Ever forget how to lather a soap?

I have been switching soaps on a daily basis lately. Past 2 days I used IK and could not get the brush to load properly. No tragedy since I went back to the puck for each pass and the shave was fine. Just confounding. I must be getting shaving dementia or something.

Can't say I've ever had that problem. Give me a brush and a bar of Ivory soap and I will make you lather.

(06-30-2012, 10:55 PM)Johnny Wrote: Can't say I've ever had that problem. Give me a brush and a bar of Ivory soap and I will make you lather.

Normally that is the same for me. Heck I get great shaves from Williams and Caswell-Massey. I have used IK in the past with no issue. This was 2 days in a row with 2 different brushes. This was a puck sitting uncovered for about 2 months. I think it's time to go buy canned cream and a cart

I have found that sometimes it takes me a couple of lathers to dial in a particular soap. Sticking with the same soap for a week or so allows me to get to know a soap and get the most out of it.

I have also found that my tends to hold onto some soap residue no matter how well I rinse it and this can have an effect on my lather.

Thanks Sully

As an experiment I wet my thumb and rubbed it in circles around the puck for 30 seconds. No lather and no slick. Like running your thumb across a rubber ball. I have really hard water and there maybe a layer of insoluble stearates incorporated in the top layer from the last time I used it a couple months ago. Will try scrubbing the surface with a toothbrush tommorrow before shaving.

Put a teaspoon of warm-hot water on the IK puck, cover the container and use the next morning. Voila!!! The soap soap comes back to life!!!

Experimented today. Flipped the puck over and it loaded fine. Scrubbed the "odd" surface with a toothbrush before lathering and it lathered fine. Maybe something, like a cleaning product, got onto the surface and caused an issue. Only the shadow will know.

I have. I have one particular soap (Mike's Natural Soap) that I like a lot. But it's in one of those magnetic Ikea containers, stuck to the inside of my medicine cabinet. I keep forgetting to include it when considering what soap to use. If that goes on for too long, I usually end up with at least one shave w/ it with crummy lather, usually from not enough water.

Never tried it, so good luck with it.