I came back to eat some crow.... I ordered a tub of vespers. What’s. Wrong. With. Me.... anyway after all the rave reviews I figured I better see if it’s really that good. And I’m doing a 2019 sabbatical. I think...
I came back to eat some crow.... I ordered a tub of vespers. What’s. Wrong. With. Me.... anyway after all the rave reviews I figured I better see if it’s really that good. And I’m doing a 2019 sabbatical. I think...
I’ve got about 7-8 shaves under my belt with Vespers and the AS. Really a lovely Christmas or otherwise wintertime scent. As a gentleman mentioned, the AS lingers well and smells wonderful.
2019 sabbatical is coming, but I’ll be coming back to this base for other scents afterwards. A really nice base.
Another nice Christmas scent is the limited edition CRSW Glide "Winter". A lovely soap and CRSW Glide is top tier.
...I really love both Glissant and Reserve bases, I’m not quite ready to say this is better than both, but it’s at least as good.
@kxthor You're going to think I'm crazy, but try this with the Reserve:
Reserve performs differently than any other base I've used. The instructions above are directly from the soap maker. I've had excellent success with this method. The problems guys often have is over loading the brush and it's hard to get enough water in it after doing so. Best of luck!
- Use a very wet synthetic brush
- Swirl on the soap for 15 swirls, no more
- Load in bowl for a bit, keep adding water. Lots of water.
Hang in there on the Vespers. It performs as other soaps do. Load the brush heavy and go on. It too likes a lot of water.
@kxthor
Hang in there on the Vespers. It performs as other soaps do. Load the brush heavy and go on. It too likes a lot of water.
@kxthor You're going to think I'm crazy, but try this with the Reserve:
Reserve performs differently than any other base I've used. The instructions above are directly from the soap maker. I've had excellent success with this method. The problems guys often have is over loading the brush and it's hard to get enough water in it after doing so. Best of luck!
- Use a very wet synthetic brush
- Swirl on the soap for 15 swirls, no more
- Load in bowl for a bit, keep adding water. Lots of water.
Hang in there on the Vespers. It performs as other soaps do. Load the brush heavy and go on. It too likes a lot of water.
Thanks a bunch for this. I only have samples of the reserve base, so it would be hard to do this exact method. I guess I can transfer to bowl and try with a good chunk of the reserve. I had given up awhile back so the samples are a bit old. I wonder if this matters?
Interesting.
I load the Vespers as lightly as possible. I still get a ton of lather.
It does like a lot of water. But, not much soap.
As a face latherer, after loading my soaked and shaken damp brush I apply soap like spackling. Then, I add a bit of water to the brush's tips and begin building lather. The Vespers soaps works great with my method. I can not believe how much lather I can get with so little soap.
I do not have hard water. Maybe that matters. If you have hard water, maybe try distilled water?
Happy shaves,
Jim