Wet Shaving Techniques - Bowl versus Face Lathering 

Love these how to videos Rod, your soaps are amazing.

Great video Rod, I love face lathering. Just more enjoyable for me and preps the face perfectly. Have a great Easter weekend. Very best regards Gordon 👍

Love Stirling so much and everything you put out is great! Very appreciative!

I enjoyed the video Rod, great tips for bowl lathering and face lathering 👍🏾😎👌🏾

Great video. I've been sporting a beard since I started wet shaving so I've been scooping soap and bowl lathering. Great comparison between the two and you got the same results. Have a great day

Thank you for this. I just got the shave bowl and the fine badger brush with green and white handle from y’all. I can’t wait to try this.

Some fantastic tips in this video, thank you! Sandpiper is my favorite Stirling soap among the 4-5 I've tried. Wishing you continued success in your endeavors!

It is good to see you on RU-vid Rod. I am always intrigued to what Stirling is up too. Can't wait till Glacial Margaritas in the Artic is released. Thank you.

Thanks Rod ! I ❤ Stirling products, the best in this business. Lifetime customer here!

I like to bowl lather, personally, and have definitely enjoyed using your soap and bowl to make that happen.

Outstanding video demonstration Rod!

I’m a face latherer! Love your soap! Use it 85% of the time!

Rod! Happy Belated New Year from THE Eljefe1974! You are my favoritest always! Your business is booming, hope I can get down to AR soon! God Bless Mandy, Family, and you my friend!!!

I really like this video, thank you. Finally a good video, explaining the stuff I've been wondering, thank youu. :)

Great products to shave with, pretty clean ingredients but lather.... wow.... still can't believe how much lather is made from such a fair amount of soap. You Sir are a wizzard 😊 Thank you so much!

I'm only about 6 months into traditional wet shaving and have seen lots of videos of your product. I love your products are made here in the USA and the company is owned by fellow veterans. Thanks for your service. I've been contemplating purchasing your products for some time. We recently lost our mother who loved an occasion margarita. So that sort of pushed me over the edge and I created an account and placed an order for Margaritas in the Arctic Glacial, along with some samples, and blades. I look forward to their arrival and trying them out. Thank you.

Thanks Rod! Very helpful! In time of careful choices, it is good to toot your horn every once in a while! Thanks for all you & Mandy do! Appreciate you and all the Stirling products! Best

Bowl guy! Stirling makes crazy lather. The bath soap is great too!

King Rod, after many uses of the four Stirling soaps that I have, I can say for sure that the mutton tallow formula is the best. As for the scents, you exceed all the US artisans with your offerings. There is no "bad" scented Stirling for me. Well done man.

Hi Rod!!! I know you're a very busy man but please upload as frequent as possible. I wanna more from you and Stirling. For me Stirling is the best soap in vfm, sickness, quantity, quality, scents, post shave and ingredients. I have a soap den and I have the Stirling den. This month is Baker Street month, I am lovin it!!! A message to the other soap makers: you can try harder with your bases and fancy ingredients but you ain't never gonna overthrow Stirling from my heart. There is one formula of success: Tallow + Lanolin + Shea butter = 🥇🏆🏅

Just got my first shipment of 4 samples of Stirling soap. I did a couple practice lathers with a bowl, and I can't believe how much I got from such a tiny amount of soap. And the smells! Wonderful product and I will keep buying. Thanks so much

Great seeing you do some videos Rod !

Great video, a lot of useful tips, thank you!

Stirling soaps…outstanding soaps at an incredible price.

THE BEST! I give Stirling as gifts all the time- trying to get everyone aware of this great company Ditch the Walmart aisle and go Stirling!!

Great video. I bought the Stirling Bay Rum shave soap and it is wonderful. : )

Excellent vid, Rod. Thanks! I used to bowl lather when I started wet shaving, but I now face lather. I find face lathering to be more pleasurable. In a nutshell: I'd rather build the lather on my face than on a ceramic bowl.

I’m a bowl latherer and love Stirling. Nice creamy lather. Great video. I love using your boar brush. For me I enjoy it more then badger and it is an unbelievable value. Happy Easter

Nice demonstration of the two styles of building up the lather. I bowl lather due to the scrubbing with a brush that causes irritation. After shaving for 46 years i really enjoy using your products, they're top notch 👌 Have a great day Brother

Thanks for this excellent video! I'm only 3 days into learning the process wet shaving and was confused about how to use the brush. This video cleared it all up and I'm excited for tomorrow shaving with a proper lather!

Thanks a bunch for your demos love your soaps great video ! Heard from someone that you are a Veteran if so thank you for your service to our Country I Retired Army 28 years anyway thank you brother !

Rod👍👍 As crazy as this sounds, I do both. Like you said, either way is fine as long as you get that saturation/hydration point figured out. Oh, by the way, Stirling rocks! Thanks for this video, well done.

I Love the bowl lathering ritual, used your sharp dressed man soap today and your green band Sythentic brush 👍hi from UK 🇬🇧

Greetings from Bulgaria! Stirling is the best soap on the planet. I now have 7 fullsized tubs. 1 for every day of the week. I load the brush for 20-25 seconds only and then bowlather adding about 15 drops of water in total 3x5-6 drops. In the doggy bowl you used in this video. This way I have lather for 3 passes plus extra two for the next day. Keep in mind that I start with wet but completely squeezed brush. This is my technique. It works for me in very hard water, because everyone can with soft or distilled. Your soaps are 18.50 euro in Europe. Relatively expensive for Bulgarian standard but I adore the slickness post shave feel and aroma of your products! Campagnia MITA and boat drinks are just my top 3. The wet shaving community is the greatest community in the world. Your greatest fan in Bulgaria!

Nice tutorial Rod.

I love your products. Need more Glastonbury stuff it’s the greatest scent ever.

Gorgeous lather

Hey Rod, I bought one of the bowls you show here and it came (as you undoubtedly know) with a sample of your soap. The bowl is great as those knobs really help develop the lather. I'm really impressed with the sample soap you sent. Unlike the other shave creams I've used, the brush comes completely clean quite easily. I'm looking forward to ordering some of your "Piacenza" style soap (as we've communicated by email) as soon as I get rid of the "Brand X" shave creams I already have on hand.

i had tried a soap from stirling soap co today is was so good on skin. and balsam was great to

Great vid Rod!

Great video Rod

Great video Rod. My method I just soak my tips and go straight to my soap and start whipping and then to the face. If it's too thick I simply add a touch of water and go to the face till I get it nice and slick.

So that's how they make meringue! Looks great.

Nice tips rod thanks 😊

Fantástic! I use too a baby Pet bowl with very, very good results!

I always load up the brush ! Works best for me

great video. Love the Content

Nice video thanks!

Good soap!

Stirling fantastic ❤️

Hey Rod! Amazing video, thanks for the tips to put my shave over-the-edge to get the best possible experience out of it. I love your products immensely! However, I know that Deton-8 is a seasonal soap, and with you saying it's a Fall-season soap, I was wondering if that's specifically Fall season or Fall/Winter because I noticed the Deton-8 products starting to dry up (hehe) from the store during last Winter and was worried if the soap was going to be permanently discontinued. I love the V&R Spicebomb scent and It'd be amazing to hear it will make a return this upcoming fall. Thanks!

Thank you

I like this doggy bowl, so I have 5 different color bowls. Some say the nubs can damage brush bristles. And when I scoop out soap sample, then loathing & lathering are sometimes not easy because of the nubs. What's your opinion, Rod? Anyway I enjoy Stirling soaps very much over 50 kinds.

Great video. Been buying your soaps for years and always satisfied. Question: Do you put the lid right back on the shave soap container once you are done shaving? Or do you let some excess moisture dry out before putting the lid back on it? Just looking for what's best longevity wise. Thanks!

Stirling Soap The BEST

my Simpson T3 Trafalgar is the best brush on the market today it's like buying a $200 badger hair brush, no cleaning the brush, no need for a brush stand, fast drying time, well not fall apart like a badger hair can, cheap to buy, i have owned it for 5 years with know problems wheelchair Larry

Ive found that if I load too much soap when face lathering then it takes a looooot more water for it to be hydrated, with these high quality soaps that can take so much water I always try to not load too much from the soap can to save some time and soap.

Nice Sir! Man i wish you would bring Tuscany back!

I just ordered an Alum block from Sterling. I have the unscented shave soap with beeswax. I keep nicking my neck area so I'm hoping the alum will help with that post shave. I'm very sensitive to odors (my wife can't wear perfume) so your unscented soap is working out great.

Awesome stuff! One of my favourite brands too. Does that travel bowl fold flat? Looks great.

I've tried both. I prefer bowl lathering. I'm sure I use more soap that way. I do however like that I don't have to allow the soap to dry. Seems to hold scent better that way for me.

Nice video. I'm surprised you didn't scrape/scoop the soap and mash into the Bowles bottom.

Hey Rod….I just purchased you Barbershop soap and I love the smell of it and the sample of the Coniferous soap I use in my apothecary mug so I’m alternating between both of them. I don’t bowl lather because for me I don’t have a lot of room for extra gear and more importantly it’s just an extra and very unnecessary step as well as something extra to have to clean up after a shave. But my question is after I’m done with the tub do I reseal it or leave the lid off to air dry as I have heard that by air drying the scent over time will dissipate.

Stirling has been my "go to" soap for some time now so I'm very familiar with the product through repetition. In my opinion it is the best value in the wet shaving market, ounce for ounce. The amount of lather it produces is incredible and the slickness is amazing. Even if you use cartridge razors you should be using Stirling soaps. I don't spend the time to prepare my lather as Rod did in the video. I get great results from face-lathering. I do own bowls but for the most part they are decoration. I also own two of Stirling's synthetic brushes and they are the best. Can't say enough good things about Stirling. Oh, and the soaps smell incredible too!

Thanks, nice video, I have my very first soap from Stirling on the way I can't wait it's Candy Cane. If that works out, Bay Rum is in my sights.

Nice video. Sometimes I bowl lather with a synthetic brush and I face lather with my 2-band badger. A question I have is can a damp brush, synthetic or natural hair contaminate the soap puk. I have seen that some shavers just scoop some soap into a bowl and never load the brush from the puk because they say that water can contaminate the soap. Also, I find that bowl lathering with a badger, the brush hogs the soap.

Great tutorial video. I recently bought glacial margaritas in the artic & baker street. Amazing scents & performance, definitely couple of steps up from the proraso soap I used when starting out wet shaving this year. I'm curious on how do I maintain the soap for their longevity & what's the shelf life of the soap (used & not yet used ie haven't met with water) Love from Malaysia.

You are having way too much fun playing in the suds

Çok güzel bir köpük hazırlığı oldu. Türkiye de klasik traş kültürü oldukça fazla fakat elinizdeki gibi dibi tırtıklı bir tas bulmak oldukça güç.Sizi takip ediyorum. İstanbul dan sevgiler 🙏🙏Türkçe altyazı desteği olursa çok sevinirim

Haha I just realized those are dog feeding/water bowls. Honestly this is extremely clever!

Son excelentes jabones nutren mucho la piel son mis favoritos y me gustaría tener todos su aromas!aunque aquí en México solo están disponibles en pomades and shaving pero ya tengo todos los que manejan ahí. Habían de mandar a México desde su página

I just ordered a few stirling soaps and one of your synthetic brushes. Is it really ok to just stick the brush in the soap jar like that or can I take some out and put it in the lathering bowl? I fear it could become contaminated with bacteria by dipping the brush directly in the soap.

I bowl lathered when I first started wet shaving… then I went to face lathering and got the same effect and figured bowl lathering was just a waste of time 😂 just an extra step that isn’t necessary in my opinion. But hey to each their own.. I feel like it’s more of a style thing.

Hi Rod i hope you and your family are doing well, i just wanted to know if any stirling deodorants are coming in the near future.

I’m doing bowl lathering. 1/4 TSP of soap and 8 - 1/4TSP of water. Awesome soap. Thanks

Did you discount naked and smooth soap? I used a full tub went to purchase a new one here in the UK and no vendor is selling it.

I do face and bowl lather, but un both cases, when starting the shave, with my DE, I feel the skin dry, no a soft slip, with both tecnics, I dont know what to do for a smooth sensation

when are youre guyse gonna shipt internationaly

is it possible to just paint on without the scrubbing. scrubbing generally leaves me very irritated depending on the soap whereas when i paint on i get great coverage which i cannot do with a bowl. i can get a decent consistency but i cant get a good enough coverage with out it going everywhere only a dryer cream works for me when i bowl lather which doesnt really work with straight razor. any work arounds you can think of

Hey can anyone tell me if there is a difference between bowl lathering the way shown here and bowl lathering by taking a small bit of soap and putting it in the bowl? Are certain soaps intended to be used one way or the other or is it just personal preference? Is there a difference at all?

I am a face latherer because it's more efficient. Alsi I don't need an extra item on my counter to rinse clean.

Do you need to drain the extra water out of the shave jar or do anything to dry it out after? Or can you just put the lid back on and leave it ?

Where did you find that bowl?

Hi Rod great video! I have the synthetic in this video, I want to try something a little stiffer is it backbone. Are the black handled synthetics stiffer? Maybe the boar?

Is the soap soft?

and i is from denmank

hank

I use half of a small coconut shell to build my lather. Lol.

It's the brother-in-law from Breaking Bad

The way I see it is, I'm not shaving the bowl I'm shaving my face 👊

IMO way too thin lather I don't like it. I use your soap with much less water and will get a pasty, thick texture with more protection and never have dry feeling. Even if it would be the razor will give enough water to balance it but it was never an issue. This soap provides a very good post shave effect indeed. I have thick beard and sensitive skin. Stirling soap is in my top 10 for sure. I Like the countless fragrance variations and the fantastic price of this excellent product.

Here are the Two Best Shave Brushes on the market today? are Simpson King Charles III Coronation Chubby 3 Fiber brush with special handle it has Softer Hair a real bargain is a Brush Monster at 40mm reasonable Price for its size. The Trafalgar's T-3 has a little Harder hair, more affordable in the long run, it's a 29mm not 24mm. buy one and measure it for yourself?? ' it's a clone of a 30mm Chubby 3 Super Badger Shaving Brush without paying for the Super Badger Price. 1, No need to clean your Brush, 2, No need for Brush Stand, 3, NO SOAKING time ready to Go, 4, Fast drying time, 5, Badger or Boar Brushes can and will fall apart Sooner than Later'?, 6, No Break in time, 7, No need for a Brush Stand 8, Modest Price for its size. I have owned it for 5 Years with No Hair Loss with No problems. Rinse Brush in Cold Water. Your mileage may vary? Derby black it's better same price as greens wheelchair larry

What a waste of good shaving soap.

Interesting - I leave a bunch of the soap in the bottle of my bowl and just soak/wet my brush for like 30 seconds prior to lathering - and it leaves some soap in the bowl for the next lather (I rinse any lather/foam out)