Thread: Fragranced soap? Brush irritation?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Probably the scientific way to figure it out is replace the components of your shave one by one and see what happens. Since your a newbee I would suggest (oh the pain) wetshaving with a DE or other razor and keep everything else the same. It could very well be irritation from the straight due to your technique or maybe the razor needs some more work. If that doesn't appear to be the case then you can go back to the straight and start eliminating other things.

That's probably the best course of action. It seems like we've divided into two camps - there are those who think that your cream is the problem, and those who suspect your razor. I said the cream mainly because you said you broke out - not that you got wicked razor burn.

But, eliminate one variable at a time until you figure out what it is that's causing your irritation. Given the brush you're using, though, you're not going to get much softer, so I doubt it's that, so I'd say keep that one until last.

yeah its definitely irritation..the razor is definitely not that smooth . the guy i bought it from said it was shave ready so i thought it was. this is my first straight razor so what the hell did i know?

could be irritation from the soap's fragrance as i think i have a history of being sensitive to fragranced soaps.

im gonna get a non fragranced soap and get my razor honed. is there a non frgranced soap? can i just use regular soap like dove?