My father used a razor and brush and always reckoned it was far better than a disposable and shaving cream.

There are men's grooming websites  that swear by this.  Let us know how it works out.

I did a clean up of the drawers in the bathroom and found a razor sharpener at the bottom drawer. It was my grandfather's razor sharpener from the days he was alive. I started using it for my own razors. I managed to extend the life of the razors by two or three times.

Something like this is a razor blade sharpener.

Belgarion wrote on Sep 24^th, 2021 at 9:52pm:


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He would have been right 30 years ago. 50 years ago a straight razor would give the best result.



Most people have always agreed that the cut throat gives the closest shave. The old razers mostly end up with the Norman Gunston effect.

The current razors are 100 times better.

Dnarever wrote on Sep 25^th, 2021 at 7:10pm:


Safety razors were invented 100+ years ago, and they're generally rated as good as a cut throat.

Setanta wrote on Sep 25^th, 2021 at 9:00pm:


I remember when I was really young finding my dads safety razor, undoing the screw at the top and slicing my finger open trying to put it back together. I'll have to keep my new razor and blades somewhere high, away from the 4 year old!

Funnily enough, I impulse bought a $20 electric from of all places, Aldi a month ago, and it's not half bad. I keep it in the car but using this new setup is more like a spiritual routine. The shaver itself is such a beautiful precise instrument, something every bloke (who shaves) should own.

If the chicks I live with even think of putting it near their legs, I'm moving out 

Lisa Jones wrote on Sep 25^th, 2021 at 9:37pm:


https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/content/story/is-there-any-reason-why-i-cant-wax...

However, for a man, it may be very painful to wax beard hair,” explains Rossi. “These hairs are more coarse terminal hairs and there is a larger density of them. It may be quite painful, and leave erosions.”

Terminal hairs, you see, are not like the hairs growing around the edges of your ears, or springing out of the tops of your toes, which is called vellus hair, i.e., peach fuzz. That hair is generally lighter in color, less coarse and most importantly, not influenced by hormones like testosterone.

Terminal hair is the opposite. It’s dark, thick, mature hair that mostly men get starting with puberty. It’s also very strong, found in denser patches than vellus hair and deeply rooted in the second layer of skin, known as the dermis. In other words, it’s hair that you don’t want to rip out with wax if you don’t have to. That’s because, as Rossi explained, doing so could result in something called “erosions.”

“An erosion is when the epidermis, the top layer of skin, is removed. It can lead to scar or color changes when healed,” Rossi says. “It is also quite painful.” Just google “skin erosion” if you need a visual reference, but I recommend you take the doctor’s word for it.

In the end, given the painful and potentially scarring results of trying to wax off your facial hair, it’s definitely not worth it.