Along with the two soaps I ordered from Krissy at Prairie Creations, I got a nice bonus in the form of a soap sample.
I decided to make a mini shave stick from the sample of Spiced Rum soap, using a travel sized deodorant container to hold my homemade stick. I got lazy, and instead of grating the small puck I heated it up and pulverized it.
The results were pretty good, but there was more soap than I could fit in my makeshift mini stick. I put the crumbly leftovers in a small tupperware.
I decided to try the stick tonight, and it worked well. I looked at the crumbs in the tupperware, and decided to put a few in my scuttle, and lather them up...have to use up the leftovers, after all.
Between the face lathering and the extra soap in the scuttle, I ended up with a lather that was so "soapy" that it was almost goopy. There was a lot more product involved than with the lathers I had been building, but what the heck, gotta burn up them crumbs.
The shave with this gooey lather was superb. So breathtakingly good that it made me stop and think about what I had previously decided was acceptable.
I've been getting excellent results with Krissy's soaps, and with other soaps, too. I've been producing lather that looks like the lather pictured in the tutorials here. I think that all along, even though I've been getting good looking lather that shaves well, I should have been kicking up the amount of soap a notch or two, and paying more attention to how the stuff performs and less to how it looks.
I've been at this for awhile now, and if not for the soap crumbs I had to "get rid of" I might never have stopped and considered that more product might give me better shaves, because what I was getting already was darn good. I didn't know that amazingly good was just around the corner.
So, if you are working on your lathering technique, I say don't stop when the results look pretty. Experiment with more product. Don't let fluffy photogenic peaks convince you that you've plumbed the depths of what good lather should be.
I decided to make a mini shave stick from the sample of Spiced Rum soap, using a travel sized deodorant container to hold my homemade stick. I got lazy, and instead of grating the small puck I heated it up and pulverized it.
The results were pretty good, but there was more soap than I could fit in my makeshift mini stick. I put the crumbly leftovers in a small tupperware.
I decided to try the stick tonight, and it worked well. I looked at the crumbs in the tupperware, and decided to put a few in my scuttle, and lather them up...have to use up the leftovers, after all.
Between the face lathering and the extra soap in the scuttle, I ended up with a lather that was so "soapy" that it was almost goopy. There was a lot more product involved than with the lathers I had been building, but what the heck, gotta burn up them crumbs.
The shave with this gooey lather was superb. So breathtakingly good that it made me stop and think about what I had previously decided was acceptable.
I've been getting excellent results with Krissy's soaps, and with other soaps, too. I've been producing lather that looks like the lather pictured in the tutorials here. I think that all along, even though I've been getting good looking lather that shaves well, I should have been kicking up the amount of soap a notch or two, and paying more attention to how the stuff performs and less to how it looks.
I've been at this for awhile now, and if not for the soap crumbs I had to "get rid of" I might never have stopped and considered that more product might give me better shaves, because what I was getting already was darn good. I didn't know that amazingly good was just around the corner.
So, if you are working on your lathering technique, I say don't stop when the results look pretty. Experiment with more product. Don't let fluffy photogenic peaks convince you that you've plumbed the depths of what good lather should be.
