Good day fine sirs! I've recently had a revelation regarding my wet shaving routine and wanted to share with the group. I've been doing this whole DE wet shaving thing for about a year and a half now, and up until recently, I haven't been able to shave daily without irritation due to my extremely sensitive skin. Through much trial and error, improving my shaving, and my lathering technique, I believe that I have finally "cracked the code" on what works FOR ME! As always YMMV, but for the first time since I began wet shaving I'm able to get CCS to BBS every single day. The absolute most important piece of the puzzle IMO is NOT going for BBS EVERY single day. For the longest time, I tried to get every whisker whacked from every direction. This is do-able on occasion or after one's face has had a couple of days to recover, but in reality, we don't NEED a BBS shave every day. Sure it'd be nice, but for some of us (myself included,) it's just not feasible or comfortable to do a 3-4 pass shave every day, even with proper techniques. What I've started doing is shaving a single WTG pass EVERY day with my R41 with a sharp blade (Polsilver Super Iridium, Feather, Permasharp Super, etc.) While the results are not as smooth in comparison to a 3-4 pass shave, when done on a daily basis, it is sufficient for a pretty CCS. The key factor for me is the aggressive razor/blade combination. One pass with a DE89 or 34C with a Derby will not yield a smooth face, but the R41 is aggressive/sharp enough to mow down most whiskers on a single pass. Every OTHER day I will do my standard 3 pass shave with the same razor/blade combination, but because my face essentially had a day off on the previous one-pass day, it's ready to be shaven those additional passes. I'm sure that something like this has been posted on here before, but I haven't read anything like it, so I thought I'd try to put my .02 in for guys that might be having similar issues with shaving every day. This probably doesn't apply to guys with rawhide-tough skin, but for us other guys I thought it might help. [emoji106]
Summary of what I longwindedly said above:
Use an aggressive razor/blade combination
Don't go for BBS every day
Use proper technique of course!
Summary of what I longwindedly said above:
Use an aggressive razor/blade combination
Don't go for BBS every day
Use proper technique of course!