WetShaving

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This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.

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Wednesday SOTD Thread - November 29, 2023 (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here’s a rundown of the process:

Open soap container.
Scoop out a wad of soap.
Place wad of soap into a bowl or scuttle, pressing it thin.
With a damp brush, swirl your brush in this soap until it develops into a thick protolather. You may need to add a little water, but not too much.
When you have a good protolather, move to your face. Begin using standard face lathering techniques to build a base of protolather on your beard area.
Once the lather base has been built, move back to your bowl. Add water, building volume to your lather, getting it slick and ready to use.
Move back to the face, adding more water to the brush to refine the lather on the face and preparing for the first pass.
Finalize your lather in your bowl, bringing that bowl lather to your face and mixing it up, giving you a Grand Unified Lather.
As you move forward with your second and third passes, the lather in the bowl will serve as your Lather Reservoir, enabling you to not run out of lather for three, maybe four passes.

It’s called the GUTL for Grand Unified Theory of Lathering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Awesome, thank you for this detailed explanation. As I was just saying elsewhere, I only do 2 pass shaves, so this is likely to produce way more lather than I’ll need. But there are worse problems to have and this does sound effective. Will try it out soon.