Anyone Face Lather with Marco's Method?
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My daily shave is an adaptation of Marco's method (less water in the brush, though still fairly wet, and shorter loading on the soap). Just go lightly and slowly and stay on your cheeks for a few swirls. Pick up the pace and the pressure just a tad as you transition into building across the entire beard area. I save the mustache area for the end, and usually "shape" the loft a bit with my finger tips (particularly with larger brushes, less so with smaller ones).
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Do I sense Valobra and Vitos on the way too?!
Well, I do have some TOBS soap on the way which I plan to grate and stuff into a tin. Been eyeing the QCS options as well. I am a month in and am already trying to figure out how I will ever use all the soaps and creams I already have. However, I should probably order some more so the extra tins don't go to waste!
My technique has always been a confused mess of different bits and pieces of techniques i've read in various places, with different results every day, so yesterday i properly tried Marco's technique with a Muehle soap, and it was just amazing. I don't see why i would ever do anything different from hereonin.
THANK YOU MARCO!!
I load my Omega brush heavily and then load it a bit more. Soap is cheap and I load the hell out of that brush. Once it hits my face, I do the usual. I did transfer my Cella from the red tub to a bigger tub and that helped. I make no major changes overall. The Italian soft soaps work well for me.
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My technique has always been a confused mess of different bits and pieces of techniques i've read in various places, with different results every day, so yesterday i properly tried Marco's technique with a Muehle soap, and it was just amazing. I don't see why i would ever do anything different from hereonin.
THANK YOU MARCO!!
Sorry but I really can't see what the big deal is with lathering soft soaps. If you can tie your shoe laces you can get lather from a soft soap.
Can someone post a link to Marco's method? The man is a master with the Duke 3 !
Nevermind...found it in the stickies
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...g-technique-with-Italian-soft-soaps?p=2981170
+1 I think that the water and suds flying about come from the initial soaking (the water that's in the midst of the hair; the reservoir shall I say). By starting with a slightly dryer brush and periodically dipping the tip, the water doesn't store in the base of the brush, from where it gets airborne, but rather goes directly from the tips to your face resulting in less of a mess.
I'm not really sure the arsey message was necessary.
I was able to get a lather from it, but not as much as i wanted, but now i can, so this method helped me. Then i felt like saying thanks. Does that really warrant a sarcastic message?
I use exactly the same "adaptation" of Marco's method with excellent results every time.
I agree. You can add water, but not take it away.
I use the same method for face lathering and it usually takes 3 dips before I hit the sweet spot!! Basically, 1) load cream using moist brush then dip in water and paint face to get a small amount of cream applied to face; 2) dip in water again and use a circular motion to create lather; 3) dip again and use scrubby circular motion and lather explodes on face.
I fully intend to use this method.
I follow Marco's method but not to the letter. I remove a bit of water before I begin to load the brush. It works like a champ every time and even on 'hard to lather' soaps like MWF.
I don't mean to over-state something that may be obvious. Wet your face before bringing the lather filled brush to it too. I have become more of a face latherer myself over time. The methods described in this thread work well.
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Ok, so I tried again this morning with a few modifications and I think this will be my go to method (likely for all soaps). I removed a little water with two small "pumps" and then loaded like crazy with the tin held sideways. This helped with allowing excess liquid to fall into the sink and getting the soap up into the bristles easier. When I went to my face I started with more of a gentle wipe all over than any sort of lathering, then started lathering like usual. Still a few stray drop and so forth, but much better than before.
Warning: newbie question ahead
With the Cella in a big-enough container, do you use that container only for loading the brush? Or is the complete lathering done in there?
What I'm getting at is this: if one uses soap and prefers bowl-lathering over face-lathering, is a second bowl necessary? Or do you just do all the lathering in the bowl that contains the soap?
For me, to get the water/soap ratio in my lather perfect requires a separate bowl. Otherwise, the whole time you are building lather you are continuing to add soap into the mix. (I don't face lather.)
Long story short, if you are bowl lathering, you really do require a separate bowl apart from the container that is holding the soap.
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