Adding water

[Labowski]

This is more our of general curiosity than anyghing else, but how do you guys "add water" to your shave when needed?

If I'm bowl lathering, I run my had under the running faucet then let water drip off that hand and into the bowl if needed.

I'f I'm face lathering I either do the same as above, except straight on to the brush, or I turn the fuacet on as low as possible and let a little water run over the brush.


Like I said, this is just out of curiostiy and to see if anyone uses different methods. Thanks in advance!

 

[SilentTuba]

Bowl lathering, same as you.

Face lathering, I fill the bowl with water to soak my brush before hand, and then gently dip the tips into the bowl to add water.

 

[Niles]

I face-lather and fill the sink about halfway with water for my shave. So I dip the tip into the water in the sink if the lather is too dry.

 

[k200817]

Bowl lathering, same as you.

Face lathering, I fill the bowl with water to soak my brush before hand, and then gently dip the tips into the bowl to add water.

I do the same.

 

[Labowski]

I face-lather and fill the sink about halfway with water for my shave. So I dip the tip into the water in the sink if the lather is too dry.

Dip the tip... giggity...

On a mature note, I might have to give this a try.

 

[aihpcfl]

I'm marching to a different drummer. Don't add water; I add soap.

I start with a brush full of water after waiting a couple seconds for the loose drops to fall. I load and start face lathering. If I need more soap I hit the puck with the brush again, but usually I don't need to.

Caveat: I use MWF, a real wet lather is ok by me, and MWF works just fine if the lather has a lot of water in it. I might have to do things differently with another product, but MWF seems to suit my methods.

 

[Chadao]

I do the same for bowl lathering.

I face-lather and fill the sink about halfway with water for my shave. So I dip the tip into the water in the sink if the lather is too dry.

 

[Teppanyaki]

I use my telekinetic powers to levitate several globules of water, which I then shape into various fantastical creatures that fly around the bathroom briefly before they dive and meld into the lather.

On my off days, I dip my hand or brush into a sink filled with water.

 

[August West]

I face-lather and fill the sink about halfway with water for my shave. So I dip the tip into the water in the sink if the lather is too dry.

+1

 

[AABCDS]

I pretty much do what you do except when bowl-lathering, I drip if off my hand onto the base of the bristles on the brush.

When I'm face-lathering, I turn on the water and dip the tips into the shallow pool of water in the sink.

 

[lmill999]

I face-lather and fill the sink about halfway with water for my shave. So I dip the tip into the water in the sink if the lather is too dry.

+2

 

[Mandina]

While face lathering, instead of dipping the brush tips in water (contained in a bowl in the sink) I sometimes add drops of water into the breach of the brush (where the mixing takes place). Does this work better? I dunno...

 

[Badger Bill]

I do exactly what you do, OP. Alternatively too, sometimes between passes after I rinse off my face, I get it extra wet so that water is added that way.

- Badger Bill

 

[normdugas]

Bowl lathering, same as you.

Face lathering, I fill the bowl with water to soak my brush before hand, and then gently dip the tips into the bowl to add water.

+1 on both accounts

 

[Jasman]

I do exactly what you do, OP. Alternatively too, sometimes between passes after I rinse off my face, I get it extra wet so that water is added that way.

- Badger Bill

Wetting my face between passes is the best way I've personally found to avoid having my lather disappear mid-pass.

 

[Eeyore]

Face lathering, I fill the bowl with water to soak my brush before hand, and then gently dip the tips into the bowl to add water.

Same here.

 

[ackvil]

Bowl lathering, same as you.

Face lathering, I fill the bowl with water to soak my brush before hand, and then gently dip the tips into the bowl to add water.

Same as me.

 

[Jarick]

Bowl: run faucet, put my hand under, add however much to the bowl

Face: put brush under faucet, briefly turn on to wet the brush

 

[Haggises]

I'f I'm face lathering I either do the same as above, except straight on to the brush, or I turn the fuacet on as low as possible and let a little water run over the brush.

samesies

 

[Senshi]

I don't have a bathroom sink. My apartment is laid in an unconventional way. So I have 1 sink, the kitchen sink. I can't use a water stopper with it so I have to just take a big steel basin and fill it with water and use that to dip my razor in after my strokes. So when I'm making lather I use that and dip the tip of the brush and either put it into the bowl lather or apply it to my face.