Messy soap!

[cavaliere]

Gentlemen, I love using cake soap to shave, but one thing annoys me: the mess with it. I simply can't make a decent lather without some vigorous work with the brush which effects in lather being most everywhere around my bowl/mug, on my hands, my sink, occasionally other parts of me and of the surroundings (the floor, water taps, my chest...)
I find the use of cream so much cleaner. Am I just a bit more clumsy than most, or do you share my feelings about it?

 

[Luc]

I would recommend face lathering.

If you want to use your bowl, you might need a bigger bowl.

 

[michiganlover]

Gentlemen, I love using cake soap to shave, but one thing annoys me: the mess with it. I simply can't make a decent lather without some vigorous work with the brush which effects in lather being most everywhere around my bowl/mug, on my hands, my sink, occasionally other parts of me and of the surroundings (the floor, water taps, my chest...)
I find the use of cream so much cleaner. Am I just a bit more clumsy than most, or do you share my feelings about it?

Are you lathering on the puck itself?? I could certainly see that being rather messy. Simply loading the brush, and moving on to the face, or a bowl, not so much.

 

[kingfisher]

1) Your brush is too wet.

2) You are swirling too vigorously.


Start with a relatively dry brush, shaken and squeezed. Move it deliberately on top of the puck until the bristles are loaded with soap.

Move the brush to a bowl or your face, and build lather, adding a few drops of water at a time and incorporating it casually rather than vigorously. Keep doing this until you get your perfect lather.

I use soaps almost every day and there is very rarely even a speck of soap lather that isn't exactly where I want it to be.

 

[amspratt]

Simply loading the brush, and moving on to the face, or a bowl, not so much.

+1
Face lathering keeps the mess where you want it...on your face!

 

[SiBurning]

+1
Face lathering keeps the mess where you want it...on your face!

Some of us still need a bib.

 

[Drubbing]

Mess and fuss? Does this look like what you do?

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIsj58fqVjY[/YOUTUBE]

If so, Please Don't. Take kingfishers advice and soak and squeeze the brush. You want it damp, that's how soap gets loaded on a brush.

This guy in the vid makes something that should take a minute or two, take forever, makes a mess all over the place and wastes masses of soap in the process. His brush is way too wet. It's far quicker, easy and more consistent to start with less water and add more. This guy hasn't even got a lather up by the time I'm contemplating a 3rd pass. And he calls his vid "quick lather."

Guys like vid man make a whole big production out of something that is far simpler than they make it out to be.

 

[honed]

Mess and fuss? Does this look like what you do?

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIsj58fqVjY[/YOUTUBE]

If so, Please Don't. Take kingfishers advice and soak and squeeze the brush. You want it damp, that's how soap gets loaded on a brush.

This guy in the vid makes something that should take a minute or two, take forever, makes a mess all over the place and wastes masses of soap in the process. His brush is way too wet. It's far quicker, easy and more consistent to start with less water and add more. This guy hasn't even got a lather up by the time I'm contemplating a 3rd pass. And he calls his vid "quick lather."

Guys like vid man make a whole big production out of something that is far simpler than they make it out to be.

Yeah, that video is just so horrible

 

[takeshi]

Am I just a bit more clumsy than most, or do you share my feelings about it?

Sounds like a technique issue. I get soap on the edge of the storage bowl at most when loading. None of the lather leaves the lathering bowl when building.

 

[masonjarjar]

I've been shaving with a soap and mug for most of my adult life.. yes it takes a little practice, but I've not really ever had a problem building a lather, containing the lather in the mug, and brushing it on my face. But I normally do it the old fashioned way.. lather right on the puck in the mug. I find any other means too complicated to deal with.

 

[BlackBard]

1) Your brush is too wet.

2) You are swirling too vigorously.


Start with a relatively dry brush, shaken and squeezed. Move it deliberately on top of the puck until the bristles are loaded with soap.

Move the brush to a bowl or your face, and build lather, adding a few drops of water at a time and incorporating it casually rather than vigorously. Keep doing this until you get your perfect lather.

I use soaps almost every day and there is very rarely even a speck of soap lather that isn't exactly where I want it to be.

What he said.