PRORASO Professional Mug VS Timeless Razor Plastic Shaving Bowl

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As the above the suggests, am looking to purchase a new lathering bowl.

I am in the UK and have found these two. I know the timeless in based in the USA (but i happen to have a friend heading that way soon).

The Proraso has a handle and ribs so is in interesting option too.

Anyone here have any opinions on either? Or a different one I could go for? - there is a cheap black plastic on from Aliexpress for about £3 too
 
Apples to oranges.

Proraso isn't a shaving bowl. It's a shaving mug. It's not designed to build lather in it, but to place a puck, held by those ridges, then load your brush. If you are old school you may like to build your lather on the puck directly.

If you have a very long barber sized brush, like Omega 48, 98 etc. they will lather in the mug as if it was a bowl without hitting the walls. The lather is well contained in the mug, I have no issues with it wanting to leak outside. It's also great to soak your brushes. Anything smaller or thicker will be annoying to use. Example, Simpson Polo 8 while long, it constantly hits the walls because it's a thick handle. Duke 3 or Vulfix 404 require you to dip your fingers inside the mug to be able to lather at the bottom.

Timeless bowl is a conventional bowl and does more what your would expect to get from a lathering bowl.

IME ridges in bowls are made to hold soap, cream and puck in place, not to lather better.

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I use mine also as a soap scuttle in winter.
 
The green one has fins in the sides to help create foam. The blue has the swirls, the black (cheapest) looks like it has nothing.

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malc6552 said:
Giles Shaving Bowls are excellent and well worth a look

www.ebay.co.uk

Giles Shaving Co.- Spotty Pedestal Wet Shaving Bowl - Handmade in UK | eBay

Handmade ceramic shaving bowl with deep ridges and a spotty centre to help kick up a thick, slick lather. Think of this as a hybrid between my two other designs; the grooved bowl and the -now discontinued- spotty bowl.
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There is one of those for sale here

 
naughtilus said:
Apples to oranges.

Proraso isn't a shaving bowl. It's a shaving mug. It's not designed to build lather in it, but to place a puck, held by those ridges, then load your brush. If you are old school you may like to build your lather on the puck directly.

If you have a very long barber sized brush, like Omega 48, 98 etc. they will lather in the mug as if it was a bowl without hitting the walls. The lather is well contained in the mug, I have no issues with it wanting to leak outside. It's also great to soak your brushes. Anything smaller or thicker will be annoying to use. Example, Simpson Polo 8 while long, it constantly hits the walls because it's a thick handle. Duke 3 or Vulfix 404 require you to dip your fingers inside the mug to be able to lather at the bottom.

Timeless bowl is a conventional bowl and does more what your would expect to get from a lathering bowl.

IME ridges in bowls are made to hold soap, cream and puck in place, not to lather better.

DSC-0029.jpg


DSC-0226.jpg


3.jpg


DSC-0208.jpg


I use mine also as a soap scuttle in winter.
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+1 on this. I use my Proraso mug the same way

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Fwiw I bought the black plastic mug from China. Perfectly acceptable if that is all you need. (I don't live in a hard water area tho). A few ridges on the bottom but none on the sides.

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