Lotion Warmer - Transform an aquarium heater

One winter, my wife complained about how cold and miserable the lotion felt when it came out of the pump.  Here is a little something I devised to help her out.

What you will need:
Aquarium heater (I had one stowed away with some old aquarium supplies)
Short length of 4" PVC pipe
Pipe flange for pipe 4"
(this can work with 3" pipe as well if you can find a flange that size)
Timer
Hacksaw (or something else to cut pvc)

Step 1 First things first

1.  Find a bottle with a pump on it - I bought a bottle of lotion from the local dept. store.
2.  Find an aquarium heater - if you find one with a variable setting, that will make life easy for you.  If you buy one with a set temperature, make sure you get one for a small fish bowl.  If not, you will need to make your lotion warmer pretty large to keep it from getting too hot.

Do these first because that will allow you to determine the length of pvc.

The lotion bottle I bought was 7 3/4" tall (measure from the top of the bottle, not the top of the pump) and the aquarium heater was a similar lenght.  I cut a length of pvc 8 5/8" tall and that allowed the bottle of lotion to not touch the bottom of the flange when it is assembled. 

I created an outline drawing in Paint so you can see what I am talking about.