Thread: What is your preshave routine?

1. Heat towel.
2. Put towel on face for 15 minutes.
3. Take towel off face and reheat for 10 minutes.
4. Place towel on face for 30 minutes.
5. Reheat towel for 7 minutes.
6. Place on face for 45 minutes.
7. Reheat towel for 7 minutes.
8. Place on face for one hour.
9. Soak brush in hot water for a half hour.
10. Take hot towel off face.
11. Put towel in clothes washer.
12. Get new towel and heat towel for 15 minutes.
13. Place towel on face.
14. Reheat towel for 5 minutes.
15. Take brush out of water it is soaking in.
16. Make lather.
17. Apply lather to face.
18. Wipe lather off face with warm towel.
19. Re-apply lather carefully.
20. Realize that I don't have enough time to shave.
21. Drive to work considering whether a beard might look nice.

Just want to thank you all for your ideas. The pain has subsided. Nerve has either died or its healing!(:-)

Originally Posted by Johnus

Just want to thank you all for your ideas. The pain has subsided. Nerve has either died or its healing!(:-)

Pictures?

I had a thread about my cut: http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...setting-5.html

You can see the pictures of the cut and how it healed if you go there.

Shower or a few splashes of warm-hot water
Pre-shave oil (Anthony Logisitics atm)
Let it sit for a bit
Cream (Kiss My Face) straight into brush
Slap my face silly till it looks like a marshmellow
Zen time

1. Vodka 2. Soak brush 3. Vodka 4. Make lather 5. Vodka 6. Hot towels on face 7. Vodka 8. More vodka, maybe I'm Russian in a previous life. 9. Even more vodka. 10. Apply lather. 11. Remove lather, hell I'm too drunk too brush my teeth, much less shave.

HILARIOUS. Check my preshave out.

Originally Posted by Wayne1963

1. Vodka 2. Soak brush 3. Vodka 4. Make lather 5. Vodka 6. Hot towels on face 7. Vodka 8. More vodka, maybe I'm Russian in a previous life. 9. Even more vodka. 10. Apply lather. 11. Remove lather, hell I'm too drunk too brush my teeth, much less shave.

Sounds like a good routine to me.

Here's mine:

1. Strop razor
2. Microwave my shave towels for 30 secs, with a drop of lavender oil on them
3. Apply a menthol pre-shave oil
4. Lather up
5. Apply hot towels two or three times
6. Apply the pre shave oil and lather up again

1. Turn on mug warmer, place lather mug on wamer
2. Hot shower
3. Rinse brush in hot water
4. Load brush
5. Face lather
6. Put brush in mug for pass 2
7. Strop