Re-lathering without a brush.

[Slivovitz]

I'm sold on using a brush, with either soap or cream, to lather. With creams, I'm used to putting a dollop of cream on the brush, face lathering, and then face lathering again for second and third passes with the cream left in the brush. I ask the following just out of curiosity.

A few days ago I tried some Neutrogena shaving cream which I'd had lying around for quite a while, I think before I started DE shaving. Because it's a brushless cream, I spread it on by hand. For a second pass, I squeezed out a bit more cream. This seems rather wasteful.

For those who do use brushless creams, what do you do?

• Use more cream for each pass.
• Have enough cream left on your "lathering hand" to re-lather.
• Do just one pass.
• Something I haven't thought of.

As I said, just curious. I think in my canned goo days, I would do just one full pass, and rely on there being enough slickness left to do any necessary touchup. That's probably why I got so much irritation.

The Neutrogena worked fine by the way. Nothing special, but pretty good.

 

[shmeegs]

I love using a brush but sometimes I might lather on my hand and then put it on my face with my hand just as a change of sorts. Usually I leave enough on my hand for two passes and just swirl the brush on the hand to add more slickness.

I use the guideline that if I am not using my brush at all, not to do more than two passes and only meant to be used as a quick shave routine. I use King of Shaves gel as a quick shave and I usually only do one WTG pass.

 

[mblakele]

With brushless creams (I have KMF and Nancy Boy) I face-lather anyway. So my extra lather is in the brush. If a cream won't face-lather, I won't keep it.