Used to think lathering bowls unnecessary

I always face lathered and found this really good. From time to time, I tried lathering in a bowl , a smooth stone one.  It took a long time to lather.
I decided to buy a Fine Accoutrements bowl, ridged sides and bottom. Now I couldn't do without it! My chubby3 brush works wonderfully well! I load using the tips of the brush,  probably less than I did before and lightly lather around the ridges. Simpson suggest creating lather using painting strokes and this works highly successful. These ridges really do make a huge difference I think. Loads of lather is created, although much of it is lurking in the brush!  
I finish painting the lather on my face, and lather continues to improve.

Just my thoughts to those who may be hesitating about the need for a bowl.

I occasionally bowl lather as well, I also like using a scuttle when it gets cold in the winter but I am primarily a face latherer.  I have several bowls with ridges and I find that they work very well for creating lather.  Have you seen the lather bowls from symmetricalpottery on etsy?  They look great and they get great reviews.

(11-10-2019, 05:03 AM)Sully Wrote: I occasionally bowl lather as well, I also like using a scuttle when it gets cold in the winter but I am primarily a face latherer.  I have several bowls with ridges and I find that they work very well for creating lather.  Have you seen the lather bowls from symmetricalpottery on etsy?  They look great and they get great reviews.

I've had two bowls made by them. Beautifully done. Ridges are just the right size. I find the one where you can put the puck in the bottom less useful as most of my pucks don't fit, but I suppose they could be easily melted. They were great about making some custom adjustments for my bowls at no extra charge. I was very pleased with how they turned out.

I’m a die hard face lather, but I also own the same lather bowl from Fine Accoutrements and I admit I consider bowl lathering my stash of shaving creams once in a while.

Can’t see the benefits of bowl lathering a hard shaving soap though.
Face lathering is too darn nice.

But I do think I’ll dust the FA bowl off for this upcoming winter and use it once in a while for the 35-40 shaving creams still remaining in my collection.

Bowl lathering just seems to suit creams better, since you can add a lump of cream to your brush and get a better lather in the bowl instead of having to work the cream into your face in a less symmetrical way than you can with a hard soap. A hard soap always give me that more even symmetrical thin coating on my face that I can’t seem to get, when using especially a softer cream.

Used to love creams 5-7 years ago, now I moved over to entirely preferring pretty hard to very hard shaving soaps altogether.

But thanks for the reminder. My FA shaving bowl needs to be used again. It’s been years now....

I used to bowl lather quite frequently with a CC bowl but as of recent, I have been face lathering for the past month. I still soak my brush and use a deeper bowl for that function. Clean up has been a lot quicker nowadays...

I started off bowl lathering and changed to face lathering.  My problem with bowl lathering was that I lather wildly so kept hitting the edge of the bowl and I tend to make a lot of lather so it would end up all over the edge of the bowl.  Then I read a post on here about someone using a tuning bowl.  I like the shape (the walls curve back in and that helps keep the lather in the bowl).  I ordered one and it is huge (weighing in at a little under 2lbs).  Now I'm back to bowl lathering.  I think I make a better lather when I bowl lather.

I bowl lather exclusively and love it.  My bowl is by Georgetown Pottery, a double-bowl that I fill with hot water to warm my lather.

I do think you need a longer brush though than the typical "stubbies" one usually sees.  You want the brush to sit in the bowl and lean against the side walls without soap messing up the handle.

My brushes are all home-turned, either acrylic or exotic hardwood, approx 5 1/2 inches in overall length.  Silvertip badger knots.

I’ve face lathered all my DE shaving life, Christmas I received a scuttle mug and I’m a born again shaver. Completely taken my shaving game up a level, I do three passes and the warm lather on my face is joyful ?. Admittedly a bit more time but we’ll worth it for the experience and result.

I use a bowl I got from Georgetown Pottery. Bowl lathering is one of the best part of a shave.

(02-18-2021, 04:05 PM)ZaphodZ Wrote: I use a bowl I got from Georgetown Pottery. Bowl lathering is one of the best part of a shave.

Agree!  I bought a nice pottery bowl several years ago and love making a nice lather in a warm bowl

Like Preacher, above, I started out with a bowl but switched to face lathering about a year in. I can appreciate what others like about making lather in a bowl. For me though, the 3-5 minutes I spend creating a lather on my face is part of the ritual I enjoy. I doubt that I will ever go back to the bowl. Otoh, one never knows, does one?

(02-22-2021, 07:48 AM)chazt Wrote: I doubt that I will ever go back to the bowl. Otoh, one never knows, does one?

I asked One; he says that he knows. 

(02-25-2021, 03:24 PM)Mel S Meles Wrote:

(02-22-2021, 07:48 AM)chazt Wrote: I doubt that I will ever go back to the bowl. Otoh, one never knows, does one?

I asked One; he says that he knows. 

How can I get in touch with one? You have a number?

(02-25-2021, 04:47 PM)chazt Wrote:

(02-25-2021, 03:24 PM)Mel S Meles Wrote:

(02-22-2021, 07:48 AM)chazt Wrote: I doubt that I will ever go back to the bowl. Otoh, one never knows, does one?

I asked One; he says that he knows. 

How can I get in touch with one? You have a number?

BR-549

I use a Suribachi Bowl made by a company called Motoshige. It does a great job.

(02-25-2021, 04:47 PM)chazt Wrote:

(02-25-2021, 03:24 PM)Mel S Meles Wrote:

(02-22-2021, 07:48 AM)chazt Wrote: I doubt that I will ever go back to the bowl. Otoh, one never knows, does one?

I asked One; he says that he knows. 

How can I get in touch with one? You have a number?

Of course.  It is the non-rounded-off value of pi π to the power of √-1. 

IAVSthIshHTEthTY. 

(02-27-2021, 04:50 PM)Mel S Meles Wrote:

(02-25-2021, 04:47 PM)chazt Wrote:

(02-25-2021, 03:24 PM)Mel S Meles Wrote: I asked One; he says that he knows. 

How can I get in touch with one? You have a number?

Of course.  It is the non-rounded-off value of pi π to the power of √-1. 

IAVSthIshHTEthTY.