Happy Holidays, everyone!
My shaving rig has changed somewhat, and I'm wondering what variables I have left to mess with. I've recently picked up method shaving accoutrements (Cube, cutting balm, aftershave balm), and my girlfriend, bless her heart, got me a silvertip badger brush to replace my synthetic badger brush (Haven't tried it yet).
The methodshaving stuff is a nice improvement over my Taylor's cream (it appears to make a much slicker sort of lather than I could make otherwise), and I can shave against the grain with the stuff (For whatever reason, trying to do this with just Taylors felt not much different than shaving with just water), but even after 2 N-S passes, 2 diagonal passes, and 1 pass against the grain, I can get closer shaves (with much less irritation, no doubt due to the fewer number of passes) with 2 passes of a mach3. I'm starting to run out of variables to change, and it seems like there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any ideas that haven't been suggested yet?
My shaving rig has changed somewhat, and I'm wondering what variables I have left to mess with. I've recently picked up method shaving accoutrements (Cube, cutting balm, aftershave balm), and my girlfriend, bless her heart, got me a silvertip badger brush to replace my synthetic badger brush (Haven't tried it yet).
The methodshaving stuff is a nice improvement over my Taylor's cream (it appears to make a much slicker sort of lather than I could make otherwise), and I can shave against the grain with the stuff (For whatever reason, trying to do this with just Taylors felt not much different than shaving with just water), but even after 2 N-S passes, 2 diagonal passes, and 1 pass against the grain, I can get closer shaves (with much less irritation, no doubt due to the fewer number of passes) with 2 passes of a mach3. I'm starting to run out of variables to change, and it seems like there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any ideas that haven't been suggested yet?
