So, euro, what's your DE of choice? Do you use only one? If so, my hat's off to you.
I don't understand how people can say it's only shaving, but then hang around an online shaving community. Seems contradictory to me.
Today we have access to a wide range of products that our fathers and grandfathers didn't have. Rather than choosing which soap or cream they were going to use that day, they probably had one or two brands to choose from at the local barbershop or pharmacy, if they were fortunate. Would you still be so keen on wet shaving if you were facing the same shave everyday? It's not even like they could work up a go to shave combination of their choice. They were basically stuck with what could be found.
As young men from a farming family, my father and his brothers shaved with a thin film of bath soap. No fancy lather of any sort. My grandfather put the last slivers of bath soap into his shaving mug and lathered with his one brush. That just doesn't sound like fun to me.
Another thing that made wet shaving not so much fun was that after adjusting for inflation, DE blades used to be fairly expensive. Maybe not as bad as cartridges are today, but they were certainly no bargain. There is a thread around here somewhere that goes through all of the math on that.
Or the evening...DE shaving has transformed a chore into a pleasure, and an opportunity to prepare properly for the day ahead.
I don't understand how people can say it's only shaving, but then hang around an online shaving community. Seems contradictory to me.
Been using a stick of Arko since November... not bored of it yet.
If I knew I was going to use another stick of Arko once it was finished: I still wouldn't be bored of it.
I had asked my father, now 88, how he shaved as a kid.I'm betting alot of men just used bath soap as a lubricant on the whiskers. I've done this in a pinch and it works pretty well actually. DE razors or a straight was all there was. Choice of selection was virtually nil. As soon as canned Barbisol came out I'm sure most went to that if they could afford it. Boutique soaps and balms were unheard of.