Don't you just hate it when you get into a nice warm, steamy shower and find your soap, shampoo or shower gel to be at absolute zero? I propose a small heating cabinet, that could even be incorporated into a bathroom cabinet, which warms up your shower products to a bearable skin temperature.-- silverstormer, Oct 26 2003 vibrating soap? into a vibratin' phase at the moment-- po, Oct 26 2003 No comment ;)-- silverstormer, Oct 26 2003 or you could just heat your entire bathroom with central heating?-- Ossalisc, Oct 26 2003 We do have central heating, but alas the soap is still cold...Brings tears to my eyes just talking about it...-- silverstormer, Oct 26 2003 are we talking bars of soap here or the runny stuff?-- po, Oct 26 2003 Covers both bars of soap and the "runny stuff".-- silverstormer, Oct 26 2003 Granted that I live in Los Angeles where the temperature of the shower and the shampoo rarely differ by more than thirty degrees, but why don't you move your shampoo to a closer proximity to your shower's stream, so that it heats convectively?
Alternatively, you've seen those "No-Fog" shower mirrors that are installed with a flexible hot-water tubing to your shower head. Why not utilize the same idea and create a Foster's beer-can-sized receptacle/coil that would hold your shampoo bottle, shaving gel, and bar soap? It heats the contents up while the shower water warms up.-- jurist, Oct 27 2003 bar soap would melt - not a good thing.
funnily enough, I have been trying to contact you, jurist, to ask how hot things *are* in your neck of the woods.-- po, Oct 27 2003 here in the great white north we have heating radiators... I have a BIG one IN the shower! I leave the soap bottle on it and it is soooo nice. There are towel driers, too that would do the same thing. I like the microwave idea.-- stringstretcher, Oct 27 2003 Put your soap in a bag warmed by body heat. It can be in a foam-padded pillow in bed, and in clothing (bath robe?) when you’re awake. A pouch in a large dog’s bed would also work.-- Amos Kito, Oct 27 2003 I like the idea of the dog warming it; perhaps in a barrel around its neck.-- silverstormer, Oct 27 2003 Just don't: a) Try and shower when your dog's gone out. b) Let your dog rescue anyone from a snowdrift without changing the barrel. c)Let your dog get at the soap. Run, everyone. Rabid dog!-- squeak, Oct 28 2003 This idea...more fun than a hole in your soap.-- Eugene, Oct 30 2003 I have a sharper image refridgerator/warmer that I keep in my bathroom. It ought to warm soap well.-- Condiment, Oct 31 2003 random, halfbakery