Most of us will still be using the same shaving methods we learnt when we first started. For the majority that means safety razors, with disposable cartridge heads, and vastly over-inflated prices. If you’re using an electric shaver for speed then you have my sympathy but it may not be too late to change. If you’re using disposables or electric because your skin gets ripped to shreds by blades read no further.
I recently read an article that described the discovery of old-fashioned wet shaving, the technique our fathers will have used. This uses disposable safety razor blades, placed in a metal safety razor, together with shaving soap and a shaving brush.
Now I’ve never been particularly happy with my shaving techniques, and I hate having to pay £11 for 4 disposable cartridge razors. What started with one blade, and then two, has now become a frankly ridiculous 5 bladed head and optional battery power. I’m sure most of us suspect that these cartridges cost pennies to make and are designed to go blunt at the merest sight of a beard!
