Reddit reviews Sunbeam 6170 Hot Shot Hot Water Dispenser, White

Shaving cream is much easier to lather than soap. Indeed, when I started I simply could not get a good lather from soap, so I quit using shaving cream to force myself to learn. Here's how I make lather, and I recommend that you make a series of practice lathers using the technique to gain experience quickly. Play with brush speed, brush pressure (firm is good), and how long you continue loading once you see microscopic bubbles. But do try the exact procedure before trying modifications.

Here's a good YouTube tutorial, but note my comments on it.

With hard water you definitely have a problem. You can try a distilled water shave simply to see what a good lather is like. Some routinely use distilled water, but some home layouts make it sort of a pain unless you have a Sunbeam Hot Shot or the like in the bathroom.

You can try using a small pinch of citric acid in the water, which softens hard water somewhat. Citric acide is a white crystalline powder that looks like salt (and indeed can be sprinkled over food as a salt substitute, similar to squeezing a lemon over food: brightens the flavor without salt).

Hot water dispenser. It's perfect. http://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-6170-Water-Dispenser-White/dp/B000C3S6Z6

I have an older version of this at work currently. Pretty inexpensive, but it doesn't hold as much as the Zujiroshi and the only temp you get is boiling.