I am still fairly new at this (5 or 6 months) and still learning, so help me figure out what I did wrong today.
First a little history.
- I started out using Williams with a $5 boar brush and the results were well fair.
- I read about SuperLather and added some US spec Palmolive shave cream to the mix and things got better.
- Then I learned about UberLather and added some glycerin and things got better still.
- Then I picked up some of Mike R's Well Honed soap and things got great.
- Added a Capshaw brush and things got still better.
- Added Pirate Cove soap (not as nice as Mike's but still good.
Now comes the problem, I was running out of Palmolive and can't find it anymore so I ordered some cream from a small soap kitchen (name withheld because I don't want to smear them for my mistakes). Well I used the provided plastic snudle dipper and tried to make uberlather this morning with the Pirate Cove and some clycerin. Wow I have never seen so many suds. Try as I might I couldn't get the bubble small to non existant. I never did really get what I would call lather but boy did I have a TON of suds. Too much water? Not enough? I tried adding a bit of water but that didn't really help much and I had a time crunch (have to get off to the van pool on time). Maybe I should just use half a snudle of the cream? Any ideas what whent wrong?
Thanks for all the help,
Mike