Shaving terms I don't like

Do tell more - 'treatment'? Thank you for this. I thought was marketing lingo.

Do tell more - 'treatment'?  Thank you for this.  I thought was marketing lingo.

Sorry, just a turn of phrase. Perhaps "using the term aqua for water" is more clear. We use distilled water, though, like most soap makers. Dissolved ions in tap water can screw up the saponification process.

Nothing else annoys me more than the word 'Software' in shaving. Reason: I write software for a living and it is nothing like soap making. I could go hours talking about why it is 'wrong' to call consumables in shaving software. But well, that's just my opinion, man.

If you call soap software, you are cartridge to me.

Ha! Love this.

What a hilarious thread! For somebody who speaks English as a second language and comes from a country with a heritage of operational discipline and intense grammar I enjoyed this quite a bit. In the end language is a means of communication. Hence, whatever gets the message across, is game, especially where people with different backgrounds and language skills get together.
Enjoy your shaves!

I'm trolling this thread to make sure no one disses scritch or scrub.

I'm trolling this thread to make sure no one disses scritch or scrub.

For anyone who has used your soap, not likely, Peter.

I find it funny when people use the word "foam" instead of lather. Foam is the stuff that comes out of a can of Barbasol. The word implies a light, airy consistency. You don't want air in your lather so it's a bad word to describe it.

This thread is making me foam at the mouth.

This thread is making me foam at the mouth.

Then don't read it.

I find it funny when people use the word "foam" instead of lather. Foam is the stuff that comes out of a can of Barbasol. The word implies a light, airy consistency. You don't want air in your lather so it's a bad word to describe it.

A couple of times, I’ve seen a product review in Russian, and when I’ve pasted the text into an online translator, it also applies the word foam. Since my Russian skills are beginner level, I’m not sure if there even is a word for lather in Russian, or if it is just foam, but it’s clear that from a translation perspective, foam seems to be the default word that gets used.

In any case, I agree that the goal in wet shaving should be lather, not foam.