SOTD OCtober 9th
Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap
Blackland Brass Blackbird OC
Gillette Super Thin Blade (4)
Yaqi Professional (30mm, Cruiser Class)
Dry Dock lather bowl
MWF
RazoRock Blue Barbershop AS
The saga continues...
I started loading my brush using only the tips. Light pressure swirling, adding a few drops of water on top of the soap when things started getting pasty. Kept at it until I had a the brush almost completely full of thick pasty soap, I generated no proto lather or froth while loading. Started working the Lather in the bowl and a really nice thick lather was forming. Added water a few drops at a time and continued building. By the third addition of water my lather turned into the fluffy airy lather that I was trying to avoid

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Painted it on my face and shaved my first pass. Protection was ok, lather dried out on my face. Wasn't thrilled. By the end of my first pass the remaining lather in my bowl looked like the foam that collects at the bottom of a waterfall. With nothing to lose I decided to try some citric acid water (¼ tsp citric acid to 1 gal water)I had previously mixed up. I poured some of the mixture into a cup and added a few drops of it to my lather bowl and just started gently stirring. I could feel the consistency changing, resistance was building, bubbles were disappearing. The lather changed from a thin froth barely covering the bottom of the bowl to a bowl full of thick and creamy, stable, shiny lather!
I painted it on for the second pass and even had to thin it out with more of the CA water. For the third pass I kept adding more and more of the water and the lather kept taking it on. The lather was super slick, thick, and creamy. If this is the kind of lather the rest of you have been getting with The Fat no wonder you like it so much. This is proof in my mind that The Fat is sensitive to hard water. Next shave u will try lathering using only the CA water and see how I fare. Have a great day my friends!
Hump day!
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