Making Lather before your shower

[Big_John]

I've been working on making lather since I started DE shaving. I have some "issues" with pain in my wrists and arms that I've been getting around with technique and it's all working well.

One thing I've been doing is making my lather up before my shower. I use some Van der Hagen soap and Real Shaving Company cream together. I started it quite by accident, wanting to shave and as I made my lather, I decided a hot shower would clear up some aches and pains. I left the bowl in the sink filled with hot water, half expecting to have to throw it out and start over.

I was surprised that it seemed a little creamier and the warm lather was pretty nice.

Anybody else do this? Any comments?

 

[Saxman11290]

This actually sounds like a great idea! The only reason I don't do this is because I usually soak my brush and bowl in a sink full of hot water during my shower. But now you've got me thinking, which would I rather have, a hot, thoroughly soaked brush, or a warm bowl of lather waiting for me after my shower .... hmmm. Something to try, for sure.

How long do you soak your brush for, if you are making your lather before the shower? For me, I shower and shave first thing in the morning, so I don't really have the time to let my brush soak sufficiently (whatever that means) to make a lather before the shower.

Also, I've noticed when I use certain creams (particularly TOBS Almond), if I don't get the water ratio just right, my lather will start to dry up and deflate a bit, like a soufflé. I'm inclined to say that if I left a lather like that lying around for too long, it might lose some of it's lubricating ability. But then again, that can always be fixed with a proper water ratio in the first place.

Thanks for making me think outside the box!

 

[Big_John]

This actually sounds like a great idea! The only reason I don't do this is because I usually soak my brush and bowl in a sink full of hot water during my shower. But now you've got me thinking, which would I rather have, a hot, thoroughly soaked brush, or a warm bowl of lather waiting for me after my shower .... hmmm. Something to try, for sure.

How long do you soak your brush for, if you are making your lather before the shower? For me, I shower and shave first thing in the morning, so I don't really have the time to let my brush soak sufficiently (whatever that means) to make a lather before the shower.

Also, I've noticed when I use certain creams (particularly TOBS Almond), if I don't get the water ratio just right, my lather will start to dry up and deflate a bit, like a soufflé. I'm inclined to say that if I left a lather like that lying around for too long, it might lose some of it's lubricating ability. But then again, that can always be fixed with a proper water ratio in the first place.

Thanks for making me think outside the box!

I really don't soak the brush. Instead, while filling the sink, I run the brush under the hot water. My thought is the brush really doesn't have a lot of mass and will heat (and cool) fairly rapidly. It seems to work, the bristles feel hot to me. I also put the bowl in the sink and let the hot water run into it as the sink fills.