Jeffrey Kluger

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

American Writer

Ross Mathews

I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know...' it hit me.

American Entertainer

Richard Kind

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

American Actor

Alex Morgan

I've been a big Chapstick fan since I was a kid. I love lathering it on. I probably use a bit more Chapstick than necessary.

American Athlete

Howard Hughes

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

American Businessman

Lather is mostly used to describe the soapy foam in washing and grooming contexts.

Usage in Hygiene

Think of lather as visually thick and bubbly, often white or the color of the soap used.

Visual Imagery

The verb form usually refers to the action of applying soap and creating lather before an activity.

Preparatory Action

When using 'lather' as a verb, it suggests spreading something, often soap, over a surface or skin.

Spread Evenly

'In a lather' can express a heightened emotional state that is not literal.

Emotional Intensity

'In a lather' is informal, best used in casual conversation rather than formal writing.

Informal Expression

Sometimes 'in a lather' implies an unnecessary or excessive reaction to a situation.

Emotional Overreaction

 creamy lubricating lather both of these by the way you can get from nature and sodium hydroxide can be a bit dangerous which is why wearing safety gear I'll also use this natural soap as a foam booster because it foams up real nice for fragrance rosemary essential oil and because I don't want to be dealing with pure

Shaving Foam PIPE...

 So we dug a hole and I covered her in sand and shells and drew this little mermaid tail. And then I took her home and lathered her up in the shower and massaged her scalp and I dried her off in a towel. And I thought, "Ah. How many times had I done that --