Thread: Cold water shaving...

Originally Posted by Sirtexan

Is there a trick to cold shaving. I take hot water showers, even gave it about 15 minutes before shaving. Did the cold water lather, and had some of the worst razor burn.
Not sure if I did something wrong, I use a sensitive cream to shave with, and today I shaved hot water, razor is still fine as frog hairs, so I don't know what I did wrong. Not sure if I want to try it again lol.

I don't think there is a trick, but I don't know that it suits everyone, maybe try some different products. I don't use any pre shave, or even double lather anymore, but I also only do one or maybe two passes.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

I don't think there is a trick, but I don't know that it suits everyone, maybe try some different products. I don't use any pre shave, or even double lather anymore, but I also only do one or maybe two passes.

I think Ed has a point there in that it may not suit everyone. Peoples skins are different and respond differently to the same things. Personally, I do no prep, no double lather too but 4 passes with little to no irritation, that is unless my technique is off or I really fudged the edge up honing. The 4th pass is in lieu of touch ups. For me it is just as easy to lather up and do a quick light XTG pass as fiddle around touching up here and there. You just have to find out what works for you and what does not by elimination.

Bob

+1 to BobH and Ed

I've been trying to shave every day this week, no point yesterday, just nothing there.

But I've found if I shave more frequently, I just splash the cold water, no prep, and 1.5 passes.

With shaving more frequently, I just do one WTG pass, and one mini-pass ATG under my jaw line and end up with a DFS.

Today will be the same, only trying Ed's idea of leaving my Proraso Red soap in the fridge over night....but yes, the cold shave isn't for everyone, but for me, it's a superior shave.

So last night I went home and tried a cold water shave. Didn't really do any prep (ie shower etc). Just filled the sink with cold tap water, rubbed my face down with the cold water, lathered up with my DR Harris Arlington soap, and hit it. It went surprisingly well. I didn't notice anything really much difference except maybe the tiniest bit more effort on the razor to start but really that may have been in my head. The shaving soap seemed to dry quite quickly compared to when I am shaving out of the shower but again that didn't seem to pose a problem. If anything I found it easier to get BBS smooth on those hairs that grow in a weird swirl on both sides of the adams apple...

I didn't really notice much of a difference in the hours after in that my skin was still quite comfortable and not irritated, although I never had any problem before while shaving with hot water. All in all, I think I will try this for a bit and see how it goes long term!