Thread: Every day shave experiment.

I know a lot of the members here are every day shavers. I however have always been a every other or every third day shaver. This week I decided to do the every day shave. I used my straights. Razorock croaps. And my normal brush lineup. The results for me are inconclusive. While I did receive a decent shave every day, I was not able to get a bbs shave. Normally on my third day of growth my face and head are bbs when I'm done. In conclusion my thought is this. While I enjoyed shaving every day, and I really enjoyed being clean shaved every day, I will return to every other to every third day shaves. I believe my skin needs the time to recover to truly get the most from my shaves. Curious to what others experiences are. Maybe there is something I can change to improve my every day shave results.

I don't think it has anything to do with the skin "recovering" but a shave might be closer with a little more hair on the face to serve as weight to pull itself down while shaving (or not)

I generally shave every day but sometimes I use a DE and sometimes I use a straight. I seem to get a slightly better straight razor shave when I let the facial hair get a little longer.

Originally Posted by RollinCoal69

I know a lot of the members here are every day shavers. I however have always been a every other or every third day shaver. This week I decided to do the every day shave. I used my straights. Razorock croaps. And my normal brush lineup. The results for me are inconclusive. While I did receive a decent shave every day, I was not able to get a bbs shave. Normally on my third day of growth my face and head are bbs when I'm done. In conclusion my thought is this. While I enjoyed shaving every day, and I really enjoyed being clean shaved every day, I will return to every other to every third day shaves. I believe my skin needs the time to recover to truly get the most from my shaves. Curious to what others experiences are. Maybe there is something I can change to improve my every day shave results.

Were you unable to do the same number of passes when shaving on a daily basis? For me, two passes is enough if I'm shaving on a daily basis. If shaving only a couple times a week, I'll do three passes, so naturally it's going to be a closer shave.

I shave daily. What helps is moisturizing after every shave. Also if you shave every 3rd day the feeling of three day to post shave feels dramatically different then daily stubble even though the end result may be the same

I shave every other day only because the next day there just isn't any stubble to shave. My go to straight fortunately gives me a great shave. Unlike when I used cartridge razors the stubble would be back in 3-4 hours.

I shave daily. BBS or dag gumb close to it every day. With a one pass + touch ups daily I get BBS about 85% of the time and the 15% that I miss it is only by a hair.

I also shave at most every other day simply because the day after I have practically no stubble worth shaving off.

Doesn't matter what I shave with, DE, SE or straight razor, by the next day I need a shave. That is after a 4 pass shave. Waiting a day or two does not help matters any for me. It really depends on how fast your whiskers grow, I guess.

Bob

We have discussed this many times and I think the consensus was the more hair on your face the better and easier a shave you get. Of course this is to a point referencing shaving every day or skipping one or two days.

I shave every other day only because I'm retired and don't have to shave every day. If I was still working I would probably be using a DE every day and save the straight for weekends because with a straight I really don't need a shave for a good day and a half and I'd be just irritating myself. The slight difference between the DE and straight makes daily shaving more sense for me.

I tried both two and three passes. Continued with shave today with same good not great results.