Unpopular opinion warning - Am I really missing out on something by not creating buckets of thick, cool whip lather and slinging it all over the bathroom?
The interweb has more digital ink spilled over what kind of brush and bowl work best to create SOTD photo quality lather than cat videos. Tall, thick, merinque, overflowing brush and bowl. But I just can’t imagine slathering that much goop on my face. That’s why I never used canned goo. I don’t even like whipped cream on top ice cream. Too d**n messy! Plus, it gets all over your razor, you can’t see what you’re doing… I don’t get it.
Now, I have a beard, so I only shave cheeks, neck, and touch-ups areas. So my shaving is pretty precise. Plus, I can’t stand getting things in my beard that I have to wash out (messy food, etc). When shaving, I usually am fresh out of the shower. The last thing I want to do is take a janitor’s mop of thick lather and slop it all over my face. Then I’d have to get back in the shower again after shaving, just to rinse off all the lather!
Seriously, though. My routine is to load a small brush, do a little puck lathering, then apply it using paint brush strokes- no swirls. I get a thin, dense lather that I can control. My favorite lather is 3rd pass, as it’s coming off the brush even thinner.
So sincerely, am I really missing something by not whipping up a bowl full of goopy lather that I will then have to wash down the sink, and wash out of my beard?
The interweb has more digital ink spilled over what kind of brush and bowl work best to create SOTD photo quality lather than cat videos. Tall, thick, merinque, overflowing brush and bowl. But I just can’t imagine slathering that much goop on my face. That’s why I never used canned goo. I don’t even like whipped cream on top ice cream. Too d**n messy! Plus, it gets all over your razor, you can’t see what you’re doing… I don’t get it.
Now, I have a beard, so I only shave cheeks, neck, and touch-ups areas. So my shaving is pretty precise. Plus, I can’t stand getting things in my beard that I have to wash out (messy food, etc). When shaving, I usually am fresh out of the shower. The last thing I want to do is take a janitor’s mop of thick lather and slop it all over my face. Then I’d have to get back in the shower again after shaving, just to rinse off all the lather!
Seriously, though. My routine is to load a small brush, do a little puck lathering, then apply it using paint brush strokes- no swirls. I get a thin, dense lather that I can control. My favorite lather is 3rd pass, as it’s coming off the brush even thinner.
So sincerely, am I really missing something by not whipping up a bowl full of goopy lather that I will then have to wash down the sink, and wash out of my beard?