Provence Santé soap dish - safe for brushes?

[Vinlander]

I have been using Provence Santé soap, which comes in a deep pottery ("redware") dish. The texture of this dish is somewhat gritty - it's coarser than a standard flower pot, for example. Should I be worried about the long-term effects of this dish on my brush?

I love the soap, and the dish is handsome and highly functional, but I wonder if the coarseness of the pottery will cause the bristles on my brush to break down prematurely.

 

[guenron]

I have been using Provence Santé soap, which comes in a deep pottery ("redware") dish. The texture of this dish is somewhat gritty - it's coarser than a standard flower pot, for example. Should I be worried about the long-term effects of this dish on my brush?

I love the soap, and the dish is handsome and highly functional, but I wonder if the coarseness of the pottery will cause the bristles on my brush to break down prematurely.

Definitely! Especially if you use it for more than 10 years with the same brush.. As to the texture of your personal redware dish being gritty, I think I would be more concerned since it was redware that brought about the downfall of the Eutruscan civilization..

 

[Vinlander]

it was redware that brought about the downfall of the Eutruscan civilization..

Hmm, interesting. I always thought it was cartridge razors and canned shaving foam!

 

[K.T.]

Putting 2 and 2 together would suggest that any rough surface would accelerate wear on the bristles over a smooth one. Whether there's some real-world phenomenon that keeps this from actually happening, I don't know. But personally I'd move to a smooth bowl if I were in the same situation.

 

[Picaro]

I use one of those feax marble mortar and pestle bowls as a lather bowl, its a bit rough but its a grand lather bowl. i figure at the rate I'm accumulating shave gear I probably need to accelerate their demise a little. But seriously I dont imagine it has much impact.

Gotta run, I need to sell off all my shares in Eutruscan companies!