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    Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
    I've never understood this thing about hot lather. I remember when I was a kid the barbers used a hot lather machine to dispense lather for shaving and in about 30 seconds it was cold. I remember there was this guy on the sister site who bought one of those commercial hot latherking machines to use for home shaving. If I want hot lather I have a real high tech. solution for you but it will require advanced equipment and months of practice.

    Just hit the brush under the hot water tap for a second.
    I share the same opinion.

    It's futile to want piping hot later for the length of your shave. The best you can really hope for is a bit of warmth when you first apply it with the brush, because it's going to cool just a few seconds afterwards. Hot water on the brush is as far as I'll go to obtain that sensation, but most of the time I don't really bother. I measure a lather's quality by its consistency, not its temperature.

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    Does the barber shave himself...? PA23-250's Avatar
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    I'l share my El-Cheapo method FWIW:

    I put my shaving bowl on top of one of those $10 electric coffee cup warmers--I actually have to switch it off halfway through or it gets too hot.

    My current job doesn't pay half enough fork over the $ for a super scuttle

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    I have been thinking about this and the next time I shave I'm gonna start by holding my mug (with the dried, half melted gob of soap in it) upside down under the hot water tap and hot that ceramic mug up until I maybe can't even hold it. Then, I will use the hot water tap to wet my brush and off I go. I think the mug should stay hot a little longer than the foam.

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    I like/enjoy warm lather. I went through several different lather warming ways till I got my Georgetown Pottery Scuttle. ~ $48 shipped


    I prewarmed a cereal bowl and after lathering let it float in the sink. This is a terrific way but I didn't want to bother taking the bowl out of the water when I rinsed and put it back..THree passes = three rinses..


    I'm told of the great results with a "salsa cooler" a bowl within a bowl. Designed to have ice in bottom bowl and salsa in the top. Hot water in the bottom and lather in the top works very well. From Walmart/tTarget ~$10.
    I also have and used the plug in mug warmer. that worked like a champ. $5 Walmart in the candle section..candle warmer.

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    I also float a bowl in the sink like TOB does.

    Before i get in the shower i run hot water into the bowl and let my badger brush soak up the water while i shower. When i come out, the brush has soaked up a good deal of warm water. I then dump out all the water, place the bowl and brush under the faucet and fill the sink with hot water. Dump the water from the bowl, then whip up some lather, and let the bowl with the brush in it float in the water as i'm shaving.

    Simple. No fancy gadgets or special bowls. Just a nice zen looking $5 bowl i picked up at target for this purpose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steve View Post
    Scuttle - works great. You can either by an older one or a Moss scuttle or do what I did, make you own.








    I like that,simple and maybe most ppl have it at home.



    RPR.

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    Cold lather will close your pores, keep it warm as possible.

    Leave bowl and brush submereged in sink of very hot water while you shower.

    Make lather with fresh hot water when out of shower, having run brush under the fresh hot as it comes from the tap.

    Refill sink with fresh hot then begin stropping while face is lathered, keeping bowl of lather and with brush in it floating in the new hot water. The lather will keep beard soft while you strop. Add more if it has dried out on your face while you stropped.

    Make sure there's enough lather for 3 passes and finishing touches. If it gets too dry wet and whip it to required consistency adding a few drops of hot water and ensuring brush is still warm



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