Silly question on soap use

How I do It

For Soaps:

1) Soak the brush in warm, not hot, water until ready to shave.
2) While the brush is soaking, soften up the top of the soap with 1/2 tsp of warm water.
3) Drain brush of most excess water giving it one good shake.
4) Charge brush with soap.
5) Start making lather in bowl or mug with a light swirling and pumping motion.
6) Add drops of warm water as needed to the brush breech until lather starts to explode.

If I'm having trouble getting enough lather, I need enough lather for a pre shave lather plus 3 passes, I will gently scrape or squeeze the soap out of the brush into the bowl, wet the tips of the brush, recharge the brush with soap and then proceed to make lather as before.

 

Johan......

See ??
I told you

 

nuff said.

 

+1 on that

Oh, and I can really recommend watching all of mantics videos, after that you'll know the drill

 

This has all been great advise ! Used it this morning and worked perfectly. However, Johan's advise to heat the mug resulted in my wooden bowl catching fire.

 

Which means you didn't read the instructions correctly, I bet you'll read it thoroughly next time , you should heat the lather mug, not the soap bowl... (And I strongly suspect that was going to happen anyway, if your water is so hot it starts fires! Do you live on top of a volcano?)

 

There was just a touch of humor with that.

Lee

 

Same here, hence the smilies

 

Aww.. bummer.. does that mean I have to find a new forum to terrorize?

 

Is it safe to come out ?

Lee

 

Soo, how did the soap work for you Lee?

 

Whew - I used the Rose Garden from TSD - It was very nice !

Lee

 

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I think ?

Lee

 

Excellent, great news...I love the TSD Rose soap I have, a much better Rose scent than soaps costing 5 times the price and still providing a great shave

 

Is it comparable to any other rose scent? Could I bother you to a description of the scent?

thanks,

Moe

 

Sorry Moe,


Just seen this post, well, you just had me in the bathroom smelling most of the rose soaps & creams I have...I have a bit of a cold now...but, to me it has a somewhat similar scent to Trumpers Coral Skin Food, but stronger and more rosey....

I have the TSD Victorian Rose soap,

compared to my Trumpers Rose soap and cream, the scent of the TSD Soap is stronger and more Rosey and definately less chemically smelling the the Trumpers Rose soap..smells more Rosey and stronger then my Coates Rose cream, although the Coates has a bit of earthyness to it similar to the "Old" Taylors of Old Bond Street Rose cream...still have half a jar left

Side by side with QED Wild Rose the scent strength is pretty close, but there is a noticeable difference in scent.....both are very enjoyable

Hope that helps a bit, sorry no expert here on describing scents

Neale

 

Well, as long as you didn't burn your whiskers away

 

And do watch the Mantic Videos
They really helped and help me on my journey to BBS

Tom