History of shaving

What made me laugh so hard was the electric shaver "And now with advances in technology, shaving has become a joy rather than a chore. Tripe Action Free Float system blablabla". What a BS, traditional shaving aka the "primitive" way of shaving beats modern shaving!

Super Speeds are decorative handle disposables? Bullocks.

More research, boys. Now I can't believe a word of it.

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Whenever I try to trace the history back through the third millenium it falls apart. There's plenty who'll say there are cave drawings and razors, but I can't find any that refer to proper primary sources. On the other side there's a lot of controversy over the gender of graves, and calling certain artifacts shaving razors when they closely resemble more recent, if crude, dinner knives[SUP]1[/SUP]. And these same razors are found in definite female burials[SUP]2[/SUP]. The earliest primary sources (e.g. notes from archaeological digs) I can find indicate the mid third millenium, by which time, the Egyptians were capable of smelting, and forging objects like mirrors from cast discs[SUP]3[/SUP]. It seems odd at these late dates (especially 1473 when the axe-like "razors" were still in use) that their razors are still so crude. Could these be depilatory scrapers?

1. Tonsor Humanus: Razor andToilet-knife in Antiquity; George Boon;
2. "[Hatnofer, an elderly woman who lived around 1533-1473] also owned a bronze razor, which was found with other cosmetic implements inside a basket in her tomb" Life Along the Nile: Three Egyptians of Ancient Thebes; Catharine H Roehrig; The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin; Summer 2002
3. The Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition; Geoff Emberling, Bruce Williams, Justine James; 2007

Creative writing! Very amusing.

I'm pretty sure their editing department missed the mistake where the photo of the cartridge "decorative handles" and the picture of the Super Speeds need to be swapped. Then this makes a little more sense.

Today I learned the 1904 had a Mach 3 head, no wonder it took so long to catch on. He had to redesign it into the Old before anybody wanted it.

This article falls to mention The Ancient Greeks were the first to use flexball technology.

If I get one of those 1950's "disposable" razors I think I might keep it.

Call me a cheap bastard if you want.

I run a Super Speed recycling service for all disposable 1950's razors.

BSAGuy said:

I run a Super Speed recycling service for all disposable 1950's razors.

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