Thread: face latherers - how do you keep your brush warm?

There is no easy way without a mug or scuttle
at which point you are not a pure face lather guy
anymore.

Find a $5.00 enameled camping cup or bowel and use it. Leave
it floating in the sink in warm water.
Something like this:
GSI Sierra 12 fl. oz Cup - enamel coffee cups

There is an easy solution. Move to the tropics. I live in Bangkok and I never have any trouble keeping my lather warm. When it does get cold it is so much nicer.

I use a wide cup for my lather, but the base of the cup is slightly larger than the hole in the basin. So i place the cup with lather in it over the drain, and turn on hot water, but on a low level, so its slowly dispensing hot water into the basin. I find when the water reaches a certain level, the cup raises of the drain, as water drains the cup lands back on the drain and blocks it. It keeps my lather toasty hot , and it never overflows into my cup

to keep the brush warm one needs scuttle, regardless of how the lather is made. i used small moss scuttle when i was less lazy.

Just a thought why not a hair dryer on the low setting a quick blast and your good to go.

I don't bother. When I start shaving I soak the brush in hot water (hottest the tap wil deliver). Then I start lathering and that's it.

I soak my brush in a mug placed under running hot water while do face prep. After face lathering, I dump the hot water out of the mug and put the loaded brush in. This keeps the brush and lather warm while I strop. After stropping I relather using the warm brush.

I only do one pass as this is all that is necessary. If I do need to do any touch up (which is rare) I use cold water only.

Hello, everyone:

I had a scuttle at one time and sold it. Now I create my own scuttle: an apothecary shave mug filled with hot water and crowned with a small lather bowl. That keeps my brush warm. Once or twice I refill the apothecary mug with hot water.

I face lather with soap and mug lather with creams. Either way, my brush stays warm.

Regards,

Obie

Originally Posted by RoadKingMoe

Read this review.

I think their pictures of the soap/lather dish or Bill Bowl with the two-piece Brush Scuttle may be confusing. It doesn't come with either of those, but most pictures have them next to it.

Thanks for the link - that was a good read. Sounds like a decent option.

Thanks for all the great ideas - while the hair dryer and moving to bangkok are most likely not happening I have thought about some other type of bowl or mug on the cheap that could be recessed into another bowl with water.

"at which point you are not a pure face lather guy
anymore." ugh boy - would that make me a bybrid face latherer

"When I start shaving I soak the brush in hot water (hottest the tap wil deliver). " Thats what I do, I just found that the brush and lather is cool at best even on the first pass. Maybe it's partially the brush as well?

"I face lather with soap and mug lather with creams" I face lather on both.

I think my best option for the way I shave might be the Dirty bird brush scuttle with a few modifications.

for now, I will try a a cheapie deep cut that can be heated and retain the heat for about 10-15 minutes. I'm gonna head down to my local st vincent depauls and see what they have for cups and bowls.