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Hmmm, I don't think the pop is a good choice to start with, you can chuck it around your mug with absolutely no chance of nicks or irritation, but you have a slim chance of actually removing any bristles.
The tendency then is to press hard, a bad habit to get into. Pop a feather blade in, go at a steep angle and you'll get a smooth shave
Totally agree with everything else you recommend, good shout
Excellent post..your a man who uses his own judgement,..like myself and haven't been sucked in by so called artisan shaving products, don't get me wrong the more higher priced brand names shaving products will be superb, but most of my soaps & creams have been bought from local supermarkets & high street stores.. i only started in april 2016 with a Jagen David,wilkinson sword brush , a palmolive shaving stick/a tube of palmolive, and 10 gillette 7o'clock sharp edge blades which i got free with the J.D.razor and some The Real shaving co post shave balm+ a bottle of old spice...I don't have a the 1940's Gillette tech, but i do have a 1969 Gillette slim twist kindly giving to me by a friend of my father's & a 1972 Aluminium handled Gillette tech, bought from ebay both arn't really aggressive razors, but with the right blade combo are both very efficient superb razors that give me sublime shaves..since then i've add a few more razors, soaps, creams brushes aftershaves to my shaving den.I'm new to DE shaving and this is a great thread; although I'm obviously not as experienced as most on here, I hope you won't mind me posting up what I found worked for me straight from the off:
I inherited my grandfather's 1940's Gillette Tech Thin Handle razor (which can be picked up cheaply and easily), along with some Wilkinson Sword blades - these seem to work very well for me.
Add to that some Bulldog Shave Oil, Boots "For Men" shaving soap, Men-ü pure bristle brush and Nivea after shave balm (cost about £20 all in).
I'm really happy with my shave and I also get reminded of Pop every time I shave as well
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I'm now 53 and i had to ,and still, learning to shave again!..shaving use to be a mundane thing for me of which i hated doing with a passion when i was using the cartridge/disposible razors with canned gloop, then this year i decided along with a friend of mine to enter the world of DE shaving,.my friend actually went be to using cartridge/disposible razors again@Palmolive fox Until now I'd been sucked in by the marketing of cartridge razors and foam-in-a-can solutions to shaving! What I've found is that changing over to DE shaving is not just financially sensible but offers other advantages, which at first seem a little ridiculous if I'm honest, but do count for something.
Chief amongst these is getting 'me-time' - it's just 15 minutes out of the day when I can take my time to sort myself out. Then there's the feeling of practicing and improving some form of craft, the sound of the razor when cutting, the ritual of it; I could go on, but it has turned shaving from a daily chore to something that I look forward to.
I also think I got very lucky in that my grandfather's razor was a Gillette Tech, known to be mild razor, and I've just had great results from it straight-away (although I did have to do some Googling on how to shave... that says something to... I'm 47 and I'm having to learn how to shave!).
I am relatively new to DE shaving but I used a brush and soap or cream for years. Before I discovered online vendors I made do with what I could find in high street shops and supermarkets, and I also had the Men-U brush. It's a pretty good brush, much better than the Wilkinson Sword ones you see in supermarkets. The Boots shaving soap is also a decent enough soap in my book (the shaving sticks are good too), and I also liked the Palmolive cream.I'm new to DE shaving and this is a great thread; although I'm obviously not as experienced as most on here, I hope you won't mind me posting up what I found worked for me straight from the off:
I inherited my grandfather's 1940's Gillette Tech Thin Handle razor (which can be picked up cheaply and easily), along with some Wilkinson Sword blades - these seem to work very well for me.
Add to that some Bulldog Shave Oil, Boots "For Men" shaving soap, Men-ü pure bristle brush and Nivea after shave balm (cost about £20 all in).
I'm really happy with my shave and I also get reminded of Pop every time I shave as well
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That's the hardest bit! After saying that the long term financial savings are just one reason to go with DE shaving, the problem is then that you want to go and buy several razors...You don't have to go mental and buy all the things if you don't want.
I would guess that you will never be able to buy another razor that you will like more than that one, mainly because it used to belong to your Grandfather.That's the hardest bit! After saying that the long term financial savings are just one reason to go with DE shaving, the problem is then that you want to go and buy several razors...
Believe it or not I'm still on a 100 pack of Shark Super Chrome blades that I bought in March 2013...
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