Quote Originally Posted by Ziander View Post
I decided to change the shave and use cold water this morning. Not gonna lie was petrified I was gonna spend the day in pain. I was very pleasently suprised. Zero irritation BBS shave and the heat I feel after the shave never came. Might have discovered a new way for me to shave.
According to the 1905 book Shaving Made Easy, cold water shaving is actually the proper way to do it. Shaving made easy; what the man who shaves ought to know .. : 20th century correspondence school, New York. [from old catalog] : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Read pp. 50-52. It says that you want cold water to make the whiskers stiff and brittle so they will comfortably shave off. Hot water softens the whiskers and makes it more difficult for the razor to shave them off.

The idea sounded so absurd to me that I totally missed it the first time I read this book.

To be honest with you I shave with hot water most of the time but it's really the wrong way.