Wooden Bowls for cream

[Pig Cat]

I had some TOBS cream and a spare wooden bowl. Preferring the look of a nice wooden bowl to the TOBS plastic tub I transferred the cream across. It's been in this bowl for some time now and appears to have reduced in size somewhat by drying out. It looks to me like moisture has been lost from the cream in to the bowl and out in to the atmosphere. Is this a normal phenomenon that is widely know by most except me? Could this be the reason TOBS package their cream in plastic tubs? :?

 

[antdad]

If you leave it long enough you might produce the first ever TOB's soap.

just add a little water bit at a time and mix to the desired consistency.

 

[henkverhaar]

If it is an unfinished bowl (no oil or varnish or lacquer), then yes, the wood will certainly draw moisture from the cream -- much more so than from soap. You may want to coat unfinished wood (liberal treatment with a drying oil, or a double coat of spar varnish) before putting soap in it.