This is a very nice and attractive wooden bowl. The side is concave and rounded at the top and bottom. The lid is fitted and is rounded across its entire surface (not just around the perimeter).
My bowl is MUCH darker than the product photo suggests. It is more like the product photo shown in "Kingsley Shave Soap Bowl with Lid Natural Wood" (available on Amazon, at a greater cost). In fact, it looks EXACTLY like the Kingsley bowl - I wonder if they are really the same bowl sold under different labels. I notice the Kingsley product listing also includes a photo of a lighter color - very similar to the product photo in this listing. I prefer the darker color, which is what I received.
I bought this bowl to hold my "Musgo Real Lime Glyce Soap" (available on Amazon, currently with Prime shipping, although when I ordered three months ago, it was shipped (free, but slow) from South America). This is a thin pre-shave soap. The Musgo cake did not fit - it was too tall, but there was extra room around the perimiter. I took the advise of other reviewers and heated it in a 1000-watt microwave for 40 seconds (I had first broken it into chunks with a screwdriver). I heated it directly in this wooden bowl (why use another vessel? Wood is microwave-safe). It melted nicely to conform to this bowl - a perfect fit. This is a pre-shave soap, and is glycerin based, and melts readily and quickly in a microwave (almost like butter). I also attempted to melt a cake of sandalwood shave soap into a shaving mug (not a bowl), and it absolutely DID NOT WORK. The sandalwood shave soap burned in the microwave, instead of melting.
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| Price Per Unit | $18.99 / Count | $12.99 / Count | — | $29.99 / Count | $21.97 / Count | $16.99 / Count |
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| Sold By | FGP | Mama Bear's Soaps | Yongstorena | FGP | VB Official | Super Safety Razors |
| bowl material type | Wood | Wood | Stainless Steel | Wood | Stainless Steel | Wood |
| capacity | 250 milliliters | — | — | 250 milliliters | 10279.46 fluid ounces | — |
| number of pieces | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| pattern | — | — | Solid | — | Sandblasted | Solid |
| dishwasher safe | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| microwaveable | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
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Looks good, only had it a month...
Color is great and I like the shape. Inside depth could be ¼" deeper to support Mama Bear 5oz large shaving soap pucks (3" x 1¼"). The puck fits with about ¼" gap between the edge and the bar, but since the lid had a recessed, it does't have room to drop in (top of the puck lines up evenly with the top of the bowl). But, 15-seconds in the microwave let the bar soap melt and then the lid fit perfectly. I think I'll cut the next puck in half... so far, so good (will update if I have the same problems other reported).Update: Jan 5, 2016Additional issue with the shallow depth is insufficient room to work a good lather without the lather slopping down the sides... plus, after there is a lather, when you put the lid back on, the lather around the edge causes the lid to glue itself to the bowl... Hope it gets better at the soap wears down (which isn't fast with the Mama Bear 5oz puck...).
