The Ancient Art of Shaving
Shaving is today a lost art: with the invention of electric shavers and the spreading use of bottled shaving foams and safety razors with multiple blades, ancient instruments of shaving like the straight razor (or cut throat razor, the name that made it infamous) and the shaving brush started to disappear from bathrooms, thinking that they were old instruments that were experiencing their natural death. Shaving was now easy, simple and quick, not something that you needed to learn and perfect over time.
No one was actually thinking that our shaving style was actually going backwards. The habit of shaving with multiple blades at once with a cheap and pre-made shaving foam was actually dictated by the modern need of saving time, more than an advancement in the techniques of shaving. This is why recently the old art of shaving is starting to acquire more users everyday, men that are actually tired of a low quality shave.
There are now many communities online of men who started to get back on their hands the shaving tools their grandfathers were using: like the double edge safety razor, the shaving brush and the scary (but not dangerous, if you know how to use it) cut throat razor. And, after getting into the learning curve, they found out that sometimes going back is not a bad thing: they found out that their shave has become a lot better and a lot of skin problems that affected them (nicks, bumps, razor burns) disappeared after getting the hang of the new tools. No need to say that they never went back to their Gillette Mach 3 razors.
Today shaving is an art that is being rediscovered. If you are a man and want to improve your shave you may wish to look into it: you will not regret it.
By Anonymous
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