Wetshavers are environmentally friendly... yup
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I started de/wet shaving because I hated shaving, grumbled daily about proctor and gamble and generally prefer simpler things with tradition and history. I do appreciate environmental stewardship so in the name of great shaves and decreasing my footprint on the planet I am going to try straight razor shaving this weekend! (ok I must admit it's almost entirely in the name of trying different shaves!)
Well, all things being equal, use would use less water with the Mach3. (both type razors at the sink or both in the shower).
I can't imagine, based on what I do or what I've seen described at B&B, non-cartridge shaving NOT using more water, all other things being equal. Even if you don't fill up the sink, most people do more than one pass with a DE. I only did one pass with the Mach3. I fill the sink 1/3 for each pass. I always just rinsed as I went with cartridges; no doubt some folks do that for their DE, but I can't recall it being mentioned. I use quite a bit more water at the sink, but take shorter showers nowadays. I figure it all comes out in the wash.
Steve
I prefer to have mine incinerated, returning them to the atmosphere from whence they originated.
i personally give each of my used blades a proper burial.
This was really, really funny!
Why not just fill the sink and use the same water for all passes? That is what I do. Some people think it is gross to use the same water you shave with to rinse your face, but it is just soapy water, and the whiskers were on your face a few seconds before. I'm just sayin'...
I see the environmentally friendly aspects of DE shaving as a welcomed, but secondary benefit.
Quitting those rusty shaving cans is a step in the right direction. But what about soaps and creams? Many are merely slight reformulations of the canned stuff. But they have to contain either tallow (bad for cows) or palm oil (bad for rainforests); either way, the lather we love exacts some sort of cost on the environment. Personally (for now at least), I'm okay with that: everything has a cost. But it's good to be aware.
Technically, Cows don't use tallow products . . . .
Technically, Cows don't use tallow products . . . .
Nope, they just donate them. Since I am a carnivore, they are going down anyway, so the tallow element is just full resource utilization in my eyes.
Me too. Only the final rinse is done with running water after the sink has been drained.
Nope, they just donate them. Since I am a carnivore, they are going down anyway, so the tallow element is just full resource utilization in my eyes.
Probably be a lot fewer cows on the planet if we didn't eat them.
just thinking,
mrscottishman-I am not saying Williams is bad, just that it ate a hole in my mug.
I used to shave after the shower with disposables...I have the same pre/post shave routine I have now, except I have to rinse the blade more and use more water for lather. Like others have stated, it's nice if my actions are beneficial to the earth but I didn't switch to DE shaving because it was environmentally friendly.
Just saying.
It's a valid question and one I expected to be asked. An even better question is why fill the sink at all? I could still face lather and rinse my blade turning on the tap after each pass. Truth is, I like having a fresh bit of water for each pass. It's part of the ritual that I haven't pared away. There is some utility to having clean water: I recharge my brush in the water after I've face lathered the 2nd and 3rd (and there's rarely a 3rd pass; I did one today for the first time in ages) time and of course use the first bowl to charge the brush. I'll admit I do like rinsing my razor in clean patches of water, which would be impossible with the grog bowl technique, but it doesn't gross me out. Except, I suppose, I don't think I'd be keen on charging my brush with less than really hot water filled with cut hairs.
Like I said, good question. I do it because I want to do it. Who knows, maybe my two bowls are less than other people's one bowl so I won't have to go to environmentalist Hell (I am in SoCal, after all).
Steve
Yes. Every second Saturday we have our recyclables picked up from our driveway.
I definitely use it when people say "YOU SHAVE WITH A STRAIGHT RAZOR?!"
1. Good for the environment
2. Superior shave
3. Saves money in the long term
4. Historical factor / general coolness / rewarding / much more enjoyable
1. Good for the environment
2. Superior shave
3. Saves money in the long term
4. Historical factor / general coolness / rewarding / much more enjoyable
Farms are going fallow left and right out here on the west coast. We have a water system that was designed for a fraction of the people it serves. And everyone wants to avoid the political third rail that is improving our water infrastructure. In northern CA, our water also goes to support SoCal (no further comment). Its a pretty big deal. Every couple years, people talk about dividing CA into two states, north and south.
In SoCal's defense, the truth is its better to build a city in the desert than on good farmland.
Shave quality was first for me. The lack of waste just seals the deal.
In SoCal's defense, the truth is its better to build a city in the desert than on good farmland.
Shave quality was first for me. The lack of waste just seals the deal.
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It seems to be a common fact that DE shaving is better for the environment than the mass cartridge shaving.
But i'm wondering is it that true ?
Here are a few elements of my thoughts about DE shaving is worse or at least same for environment than cartridge/can shaving :
- you definitely tend to use more water as you need to soak/clean more items (brush, soap, razor, bowl...) => Advantage Cartridge/can
- creams and soaps contain usually the same bad chemicals products as the foam cans. Some soaps even contains more bad products or worse products than the cans, that go directly to pollute soils, rivers as they are very difficult to suppress from used waters. => Same
- Most of us usually order items from the other side of the world or buy items made in a foreign country. Our carbon result is much worse than the standard cartridge shaver as we buy much more product, more often. => Advantage Cartridge/can
- Yes there is no plastic on the blade, so ? There is a lot of plastic, cardboard to wrap blades, soaps, creams, ASB... => probably same
What do you think of it ? Am I wrong somewhere ?
But i'm wondering is it that true ?
Here are a few elements of my thoughts about DE shaving is worse or at least same for environment than cartridge/can shaving :
- you definitely tend to use more water as you need to soak/clean more items (brush, soap, razor, bowl...) => Advantage Cartridge/can
- creams and soaps contain usually the same bad chemicals products as the foam cans. Some soaps even contains more bad products or worse products than the cans, that go directly to pollute soils, rivers as they are very difficult to suppress from used waters. => Same
- Most of us usually order items from the other side of the world or buy items made in a foreign country. Our carbon result is much worse than the standard cartridge shaver as we buy much more product, more often. => Advantage Cartridge/can
- Yes there is no plastic on the blade, so ? There is a lot of plastic, cardboard to wrap blades, soaps, creams, ASB... => probably same
What do you think of it ? Am I wrong somewhere ?
