually worked. Took my cheapest cream, Kaloderma @ $3.00 a tube at Safeways, with my cheapest boar brush, Omega 1006, and lathered up a storm using the technique I mentioned. There really must be something wrong with that DR Harris cream of yours if the combo I just used worked really well.

You know the more I try the higher end soaps and creams the more I appreciate just how good lower end stuff like Kaloderma, Arko and Palmolive really are.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

OK, you did face lather but did you use a brush that was too wet to start with by not shaking the brush out first? The brush should not be dripping water at the start but just be really damp. That should allow you to spread the cream on your face and get a bit of lather going. Then you add just a tiny amount of water and keep building. Repeating till you get the lather you want. There are many ways to face lather but this works for me. Some soaps and creams are just a bit different and you may need to adjust your technique for some reason. After varying your technique many different ways and it still does not lather well you might just have a bum tube. Really strange since it is the only cream you are having trouble with. Dunno what else to tell ya.

Bob

I did pretty much that after my bowl lathering didn't work. I squeezed out the excess water, put some of the cream on the brush and then lathered on my face. This was the only way that I was actually able to get any lather out of it. It kind of dried out quickly so I dipped the tip, ever so slightly so that I didn't get too much, of my brush in a bowl of hot water that I keep handy, and then tried to refresh.

I even just tried again (just the way that you said) and I get thin layer lather that's consistency is too dry and turns to snow within seconds, and when I add even a tiny (and I mean tiny!) amount of water to the lather, it just kind of washes it away instead of building it up like it should.