This.
Trashing the labor-intensive hot towel pre-shave treatment and forsaking efforts towards warm//hot lather and cold rinsing have totally eliminated a lifetime of skin irritation, post shave, on my neck. It also takes several minutes off the shaving routine. After a few days I found the cold water rinse quite pleasant. As I noted elsewhere at SRP I grew up thinking cold water shaving was a punishement (re. "The Dirty Dozen") - not so.
JimmyHAD started a thread about the cold water shaving and I followed his lead after 50 years of hot water and neck irritation post shave. Presto - gone-o. Thanks SRP. (search string 'cold-water-shave:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/shavi...orst-ever.html)