Thread: I can't get hot lather for some reason

Originally Posted by Tjh

Second sip is fine when I'm outside, at a restaurant, at work, in my parents house, or during christmas holidays when I went for vacation to mexico. I don't understand why people keep misunderstanding. My situation has nothing to do with ME per say, but me trying to overcome a unique situation where the environs is very dry and cold (it's not just the cold, even cold air will not cool drinks that fast, cold and dry together is what does the trick).

If your house is dry try installing a humidifier on the furnace and crank up the temperature to about 21C if you can stand that. If you get your household humidity level up to the normal range and increase the house temperature slightly and still don't get what you want from the lather temperature wise then it is not the house environment that is causing you trouble.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

If your house is dry try installing a humidifier on the furnace and crank up the temperature to about 21C if you can stand that. If you get your household humidity level up to the normal range and increase the house temperature slightly and still don't get what you want from the lather temperature wise then it is not the house environment that is causing you trouble.

Bob

Actually humidifier in the bathroom sounds like a great idea, will try that as well.

Id think a hot shower would put more humidity in the bathroom than a humidifier would. I live in Colorado. Elevation is 6500ft. Our air is dry and cold. If we dont use a humidifier in the house everything will spark. Touch a light switch, door knob, pet the cat, everything. When outside, when you get out of the car you will get static charge spark. Its normal for us. This is because of how dry the air is i believe.

Id think if you took a shower in a closed bathroom and made your lather in the bathroom, there would be plenty of heat and moisture in the air to combat any issues of cold and dry. JMO. I just hope you find the answer to your situation. I like warm lather. Cold is not as fun. Still does the job, but not as fun. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Id think if you took a shower in a closed bathroom and made your lather in the bathroom, there would be plenty of heat and moisture in the air to combat any issues of cold and dry. JMO. I just hope you find the answer to your situation. I like warm lather. Cold is not as fun. Still does the job, but not as fun. Good luck.

HAH, I hadn't seen your post last night but did exactly that, hot shower with the door closed (neither of which I usually do, as i live alone) and that worked! Also: I finally didn't have the lather drying up on my face whilst I'm shaving!

However, rather than do a traditional scuttle thing - which is to put hot water in a vessel that attempts to minimize dissipation (thus keeping heat within the vessel for use), I heated up the vessel itself with an external source. So, not ceramic (poor conductor) but thin metal (as suggested by someone above) and a mug warmer! I rested the brush between latherings in the vessel on the mug warmer and it worked WONDERS! Mug warmers aren't hot at all, so it didn't dry up the lather at all. And I feel like it was a natural evolution of the traditional scuttle method, as now we have things like mug warmers.

I still think I could do with a better brush, not sure why but the one I have doesn't hold heat very long. But yea the above worked well.

So for those of you for whom the traditional scuttle method doesn't work try a material that dissipates heat easily (which is the opposite of what scuttles are meant to do) on a mug warmer. And, a hot shower works WONDERS to heat up and put some moisture into the air, which helps a great deal.