I was talkinabout Aqua Velva when I said that. I presume our enemy knows that,but we get in trouble when we presume-we make a pres out of them and a pres out of us. .
Hastily arranged Press Conference organized by ME....prepared by ME: As Veep of Soap Bloomers of America, I herefore clarify the notion that by socializing with Fuzzy, the gentleman with the radio-station screen name, about my shaving choice of yesterday and this today, at no time was I referring to Williams Shave Soap while answering his question "Awesome stuff, eh"? I said "the other half" in reference to the Williams/Aqua Velva "combination" that is advertised on each box of the Williams shave soap. As of this writing, Mr. Cawtuh has seen the reply I made to President Primo. There it is-that's a wrap-we're good-have a nice day. .
That's what should be said by speakers instead of "I'm not taking any questions, thank you very much" .
You wanna Peach something..... Go to Georgia. Next time I will bring donuts and coffee....... Soon it's my club.
I only bloomed soap once or twice in 3 or so years. But after reading the thread and thinking some more about it, I think the next shave where I use a soap I'm going to put some warm water on it for a bit to soften things up, pour it into my lather bowl and then load up like normal to see if I like the results better than without blooming. I'm thinking it should improve the consistency and potentially the slickness of the lather since it will contain a little more soap than loading without blooming. Time will tell.
Hardly. It's just that the idea of softening the soap a bit before loading the brush makes sense to me. Earlier this morning during my shave with Stirling Barbershop I felt like the lather could have been better even though I took time (60 seconds) to load my brush. No weepers or anything but it was just the sense I got as the razor moved over my face during the shave. Who knows, maybe I'm imagining things.
"Blooming" My Way. ** **This post is in no way intended to start a competition; create discord; endorse any particular "blooming" POV's. This is my technique and I am sharing it with you. First, soak/douse the puck At the same time, soak your brush I chose my Japanese Aesop Stainless Steel Bowl After xx minutes (I take my shower), I pour off the "bloom water" Squeeze out the brush Here's a picture of the softened soap (Fine is a very hard soap) I put about 3/4 of the "bloom water" and rub it into my beard area and dip the wrung-out brush into the rest That, too gets a slight wringing out and to the puck After 30-45 seconds, loaded brush Excess photo lather removed from container and put on brush To the bowl. After 45-60 seconds After another 30-ish Emptying all the lather into the bowl Dip the brush into some water, back to the lather Brush, after three full passes This is not a quick method and is probably not for everyone, but I find it produces excellent lather. Super-Soft; Super-Slick and Super-Volume.
