As a result, and unbeknownst to yourself, you’ve acquired very bad shaving habits. TECHNIQUE: Wet shaving is quite a bit different from shaving with that multi-blade cartridge razor that you’ve probably never even realized, with its vibrating, gybrating, piano-playing, twizzle-necked head, was doing all the shaving for you. The rewards here far outweigh the cost- promise. If you’re a Hollywood agent, this might not be for you. It’s for sure going to cost you more time to wet shave, especially while learning. To give the devil his due, it is very fast to shave (wrong) with a store-bought cartridge razor. TIME: About the only thing that the multi-blade cartridges got right is the time-savings bit. Don’t you think?ģ.) OKAY, BUT, REALLY, WHAT’S THE CATCH HERE? And he’s been doing that for far too long. You are not sticking it to the man when you shop for shaving products at CVS the man is, in fact, sticking it to you. For others it’s because we enjoy “sticking it to the man” by refusing to buy his overpriced Chinese plastic. For some it’s because we like the ideals of conservation. STICK IT TO THE MAN: Many of us wet shavers use vintage razors that look as new today as when they came out of the factory fifty-plus years ago-we’re talking metal shaving tools. Wet shavers won’t let that junk near their face! The other piece of this irritation puzzle is the canned chemical crap that’s slathered all over the freshly shaven skin, before and after the shave itself. However, a single-edged blade does not cause this and, in fact, works wonders for chronic ingrown hairs.
The neck area is particularly susceptible, as you may have already noticed. Especially if the hairs are naturally curly. When these hairs start growing back, guess what happens? Ingrown hairs. This is mostly because, true to the television adverts, multi-blade cartridges actually do “lift and cut,” so that the hairs retreat beneath the layer of the skin. SAY GOODBYE TO IRRITATION: A lot of guys complain of irritation caused by shaving with cartridge razors. Whatever scent you can think up probably exists as a shaving soap. Scents that will send you to the moon! Rose, lavender, avocado, grapefruit, sandalwood, bay rum, barbershop, dirt. It probably never even occurred to you that there existed, not just a couple, but an entire world of incredibly delicious shaving products. It doesn’t have to be that way– shaving can be fun. For instance: how many shaves do you get out of that one multi-blade cartridge? Eight? Nine? And how much did that one cartridge cost you? Three, four bucks? Those same nine shaves would have cost you as little as fifteen cents with double edged razor blades and a safety razor.ĮNJOYMENT: From the time you were thirteen you’ve simply tolerated the act of shaving as a necessary evil, all the while grumbling over the outrageous prices of cartridges and razors at your local drug store, or hoping beyond hope mom would put enough of them in your Christmas stocking to last all year long. For almost every wet shaver, the cost of shaving goes down significantly. SAVINGS: Haven’t you ever wondered why those four plastic cartridges are so frickin’ expensive? Yeah, us too. You’ve gotta shave, and how you’re doing it right now sucks, and you know it. Because of the onslaught in recent decades of canned goo and overpriced multi-blade doo-dads, the word “wet” was added to distinguish the classical method of depilation from the modern degenerate one. Wet shaving is what your grandpa would have simply called shaving: a bristle brush, real soap, a mug, a single-edged blade. So, you'd like to learn more about Traditional Wet Shaving? Below, find answers to your questions:ġ.) What is this “Wet Shaving” thing? 2.) Why would I change what I’m doing? 3.) Okay, but what’s the catch? 4.) What do I need to start out? 5.) How do I do it? 1.) WHAT IS WET SHAVING?
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