Mounding Soap?

As the soap tub nears the bottom, I mound the remaining soap.  I find it makes loading the brush much easier.  Does anyone else do this?  Or I am just being odd?

You are odd.

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Hi, I do this too. Sometimes when only some of the tub has been used only a little . It seems to make a big difference.

I totally do a modified this!

This isn't weird in my opinion, it seems to be much easier way of loading and using the product after it gets to become a donut.

I don't do it to this extreme, but I do push it away from the sides.  This seems like an okay idea to me.

I do this too.  In fact, when WSP Vetiver, Proraso Red, and Razorock Rosa di Boscolasco were all low, I combined them all into one mound of croap.

If you want to use up all the soap in your tub, there’s little alternative.

I do something similar.  Mine doesn't look nearly as nice but it gets the job done.

(07-20-2020, 10:19 AM)MaxP Wrote: As the soap tub nears the bottom, I mound the remaining soap.  I find it makes loading the brush much easier.  Does anyone else do this?  Or I am just being odd?

+1. Beautiful mound. Almost looks like you used a mold of some sort

When I get the doughnut hole, I spread the soap across the bottom of the container. When I no longer can continue this, I remove the soap altogether and smear it onto the bottom of my Aesop bowl.

After wet shaving for about a year and a half, I have two donut holes one in Schapenmelk and the other in CRSW X. Two of my all time favorites. For these soaps I use an Omega boar which seems to collect the holy soap more efficiently than my dense badgers. So I haven't mounded but most ideas that seem weird at first become brilliant with use.

I do something similar. But I also keep my soaps in use in a bowl. The concave shape helps a lot.

When I can see the bottom of the tub in the center of the soap, I scrape the excess soap from the perimeter and push it into the center.  Once the soap gets too thin, I scoop it all out and transfer to a fresh tub and start again.  This doesn't happen often though...I've only ever finished 4 soaps (Grooming Dept Angel x2, Grooming Dept Citric, Grooming Dept Asinus) and I'm close to finishing another GD Citric (donut stage).

I do something similar, but not as uniformly as yours. 

I also mound, but intentionally put in a bunch of peaks and valleys - as it speeds up loading time and I get a very saturated brush. I recall posting about putting La Savonniere du Moulin into a normal sized PET container and encouraging it to fill the container by gently tapping with a hammer (vs. grating the puck) - which resulted in a very non-uniform surface that eased loading immensely.

Generally speaking, after my soaps get to less than 1/2 full - I “re-shape” the loading area every few shaves.

You're probably weird... because I've thought of doing this.
... but more for hard pucks... Using them upside down would maybe keep them from getting a doughnut hole. (I don't actually do this, but think about the concept.)

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When it gets to the donut, I remove the last little bit and smash on top of the next refill puck to go into that bowl.

Good idea. Thanks for sharing. I will be doing this now.

I don't mound.  However, it does take more time and effort to load the brush as the donut hole gets larger.

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