Thread: Scuttle

I don't leave my soap in my scuttle, I load the brush from the soap tub and then lather in the scuttle. I'm sure it would work just fine leaving the soap in there. There are some people who do lather in a separate bowl and just keep the brush in the hot scuttle. I just make the lather right in the scuttle.

Originally Posted by sinnfein

I don't leave my soap in my scuttle, I load the brush from the soap tub and then lather in the scuttle. I'm sure it would work just fine leaving the soap in there. There are some people who do lather in a separate bowl and just keep the brush in the hot scuttle. I just make the lather right in the scuttle.

By soap tub, do you mean a bowl you keep your soap in? Also does your scuttle have the depresions I'm talking about, because I've seen them with the depressions and without. I'm wondering if they play a role at all.

Lastly talking about soap, can you use just dove soap for example?

Originally Posted by Knife

By soap tub, do you mean a bowl you keep your soap in? Also does your scuttle have the depresions I'm talking about, because I've seen them with the depressions and without. I'm wondering if they play a role at all.

Lastly talking about soap, can you use just dove soap for example?

Shaving soap is a bit different. Traditional soap, IE body soap, will dry out your skin and cause irritation and razor burn.

My scuttle has the ridges you're talking about, it's to aid in the creation of your lather, kind of cutting into the soap as you swirl it. I've had both, haven't really noticed a huge difference between the two, so you should be fine with either. I think the separate bowl for the scuttle would be simply to give a choice between the two. Extra's are extra's!

For instance, let's say you're going camping and don't want to lug your enormous SCHWARZWEISSKERAMIK around with you or don't have access to hot water, you can simply bring the lather bowl to lather in and enjoy the simplicity of a cold-shave!

I went to that SCHWARZWEISSKERAMIK site and they have a page where they shave soap with what looks like a cheese grater and then take the shavings and press them to the brim in a tiny bowl then use that to gather their soap. Is there an advantage to this?

So looks like if you want to use a modern scuttle with soap you need a seperate container?

Originally Posted by Knife

I went to that SCHWARZWEISSKERAMIK site and they have a page where they shave soap with what looks like a cheese grater and then take the shavings and press them to the brim in a tiny bowl then use that to gather their soap. Is there an advantage to this?

So looks like if you want to use a modern scuttle with soap you need a seperate container?

Separate container for the soap, yes. Most soaps you buy online either come in a container, or you can opt for one to store it in.

Alternatively, another option is to take the associated "lather" bowl, take the isolated soap puck and either melt it down grate it into flakes (like on the keramik website) and push them together into the shape of the bowl, that way the soap conforms to the bowl and such. Add some water and it'll glue itself together! This way your "lather" bowl can be used to house your lonely puck and you can load up your brush and face-lather!

Originally Posted by Knife

I went to that SCHWARZWEISSKERAMIK site and they have a page where they shave soap with what looks like a cheese grater and then take the shavings and press them to the brim in a tiny bowl then use that to gather their soap. Is there an advantage to this?

So looks like if you want to use a modern scuttle with soap you need a seperate container?

The Swarzweisskeramik comes with a "soap lid", like this:

By blix72 at 2011-07-10

I fill mine with a quite soft soap, I have a kg brick of Cella. Amazing Scuttle!

Yeah part of why I want to get the Swarzweisskeramik is it comes with the soap bowl and it matches with the scuttle. I plan on using soap to lather with, partly because I've been using dove soap to lather with recently and I love it so it'll only get better with proper shaving soap. Although I will be experimenting with shave cream. But thanks for that Cella recomendation, I was looking more toward getting a brick type soap so I can do the shavings thing. Bowl shaped shaving soaps seem to me will be more expensive. Getting a brick and producing shavings and generating a home made soap bowl seams more like a labor of love that will add to my straight shaving experience. I looked up the Cell kg brick, 42 bucks. How long does that last you?

Cella soap is soft enough so you can just cut of a piece and press it into the soap lid with no problem.
I use various soaps in rotation, but I'm still using Cella for around 50% of my shaves. I think 1 kg will at least last a couple years, if not longer.