Here's how I will use it to replace my coffee mug warmer. I don't use the sink since I got all kinds of stuff going down it all the time.
1) boil some water on the stove and pour it into my insulated coffee carafe/pot. Move to bathroom.
2) pour hot water into lather mug/crock pot and put brush in to soak
3) pour hot water on top of soap in the bowl that the soap lives in - enough to soak brush and make lather.
4) use beard trimmer to trim beard to standard length
5) brush teeth
6) Into hot shower
7) exit shower, towel, empty water in bowl/crock pot that brush is soaking in and shake most of the water out of brush
8) put small amount of proraso and 4 drops of glycerin in lather bowl/crock pot
9) pour water off of soap into lather bowl/crock pot
10) load tips of brush with soap from the now softened cake.
11) swirl brush tips in lather bowl to mix proraso, glycerin, soap and water
12) mash brush into bowl to pick up mixture (amount of liquid determined by water poured off of soap cake should fully load brush)
13) build lather -- which at this point should be warmish
14) lather face, wait a minute, pour hot water on towel and apply to face for a minute or two on top of lather.
15) Wipe off face and re-lather -- by this time the crock pot should have the brush and lather pretty warm.
16) shave some
17) re-lather/more lather -- should be hot lather now and almost up to full temp where you have the crock pot set at.
repeat 16) and 17) until done. pour hot water on towel and use as necessary during this stage
