A recent shaveblog entry mentions the "Moss scuttle", a pottery shaving mug with a shallow bowl on top for lather creation and a basin below it for hot water, so that the hot water in the basin heats the lather above it and you have sustained warm lather for your shave.
Of course, being the cheap bastard with the pvc shaving stand, I had to try this at home...
Basically, I just took a large chili bowl and a smaller cereal bowl, filled the chili bowl with hot water and smushed the cereal bowl into it so that the excess water ran out and the upper bowl was no longer floating wobbly on top of the lower bowl, and made lather.
You know what? It made a difference. It's too much trouble to use the two-bowl method all the time (since they didn't nest well, the upper bowl was pretty mobile) but it was really nice having warm lather for my second and third passes (usually it's fairly tepid by the time I get to it). If I found two bowls/mugs that worked like that, I'd probably use them.
I'm not about to stampede out and spend $35 for a Moss scuttle, but I'd use something like that; might make a good present. I can't say it made the shave more effective, but it was a nice luxury.
Of course, being the cheap bastard with the pvc shaving stand, I had to try this at home...
Basically, I just took a large chili bowl and a smaller cereal bowl, filled the chili bowl with hot water and smushed the cereal bowl into it so that the excess water ran out and the upper bowl was no longer floating wobbly on top of the lower bowl, and made lather.
You know what? It made a difference. It's too much trouble to use the two-bowl method all the time (since they didn't nest well, the upper bowl was pretty mobile) but it was really nice having warm lather for my second and third passes (usually it's fairly tepid by the time I get to it). If I found two bowls/mugs that worked like that, I'd probably use them.
I'm not about to stampede out and spend $35 for a Moss scuttle, but I'd use something like that; might make a good present. I can't say it made the shave more effective, but it was a nice luxury.