Sometimes what appear to be relatively small changes cause big differences. Thus it was with today's shave. Changed 2 parameters, which lead to one of the smoothest shaves yet. The first change was the shaving cream, picked up some European Palmolive yesterday and wow does that stuff lather. By far the best lather to date, I could hardly make myself stop rubbing it on my face with my EJBBB, very nice feeling. Second change was the blade, after the failed experiment with the US Personna, I decided to stick to Merkur for a while and work on my technique before experimenting any further. Today I felt confident enough to try a different blade again and the choice fell on Derby's Extra. For me this was definitely a step up from Merkur (at least this shave ). Had an overall much smoother shave and have not been this close to BBS. I think I did end up with a minor case of razor burn, with a thin red line appearing across my chin. However I didn't feel anything and it appears to have cleared up roughly 30 minutes after the shave.
I didn't expect the differences to be this substantial. Sure I have seen people repeating the YMMV thing over and over again, but seriously how big can the differences actually be? Especially since there are shavers out there that appear to get consistent results with almost any setup they use. Of course this was only a single shave with some (IMHO) minor changes, but it does give a promise of more to come. I think it finally started to don on me how big this world of wet shaving is and how much there is to try. Lucky for me SWMBO will keep any *AD's that might develop in check, she let's me try new things, but keeps me well within budget. Otherwise I would probably end up as the best shaved homeless drifter in Sweden .
I didn't expect the differences to be this substantial. Sure I have seen people repeating the YMMV thing over and over again, but seriously how big can the differences actually be? Especially since there are shavers out there that appear to get consistent results with almost any setup they use. Of course this was only a single shave with some (IMHO) minor changes, but it does give a promise of more to come. I think it finally started to don on me how big this world of wet shaving is and how much there is to try. Lucky for me SWMBO will keep any *AD's that might develop in check, she let's me try new things, but keeps me well within budget. Otherwise I would probably end up as the best shaved homeless drifter in Sweden .