I swapped to Harry's a few years back as they're one of the few vegan brands. But this shit is frustrating. Those little rubber side pieces are load bearing and made thin enough that they're gonna break after a while.
I literally can't remember the leftist word for a product that's designed to break after some time.
No shame directed at the bearded comrades, but damn shaving helps get a tight seal with N95s.
Seconding this. Much cheaper (the blades are dirt cheap and last well) and I used to get a closer shave too with less irritation. I have a beard these days, so I’m not shaving, but before for work I needed to shave daily for n99/ffp3 masks and the irritation (or lack of) mattered for my sensitive skin.
Buy a decent handle like an Edwin Jagger or a Merkur and it will be good for your lifetime and probably your grandkids life too, then buy a pack of decent DE safety razor blades, like Feather or something, and you’re good to go. No plastic waste from all the heads or handles. No bullshit marketing. No subscritions. No chemical lubricants that may or may not work (or contain animals). Just recyclable metal.
I just wish it wasn't so tricky to shave more intimate areas.
I'm still searching for a good shaving foam/cream though. Nobody has taught me to shave, so I'm just learning as I go along.
Yesterday I was looking for shaving creams without tallow and I found a nice little artisan soap maker. Every review of them that I found said that even though they’re vegan their performance is still top notch. And the fragrances sound really intriguing.
https://southernwitchcrafts.com/
Sadly I am not in the US, but I appreciate it.
I live in Europe. There are stores in the UK and Slovenia that sell it too.
Fantastic!
FWIW, the fancy artisan shaving soaps are very nice, but over time I've found that having a good brush is more important than what soap you use. I used to order from https://www.stirlingsoap.com/, but now I just use whatever bar soap I have lying around
Yup, a good brush is worth it’s weight in gold, even though a good synthetic can be bought for really cheap. With soaps it depends on the person. Without a good one I just couldn’t shave regularly due to irritations.
And also I just want to smell nice.
So valid
So I used just a bar of olive oil hand soap which our friend makes - which is odd because I can’t normally use proper soap on my hands regularly without drying them out. It lathers really thickly which gives all the lubrication you need.
I don’t think it’s much harder shaving with a safety razor than a cartridge one. I think it just comes with practice. Keep the skin taught if you can. It’s just a little more complex as you need to keep the angle correct over a complex surface rather than relying on the articulation of the head. The upside of this is a safety razor is better at getting a close shave in a tight spot.
I guess the alternative is wax for more intimate areas but I’m no expert there.
Do you apply the oil to the zone you shave, or was that just a tip for keeping hands moisturized lol?
Thanks for the advice!
No, no olive oil. Just olive oil soap.
To make soap you take a fat and an alkaline and mix them (to put it simply) e.g. olive oil and sodium hydroxide. One of my friends hand makes bars of soap, and it’s really good for shaving with, though I can’t use it all the time for my hands as real my skin dry! Other soaps will work just as well, I just mentioned that soap specifically as it was vegan.
Very cool! I've actually wanted to get into making soap myself
Get a cheap intense pulsed light gun and vaporise the hair
(*depending on skin and hair colour)
Lmao when I searched "intense pulsed light gun" google suggested "intense pulsed light gundam" which sounds rad af
This dude taught me how to shave: https://youtube.com/@shavetutor
Maybe it helps you too?