This may seem like a bizarre question...but follow me here. How do you use your shaving soap?

When I first took this up, i started with a tub of Castle Forbes and would glop some on the brush and lather on my face.

About the time I was running out of that, I had been messing around in the pottery shop and made myself a ribbed bowl that could scuttle either cream or soap chips (I suppose). When I ran out of cream, I put a puck of Tabac into the bowl, and nuked it until it melted into place (and oh what a horrific stench that made ). But, once in place, I just lather right on top of the solidified glop of 'it used to be a puck'.

But I gather this is not normal...the hole nuking it into a ceramic bowl thing.

I also know that you don't want to expose wooden bowls to month and months of daily wetness, or else they start to rot, and surely we don't want "spalting" mold on our fresh cuts.

So...what do the rest of you do? Do you carve off chips with your razor into a bowl? Go ahead and lather in the wood bowl and damn the torpedoes? Enlighten me!