Hi Teiste. Your preferred consistency looks similar to mine (perhaps a touch thicker). As a fan of Provence Santé and L'Occitane Cade, I too find lengthy loading to create a "paste" is the best option. Until today, I'd only ever face-lathered with soaps, but I tried bowl-lathering the Cade, with interesting results. When I'd face-lathered it, I found it needed significantly more water than the PS soap; yet, when I bowl-lathered it, I added roughly the same amount in installments but found I'd over-hydrated the lather, as, after I applied it to my face, I heard the dreaded "fizzing" sound. After getting a touch more paste on the brush from the cake and working it into the collapsing lather I had left in the bowl, I was able to rescue it, and my second and third passes were much better as a result.