Your face, your shave…

There’s an old joke about economists that says you can lay every one of them in the world end to end and they’d never reach an opinion! Well shaving is kind of like that. You can take 10 guys and hand them the same shaving gear and get 10 different opinions – and they’re all correct – for themselves. While the equipment they’re using may be the same there is one integral part of the equation that is different and that is their faces!

Every face is different and the blade that works well on one face may tear up the next one. The shave cream that soothes one face may irritate the next one… and so on. There are no absolutes in shaving (except that there are no absolutes in shaving, er, wait a minute?)… Then, just to make matters more complicated, our skin tone changes over time as we age so that when you think you have found the perfect shave, your face changes and what you were using doesn’t work so great anymore. This is one reason that the big shaving companies are so big -- man is constantly looking for a better shave.

While there are no absolutes, there are some statistical “strong possibilities” that I have noticed over the years and the #1 pattern that I have witnessed is that, once a guy starts using blades made by Merkur/Solingen, he rarely if ever changes back!...

(to be continued…)