AMEN Cooking oatmeal is not blooming. We add hydration also...its called a damp brush. Why kind of yoyo dries a cake of soap after use? Depends on who you talk too. I dry my razors that have a carbon steel blade in them. Who showed you to my stash??? Now I will have to move them...grrrr Blooming is soaking a cake in water to sofen it before use. Some have tried to slip under the radar by calling it sousing. They are one in the same. Both are simply silly and useless. If you soak a cake of soap in water to soften it...that is blooming. Souseing is the same silly action. Why would want to hurry the end of a good soap. With a little practice I am sure you can learn to lather the more natural way. Using a moist brush is not blooming good Sir. That is the only way a cake of soap should be used. I have a step ladder behind it. BULLY!!! No..it's just silly. As for the Russian collusion I see here I think we will call on the Ice Cream boys from FL to look into it. If @BaylorGator has time.
major blooming/sousing job today-I knocked the open Fields&Streams puck into the sink water, right before getting the brush in! Luckily there isn't much soap left anyway. Thus the Veep of SBOA soused by accident.
I think YOU need a tissue! You shave your way, I'll shave my way,... I hate relentless sales people!!! Buncha bloomers!
This whole discussion of blooming/sousing vs. dry soap reminds me of geeks arguing about Star Trek vs. Star Wars and to that I say... Do you have a moment to talk about the Lords of Kobol?
Style differences, but in the end it's about enjoying your shave. Next topic; adjustables VS. single setting razors?
There's always grabbing the Phaser in both hands and using it to bludgeon an adversary on the back of the neck.
Oh, here we go... one setting for the whole shave or a different one with each pass? And, just to further divide the discussion, ascending or descending settings?
As I said. Whatever the top setting is will be the proper one. Trust me on this. Like Ron whatisname use to say...set it and forget it.
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Out of the greatest respect for Economic Shave Master Fuzz, Max Headroom has issued me the challenge to purchase 1 cake of Williams for scientific comparison to one of the super slick and sloshy glorious stank Stirling Soaps and 'Thick and Rich' Barbasol properly soused 'just over to the sloshy side'. I, Edison Carter have accepted this challenge and will be reporting said findings when scheduling is available. One must bear in mind that the far reaching consequence could require those shave brumbies responsible for forum nicknames to recant.
