I've always been able to make a pretty good lather for my shaves. I use either soaps or creams, but I lean towards soaps, and probably use them 90% of the time. I've also experimented making the so called "super lather" mixing both soap and cream together. While that worked pretty good, I didn't see a huge difference over lather from just soap alone, so I'd only mix the combination of soap/cream when the mood struck me.
While looking in the forum under general straight razor talk,I came across a video from The Pastor, who is Thomas in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has a video on making Uberlather. This is mixing both soap and cream together. The difference in the way he does it is he adds a bit of glycerin to the mix. In his video he seems to get instant mounds of lather. What a difference between my just O.K. super lather, and his Uberlather. I'll have to try it his way and see what happens.
I didn't find glycerin on store shelves, so I asked the pharmacist if they had any. He did but its kept behind the counter. I got a pint bottle for around $9.00, probably enough to last for years. If you check out The Pastor"s video, he mixes up the soap and cream together and uses a couple of squirts of glycerin.
I mixed mine up the same way, you can use any soap/cream combination, but I just used one squirt of glycerin. I started to mix things up and almost instantly I had mounds of rich lather, I mean enough to do 5+ passes. It seems that the glycerin is a key component to mixing up a lather that gives such a great shave, that was irritation free. Looks like I'll be mixing my lather this way for most of my shaves. I even went out to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and bought a small clear pump bottle to keep the glycerin in. That makes it easier to control how much glycerin you add.
I've PM'd The Pastor a couple of times about the mixing of the lather, and he advises to experiment on how much glycerin to use in the mix. Here's another case of where YMMV. Once you do this a couple of times it doesn't take much more time to do then mixing up a lather from either soap or cream. If you're looking for a really nice lather for a super shave, check this one out, and give it a try. I was very pleasantly surprised by the amount of lather this produced.
While looking in the forum under general straight razor talk,I came across a video from The Pastor, who is Thomas in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has a video on making Uberlather. This is mixing both soap and cream together. The difference in the way he does it is he adds a bit of glycerin to the mix. In his video he seems to get instant mounds of lather. What a difference between my just O.K. super lather, and his Uberlather. I'll have to try it his way and see what happens.
I didn't find glycerin on store shelves, so I asked the pharmacist if they had any. He did but its kept behind the counter. I got a pint bottle for around $9.00, probably enough to last for years. If you check out The Pastor"s video, he mixes up the soap and cream together and uses a couple of squirts of glycerin.
I mixed mine up the same way, you can use any soap/cream combination, but I just used one squirt of glycerin. I started to mix things up and almost instantly I had mounds of rich lather, I mean enough to do 5+ passes. It seems that the glycerin is a key component to mixing up a lather that gives such a great shave, that was irritation free. Looks like I'll be mixing my lather this way for most of my shaves. I even went out to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and bought a small clear pump bottle to keep the glycerin in. That makes it easier to control how much glycerin you add.
I've PM'd The Pastor a couple of times about the mixing of the lather, and he advises to experiment on how much glycerin to use in the mix. Here's another case of where YMMV. Once you do this a couple of times it doesn't take much more time to do then mixing up a lather from either soap or cream. If you're looking for a really nice lather for a super shave, check this one out, and give it a try. I was very pleasantly surprised by the amount of lather this produced.
