Wondering about lathering on the puck in the soap dish rather than using a bowl or mug. My guess is that this would really just wind up as face lathering?
Lathering on the puck?
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you are only using the puck to load the brush
after your brush is loaded, you transfer to face for "face lathering" or to a bowl/scuttle for "bowl lathering".
after your brush is loaded, you transfer to face for "face lathering" or to a bowl/scuttle for "bowl lathering".
+1. That's the ticket.
i also take my finger and grab all the wet lather on the puck after loading and either put it in my bowl/scuttle or apply to my face prior to face lathering.
+1
I've seen guys lather on the puck as if they are bowl lathering, but IMHO, it is just a waste of product.
I've seen guys lather on the puck as if they are bowl lathering, but IMHO, it is just a waste of product.
I used to lather on the puck but now I transfer over to a nickel bowl very similar to the "Geo bowl" over at Shavenation.com That works much better & saves product as well.
Yeah, it'll work fine, it's just a bit of a waste. You'll very likely end up overloading your brush, so you put a lot of lather down the drain when you're done. It might even make it difficult to get a good balance of water/soap.
I do a half on the puck/half on the face with hard soaps--even if it does waste a bit of product most of us can stand that. On 'soft soaps/croaps' I do just load the brush and the puck and face lather.
Lathering on the puck is my preferred method of using shaving soap. I find it's only slightly more wasteful of product that other methods.
The key to doing this, is starting out with a fairly wet brush. You than add soap to the mix, until the optimal lather is achieved.
Lathering on the puck is really just an opposite way of accomplishing a stable lather: the usual methods recommended here start with a fairly dry brush, loading a lot of soap onto the brush. The overload of soap is then thinned out by adding additional water to the mix until optimal lather is achieved. Lathering on the puck is the opposite: starting out with too much water, and adding extra soap until the optimal lather is achieved.
The same quality of lather should be able to be achieved via both methods.
The key to doing this, is starting out with a fairly wet brush. You than add soap to the mix, until the optimal lather is achieved.
Lathering on the puck is really just an opposite way of accomplishing a stable lather: the usual methods recommended here start with a fairly dry brush, loading a lot of soap onto the brush. The overload of soap is then thinned out by adding additional water to the mix until optimal lather is achieved. Lathering on the puck is the opposite: starting out with too much water, and adding extra soap until the optimal lather is achieved.
The same quality of lather should be able to be achieved via both methods.
I can vouch for the truth of that statement. Back in the day, I lathered on the puck in an Old Spice mug. I wish I still had the adjustable Gillette I used then. Now, of course, I bowl lather Proraso--so much more sophisticated.
I guess I'm a product "waster": I lather on the puck and in a mug, and then lather on my face. Never felt that I was wasting soap...just felt that that was the way it was done since that's the way my dad did it. Of course, since I use Van Der Hagen or Col. Conk I'm not losing a lot of money, and the puck actually lasts a long time, so maybe being a "waster" isn't so much of a problem in the first place. At least for me...
When I use my Trumper's creams I usually just add a dollop to an empty shaving mug and go after it. That works pretty well, too. I don't have any bowls or scuttles; I've always been a shaving mug kind of guy.
When I use my Trumper's creams I usually just add a dollop to an empty shaving mug and go after it. That works pretty well, too. I don't have any bowls or scuttles; I've always been a shaving mug kind of guy.
Given that I have always used a mug, lathering on the puck is the norm for me. As for creams, I smear a dollop on my face and face lather.
This.
It's hard to make a perfect balance of water and soap when you are lathering on top of the puck, because the brush is continuously adding more soap into the mix.
A waste? Or an opportunity to buy more product faster?
I suspect Neo is absolutely right on this one. If you build up a meringue like lather in the mug, you are probably wasting some product. If you are just loading the brush and starting to produce lather and then moving to your face, you are probably going to have no issues with waste. Unless your brush is chewing through enough expensive soaps that you are concerned about it, it's all good. YMMV.
Right!
I tried lathering on the puck when I first started..main reason why I got RazoRock and its massive tub..the description said it was good to make lather in.
Shortly after that I got a bowl, lol.
Shortly after that I got a bowl, lol.
