Soap and Dish Care

[Bruce Willis]

Hello Gents, Question regarding post shave soap and dish care.

Do you rinse the soap ? Cold or Hot water
How about the Dish ?
Do you let it dry before putting the cap back on ?

Background I have a new Cade soap and UFO metal bowl. I am worried about rusting etc and on the wodden bowls doesent the finish come off over time ?

I am also assuming rinsing the soap with cold rather than hot water should not dissolve the soap that much ?

 

[john parker]

Most of the dishes I have soap in are Wal-Mart purchased, covered sugar bowls. These I rinse off the outside with warm water from time-to-time, then wipe dry. My three wooden bowls I would not rinse because it would certainly destroy the decals, just like what happens to the printed labels on the few metal containers I have that have gotten wet in the normal course of use. I do not rinse the soap; haven't seen a need/desire to do so. Have no experience with the Cade bowl.

 

[Mandina]

+1 on not rinsing the soap. I don't know why that would be necessary, and I think it would waste soap.

 

[Bruce Willis]

I rinse to get rid of the lather and gunk formed by loading the brush

 

[john parker]

I rinse to get rid of the lather and gunk formed by loading the brush

For me, the dried lather just gets incorporated into my next lather. Have found no unsatisfactory results with doing that, but, on the other hand, never rinsed it to find out. Don't know if I am missing something or not.

 

[Bruce Willis]

For me, my total shaving time is approx 3 mins including prep and clean up so I usually load like a mad man

 

[jtb]

Isn't the residue from the lather just soap? I just rinse the outside of the bowl and dry it off with a towel.

 

[jovan]

I just wipe the bowl after use, never rinsed the soap.

 

[Cumberland Sausage]

I rinse off the soap and mug or ceramic bowl with cold water then dry off the bottom of the bowl so it doesn't leave a wet mark on the shelf. There's no particular logic to the process -- it's just what I do.

 

[Croulebarbe]

If there's stray foam on the outside of the soap bowl I'll wet my hand and wipe that off, but otherwise I just leave the foam to dry and incorporate it into the next shave. No sense in letting good soap go to waste.

 

[Moondoggie]

No rinse here. I wipe off whatever is on the outside of the container and put it away till next time.

 

[barbapapa]

always rinse quickly in cold water. looks tidy and also recommended by martin de candre. i never leave the lid on.

 

[shakin_jake]

place me in the wasteful category=...I always rinse the entire soap dish under running water when I clean up the sink area. this habit more than likely stems from me dunking my soap jar in the sink I keep full of water while I shave. as a face latherer who hardly charges my brush once for all the passes, I'm constantly dunking my soap dish in the sink (when I re-load my shave brush), between every pass

I dunno, I want my soap dish clean when I put it up, and any lather that is in the dish, rinsing it, IMO, I'm not really wasting all that much, but of course, others may have better and different ideas

@ the OP-

in regards to what impact the water has on my soap dishes, I haven't seen much if any impact yet. the plastic soap jars are impervious to water, now the few wooden soap dishes I have like the DR Harris wooden bowls, I'm using the beechwood bowls (Arlington, Marlborough)...from what I've seen, the water seems to roll off the wood, and I'm not shy getting them wet, but then too, I've only had the Arlington for the longest and maybe a 6-7 month stretch at that?, the Marlborough was recently purchased so no time on it

that said, if the beechwood bowls yang from getting wet, bully for me, I guess...I never really considered any subsequent loss down the road from the way I'm using them. the bowl is like a tool and will see use from me. the Tabac glass bowl in white I've had for a couple of years...that's not showing any signs of wear. I'd be more fearful of dropping it on my tile floor in my shave den and having to clean up glass shards than wear from getting it wet

now as to letting the soap air out and dry a bit before putting the cap back on...I'm not doing that, when I'm finished with the soap it gets rinsed, the cap is replaced. hope my testimony helps you...


Best,


Jake
Reddick Fla.