Shaving bowl - what do you guys use?

[Quattro Pete]

This is more difficult that I expected. I can't find a decent shaving bowl. Right now I'm using a little $3 bowl I found at Chinamart, but its opening is too wide making it a bit tough to hold the lather in. Ideally it should be something not very tall, but with straight up walls. It'd be even better if it was black. Any suggestions? As strange as it may sound, has anyone tried using a porcelain soup bowl?

 

[user52165]

Is this 1911 or 2011? How about Gillette Foamy or Burma Shave, etc aerosal?

 

[tom slick]

Canned cream sucks compared to shave soap. I use a coffee mug

 

[FXjohn]

the vermont country store item 45567 http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/store...aving_Mug/45567

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: user52165

Is this 1911 or 2011? How about Gillette Foamy or Burma Shave, etc aerosal?

Been there, done that. Don't want to go back to it. Proper shaving cream/soap is awesome.

 

[mongo161]

I use a heavy stainless steel bowl and a heavy ceramic, wide mouth, soup mug for my "home made" scuttle to keep the shaving lather nice and hot between passes. I fill the heavy SS bowl about half way with boiled water and let the wide mouth ceramic soup mug, with fresh hot lather, nestle in the hot water. This arrangement keeps my Mitchell's Wool Fat soap, Tabac soap or any other mixed lather nice and hot, along with the badger brush, for 3 to 4 passes. I can easlily remove the soup mug to re-lather for each pass by the handle on the mug. You can pick up the wide mouth soup mug at any supermarket or Kmart, WM or target during the winter months. The stainless steel bowl...I borrow from the kitchen.

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete

Any suggestions?

Yes, it's 1911 here for me, too. I tend to stick with the Wilkinson Sword shaving soap/bowl combination, available just about everywhere in Canada. There are also the little shaving soap pucks (can't think of the brand right now), but it's best to use a mug, since if it's used in too wide of a container, one is just chasing it around with the brush, and probably knocking it out onto the floor. Gilette used to make a very nice one in a tube that would work with a brush, but they seemed to have discontinued it. They, unfortunately, figured out that it wasn't 1911 anymore.

 

[tommygunn]

I bought a new Schick Quattro with 2 blades 3 years ago. I am still on the second blade and I shave every morning! No fancy tricks trying to make the blades last longer, they just last forever.

 

[Nick R]

I use Edge w/oatmeal. Canned, and is great.

 

[user52165]

Originally Posted By: mongo 161

I use a heavy stainless steel bowl and a heavy ceramic, wide mouth, soup mug for my "home made" scuttle to keep the shaving lather nice and hot between passes. I fill the heavy SS bowl about half way with boiled water and let the wide mouth ceramic soup mug, with fresh hot lather, nestle in the hot water. This arrangement keeps my Mitchell's Wool Fat soap, Tabac soap or any other mixed lather nice and hot, along with the badger brush, for 3 to 4 passes. I can easily remove the soup mug to re-lather for each pass by the handle on the mug. You can pick up the wide mouth soup mug at any supermarket or Kmart, WM or target during the winter months. The stainless steel bowl...I borrow from the kitchen.

And I'll bet you pack all that when you travel. No wonder the lines at JFK, LAX, etc are so slow. Me - I take a disposable razor and a small travel size aerosol.

 

[mongo161]

Who said anything about travelling? Go back and read the OP. This is for home use only. Where do you find it necessary to "inject" travel gear into using a system at home???

 

[urrlord]

I use a large (12 oz)acrylic straight inside wall coffee mug,a blue glass(14 oz)hemispherical coffee mug or a black 3 legged plastic hemispherical salsa bowl.Depends on which bathroom I use and what brush(large or small) I use.Come to think of it the order in which I listed them is pretty much the order of quality and ease of lather building. For the guys here who don't understand...with a brush and good soap/cream you get a smoother shave with less irritation than canned stuff.It takes a few minutes longer but that in itself is not a bad thing.The little routine/ritual of whipping up lather and shaving becomes a bit calming.A little bit of personal time/space in what is often a hectic existence. as always IMO

 

[jcwit]

I use a small sugar bowl with lid that I picked up at GoodWill for $ .89. I use Italian soft soaps and using the lid keeps the soap from drying out. Got back into wet shaving using a double edge about a year ago, can't understand why I ever got away from it. Can't stand the canned goo and all the throw away overpriced plastic razors. Good soap Good brush Sharp blade Good double edge razor Can't beat it.

 

[Shannow]

I've got an enamelled metal mug, and grate a bar of soap into it. Add some coconut oil, a little olive oil, and some teatree oil. Mix with a little warm water and compact it in.

 

[Rick in PA]

I have a white glass shaving mug that the shaving soap disk presses nicely into the bottom of. It has a cute, colorful little picture of a steam train locomotive on the side. My little niece gave me the mug as part of a shaving set for Christmas way back in the 1970s. We're all a bit older now, but I still use the mug. That's what I use, just thought I'd share. I hope that's not too much information.

 

[dwcopple]

scan the isles at the local Dollar Tree, you'll find something. I have a stolen "soup bowl" from a Chinese buffet restaurant.

 

[andyd]

Just bought my semi-annual can of Barbasol. My stubble is white and I can shave every other day . That was a neat thing about chemo. I didnt have to shave for nearly 4 months

 

[saberz]

I just use a small tupper ware bowl, because most things labeled "Shaving Bowl" are fetching a premium. I myself use a double edged Mercur Safety razor and kit. Since this shaving method is now coming back in "style" people are trying to make money off it. Don't need anything fancy just something to brush the cream around and foam it up. I use this stuff(don't pay that much you can get it cheaper else where) http://www.pacificshaving.com/products/All-Natural-Shaving-Cream.html You can get it in a bigger round tub too, best stuff I've used, along with their Shaving Oil.

 

[kb01]

I typically melt my soaps into small glass pyrex bowls with lids. For harder soaps, I just mix the lather on top of the melted puck and for softer ones, I'll mix it in an empty glass bowl. The ones I use look like this (I cant remember the exact size): http://www.amazon.com/Pyrex-Storage-2-Cu...357&sr=8-12 I prefer mixing on top of the soap directly because the quality of the lather. The downside is the soap gets used up more quickly.

 

[ddrumman2004]

To all who make make their own shaving cream......gee....How long does it take you guys to shave? Do you also use a straight razor?