The online razor clubs have never been bigger. I’m seriously thinking about giving them a try.
I believe it was the Huns who burned the face to create scar tissue (which wouldn’t grow hair).
Edwin Jagger DE89BL Chrome Safety Razor
Proraso Green, except the gel. Use this on the weekend.
And during the week:
All you need to know about modern shaving: Gasmasks don’t fit over beards and Gillette safety razors.
I DESPISE shaving. I can only shave every other day, or my face bleeds. And to add insult to injury, after three days, there’s nothing to make anything out of but an irritating itch. My mustache looks like I stole it off a 14-year old Mexican girl. But, at 59, I still have a full head of light brown hair, and no gray in sight. Go friggin’ figure...
For years, as a kid, I had seen this silver thing in my Dad's dresser, and could not figure out what it was. I couldn't open it. When he passed on, I got it, and was able to spend some time opening it...turns out it was just sticky-stuck and the lid had to be encouraged off.
This is a picture of what it looks like...it is a very cool, art-deco looking, high quality type of thing thing, but I don't have the courage to take it to my face to try it out!
I find it attractive because it is heavy...looks like a quality thing, and is a gadget thing with an interesting and clever mechanism. It has a built in strop, and when you lift the handle, you can roll the blade and strop it back and forth. When it reaches the end of the throw, the mechanism reverses the blade, and you push it back the other way to strop the other side...back and forth.
It really appeals to me...someday, I will shave with it.
very interesting. Thanks for posting.
I have tried the single blade razor of yesteryear and Taylors shaving cream. You get a very close shave but if you are not really careful you also get razor burn!.
Best blades are Gillette Fusion ProGlide. They last up to a month if you wash them clean after use and dry the blade everyday. Buy them at Amazon to save money over supermarket prices.
http://www.amazon.com/Gillette-Fusion-ProGlide-Manual-Refills/dp/B003983HZK
Gillette Fusion Hydra Gel Ultra Sensitive Shave Gel. Use this with the blades above. Buy at supermarket. A little goes a long way.
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Or use an AXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NN3fWyIDk4
In Egypt, shaving also had religious significance. For example, no one was allowed to enter the magnificent temple at Karnak unless they were completely shaved, and kept completely shaved.
So you figure the regular complement of workers and priests there, perhaps a thousand or more, as well at the peak time during which the Pharoah was obligated to visit, along with his entourage, they must have had large numbers of barbers working overtime.
In that the Pharoah had so many servants that one in particular was titled “guardian of the anus”, and his sole purpose was to administer the royal enema, you figure that he spent a heck of a lot of time “getting his hair done.”
I switched from the money sucking disposable razors to wet shaving about 2 years ago. What a freakin’ difference! Grandpa had it right all this time. Now I use a Merkur heavy classic 34c, Vulfix 2235s brush, and Taylor of Old Bond Street shaving cream. I wish I had discovered this decades ago.
From Wikipedia: In the second century AD the Emperor Hadrian, according to Dion Cassius, was the first of all the Caesars to grow a beard; Plutarch says that he did it to hide scars on his face. This was a period in Rome of widespread imitation of Greek culture, and many other men grew beards in imitation of Hadrian and the Greek fashion. Until the time of Constantine the Great the emperors appear in busts and coins with beards; but Constantine and his successors until the reign of Phocas, with the exception of Julian the Apostate, are represented as beardless.
Hadrian
Marcus Aurelius
A few years back I went to a VA counselor to see if he could help me get a job. He said, you might as well face it: you’re never going to get another job (or words to that effect).
I said, ok, then I’m not going to shave, either.
I didn’t grow a beard; I just stopped shaving.