Thread: The Dumpster

Ladies and gentlemen:

Sometimes I am unwilling to dispose of what I have discovered from personal experience to be low quality shaving soaps — for me. Although other gentlemen like them, the soaps don't seem to work for me. Instead I dump the pucks in a metal camping-style shave mug that sits on the bathroom counter along with the other mugs holding quality soaps. This mug is my dumpster.

Currently I have a stack of three shaving soaps in it, from bottom up: Colonel Conk, VDH and Caswell-Massey. I use them once in a while to justify keeping them around.

Do you, oh wise wet shavers, have such a dumpster on your bathroom counter? I am just curious.

Regards,
Obie

I will place them around the house in the bathrooms & the kitchen and use them as hand or body soaps.

Works for me....

Steve

Originally Posted by zepplin

I will place them around the house in the bathrooms & the kitchen and use them as hand or body soaps.

Works for me....

Steve

Same here...I use them to wash my hands.

Originally Posted by jhenry

Same here...I use them to wash my hands.

Same-same for me. I just sent a barely-used puck of Col. Conk lime to the shower.

I have a drawer next to my bed that holds all the stuff I bought that i though I would like and did not. If I emptied that one drawer I could make one huge cheap lather to shave a grizzly....using a shavette

I realized, I like the creams versus the pucks...naturally I buy in bulk - thus the drawer of soap pucks going unused and a single almost completely squeezed out bigelow on the top that is begging for mercy due to everyday use - oh the irony.

I have a "dumpster" as well. I have a few soaps that don't get much use. The thought of using them as hand soap never crossed my mind. Thanks for the great idea.

Originally Posted by zepplin

I will place them around the house in the bathrooms & the kitchen and use them as hand or body soaps.

Works for me....

Steve

If I don't like it I will give it to an interested party, one man's trash so to speak.

I tend to mix the soaps that i don't care for all that much together.
Sometimes that experiment is just a waste of time, but occasionally melting 2 or more soaps together has made a rather nice "new" soap.
I've even mixed soap and cream this way. SRD vanilla soap and a Dovo cream.
that one turned out great

Originally Posted by Obie

Sometimes I am unwilling to dispose of what I have discovered from personal experience to be low quality shaving soaps — for me.

Obie,

Your above statement is true for me. Although I don't consider myself a hoarder I do end up keeping all my shaving gear - razors, soaps, aftershaves - as I can find some kind of use for them in my rotation. In fact I can't really say I have any soaps other than Williams (which I bought out of morbid curiosity) which I would consider "bad".... and even the Williams still adorns my shave den for some reason.

I use them all...regardless of how they work for me. I can't bear with just having something wasting away under the sink. Having said that, the only one I'll ever get rid of is MB's Bacon Fragrance soap...gack...the stuff burns and smells like a tire fire. Maybe I'll trade it or PIF it off.