To bloom or not to bloom, that is the question

I bloom Williams, meaning I threw in the blooming trash can

 

BTW: What ever happened to the OP? Haven't heard from him in awhile.

 

I've been wondering the same thing @Spyder.

 

Yeah, me, too.
I have only bloomed my MFW. Worked well.

 

He has bloomed out of his topic.

"Blooming" when referring to soaps or brushes doesn't fly with me either, to use another cliché

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I can understand "blooming" for a brush as it opens up after that first use much the same way a flower will open up; we call that blooming.

 

Agreed ... for brushes it makes more sense than for soaps.

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Give the wine time to breathe. About the same amount of time I leave some water standing on my soap puck before using the brush to transfer it to my beard.

Whatever it's called, I find it makes the transfer of soap from puck to brush faster and more effective. I don't feel compelled to do it -- nor do I think my shave would be ruined if I neglected this step. It's force of habit as much as anything, I reckon.

How about pre-hydrate the puck -- doesn't really have a snappy ring to it. Or maybe Shakespeare.........

"......the badger best, so soft a broom
methinks to set the soap abloom."

Cymbeline~ act V - scene 6​

 

Soak

 

I routinely bloom all Stirling soaps in my rotation (4). About 5 minutes and I get routine great results. R-66 nope. Also great results. I think I'm going to give that new R-66 Irish Tweed a spin.

 

Soak

 

Did Shakespeare end that with "BURMA SHAVE!" ?

 

Yup. Thanks.

 

Just so you know, I did say that with more tongue in cheek

 

I'll have to use the term "bloom my puck" more often, just to get @swarden43 post count up.

Maybe everybody should start doing that on a regular basis.

 

You know you have a mean streak in you, don't you?

 

Life brings out the Sweeney Todd in all of us sometimes..............