What soap/cream did you use today?

Thursday, November 3, 2022 - Soap of the Day

Hub City Ideal Man

Why does the palm of your hand make such fine lather? Is it the wrinkles, or the callouses, or the knobby bones that build that rich texture? Whatever it is, I get my best lather off my left paw.

Bouki, I agree about the palm-lather being Z Best and also contemplate the why. I'm not sure either. One other theory I've had is that all (or on the whole) the lather gets worked more by the brush (smaller surface area vs. being spread all over the face), (and) all the while the skin is soaking up some of the water. Both things making it richer.
As well, and I think YOU mentioned it a while ago, maybe we put more pressure on the brush when palm-lathering vs. face-lathering.

Something else I don't understand is why bowl-lathering (for me) produces very "thin" (watered down) feeling lather. Still voluminous... but just doesn't have that richness. Even if I do everything else the same, with the same products, etc. Not trying to offend bowl-latherers, I just don't understand why my bowl-lather sucks.

First things first: really rely on your photos to make my day. While it may seem hum drum for you, the sheer beauty of your environs is a fantasy escape for the rest of us.

To the reason for the post: am predominantly a bowl latherer and in a smooth crystal bowl to boot.

The critical factor is to spread the soap thinly across the inner surface the day before so it can dry and stick to the bowl surface. Then, be sparing with water as loading all the soap onto the brush in a paste like texture. Once fully loaded, gradually add water, dancing the tips, until it consistent to the texture desired. Finally, squeeze out all the lather trapped in the brush and only lift what needed for each pass using the brush.

Somebody mentioned that an inexpensive brush had created some of their best lathers. Experience has been the softer a knot in feel and density, the easier it is to lather irrespective of knot hair type. Kent badger, for example being able to whip up any soap under any conditions.

Here's a photo from a 20 mile run including some deep woods sections sans trails. Always encounter and startle wildlife on these - yesterday a herd of deer.

Damn Dan, 20 miles on that terrain must be tricky, I would sprain my ankles 2.5x per mile.
Thanks for the tips... I will check it out.

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LJdJ Black Rose

Good fit with Santa Maria Novella Rosa Novella: no granny, incense, skin proximal projection, classy - the way post hump day should be. Fougère Friday soon!

C U all tomorrow

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Declaration Grooming Massacre of the Innocents

Seville (Barrister & Mann) classic barbershop
Shave 2 ・ 113 g left

Elias, my barber, prides himself on his old fashioned ways. He cuts my hair with several types of antique clippers and cleans up my neck with a straight edge razor. Only thing he’s lacking is a traditional barbershop scent. When Elias is done with trimming my hair, he dusts me down with odorless talc and gives me a spritz of some frilly lemon cologne that’s gone before I walk out the door. Hmph. He should do better than that. I think the man deserves a bottle of Seville aftershave for Christmas. It's what a barbershop is supposed to smell like.
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Razor Tatara Masamune ・ Blade Gillette Silver Blue ・ Brush Peregrino ・ Cologne  ・ Hoard 17,195 g (⇣1,287 g)

   

Bouki, I agree about the palm-lather being Z Best and also contemplate the why. I'm not sure either. One other theory I've had is that all (or on the whole) the lather gets worked more by the brush (smaller surface area vs. being spread all over the face), (and) all the while the skin is soaking up some of the water. Both things making it richer.
As well, and I think YOU mentioned it a while ago, maybe we put more pressure on the brush when palm-lathering vs. face-lathering.

Something else I don't understand is why bowl-lathering (for me) produces very "thin" (watered down) feeling lather. Still voluminous... but just doesn't have that richness. Even if I do everything else the same, with the same products, etc. Not trying to offend bowl-latherers, I just don't understand why my bowl-lather sucks.

First things first: really rely on your photos to make my day. While it may seem hum drum for you, the sheer beauty of your environs is a fantasy escape for the rest of us.

To the reason for the post: am predominantly a bowl latherer and in a smooth crystal bowl to boot.

The critical factor is to spread the soap thinly across the inner surface the day before so it can dry and stick to the bowl surface. Then, be sparing with water as loading all the soap onto the brush in a paste like texture. Once fully loaded, gradually add water, dancing the tips, until it consistent to the texture desired. Finally, squeeze out all the lather trapped in the brush and only lift what needed for each pass using the brush.

Somebody mentioned that an inexpensive brush had created some of their best lathers. Experience has been the softer a knot in feel and density, the easier it is to lather irrespective of knot hair type. Kent badger, for example being able to whip up any soap under any conditions.

Here's a photo from a 20 mile run including some deep woods sections sans trails. Always encounter and startle wildlife on these - yesterday a herd of deer.

Damn Dan, 20 miles on that terrain must be tricky, I would sprain my ankles 2.5x per mile.
Thanks for the tips... I will check it out.

Apologies; meant to convey it a 20 mile run total with @2,5-3,0 miles of deep woods beginning around 14 miles.  Majority undertaken country roads with @2,0 miles open scrub grass fields.

Great one

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