Mama Bear's Spicey[sic] Lime: First Impressions

[stryker4526]

Well I have to say, wasn't too impressed with the performance of this one. Really suffered from vanishing lather syndrome. Shame, too, because I REALLY like the smell.
What I did was soak my brush in warm water, load on the soap for about 45 seconds, then try to build lather. It was really foamy and disappeared shortly after I applied it to my face. There wasn't much slickness or cushion either, so I got some razor burn as a result. I had to switch to my RR to finish shaving today. I'll try again using some water to soften the puck next time and see if that improves it any.

 

[Teddyboy]

Definitely give it another chance. Mama Bears are great soaps and lather very well. Try using more than you think you need with a well-shaken brush. Add water by a few drops at a time.

 

[Wcoppage]

Really work the puck. Haven't had any problems with MB, but as with most glycerin soaps, you just got to load it

 

[Graybeard57]

Definitely give it another chance. Mama Bears are great soaps and lather very well. Try using more than you think you need with a well-shaken brush. Add water by a few drops at a time.

+1 Exactly my thoughts.

 

[STJ529]

I tried and tried with MB, but I never could get it to work. I learned that I'm simply not a fan of melt and pour soaps. You may just be one of those people.

 

[coloradomonkey]

Definitely give it another chance. Mama Bears are great soaps and lather very well. Try using more than you think you need with a well-shaken brush. Add water by a few drops at a time.

+1 especially the well-shaken (and well-loaded) brush.

 

[cadams122593]

need to try some of this mamma bears stuff ;p

 

[SliceOfLife]

Water to soften the puck won't help much with a glycerin soap. I'd agree with most people, sounds like you need to load more and/or adjust technique a bit. I like to start very dry with glycerin soaps and only add water towards the end of the lathering process, and then not too much. Glycerin soaps have higher water/othernonsoapstuff content than traditional soaps and so use less water in the lathering process. I haven't used a MB soap recently, but I have a few other soaps that I believe use the same or extremely similar bases, and they work just fine once you dial them in.

Also I'd recommend face lathering. I prefer it (or palm lathering) to bowl lathering with all soaps, but especially with glycerins that I've never been satisfied with the bowl lathering results with. When I started out with VDH and Kell's (Another glycerin) I always lathered ON the puck because I hadn't tried face lathering yet and bowl lathering off the puck with my poor technique back then didn't give me lather I would use.