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p4ul
·Edwin Jagger and Wilkinson Sword blades.
What's Your Shave?
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Vercingetorix
··Spam RiskShaving is what separates man from the apes.
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It's Hedley
·I own a few DE razors: Wolfman, Charcoal Goods, Paradigm, Gillette Double Ring, New SC, Goodwill #160 are in the current rotation. Mash up with different soaps, brushes and aftershaves, each days shave something different. A nice, relaxing 20 minutes while listening to music and getting a BBS shave... love it.
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abrod520
·I keep a trim beard over most of my face but shave around it on my neck and cheeks. +1 for safety razor, I haven't yet settled on a blade brand but I'm leaning towards Derby as well.
Jack Black Beard Lube for cream, it's absolutely the truth.
All beats the hell outta the 3, 4, 5, 6 razor cartridges!
Jack Black Beard Lube for cream, it's absolutely the truth.
All beats the hell outta the 3, 4, 5, 6 razor cartridges!
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Muddlerminnow
·I last had a shave in late April 1976 and have no plans to do so again.
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NOTSHARP
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Steve.
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SkunkPrince
·I keep a trim beard over most of my face but shave around it on my neck and cheeks. +1 for safety razor, I haven't yet settled on a blade brand but I'm leaning towards Derby as well.
Jack Black Beard Lube for cream, it's absolutely the truth.
All beats the hell outta the 3, 4, 5, 6 razor cartridges!
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M'Bob
·I last had a shave in late April 1976 and have no plans to do so again.
I’m in healthcare, and have to wear an N95 each day for work. Because you can’t get a good seal with the mask against facial hair, I’ve had to trim my beard down to a goatee which fits under the mask, thus necessitating trimming around the edges and shaving the remainder each day. There are a lot better reasons for wishing the pandemic will soon end, but not continuing to shave is still one of them.
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BradleyJ.
·I dont have the thickest facial hair (luckily since I hate shaving) I'm a strong believer that you need to train your hair and skin into a routine or you'll get ingrowns and burn. In other words if you shave up all the time and then decide to try shaving down you'll be in a world of hurt... for me anyway. With that said I started shaving with just wet skin years ago using a mach 3 and my skin never has any issues. I did this mostly because I have a certain shape I maintain and I couldn't see the line thru the cream. I keep my beard/stache at a number 2 which is pretty tight so I'm only really shaving my neck and Cheeks. I bought a 30 pack of mach 3 refills over 5 years ago and just had to reorder about a month ago (Gave my dad a 5 pack outa that first 30 to save him a trip to the store so I only used 25. Do that math and its crazy how long I get outa a blade lol) I'm not cheap, I use things till they are dead and since I never have issues why throw away a good blade.
Side story: My father works for a rigging company that was contracted to do a lot of work for Gillette in Boston. They removed and installed the machinery that boxes up mach 3 blades. When they removed the old machine he said thousands of refills (the little plastic tray with 5 blades per tray) were everywhere, most in the card board box but the box got mangled. They told him and his crew to keep whatever they wanted. I dont think anyone of our male relatives purchased shave blades for easily a decade but probably longer haha.
Side story: My father works for a rigging company that was contracted to do a lot of work for Gillette in Boston. They removed and installed the machinery that boxes up mach 3 blades. When they removed the old machine he said thousands of refills (the little plastic tray with 5 blades per tray) were everywhere, most in the card board box but the box got mangled. They told him and his crew to keep whatever they wanted. I dont think anyone of our male relatives purchased shave blades for easily a decade but probably longer haha.
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wsfarrell
·Over 50 years of shaving (mandatory for about 30 years) I've tried everything from straight razor to fancy electrics.
I always come back to these.
Decent shave, decent price, easy to use, easy to clean. And as I shave in the shower after brushing my teeth I just use a light lather of "Goat Soap" and 60 seconds later I'm done.
My shower accoutrements consist of:
Electric toothbrush.
Tube of OralB toothpaste.
Schick ExactaII razor.
Bar of Goat Soap.
Nail brush.
That's it.
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AngelDeVille
·I went over 20+ years with a straight razor, and it needs a professional touch up.
I bought an electric a couple years ago and have been using that.
I may get into a safety razor at some point.
I bought an electric a couple years ago and have been using that.
I may get into a safety razor at some point.
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FREDMAYCOIN
·My daily go to is my braun 8 and for special occasions a close share with Harry’s blades and handles and jack black shaving products.
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Muddlerminnow
·I’m in healthcare, and have to wear an N95 each day for work. Because you can’t get a good seal with the mask against facial hair....
Yes, I agree. About 20 years ago, working on a sculpture that involved liquid polymers, I learned the hard way how poor a seal even a good respirator created if you had a beard--breathed in too many isocyanate fumes--and as my head slowly expanded during the evening, and my wife thought I began to look like Elephant Man, it took a trip to the ER and injections of steroids to bring down the swelling. Since then. I have left anything that requires serious respiratory protection to beardless professionals.
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Engee
·I dislike shaving. I also get fed up when I go unshaven for too long.
When I finally get fed up with the growth I use a Phillips electric trimmer to take me back to stubble. If I feel like a clean shave I then use a modern own brand thing from Tesco (I think it has about 7 blades - blade inflation is a thing, right?) along with Geo. Trumper soap and an excellent brush made by a friend of my daughter. No idea what kind of hair it has.
When I finally get fed up with the growth I use a Phillips electric trimmer to take me back to stubble. If I feel like a clean shave I then use a modern own brand thing from Tesco (I think it has about 7 blades - blade inflation is a thing, right?) along with Geo. Trumper soap and an excellent brush made by a friend of my daughter. No idea what kind of hair it has.
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noelekal
··Home For Wayward WatchesReally despise shaving, but have maintained the habit of remaining clean shaven.
On a Saturday evening in September of 1969 I was given my dad's Gillette Fatboy (was not was not nicknamed the Fatboy back then) he'd discarded for a Norelco electric a few years before, and told to shave the peach fuzz above my lip before church Sunday morning. No real instructions other than to lather up the Lifebuoy soap for the job. Such was my adolescent introduction to shaving.
I endured that Fatboy for over a decade. I had no clue about the blade height adjustment. I just set it on "6" because that was my favorite number. Finally, in 1980 after lots of nicks and weepers, I gleefully tossed the Fatboy into the back of a bathroom drawer in favor of the Gillette Trac II with canned cream and never looked back.
Electric razors never worked for me. Inefficient and ineffective they are.
By 2010, I was using Gillette Fusion cartridge blades and fussing about the cost of the things. Our eldest son had embraced double-edge razor shaving and promoted that as an alternative. I wasn't having it for a while, feeling like I've been there and done that, but gave in and gave the double-edge razor another shot at shaving. Had much better results after a bit of familiarization.
I'm devoted to vintage Gillette razors with the occasional vintage Schick Krona thrown in for good measure. C. O. Bigelow shave cream and good ol' Williams shave soap share lathering duties. Feather, along with a hoarded supply of obsolete Gillette Spoilers for special occasions, are the blades of choice.
This 1930s Gillette Aristocrat is the most used razor. Makes a person feel like Cary Grant, Clark Gable, or Gary Cooper to use it. I generally use the collected razors in rotation. It's a week of the Aristocrat and then a week of which ever other vintage Gillette in the collection gets the nod. All the major Gillette models and variants since 1904 have been gathered in over the years and are stowed in an antique glass front medicine cabinet in the bathroom. The razors and shave ritual are a bit of whimsy and provide a measure of fun in what is otherwise a daily drudgery.
My eldest son and I spent an afternoon a few years back re-crafting three vintage Ever Ready brushes, outfitting them with silvertip badger knots. Since then one of the two Ever Ready C40s has been the daily shave brush for me.
On a Saturday evening in September of 1969 I was given my dad's Gillette Fatboy (was not was not nicknamed the Fatboy back then) he'd discarded for a Norelco electric a few years before, and told to shave the peach fuzz above my lip before church Sunday morning. No real instructions other than to lather up the Lifebuoy soap for the job. Such was my adolescent introduction to shaving.
I endured that Fatboy for over a decade. I had no clue about the blade height adjustment. I just set it on "6" because that was my favorite number. Finally, in 1980 after lots of nicks and weepers, I gleefully tossed the Fatboy into the back of a bathroom drawer in favor of the Gillette Trac II with canned cream and never looked back.
Electric razors never worked for me. Inefficient and ineffective they are.
By 2010, I was using Gillette Fusion cartridge blades and fussing about the cost of the things. Our eldest son had embraced double-edge razor shaving and promoted that as an alternative. I wasn't having it for a while, feeling like I've been there and done that, but gave in and gave the double-edge razor another shot at shaving. Had much better results after a bit of familiarization.
I'm devoted to vintage Gillette razors with the occasional vintage Schick Krona thrown in for good measure. C. O. Bigelow shave cream and good ol' Williams shave soap share lathering duties. Feather, along with a hoarded supply of obsolete Gillette Spoilers for special occasions, are the blades of choice.
This 1930s Gillette Aristocrat is the most used razor. Makes a person feel like Cary Grant, Clark Gable, or Gary Cooper to use it. I generally use the collected razors in rotation. It's a week of the Aristocrat and then a week of which ever other vintage Gillette in the collection gets the nod. All the major Gillette models and variants since 1904 have been gathered in over the years and are stowed in an antique glass front medicine cabinet in the bathroom. The razors and shave ritual are a bit of whimsy and provide a measure of fun in what is otherwise a daily drudgery.
My eldest son and I spent an afternoon a few years back re-crafting three vintage Ever Ready brushes, outfitting them with silvertip badger knots. Since then one of the two Ever Ready C40s has been the daily shave brush for me.
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It's Hedley
·Really despise shaving, but have maintained the habit of remaining clean shaven.
On a Saturday evening in September of 1969 I was given my dad's Gillette Fatboy (was not was not nicknamed the Fatboy back then) he'd discarded for a Norelco electric a few years before, and told to shave the peach fuzz above my lip before church Sunday morning. No real instructions other than to lather up the Lifebuoy soap for the job. Such was my adolescent introduction to shaving.
I endured that Fatboy for over a decade. I had no clue about the blade height adjustment. I just set it on "6" because that was my favorite number. Finally, in 1980 after lots of nicks and weepers, I gleefully tossed the Fatboy into the back of a bathroom drawer in favor of the Gillette Trac II with canned cream and never looked back.
Electric razors never worked for me. Inefficient and ineffective they are.
By 2010, I was using Gillette Fusion cartridge blades and fussing about the cost of the things. Our eldest son had embraced double-edge razor shaving and promoted that as an alternative. I wasn't having it for a while, feeling like I've been there and done that, but gave in and gave the double-edge razor another shot at shaving. Had much better results after a bit of familiarization.
I'm devoted to vintage Gillette razors with the occasional vintage Schick Krona thrown in for good measure. C. O. Bigelow shave cream and good ol' Williams shave soap share lathering duties. Feather, along with a hoarded supply of obsolete Gillette Spoilers for special occasions, are the blades of choice.
This 1930s Gillette Aristocrat is the most used razor. Makes a person feel like Cary Grant, Clark Gable, or Gary Cooper to use it. I generally use the collected razors in rotation. It's a week of the Aristocrat and then a week of which ever other vintage Gillette in the collection gets the nod. All the major Gillette models and variants since 1904 have been gathered in over the years and are stowed in an antique glass front medicine cabinet in the bathroom. The razors and shave ritual are a bit of whimsy and provide a measure of fun in what is otherwise a daily drudgery.
My eldest son and I spent an afternoon a few years back re-crafting three vintage Ever Ready brushes, outfitting them with silvertip badger knots. Since then one of the two Ever Ready C40s has been the daily shave brush for me.
Nice Aristocrat! I once had the 1934 Aristocrat and all the Brits, along with many vintage Gillette razors. Gillette was an amazing company in its heyday. I have been down the shaving rabbit hole and enjoyed it thoroughly. To your point, it makes an otherwise boring routine into something of a pleasurable daily ritual. Brushes, soaps and aftershaves have each had a rabbit hole of their own.
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