I like face lathering because it's more efficient, but I also like bowl lathering because I can keep the lather warm (putting the bowl in a sink of hot water). Is there any way to face lather and keep the brush warm without using a bowl?
Keeping lather hot while face lathering?
- Thread starter wonderbread403
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Ambrose posted a great thread/review a few months ago of a scuttle made by Georgetown Pottery that was designed just for the purpose of keeping the brush/lather warm while shaving. I guess that doesn't really answer your question about how to keep it warm without using a bowl, but it's an option.
Here's what I do:
I fill up a coffee mug with hot water and soak my brush in it before I go for a shower. Post shower I take the brush out and get on with face lathering, leaving the hot water in the mug, and dip my brush into this water as I work on getting my soap/cream-water ratio right. Once I am happy with my lather, I drain the water from the mug and pop my brush into the still-warm mug between passes. This works well for me and keeps my lather warm enough for a four-pass shave.
Keeping the mug in a sink of hot water will work even better.
I just realised all this involves using a mug/bowl so I haven't really answered your question about keeping the brush warm without a bowl!!!
I fill up a coffee mug with hot water and soak my brush in it before I go for a shower. Post shower I take the brush out and get on with face lathering, leaving the hot water in the mug, and dip my brush into this water as I work on getting my soap/cream-water ratio right. Once I am happy with my lather, I drain the water from the mug and pop my brush into the still-warm mug between passes. This works well for me and keeps my lather warm enough for a four-pass shave.
Keeping the mug in a sink of hot water will work even better.
I just realised all this involves using a mug/bowl so I haven't really answered your question about keeping the brush warm without a bowl!!!
Dirty Bird has a face latherers scuttle. I have one and it works well, just don't make it too hot because it will kill you lather.
You will need some sort of recepticle to place the brush in to keep it warm...if you don't want to use a bowl or mug, you can use a scuttle as mentioned...Dirty Bird makes a nice one..
http://www.dirtybirdpottery.com/shavinggear.html
http://www.dirtybirdpottery.com/shavinggear.html
+1 to sirleanalot. After soaking my brush, I put my empty OS mug in the sink of hot water and place the brush in between passes.
Dave
Dave
yep, this works for me. I used to use a cereal-size bowl to lather. Now that I mostly face lather, the bowl floats in a sink of hot water, keeps my brush and lather nice and warm.
I use a Robert Becker small shaving scuttle to keep my face lathering brush warm. Again this bypasses your request for a bow less solution, but it is what works for me.
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I recently switched from bowl to face lathering specifically for time and space efficiency reasons. Keeping a bowl in my "sardine can"-like washroom kinda annoys me. The down side of face lathering is that it is not as warm as bowl lathering. But I found a solution for that and it works well for me.
Soak up my brush with hot water during my shower btw.
For hard soaps:
1- Load up my damp brush from a soap puck (a few swirls)
2- add a few (varying amnt) hot water drops on the brush
3- Wet face with nice warm water
(not always-only when skin dried up significantly).
4- Start lathering!
5- To relather, I add a few more hot water drops (as little as possible)
(too much water will kill the lather).
For creams:
I have not yet used creams but it will still be a similar procedure.
And that's how I do it - it works really well for me.
Soak up my brush with hot water during my shower btw.
For hard soaps:
1- Load up my damp brush from a soap puck (a few swirls)
2- add a few (varying amnt) hot water drops on the brush
3- Wet face with nice warm water
(not always-only when skin dried up significantly).
4- Start lathering!
5- To relather, I add a few more hot water drops (as little as possible)
(too much water will kill the lather).
For creams:
I have not yet used creams but it will still be a similar procedure.
And that's how I do it - it works really well for me.
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