Thread: Soap Dishes

I've been trying to find a good cheap soap dish (that I could buy six or more of) preferably ceramic that has a lid. Unfortunately in my hunt all I usually come up with are ones without lids or ones with lids that are $15 to $20 a pop. I'm currently using small ceramic dessert dishes, but have no lids and am concerned about the soap oxidizing due to being out in the open like that. Any thoughts or suggestions on this?

The anchor hocking sugar bowls r pretty sweet! I have a few and you can buy them at wal-martAnchor Hocking 64192B Glass Sugar Bowl with Cover 4/CS

I use glass sugar bowls from WalMart. Three bucks a piece, and they have lids.

Originally Posted by thewatermark

The anchor hocking sugar bowls r pretty sweet! I have a few and you can buy them at wal-martAnchor Hocking 64192B Glass Sugar Bowl with Cover 4/CS

Beat me to it. Those are the ones.

Originally Posted by PDobson

Beat me to it. Those are the ones.

Great minds think alike

I found the same sugar bowl deal at Target for about 3 bucks. Attractive and cheap, and you can melt a soap puck right into it (provided you use glycerin soap or some other kind that can be melted) to top off the look! It definitely added a lil' somethin' to my morning

So far it seems like the sugar bowl thing is unanimous...they look pretty nice so thanks for those suggestions guys, hopefully I'll be able to find the $3 ones. I was really hoping to get something with a flat top to it so I could stack them if need be since at the time being my "shave den" is pretty much all of my shaving stuff sitting on top of my dresser in cigar boxes and my soaps sitting in little open dessert dishes up there too. So, unfortunately I'm quite limited for space especially since my cigars, pipes, pipe tobacco, single malts etc. are taking up my closet shelves. I have quite a few soaps for the time being, but am hoping to narrow it down to my favorites and stick with those and maybe just keep one new one to try out on hand at any given time, so maybe the sugar bowls will be good once I get to that point. I'd really like to get my hands on one of those Tabac dishes that the soap comes in, but I haven't ordered anymore since the refill puck I bought initially lasts forever (can't complain though) and maybe the Mitchell's Wool Fat one too, but that one's a little more expensive in comparison with the refill puck for some reason, so I haven't decided whether or not to take that dive yet.

Originally Posted by setomlin

I found the same sugar bowl deal at Target for about 3 bucks. Attractive and cheap, and you can melt a soap puck right into it (provided you use glycerin soap or some other kind that can be melted) to top off the look! It definitely added a lil' somethin' to my morning

I don't prefer the "glycerin" soaps, I can't seem to get the lather thick enough on them like I can a good triple milled. However I have found articles on one of the shaving forums stating that you can actually use a cheese grater to make your hard soaps fit correctly into your dishes and that seems a lot safer than melting since I've read some of the horror stories on that subject (if you try this go slow with it, you don't want the grater to heat up the soap and start melting it at all cause then it will stick in the grater). If I find the link I'll post it for you.

Originally Posted by setomlin

I found the same sugar bowl deal at Target for about 3 bucks. Attractive and cheap, and you can melt a soap puck right into it (provided you use glycerin soap or some other kind that can be melted) to top off the look! It definitely added a lil' somethin' to my morning

All soaps can be melted, it is just a matter of proper processing technique.

Yes those soap dishes have been recommended for quite awhile, here are some hints on melting the soap and a ton of ideas

http://straightrazorpalace.com/brush...den-again.html

Although I have heard of this possibility of the fact that "Milled" soap are meltable I have even asked some of the experts at this to do a guide for doing it.. No one has stepped to the plate, I have also heard now that by doing this you do change the soap so if that is true then that technique is useless for us... I still just grind them and press them until one of you experts shows us the way....