How do you use your shaving mug?

[OkieStubble]

I do have a couple of lather bowls and soap dishes, but the mug in my bathroom is for rinsing my razor in, so the sink water stays free of stubble for face rinsing.

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How do you use yours?

Like you, I use my Marvy Green Rubber Shave Mug to rinse my razor. Bathroom sinks don’t get washed everyday at home or in the hotel during travel.

But bathroom sinks at home or the hotel get spit in everyday, sometimes get bled in when there is a cut and people will comb their hair over a sink or wash their face in a sink.

Unless a bathroom sink is washed every single day? Maybe once a week realistically? And who know what that stranger put in the bathroom sink in the hotel room before that same room was checked out to me?

They could have had a cut finger and bled in there. They could have Hepatitis and bled in there. Do I trust that housekeeper unknowingly disinfected the sink?

I will not wash my face in a sink full of water. I’m good with running water into my hands and washing my face

So when I shave, my rubber mug goes into the sink below the spout. The mug is easily filled with water to rinse the razor. When the water in the mug gets goopy on top with lather and cut whiskers, a turn of the hot faucet knob simply goes right into the mug below the spout and it’s fresh again in 2 seconds.

 

[old_school]

Same as ever, old school.

To avoid copyright issues here's the link.

 

[SharpieB]

I use a cheap Amazon stainless shaving mug/bowl to soak my brush when I shower. Then I fill it with hot water to dip the brush in after I lather off a puck to face lather. Lastly I use it to clean my brush after shaving. Soak while I finish up and mash around a bit to fully clean.

I do have a puck of Williams that lives in a cheap steel camp mug and I lather right off that. It stays at my cottage as our bathroom there is super small and I don’t have room for multiple pucks of soap, bowls, etc.

 

[Mouser]

I use one as a holder for a Sv soap puck and another for a mug to soak the brush while I shower.

This. I do have a mug, its used for my brush

 

[Ravenonrock]

I only have one mug and it’s currently holding a puck of D.R. Harris Windsor. Like others, I load my brush in it and face lather.

 

[Atlantic59]

I don't use a mug for shaving. I have a pair of 28 oz. Corningware bowls. One for clean water, one for rinsing the razor. Water is heated with an electric kettle and mixed with cold water to get the right temperature. The sink is for draining water away.

 

[hairless wonder]

I now use my mug as a makeshift scuttle. The thing is, I only use it to keep the water I add to my lather warm. I fill the mug up with hot water from the tap. I then put an old plastic yogurt cup with some warm water in the mug. I then build a proto lather in a bowl and finish lathering on my face. I add the warm water to the bowl and/or my face, as needed.

 

[MrSpeedy]

I have a vintage Old Spice mug that holds my razors.

 

[ackvil]

To soak my brush.

 

[flynshave]

This thread made me remember that I have a Waffle House mug that is annoyingly small for coffee but would be great for soap.

 

[AimlessWanderer]

It's looking like I really should have added brush soaking as an option on the poll. I do that too if I'm using a natural brush, but then it gets used for rinsing the razor. It never even crossed my mind that folks might use it solely for the soak.

 

[GV27]

This thread made me remember that I have a Waffle House mug that is annoyingly small for coffee but would be great for soap.

That's the best kind!

 

[AimlessWanderer]

This thread made me remember that I have a Waffle House mug that is annoyingly small for coffee but would be great for soap.

That's kind of how I ended up using my mug for shaving. It's quite a large mug, but with a very small handle, which gets uncomfortable when the mug is full.

 

[DougK]

When I have shaving soap in the house, I drop it in the bottom of the mug and load my brush from there (I'm a face latherer). Because I'm mostly using cream right now, my mug is a decorative item at the moment.

 

[Chef455]

To soak my brush.

+1... another brush soaker here. If I'm building lather outside of my face I depend on my bowl. Mug too small.

 

[samhain666]

I checked as a soap dish because that's what it is I have vintage Old Spice mug (gift from my GF) and currently it hosts a puck of Schafmilch. I have no other use for mug since I use synthetic brushes and face lather

 

[linty1]

My shaving mug currently holds a few screws and extra handles, find it a little too restrictive for lathering

 

[Mouser]

My shaving mug currently holds a few screws and extra handles, find it a little too restrictive for lathering

My guess is that's why Colgate at one time called their shave soap "cup" soap, a cup is less restrictive.

 

[TexOkie Shaver]

I use a scuttle. I don’t recall ever using a mug.

 

[Mouser]

I bowl or face lather and nothing dictates which except what I feel like doing that morning.