Is your wet shaving experience as lavish as it could be? With our handmade lathering bowls and the steps discussed below, you’ll build a thick and creamy lather with ease.
If you are like me, you want magnificent and stress free shave. After dropping one too many ceramic lathering bowls and toiling away to build lather worthy of the title of wet shaver, often falling short I might add, I realized there had to be a better way. I designed this bowl with a specific combination of features not available elsewhere, to cater to the needs of the growing wet shaving community.
The combination of the sprialized ridges, undercut rim, and finger well grip transform your shave from grind to recreation! Saving you time, product, and frustration; our bowls let you get groomed and on with your day in style. Built to last and made by hand, each bowl is a unique piece of art as well.
When we drop new gear for general sale, it sells out rather quickly, making it difficult to get the one you want before someone else snags it. This is why we have made available the opportunity to custom order a bowl from the most popular color schemes in our catalog. Avoid the feeding frenzy, pick you favorite color scheme and claim your spot in line today!
[Features]
The spiralized raised ridges are the shining star of this bowl. The ridges quickly and efficiently build up an amazing lather, with a lot less elbow grease and less product wasted! Moving the brush in a clockwise or counter clockwise motion effectively moves the lather around and breaks down air bubbles, resulting in fluffy mountains of wet shaving goodness. Many customers have enthusiastically reported that even notoriously difficult soaps perform admirably with our bowl.
The ridges also do double duty; using the bowl a “wash board” under running water will very quickly clean the remaining lather from your brush post shave.
But I didn’t stop there. The addition of an undercut rim simultaneously keeps your hard earn lather in the bowl and provides a convenient place to scrape the lather from the brush during working. After only a few uses, you’ll be able to visually gauge your lathering progress with a quick scrape.
As the bowl nestles in your palm, the finger well allows for a secure grip for even the most enthusiastic latherteer. The curvaceous profile makes this feel less like a grooming tool and more like an artist’s palette in the hand.
All of our bowls are made in small batches by a master artisan and avid wet shaver. Not only are our bowls admired for their pure utilitarian value, they are also prized for their ascetics as well. Because every bowl is hand poured, using high quality Urethane casting resin and an array of additives, each one is a unique work of art unto itself. The chaos which is resin casting produces truly beautiful effects.
The durability of this bowl is exceptional, unlike a comparable ceramic bowl. While I won’t claim indestructible status, they are extremely durable. A tumble from the counter to a hard floor will likely leave it unscathed. With proper care, this bowl will last a very long time.
[Testimonials]
“These are IMHO the best shaving bowls on the market. The lather grooves are amazing and help generate heaps of Uber Creamy Goodness. Bowl are beautiful and I don’t have to worry about breaking them if I accidently drop it. If you’re a bowl latherer like I am, I highly recommend these shaving bowls.” –Lawrence L.
“Don’t think twice about purchasing these bowls, they’re the best thing to happen to wet shaving. Well crafted, they look amazing and work even better.”-Jeremy E.
[How to Lather Like a Pro]
To understand how to efficiently build lather like a pro warrants a brief discussion of the lather itself. Lather consists of only three fundamental elements; shaving soap, water, & air bubbles. The water dissolves the soap and mechanical action breaks down the bubbles, causing lather to form. The key to splendid lather is proper soap to water ratio and vigorous agitation with a brush. With our bowls managing the ratio is a snap and the agitation is less agitating!
When you are lathering with one of our bowls, it’s as easy as ABC!
A: Fill your lathering bowl with warm water. Allowing the bowl to warm up will keep you lather warmer longer. A splash of water on a solid soap at this point will make more easily picked up by your brush. Give it a few minutes to soak and hum a happy tune!
B: Shake off the excess water from the brush. The brush should be saturated with water, but not dripping. Work the brush on the soap cake for roughly thirty seconds, until the knot is loaded with thick soap. Pour out most of the water in the bowl, leaving behind about a tablespoon. If you’re using a croap style of product, add it directly to the bowl with the remaining water.
C: Work the loaded brush with a circular motion with moderate pressure. As you alternate between circular motion and scraping the building lather from your brush, you’ll notice that bubbles become smaller and the lather becomes thicker. From here, fine tune your lather to the perfect consistency by adding more water or going in for more soap as needed and work until the perfect consistency. Lather up and get your shave on!
[The Technical Stuff]
Large size: The overall width 6 1/2″ at the rim and 2 1/4″ tall. Suitable for all brush sizes.
Medium Size: The overall width 5 3/8″ at the rim and 2 1/2″ tall. Best suited for 24 &26 MM brush. A little crowded with 28 or 30 MM brush.
Ships in Eco-Friendly packaging. The box, inner packaging, and void fill are readily recyclable. The only single use plastic is the packaging tape.
| Weight | 20 oz |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 7 × 7 × 3 in |
| Size |
21 reviews for Breakwater Shaving Lathering Bowl | Made-to-Order
| 5 star | 85% | |
| 4 star | 14% | |
| 3 star | 0% | |
| 2 star | 0% | |
| 1 star | 0% |
1-5 of 624 reviews
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All around great quality and communication. However after the product shipped I asked if there was a picture to send to my local potter who was making a matching soap dish and never received a response. Otherwise amazing experience that was clearly made with love and care.
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Great handle. Heavy, nice height, polished to perfection. Takes a couple weeks to get. Be patient. It is worth the wait. I will be back for two more at least.
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Highly recommend the double banded badger in this. The Nebula theme was exactly what the recipient of this gift loves.
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Anonymous –
A great product, and the customer service is excellent!
Rod –
This large Breakwater shave bowl is exactly as I wanted! Brilliant work Rich
Giuli –
beautiful, very well made, I took the large size but I think the smaller one is better for whipping soap… I want to use it more and be more precise for a further review
Michael –
I got the medium size and glad I did – it is quite large but works incredibly well. I’ve tried numerous shave lather bowls over the years and this is the best I’ve had. Cleans up well too…some 3D printed bowls you have trouble getting lather out of the crevices afterwards but not this one.
TJ –
Fantastic quality. Seems sturdy and durable. The colors are fantastic vibrant. Excited to use it!
Eric –
Great looking bowl. The ribs in the bottom of the bowl should whip up a good lather using either shave soap or shave lotion. I have yet to use it so I will post later after I use it for a shave.
joseph –
all around great shaving bowl.
David –
This bowl is beautiful! It whipped up an amazing amount of lather in a short amount of time. There was no shaving brush handle clank as the sides if this bowl slant up as you get towards the the rim so the handle does not come in contact with the rim. Also, since the bowl is large, you don’t have to use the edges near the rim to generate lather. It is not difficult to hold the bowl in one hand and lather with the other hand, but if you have small hands, you may want to hold the bowl on the counter with one hand and build lather with the other. If you are mashing a soap sample into this bowl to lather with it, stiffer soaps will be more difficult to work out between the ridges. Each bowl will look different, you are just picking a color palate when you order. A very nice bowl but on the pricey side (but worth it).
Leonard –
Beautiful, makes a great lather,worth the wait.
Felipe V. –
It came out way better than I expected. Beautiful work
Mark –
Second one I’ve purchased. This one is more beautiful than it looks in pictures. Thank you!
joe.humphrey –
Looks excellent in person, love how the colors work with each other. Have used it several times so far for shaving lather, it makes a very nice lather in under 20 seconds. Very nice product!
Lars H. –
it doesn’t look like the picture that i ordered, but it sure makes a great lather.
Henry –
Beautiful bowl the perfect size for a 26mm brush
Sign u. –
Very nice shaving bowl however I think the price is a bit high..
Stan –
Nathan P. –
Amazing and beautiful!! The colorful bowl really looks nice on the counter and the spiral ridges are perfect for getting up a lather quickly. All other bowls I’ve owned have either been smooth, or had small or circular ridges that don’t really do much. With this pattern I can work up as much of a lather in ten seconds in this bowl as it would take me about a minute to do in a smooth bowl. Also, love the fleur-de-lis based logo. Thank you!!
Cody –
Keri –
This bowl was worth the wait! My husband absolutely loves it!! He broke his other one so we were anxious to get it, and he says it has been the best one so far he has ever used! Loves the inside ridges for lathering. Thanks!! It is also a beautiful piece of art!!
Micah –
I bought two!! One for me and one for father in law!
Kenneth –