Thread: Serious Eureka Moment!

Well, today an odd thing happened which has just changed they way I shave!

I've been struggling with my soap drying out, now I'm fairly sure this is just because as a newbie I shave a little, well, slow! I've been face lathering so thought I'd have a quick test lather in a bowl before I went and showered and did all my usual prep. Well I got an ok lather in the bowl, nothing to write home about, but certainly good enough. Now I just needed to know would it dry out on my face, so I quickly splashed some hot water onto my unwashed chin and started to spread the lather on. All was good, I waited for a bit, lather still usable.....I waited a bit more...eventually I thought it had done well enough so it was time to remove it, well what better way than with a razor?

Now, this is where the revelation starts!!!! Unwashed chin, lightly splashed with hot water and then lathered up shouldn't give a good shave, should it? WRONG!!! Wow unbelievable result, normally it takes 3 good passes to get my chin DFS ish (it's proving the trickiest area), this first WTG pass was amazing. So I quickly lathered the small section of my chin again and went XTG, stunned!!! Fresh lather, ATG.......BBS! So there I am, two day stubble everywhere apart from a small section of my chin, mouth wide open, staring aghast into the mirror at my gleaming chin!

How can this be? I've been scrubbing my face with soap, ex-foliating and showering before I shave, and whilst the results have been pretty reasonable (I guess for a newbie), I've always had little areas that need touching up, or that I seem to struggle with, or hairs that seem to refuse to part company with my face. So now rather than my normal prep I decided to just splash some hot water over my face and proceed with a full three pass shave and wow! What a shave!

During the first WTG pass the blade didn't seem to glide quite as well as it normally does, however its whisker removing efficiency was just out of this world, compared to my normal first pass! Hairs seemed powerless to resist! Normally a fair amount survive. However now they were gone, totally smooth when I rubbed my hand across my face in that direction! The next two passes same result, and as much glide now as my previous prep method. No touch up needed today for BBS apart from on my neck, I can live with that though!

Anyway, sorry for rambling away! From now on my prep will involve no soap, no exfoliant, no olive oil, no snake oil, or indeed anything apart from a splash of hot water!!!!!

Right off to rub my face for the next hour!!!! Thanks for listening