Thread: The best cheap shave bowl

Japanese rice bowl from Pearl River, $3.50.

I don't really see the need to use an expensive mug or bowl. I used the cheapo bowl with the cheapo soap and cheapo brush (sounds like a nice set doesn't it?) And I still do! I have some soap melted into it and I recently bought an old spice mug. Really all you need is a shallow bowl or mug which you can get for a dollar or two. I have 3 bowls actually that I use that I got the set for 1 dollar and they work fine

I am really enjoying these pics and comments.

These days I'm using a Burt's Bees shaving mug, a thoughtful gift from my sister- and brother-in-law several years ago. I'm down to the one mug since my Old Spice mug took a kamikaze dive. But for many years I used an old blue plastic coffee cup. Worked fine.

~Rich

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Originally Posted by Bayamontate

Japanese rice bowl from Pearl River, $3.50.

wow
Awesome to hear Pearl River on here.
I happen to know that Pearl River was once
called muddy creek.

The kid's cereal bowl. Also sugar bowls from garage sales and thrift stores, less than a buck.

So I'm very new this forum, straights, and wet shaving, but I enjoy it immensely. I imagine the search for better technique, creams, strops, hones, blades, soaps, scuttles, pre-shave technique...etc is a near endless one.

I have found a scuttle that keeps my shaving cream warm forever, and I'm quite tickled about it. Suds coming out of it are noticeably warmer to my face, a welcome change this winter morning.

I imagine most married people got one of these as a wedding gift, and have used it once for fondue, and then the rest of its years (if it wasn't regifted) have been in a cupboard.



One thing I do notice is that after a while it will dry out my cream if the candle is left lit, but I don't mind because I am still learning what a proper lather consists of. This allows me to build it to a consistency, then see what it would have been like if I had used less water (in a few minutes). It's also a bit too large, but for free until I get the Classic Edge scuttle I'm pleased enough to share the idea

That's one of those scent producers. You put a candle or some oil or some scented media in it and the candle warms it and produces the scent.

The only issue is too much heat destroys the lather as you have found out. That's why most scuttles have a water jacket around them and you can fill it with the right temperature water.

Of course like everything else if you have found something that works and you like it then that's all that matters.

Pretty looking thing I must admit.

What about setting a mug with soap, or otherwise floating the soap somehow double boiler style? A few drops of essential oil in the water and a wife might enjoy the shaving ritual as well.

Thanks for sharing!