Easiest Soap to Lather

[bmiller3230]

Most of the soaps I use these days, except for SV, are Italian style croaps, some softer than others. I start with the same amount of water in a badger brush and just vary pressure and load time, and monitor the lather produced during the loading process. I add water, if needed, while building the lather on my face. Also, these days I only face lather.

Easiest for me in order are:

Long Rifle Soap Company
Cella
Sterling
SV

 

[sternej]

I must be the only one who has trouble lathering Cella Red. It takes me so long that I only use it on weekends. The finished later is great, just takes me a while to get there. I like a thick creamy lofty lather.

 

[showard]

I must be the only one who has trouble lathering Cella Red. It takes me so long that I only use it on weekends. The finished later is great, just takes me a while to get there. I like a thick creamy lofty lather.

You're not the only one! I couldn't get a satisfactory lather from Cella or Tabac (the old tallow formula) if my life depended on it.

 

[BigJ]

IME, shave sticks are the easiest way to generate a good lather. My favorites are La Toja and Speick.

And you can always make your own stick by purchasing a plastic tube and filling it with one of the soaps above.

 

[Euler]

Barrister and Mann soaps had a learning curve for me, but I've found my preferred technique and I find them to be very reliable.

-Scoop out a little bit (with something sharp, like tweezers)
-Smush it into the bottom of a bowl with my thumb to create a kind of paste
-Start swirling (constantly) with a brush and very gradually add water

B&M is the "easiest" hard soap. Proraso and TOBS creams are also very easy to get a good lather.

 

[willk93]

Barrister and Mann soaps had a learning curve for me, but I've found my preferred technique and I find them to be very reliable.

-Scoop out a little bit (with something sharp, like tweezers)
-Smush it into the bottom of a bowl with my thumb to create a kind of paste
-Start swirling (constantly) with a brush and very gradually add water

B&M is the "easiest" hard soap. Proraso and TOBS creams are also very easy to get a good lather.

I use an espresso spoon for this very purpose. Works great especially for soft soaps or those with too small of containers

 

[SgtCrppls]

Those all are good soaps have used most of them, I have only used two different soaps for the last year.

Ethos F Base
Grooming Department Aion

 

[Merchant Seaman Z]

Arko, Cella, Tabac, Chiseled Face soaps, Speick

 

[johnc007]

Vitos & Cella for me, pretty much lather themselves

 

[Jonn]

MDC, SV, Tabac, Stirling Beeswax, Boellis Panama,

 

[NewYorkBuck]

Anything not Mitchells Wool Fat.

Love the soap, but it's a bear to lather.

 

[Norman Gunston]

Was previously Arko; now superseded by Mondial.
Brilliant as a travel croap in the mid-size 75ml tub; lather explodes in no time at all, and great performance.
Tobacco Verte scent is very good indeed.

 

[geneaut]

I have always suspected MdC to be my easiest lather, but I'll mention the lowly Arko stick as another. I think both lather themselves as soon as I put them near the sink.

 

[Albert V]

Not mentioned above (but I could have missed it) is Maggards line of tallow shave soaps. I have tried all six scents via samples and all whip up very nicely. Worth giving a few samples a try on your next purchase from them. London Barber, Tobacco, Lime Bergamot, and Mango are my favorite scents. Lilac was a bit too girly, and Orange Menthol had no noticeable menthol.

Aside from Maggards, other soaps I have used that lather easy include Cella, Chiseled Face, MDC

 

[willk93]

Not mentioned above (but I could have missed it) is Maggards line of tallow shave soaps. I have tried all six scents via samples and all whip up very nicely. Worth giving a few samples a try on your next purchase from them. London Barber, Tobacco, Lime Bergamot, and Mango are my favorite scents. Lilac was a bit too girly, and Orange Menthol had no noticeable menthol.

Aside from Maggards, other soaps I have used that lather easy include Cella, Chiseled Face, MDC

Spot on with this. I have their Limes & Bergamot, and the scent is very nice. Spicy and zesty lime

 

[ChriWilson]

In no preferential order:
Arko, Tabac (T), Speick (T), Haslinger, MdC, SV

 

[tropic]

I'm new at lathering shave soaps, so the easiest is often the one I used the day before. Right now Pereira's glycerin-based soap is probably the fastest to prepare--bloom it, throw water at it, stir it up a bit, and it's done. No quirks or surprises, just a well-behaved, slick-shaving soap. TGS' veggie base is a bit like that. And Tabac... because Tabac.

 

[preidy]

I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but I've found my sweet spot with Stirling. Cheers...

 

[mladenius]

It's hard to beat Arko here - literary idiot proof with any kind of brush and water.

 

[lirijavdekje]

For Cella lathering, I use an almost sopping wet shaving brush and hold the container in my left hand so it is positioned above the brush, then I load it like I hate it. Works like a damn charm.