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Hey guys,
Here is a link to a video I just posted regarding Dove soap as a shave soap. I have embedded the video but it won't be good on the small format.
Dove Soap Lather - YouTube
http://youtu.be/LpRpDINuCM8
legit offer on the scuttle, even international.'
Let me know your thoughts!
Using bath/hand soaps has been mentioned on here but this is the first video I have seen on it. Dove seems to perform similarly to Ivory soap as a substitute for a dedicated shave soap from what I have seen on your video. I have tried Ivory soap in the past just to see what it would do. It is a nice trick to have up your sleeve for the times you don't have a shave soap on hand. That is a good looking scuttle and a very generous offer too.
Bob
Cheers Bob,
Perhaps I'm not using the scuttle correctly but I am following the method of the video posted on YouTube. A guy was explaining how to use old scuttles. I just find the bowl works much better.
The old style scuttle works well if you face lather which I do. That is you only load the brush from the soap puck on the top of the scuttle and build the lather on your face. I have not seen the video you refer to. Would you have a link to that one?
Bob
Back in the '70s I bought a badger brush from Hoffritz For Cutlery and used it for 35 years or so. Until I came to the shaving forums and bought a bunch more I didn't need. So when I first bought the brush I also picked up a puck of soap or two. When I ran out I grabbed up the bar or Ivory or Dove. They were my default washing soap then, and Dove still is. I never bought another puck of soap until I came to the forums in 2006. After being introduced to the good soaps/creams I stuck with them. One day, just for old times sake, I grabbed up my puck of Dove and my old Hoffritz brush and lathered up. I didn't use a bowl for the bar soap whenever I lathered with it, so my lather was never as well developed as yours is in the video, still and all I think I'll stick with the MWF. :)
I have had those type of scuttles and used to put the puck over the drain holes thinking I was using the thing as designed. Somewhere down the road I read a post on one of the forums that detailed the way it is supposed to be used. The reservoir is filled with hot water and the bristles stuck in there to soak the brush a bit. Lather in a separate bowl and when you've lathered your face, place the brush on the scuttle with the bristles over the drain holes. The puck doesn't go on the scuttle at all. Once I tried that method it made sense, as if you place the puck on the drain holes, it clogs them up pretty quickly. So I'm not sure that is the way it is supposed to go but it sounds right to me. :chapeau
Hate to disagree with you a bit Jimmy but I believe the vintage/antique type scuttles were meant to hold the soap pucks on top. There are/were pucks made to fit those top bowls with a cupped bottom. What appears to be drain holes might have served to anchor the puck to the bowl. Just a guess as I am not really old enough to have been around back then. ;)
Bob
Thanks Bob, that is a good point, I've seen those pucks with the rounded bottoms and never connected the dots. For someone that old shoot thebigspendur a PM. He's been around since before they made those scuttles ............ :rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
Andrew, interesting video. If you would like to make your bowl more effective let me suggest what I have been doing to various glass, china, wood and plastic bowls for fun and use. Get (brand name may vary) a card of Loctite Epoxy Instant Mix. I deposit a series of dots to the bottom area and then vertical lines to the sides, radiating out from the bottom. I let it dry/set for at least 24 - 30 hours before use. Works best on all but plastic, prolonged use has it lifting off. What it does is decreases lather building time.
Great video, and thanks for it Andrew. I'll share with my son who is looking for some solutions to his sensitive face problem.
Naa.. As I recall as a young man after a battle like the one in Canaan against the Hittites we just gathered up our adversaries skulls and broke them in half and used the upper parts of the skulls as shave scuttles. It works pretty good. These days they kind of frown upon things like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
And here I had thought you had been an Ordinary Seaman on the Ark. Wrong again it seems.
Bob
Here is that link Bob, this guy has the puck in the scuttle. I just found that the puck tends to slide around in the bowl of the scuttle which makes it hard to develop a good lather. I have seen other scuttles like this with "teeth" or ridges in the bowl to help hold the puck. I'm not ready to give up on that design yet but for the mean time I'll stick with the bowl...
How to Use an Antique Shaving Scuttle - YouTube
Thanks for the link. If you have a normal hard puck, flat on top and bottom with parallel sides, it was not made to fit vintage scuttles with cupped soap bowls on top. You can grate it to make it fit and that would help stop it moving around. If you have a softer type soap like Cella or Valobra you can just press it in to fit. Personally I use cold water as I can't see cooking my brush knot in boiling water from a kettle up to the handle for 10 minutes. Anyway, there are all kinds of ways of doing things you have to find one that agrees with you.
Bob
Well I was a seamen but not on the Ark. I accompanied Odysseus on his journeys but only as a crewman. What a pain in the butt to load that Trojan Horse on and off the boat. My back still hurts from that.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
I can use a slice of sticky ( after being used for other cleansing and a bit soft) soap in the old scuttles or also wipe a bit of semi hard soap against the bottom of the scuttle to make lather there.
Still the face or bowl lather after the scuttle make sense.
~Richard
The soap I had in it had the round bottom. It was older than me however...
To keep those from moving around lather up the bottom of the puck and let it sit till it is dried and glued to the scuttle. Older vintage soaps can still produce a decent lather but the scent can be mostly gone. Kinda hit and miss with old soaps.
Bob
I have wondered about the use of regular bars of soap for shaving in a pinch. Have never found myself in that situation yet, but glad to see this is possible. Thanks for the video.