Thread: Alternative bowls

Lately I've been getting into the idea of shaving bowls. I had a TQ sample that i melted into a custard dish and using that in combination with a mug has been quite nice. Plus, small bowls means more soaps on hand using less counter space. And who doesn't love variety, right?

So lately I've been thinking about different stuff I could use as shaving bowls. Here's one that could be cool: an "olive trio bowl". Three soaps in one dish!

Do you have any interesting improvised bowls? Or ideas for something really wacky? Let those creative juices flow!

I've been using little soap dishes for creams and "berry bowls" (maybe 4oz) for the sample cake soaps. The soap dishes do well because they're broad and have little ridges to help build lather. The berry bowls work well as long as you don't need copious amounts of lather - which I don't. I'm also prone to building the lather on my face more than in the bowl.

I'm not sure if this is what you have in mind, but I just happened to post over at B&B about the "cheap SOB" scuttle I put together from a mug and a bowl that were my grandmother's. I've got my eye on some custard dishes of hers, too.

You just gave me an idea for how to use a couple of old plastic "nibbles" servers I got from my grandmother. They've just been sitting around in the cupboard, but now they'll have a new life. Thanks!

(Sorry about the crap photo)



James.

When you stop and think about it the recepticle for the soap is just that. As long as its big enough to take the soap and wide enough to work the soap the sky is the limit as far as what you can use. Heck you can always use an old frisbee.

I am currently using either my hand to mix the creme in, or a neat handmade (actually nature made) bowl, that I made by splitting a coconut in half Eat the insides, and lather in the one of the halves, talking about using it all :P

Nenad

ON a whim I went to this weird mystic/ outworldly shop by the house. It sells stuff like incense and spiritual items. I scored these beauties. They are now soap and shaving mugs!
Ernest

farace:
That "Cheap SOB Scuttle" is pretty sweet . That is the kind of thing I was thinking of.

Jimbo:
Nice one! The shaving brush perched on the top of that nibbles server is too precious by far.

thebigspendur:
It's true you could use a frisbee but that would be sorely lacking in class. Even the cheap SOB scuttle, makeshift as it is, scores some class points for the nice Duralum bowl and innovation. Plus the two pieces fit nicely. Last time I tried a makeshift bowl-on-a-mug scuttle it not only didn't work but it looked like Franken-scuttle.

I cruised by World Market today and found that olive server I linked to. It was bigger than I expected, too big for my tastes. It would take up a ridiculous amount of countertop real-estate. I did pick up some nice little Japanese dipping bowls. Now I can have all my TGQ samples ready to rock every morning (well, every morning that I shave)!

I sent a cake of AOS soap to my father to have him turn a couple bowls for me (one for the soap and one for lathering creams).

That was Feb, and it's now June. Any time I ask him about it he tells me what he's trying to do with the finish or why he scrapped the previous version. I'm sure they'll be nice when they're done.

Currently I'm using a ceramic soup bowl with nice thick sides. It's a very good size for my brush, but doesn't hold the heat for the lather as well as it did for the soup.

It's not very odd-ball at all, but I use 1-cup glass bowls from Anchor-Hocking to melt my Honeybee Sue soaps in ... the perfect size and somewhat stackable, with pliant plastic lids.