Years ago, when I only face lathered, I read a post from a guy who added glycerine to his bowl lather using an eye dropper. “Interesting” I thought, but not for me; never believed I would ever go down that route.
However, these past few winters, I decided to experiment with bowl lathering in an effort to be gentler to my seasonally sensitive skin.
This past month the old glycerine thread popped back into my head. So, I got a 100 ml bottle of glycerine (about $4 or $5 Canadian) and an empty glass bottle with an eye-dropper top (about $2 Canadian, the pharmacist keeps them behind the counter) from a Walmart pharmacy. One gets 20 drops per ml, so that little bottle will yield about 2000 drops.
I tried it with all the soaps and creams I had at hand (Palmolive Classic cream, Proraso Blue, Speick cream, and a Wilkinson Sword stick(tallow) grated into a pot).
For the creams I squeeze out about 1/2” length at the bottom of the bowl, add the drops of glycerine then use a damp brush to whip up a lather. For the soap, I twirl a damp brush on the soap for about 30 seconds, add drops of glycerine to the bottom of a bowl then whip up a lather using the soap laden brush.
All the creams and soap benefited from the addition of only 3 drops of glycerine. Got better glide, cushioning and especially a better post shave face feel. The skin felt ”plumper” after the shave.
BUT, even adding only 3 drops will decrease the scent of soaps and creams. With the Speick cream it will also diminish the waxy post-shave feel from the beeswax. I wonder if the addition of glycerine would have been enough to dilute whatever the ingredient in Cella that gave me the infamous “Cella-burn”?
I can’t wait for this winter to see the difference it will make.
Thank you to the glycerine pushers, you guys were right!
However, these past few winters, I decided to experiment with bowl lathering in an effort to be gentler to my seasonally sensitive skin.
This past month the old glycerine thread popped back into my head. So, I got a 100 ml bottle of glycerine (about $4 or $5 Canadian) and an empty glass bottle with an eye-dropper top (about $2 Canadian, the pharmacist keeps them behind the counter) from a Walmart pharmacy. One gets 20 drops per ml, so that little bottle will yield about 2000 drops.
I tried it with all the soaps and creams I had at hand (Palmolive Classic cream, Proraso Blue, Speick cream, and a Wilkinson Sword stick(tallow) grated into a pot).
For the creams I squeeze out about 1/2” length at the bottom of the bowl, add the drops of glycerine then use a damp brush to whip up a lather. For the soap, I twirl a damp brush on the soap for about 30 seconds, add drops of glycerine to the bottom of a bowl then whip up a lather using the soap laden brush.
All the creams and soap benefited from the addition of only 3 drops of glycerine. Got better glide, cushioning and especially a better post shave face feel. The skin felt ”plumper” after the shave.
BUT, even adding only 3 drops will decrease the scent of soaps and creams. With the Speick cream it will also diminish the waxy post-shave feel from the beeswax. I wonder if the addition of glycerine would have been enough to dilute whatever the ingredient in Cella that gave me the infamous “Cella-burn”?
I can’t wait for this winter to see the difference it will make.
Thank you to the glycerine pushers, you guys were right!