Thread: How long do you take to shave?

30 minutes from soaking the brush through rinsing the lather bowl and brush after the third pass, alum and/or witch hazel. Naturally, if i shower first the soaking the brush in a mug of hot water occurs while i shower, that cuts the shave time down to 20 minutes or so.

Here is my routine
1. Strop razor and get set up
2. Shower
3. Create lather
4. Brush on lather and apply hot towel
5. Brush on lather and make first pass with the grain
6. Re-lather and make the 2nd pass across the grain
7. Apply HydroLast Cutting Balm - Sandalwood then relather
8. Shave against the grain
9. Splash of warm water
10. Use a Alum Block on entire face
11. Splash with cold water
12. Put on Coral Skin Food
13. Apply hot towel
14. Splash with after shave
Done

Takes me 23 minutes to accomplish. If I rush this I may finish in 15 minutes but spend the rest of the time patching the holes.