Sienna Shave Soap Tips

[TPeroda85]

Anyone have anythoughts on lathering this soap? Its been giving me some issues, I'm getting it, but it isn't the most consistent lather in the world. I let the soap sit with hot water on it while I shower as well as soak the brush too. I load the brush with quite a few swirls and smushes on the face of the soap then lather on my face whilst adding water.

Hows that sound for technique?

 

[jbp84]

I've really had problems with this soap. Here's a link to a thread I posted with a similar question as yours and the replies I got back. I started soaking the bowl and using a wetter brush. I did get more lather after following some of these tips, but it still isn't very good lather. I just cannot get very thick lather with this soap. At least not nearly as thick as Mama Bears and Tabac, which are the other two soaps I use.

Good luck!

 

[Timmy Dee]

My only tip for Sienna is to buy more.

This is an excellent soap, and from the sounds of it, your technique is identical to mine.

I love my Sienna soap - it, Safari, Tabac and Pirate's Cove are my go-to soaps for a great lather. As the puck is so hard, I say go to town on charging your brush up with some lather. As with all soaps, I charge up with a slightly wet puck and a fairly dry brush. Then I gently dunk the tips of the charged brush in a sink of hot water, then lather up on a wet face.

 

[Gustav]

IMO this soap is really sensitive to hard water so if you are in a hard water area, get yourself some distilled water or other soft water of some kind. After that take a bowl of this water and heat it in the microwave and then soak your brush in this water for a few minutes (you can also put a tea spoon full on the puck if you wish), shake out the excess water until no substantial amount leaves your brush any more, dump the water from the puck if this applies and then hit the puck. My technique may be wasteful but I swirl and add water by the tips of the brush as needed until my brush is completely saturated with the soap (until there are no big holes between the bristles when looking at the business end of the brush and peaks of lather have formed on the soap) which may take up to 2 minutes and finally I face lather with the brush.

If you do this properly, you should have a thick creamy lather to plaster on your face to your hearts content.

 

[NRK]

Try a wet brush on a dry soap puck. The brush doesn't need to be dripping, but don't shake all of the water out. I find that technique works better for face lathering. Usually I'll need to soap up the brush once, work a weak lather on my face, then go back to the puck with a little more water and build better lather on top of the thin lather I started with.

 

[TPeroda85]

Try a wet brush on a dry soap puck. The brush doesn't need to be dripping, but don't shake all of the water out. I find that technique works better for face lathering. Usually I'll need to soap up the brush once, work a weak lather on my face, then go back to the puck with a little more water and build better lather on top of the thin lather I started with.

Cool, thanks. I'll try that. Sounds like that will work better than what Im doing currently.

 

[TPeroda85]

Try a wet brush on a dry soap puck. The brush doesn't need to be dripping, but don't shake all of the water out. I find that technique works better for face lathering. Usually I'll need to soap up the brush once, work a weak lather on my face, then go back to the puck with a little more water and build better lather on top of the thin lather I started with.

Tried it out this morning, worked like a charm! If anyone has issues with the C&E's lather, try this out. It works great.