Thread: Cold water shave

almost tried a cold water shave today, then I saw my scuttle..

nuf said.

Been using cold water shave all the while coz average temperature is 28 deg Centrigrade all the time.This morning tried the following:
a.Soak razor in glass of hot water
b.Soak brush in bowl of hot water
c.Shower - warm and dried
d.Prep soap+cream+glycerine:lather emerged almost instantly after a just a few swirls [good and will do the same everyday],and removed razor from hot water glass.
e.Shaved and did all the post shave rituals.
f.Result:A very smooth shave without the aid of a magnified mirror.

Good shaving day

Originally Posted by flyman

I just can't stand the thought of shaving with cold water. Just reading the words "cold water shave" gives me the shivers. In the words of the immortal Jules Winnfield: "Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy mother."

+1 to that. Why am I more afraid of the cold than I am of a large, surgically sharp, blood spilling piece of steel dancing over my Adams Apple?

Should I seek psychological support?

I have converted to cold water. When I first read this thread I had tried a few shaves with cold water and they were pretty good. I decided to try a nice hot shave one day and it could not compare to the cold shaves. I'm hooked the cold face wash out of the shower wakes you up and gets you ready for the shave. I am going to continue doing cold shaves. I have also read a blog about the advantages of a cold shower in the mornings. Yesterday I didn't go cold but I tried a cool shower and that was great. I think I will be continuing to go down this cold water road.

Wiliam

after reading all this i tried cold water shaving as well (a few weeks ago)


guess what? cold water shaving is not for me.

Originally Posted by shiznix

after reading all this i tried cold water shaving as well (a few weeks ago)


guess what? cold water shaving is not for me.

I did the same. The result? A very ordinary shave and a most unpleasant one at that.

Originally Posted by wmac

I have converted to cold water. When I first read this thread I had tried a few shaves with cold water and they were pretty good. I decided to try a nice hot shave one day and it could not compare to the cold shaves. I'm hooked the cold face wash out of the shower wakes you up and gets you ready for the shave. I am going to continue doing cold shaves. I have also read a blog about the advantages of a cold shower in the mornings. Yesterday I didn't go cold but I tried a cool shower and that was great. I think I will be continuing to go down this cold water road.

Wiliam

On cold showers.... Some years ago due to tropical storms I didn't have power for 10 days the first time and 12 days the second time. I had to get used to cold showers. It is just like going into the ocean in NJ in springtime. Start at the ankles and gradually work your way up. By the time you get to the waist you're home free. BTW, for shaves I prefer cold water for showers I'm sticking with hot.

I've been doing the cold water shave for the last couple weeks and I'm sold on it for two reasons. One is the minimal set up - I just wet my brush and soap with cold tap water, lather up on my dry face, rub it in like the text suggests, re lather and shave. I'm a one pass shaver because of sensitive skin. That brings me to the second reason - I like showering after shaving because it gets all the shaving cream off and at the end of the shower my skin feels absolutely no irritation - almost like I didn't shave. When I used hot lather after showering my skin always felt tacky and would get irritated where my collar touch the neck - no more and I'm really, really happy about that. I felt like the closeness was pretty much the same as a hot shave.

After reading so many posts about how great cold water shaving is, I decided to give it a shot (along with help from DPW shutting off hot water in the dorms before work and not telling us) and my shave was not bad but nowhere nearly as enjoyable as a hot shave with my scuttle. I also noticed that my stubble came back much earlier than a hot water shave. I'm glad so many have found what works for them, but it's not really for me.

Hmm yeah I remember reading about cold water shaves on here a while back which is what started me on it really. Originally I thought hot water was the way forward cos it was what it was always represented as, right? Well anyway I tried it once and realised that on my babyface it worked much better, less irritation and I didn't have to worry so much about overworking those particularly difficult inches of skin. When i started with cold water I took a basin of water through to my bedroom and shaved there, away from a mirror, so I wasn't tempted by the tap and furthermore kinda got to know my face a bit better, I suppose.

A plus is like wow now I can do this shaving lark if the whole world falls to pot Cormac McCarthy the Road style thing, cos mirrors will be smashed by roaming psychopathic rapist cannibals so I'll have to live in the woods and shave by the waterfall. Which reminds me that I must get a hone and learn...

I think I'm right in saying this, correct me if I'm wrong, but Lynn once wrote that what it comes down to for him is the ritual of it, yeah sure cold water might be better, but so might plain smelling research endorsed soaps that aren't that nice. The choices that we make are our shave, and the pleasure of that opus 1870 penhaligons shaving cream and that hot-as-NCIS-special-agent-Gibbs'-coffee wet towel feels damned fine.

I'm no Lord Henry of Wilde's Dorian Gray, but there's nothing wrong with pleasure for the sake of pleasure.